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.
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Roland Zenbeats by Roland Corporation (Auv3)
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Hi. Regarding interface loop-back... is there a way to select a different output for a track other than the “master” output?. My interface (Zedi10) has 4 ins and outputs but I can’t seem to be able to Route a track to out 3-4. I can select all 4 as inputs, but not as outputs.
That would work for “printing” AUV3 tracks, specially when midi Fx AUV3 are involved as there’s no freeze possibility. Also for processing tracks with hardware like guitar pedals, reamp, etc... Am I not finding the option or is not possible?.
Thanks!.
Sorry, I dont know and don’t have an interface I could check with.
Ok, thanks!.
Anyone owning a multi-out interface that can comment on routing a Zenbeats track to different outputs?.
@wim thanks for providing an answer re: document storage options on icloud, etc.
I hope direct saving elsewhere does get implemented one day soon.
(I know there’s an option to choose Google Drive (or OneDrive which I don’t have) when saving songs directly in Zenbeats, but it doesn’t work for me when I try Google Drive; so only way for me is to copy the song folders from Zenbeats’ directory and I’ve not been on top of that).
That‘s really a bummer as I was just thinking about buying an audio interface to use my iOs synths also from my Mac. Does any other auv3 host support that, e.g. AUM or is this just a shortcoming of Zenbeats?
I’m pretty sure AUM and other DAWs allow per track outputs (Cubasis, BM3...). They have output routing, which is omitted in Zenbeats, don’t know why.
When Zenbeats supports per-track output to anything other than the master stereo pair, then perhaps Zenbeats will refer to itself as a DAW. It does not currently.
New packs just came out . 6mb orchestral pack is quite nice
Amazing, registered my mc101 and got a year of pro with every pack, preset and loop in zenbeats for free
https://www.rolandcloud.com/home/news/zen-core-fully-loaded
Yeah, I did the same. It’s ace.
I found a workaround for that use case. I add a sonobus plugin to each instrument on the iPad as an effect and then have a corresponding channel in my DAW on the Mac to stream the audio to a separate channel on my Mac. Kind of similar to the IDAM approach but sonobus allows to receive single instruments on the Mac. The downside is that you cannot save and restore this setup as you would have to do all the sonobus connections again but it probably makes sense when doing a final mastering on the desktop DAW. Definitely nothing for a work in progress.
I just joined the SonoBus beta, will check it out. Looks interesting. So you use it sort of like Studiomux, right?.
Edit: I can’t see a plugin, just the app to collaborate, would you care to point me to some info?. Cheers.
Yes this looks amazing. My MC-101 will be arriving tomorrow. How are you guys liking it?
Also if you buy a year of Pro or Ultimate you get 1 or 2 lifetime keys!
Right, but as I say, its quite some work to set this up when your song has many tracks. But there are many other possibilities. On the weekend I want to explore using it for loop browsing. Loopcloud provides a Mac/Win plugin that syncs the loops to the host’s tempo. I‘ll load it in my Mac Zenbeats that is synced with my iPad Zenbeats via Ableton Link while SonoBus is streaming loopclouds audio to the iPad Zenbeats. Then I should be able to browse the loops on my Mac while they are played back in sync on my iPad Zenbeats.
Until now my solution for that was freezing tracks on the iPad Zenbeats, then sending the project to my Mac Zenbeats. On the Mac adding the loopcloud plugin and then browse synced loops. In the end you record the loopcloud plugin to an audio track, freeze it and send the project back to the iPad. That also works but I thnk the SonoBus workflow will be easier.
From the introduction of the user guide:
But it is a plugin also on the iPad. It appears as an effect in AUv3 hosts. In that case it sends out the audio from its channel and injects the audio stream it receives into its channel. While the standalone app can use the system‘s audio devices.
Just for the year free too for my 707, very nice.
You could also create stems. Gonna try it now
Ditto! Maaaan...I soooooo wish they would update the os so that you can preview the sounds in these packs before importing them! And, of course rework the preset system with at least simple favorites tagging.
Small update regarding my experiments with SonoBus and Zenbeats. The latency is killing it. I have a bout 90ms latency due to WiFi connection I guess and Zenbeats has no means of latency compensation. End of story
does anyone know if the new sound packs are inc in cloud ultimate membership? as i remember, ultimate m. has access to all but just wanted to make sure I dont miss anything 😶
Yeah, the lack of preview is really annoying considering they are all Roland presets anyway.
Also nested folders in sample selector!. It gets impossibly crowded.
Does anyone else have issues with some apps that are blank when you open them in Zenbeats like in my pic?
@muzka that does happen for me sometimes and for me it means time to clear the RAM (which I can do using the first way described here) and then I can usually load the plugin again with no problem. I have to save whatever I was working on first, if necessary, because a RAM reset resets Zenbeats and any other open app immediately without saving or giving the option to save first.
Thank you, will give this a try
@MatthewAtZenbeats : Is this true (what Lil_Stu said?).. That you get a lifetime ultimate unlock after you bought it twice? Also there’s some interesting request/comments on this thread.
There’s a live Zenbeats streaming seminar tomorrow
Not ultimate unlock. If you buy a year of Roland Cloud pro or ultimate you get a lifetime unlock for 1 or 2 synths. It's on the roland cloud website.