Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
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@Gravitas ... Ishmael, I just began listening. Totally blown away. You bring originality to every form you tackle. And an exceptional voice. Ironically, we both have the same number of followers on SC... but you deserve a few zeros after that number! You are certainly a most welcome addition to this community. Great production and instrumental skills. Folks here need to meet you. Permission to introduce you by posting Sometimes It Snows? (As off topic since not iOS produced) I certainly will respect if you don’t want that.
What a world of talent. Amazing, no? Great to know you.
@LinearLineman
Michael, permission granted.
You do me great honour.
Thank you.
@Gravitas , done.
@LinearLineman
Thank you
Wow. This is great music in multiple genres and production styles.
I think you have wandered into a place where we tend to buy apps but are still
wrestling with what to buy them for (speaking mostly for myself).
Yes. This is premier place to discuss and learn about IOS music production.
So, you have a lot to share about process, workflow and music compositition
and I hope the energy to share in great detail.
I'd persoanlly would love some lessons about western time signatures as applied to
your african drumming approach. Is the music organized as repeated patterns of 2,3,5,7,11, etc. Somwthing similar to the Ta-ke-ta Ta-ka ta-ka vocalizations of Indian complex rhythmic
creation. Then polyrhythms with 2:3, 3:4, 3:5, etc?
Any clues or pointers to videos appreciated. I get excited when I hear music that throws my off my game and these drum patterns would require analysis and transcription using a "slower downer" app. I'm also extremely lazy with a short attention span.
Squirrel!
@LinearLineman @McD
Whatever I've learnt as an artist I will gladly share.
My musical journey has and always will be to enable fellow artists, musicians,
sound engineers to achieve their dreams the way I've learnt how to live mine.
I started my journey into iOS via an iPhone 4s.
The first thing I did was turn it into a studio calibration tool
using a decibel meter and a sine wave generator.
Little did I know then, that an iPad was going
to become the center piece of my music room.
My purchases have been very deliberate through hours of research and testing,
reading the write ups on the App Store and then eventually reaching here.
The knowledge here has been very valuable to say the least.
Yes, musically I have travelled through many genres and production flavours.
I am devoted to music.
I have the energy
What follows is a very condensed version of my journey as a drummer.
Here is how I started out as a western drummer in regards to rhythm.
Back beat, 4 to the floor, listening to James Brown and electro,
Calvin Keys' album Criss Cross and anything I could get my hands on, the radio...
Next was
Sugarcubes, King Crimson, Magma, Yes, Fela 'Ransom' Kuti,
The Gap Band, Stevie Wonder, Prince, reggae, jazz, rock and
then I started writing for my first band and my first compositions.
Alongside this, turning two boom decks into a multi track recorder
by recording on one boom box, rewinding the tape, playing back the tape
and recording the playback on the other tape machine
and playing along with another instrument.
It's how Les Gibson invented multitrack recording.
I didn't know about him then.
So my recording knowledge these days is quite deep.
African drumming came much, much later so I know where you're coming from.
Here follows the basic principle of all western drumming and then into the other forms.
There are three basic tones.
Origin Instrument Technique Language
African djembe Middle, rim, open
Latin conga Flat palm, open fingers, slap
European drumkit Centre of skin, middle of skin,
the edge on all drums and cymbals
then there are the variations that I describe as the ghost notes.
Play in 3/4 or 6/8,
one note per each tone,
singing the tones
dum, dum, do, do, ta, ta
hand to hand,
Right hand first followed by the left hand,
if you're left handed? reverse hands,
either on djembe and conga.
On western drums I teach differently.
Begin slow and build up speed, five minutes a day.
This is the key to all rhythms as a beginner percussionist and drummer.
This though isn't the most important thing.
Being able to sing the rhythm is also very important.
Once you combined the two you will progress far.
I have only recently started to study Konnakol though
I do know how to sing and play some Asian rhythms.
I'm quite familiar with the some of the syllables.
I like to add it to my jazz scatting.
Squrriel
I like it here, I may stay awhile
Lots of great music on this thread. Essential listening! Thanks for the contributions you all.
Keeping this one alive for more views of some old school music making.