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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Intua-tivity? 😉
I use BM3 all the time for slicing up samples. Works great!
Not trying to drag you into teaching mode here Prof, but could you free associate a sentence or two what this does for you creatively compared to our friend Egoist, which I find an easy place to drop in a thing and make other things out of. Not trying to stir up any rubbish, just interested what you might mutter round the tea urn while we were waiting our turn etc.
Sure thing. In Egoist each slice is marked at the start point but the end is effectively the start of the next slice, so you can't slice the end of a sample as you can with BM3. You also can't zoom in on the waveform in Egoist to get a precise trim at a zero point. Then, after detection and a little fiddling to get things cleaned up in BM3, I save each slice to a pad and go into edit mode to normalize and smooth out any clicks and pops. After that, sequence the pads into something snappy.
Don't get me wrong--Egoist is great for a quick nutso loop. The randomizers are superb. But for basic slicing, BM3 is my fave tool.
Lately I've been playing in BM3 again and decided to apply some Egoist like limitations to what I could do eg. no manual playing, just one chopped sample and a beat & bass track.
I'm often harsh on BM3 because I know of so many bugs and issues it has, but with realistic expectations it's damn impressive.
I’ll see if i can reproduce the bug. One thing i was doing for sure was playing several Patterns while trying to import and place the Sample on the Pad. Maybe BM3 doesn’t like to import and Play at the same time.
Could be. It works ok for me the way i do it but there are so many different approaches and circumstances. Would love for us to scoot all these bugs out from under the appliances so we can stomp em on the floor.
Trooth!
Thank you thank you. Powerful sense making of clear, Senor...
Do you do the initial slice in reslice, then do major edits in Beatmaker 3? Also, where do you store your sample banks? I initially thought of importing all of them to Beatmaker 3 but that seems like a daunting task.
I think you are referring to an older Windows kit creator. The new kit maker creates .bmk2 files from Maschine libraries. No need to use the importer. I dragged my Maschine libraries over and in less than a 1/2 hour had over 1;000 BM3 kits created!
Mac only?
Wish they would do a BM3 project file converter-to Maschine Project... BM3 is what iMaschine should be..
@echoopera, would that be the Vocal Boosters vol. 2 pack? There is also vol.1, and a "Vocal synthesis" pack. Nice track, btw.
I look forward to diving into BM3 again, but I'll wait until the update drops.
Will an ipad pro 2017 10.5 inch be sufficient to run BM3 well with a few au? I can always resample my au audio to free CPU up. Should I have low expectations?
This is the iPad I use with BM3, and you should have high expectations. Unless you're planning to build a Moog orchestra, you shouldn't have any reason to feel anxious about loading a really decent range and number of synth and effect plugins.
That is great. Thanks for the reply. I was told it would be great for me when I need to work and cant be in the studio but I wasnt expecting much, as I have no idea how powerful these are. My last experience on an ipad was the ipad2 years ago. Got a great deal on a refurbished 2017 with 512 gigs so I jumped on it hoping it will show up as expected.
Thanks again
IPads these days, even non-pro, have a lot of horsepower compared to an iPad 2. My iPad 6 gen can do tons that the iPad 2 couldn't. They are very capable.
I just got the same refurbed model a few days ago from Amazon. It was a great deal (around $500 US) and a nice upgrade from my Ipad Pro 9.7 256Gb, wi-fi/cellular. It arrived nicely packaged, clean and included the Apple charger and USB cable.
That's great that it arrived in good shape. I ordered from backmarket as some of the amazon deals had expired. I got it near 500, a bit under. Should be here Friday in supposedly like new condition. New to ios music, but this beatmaker seems exactly what I need for my workflow. Mostly work in hiphop.
After a few days digging into BM3.. I don’t see the need for a desktop version... well, running it on iPadOS beta.. seems to be more responsive on the iPad than many of my desktop DAWs..
Ableton Live export will be a great addition, with midi..
Is Live export supposed to be coming? Didnt know about that, would be a nice bonus.
Replace ReSlice by a stone-old version of Propellerheads ReCycle and BM3 by Stockholm and you've got my way of slicing and staying completely inside Gadget. I love this combo and use it regularly.
I like your new song BTW! Got rhythm
It just a request.. the update is supposed to be out in a matter of hours ......as promised... (End of August)..
Not BeatMaker3 at all, but i figured I’d keep the posting here since it relates to my new interest in sampling.
Had a go today with GrooveBox, BlocsWave and Elastic Drums. I recorded the loops in AUM and then live recorded the performance in LaunchPad.
Truly love using the iPad these days 🙏🏼👊🏼™️
very nice tune and great video !
Many many thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for giving it a viewing 👊🏼™️
Got my ipad pro Friday. Messed around briefly yesterday with BM3. Today I sat down and imported a zip file full of samples cut into 4 bar loops and started chopping them up and making beats in BM3. Easy sample chopping and production workflow. Had a full sequenced trap beat in about 20 minutes. It seems like a cross between MPC and Ableton for playing and chopping, with arranging like FL studio, as I haven't touched scenes just song mode, just worked off a 4 bar loop stretched into a full arrangement.
Exactly what I was hoping for out of my iPad so that I can be productive and work wherever I go outside of my studio.
No problems with bugs yet.
Nice! Great time to dive in!
I love bm3
@mistkerl
Please don't troll a positive thread with this kind of thing.
Your screenshot clearly shows you are loading an autosaved project. These are often created just before users force quit the app, so I'm really not surprised they occasionally corrupt.
In fact, many experienced bm3 users have often suggested that the autosave system is removed entirely for this very reason - because it gives some users a false sense of security.
If you'd like help and guidance about good bm3 project housekeeping that will help you avoid project corruption, please come visit the Intua forum and post your issue.
Posting it here in this thread is just attention seeking.
Guess it’s great for sample stuff. > @tk32 said:
It’s got other glitches too though, Sometimes it feels like you using a beta and not the stable version. Hope update will change it. But it’s been a long wait and nothing specific is known yet.