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.
sync digitakt and AUM
personally i prefer aum over AB, and in my small portable setup i need a stable sync between my digitakt and AUM.
But I’ve found out that the midi sync between AB and digitakt is much more stable and reliable than with aum. even the “transport control” is working: when Digitakt is master, i can start/stop everything via it’s play/stop buttons. and when i’m stopping playback inside AB, the digitakt continues to play, and after re-pressing play inside AB, AB is awaiting the next bar on the digitakt. Which is great !
But i would love to see that inside AUM as well.
1 workaround is to keep AB open in the background and route midi from Digitakt to AUM inside of AB: that’s working fine
the other solution would be using Ableton Link via the link->midi app in the background. But That’s less stable.
any ideas to achieve this inside of AUM without any other apps in the background ? I prefer having everything inside AUM to avoid additional error sources.
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Just got a DT; am avid AUM user...seeking what people are ultimately finding most accurate and reliable for AUM synced to DT. What works best for those of you using this combo?
AB3 MIDI Sync quality/options and the way it unifies MIDI/Link is the great unsung hero of iOS music for me.
I think the best option might be to use AB3 and AUM synced via link although it’s still admittedly a bit of a kludge having to run 2 hosts ...
Not any more than having both a left and right arm is a kludge.
But yeh, I get the idea of “less moving parts” as being desirable. Problem is AUM isn’t cutting it, so probably worth the tradeoff.
@AlaErt @StudioES
Running AUM in sync with a MIDI clock master has been requested several times and looking back, just like the few requested AudioShare features, it seems like that just won't happen.
It's not that I would regret it because don't yet own AUM and there's still a number of apps working quite well with sync from external gear, like:
modstep
Gadget
GR16
Stroke Machine
Genome MIDI
Xynthesizr
(BM3 works as slave only if you set the exact bpm manually and hit stop before starting the clock master).
They all work without any troubles like "memory reset" or whatever.
Jeeze. Just try hosting AUM in AudioBus. Use AudioBus sync AUM via Link, and to send clock everything else that needs midi clock. It works. It won’t melt your iPad or cause you to grow three heads. Honest.
I do hope to add MIDI clock slaving to AUM as well in the future. Which "few" AudioShare feature requests are you thinking of? My lists of user wishes for both AUM and AudioShare are huge. I think the last AUM update was pretty massive so I must say I get a bit offended by your "won't happen"...
You should understand that I'm a one man company with several apps to maintain, a bunch of user support emails to handle each day 365 days a year, also working for a couple of other companies, and a family to take care of.
maybe you got that wrong - or at least: i don’t know. But just to let you know: AUM is one of my favorite apps of all times. Thank you so much for all your work and effort. For me it’s almost perfect.
haha yea - sorry for that
yes, thats my point (the 2 hosts) But that’s the way i’m doing it right now and it works great. AND you made me realize, that i was doing one unnecessary step, which was not needed. I made a midi connection from Digitakt to AUM inside of AB3, which was stupid an redundant. Thanks for that.
haha yes, that’s the way i am doing it right now. my fear was not to melt the ipad, but to increment the chances of a crash during a live situation by using 2 hosts.
it’s not your fault. Because of my crappy english i’m writing half a book, just to say one thing.
Well as i don’t like the midi-to-link app so much, right now i’m sending midi clock from the digitakt to AB3 which syncs to AUM via LINK. It’s working fine. Basically the same as midi-to-link, but the start/stop commands at working better.
I was just looking for an alternative solution, which would not require 2 hosts.
PS don’t listen to @wim, his advice has become inconsistent since he grew a third head.
When? Future is infinite, just not for us humans maybe
Sorry if my conclusion from the past two years came over as an offense, that honestly wasn't my intention. AUM is praised here over and over again by many of its users so you've definitely done something right I would say.
It's just that every now and then, someone wants to integrate their iDevice with MIDI hardware now and since I have not heard of any plans until when that's definitely going to happen in AUM, I've listed a few apps that I've used with hardware myself and that work today with the intent to help other forum members.
I didn't question that.
No worries, you owe me nothing and you are free to decide what to do.
Just sent you a PM with more details.
Hehe, thanks! Hope the syncing sync king's not thinkin' 'bout drinkin' at the Sync-Inn until sinkin'
Thank you, good to know! I recently wondered why I couldn't get rid of exactly that offset when using AB3.
memory flush ? what is this ? I find the sync between ab3 midi slave and AUM link not so reliable
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Edit: On iOS12/iPad, I have to let go the power button before holding the home button until the springboard reappears.
AUM+AB works well in so many ways. Why not just enjoy the benefits of both?
I just found out something great ! i didn’t know this ! yesterday i just did setup AB3 as a slave to the digitakt and used it to sync it
to AUM via LINK. Worked great.
And today, with JUST AUM open (no AB3 in background and no other apps) the AB3 symbol is appearing inside AUM each time i open it, and it syncs perfectly to a “non existent” AB3 session via Link and by getting the clock from the Digitakt.
That is somehow exactly what i was looking for: just one host !
Does anybody know how this works ? I’m no newbie at all regarding iOs, but this is new to
me.
see the pics
this is my mobile digitakt/microfreak woodbox version, btw
Just one power supply/power bank for everything : Microfreak/digitakt/audiointerface.
Midi AND Power for the freak via the usb host port of the interface.
Looks to me like Audiobus wasn't completely shut down by iOS and is running as a "ghost" process even though it's not showing. The next time you reset memory or reboot the phone it'll go away. In the meantime, it's probably draining your battery even when you're doing nothing on the device.
sh$#!@!!! you’re right! It was a bug, not a feature!
) It was PERFECT ! hahahah