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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AB3 midi transport problem
Not sure if the previously posted ableton link play/pause problem related, but transport controls from any midi device I use do not work when I midi learn play/pause in audiobus 3.
Took a break from the iOS music stuff, messing with it again is frustrating lol. Also, experiencing intermittent aweful screen lag, like 4 seconds after I touch on screen buttons in ab3.
I still have hope for all this though, iOS is a good platform, not sure why everything seems to be so buggy, especially trying to use a few apps at once and figuring out issues. Hard to get anything done.
I added iOS into my setup when the 3rd gen IPad Pro came out, and obviously immediately had problems w iOS 12 as we all did. So much better than using a desktop in a lot of ways, but being unreliable is.... annoying.
I’ve also had quite a few good recording sessions with iOS. Hard to give up on it...
Comments
Cross reference to here: no fix as of yet
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/34899/13-1-audiobus-app-start-stop-ableton-link-sync-start-stop-broken#latest
Sorry to hear of your frustration @DEADCIRCUITGOD - it can be super annoying when stuff doesn’t work the way you want! As for MIDI transport: Audiobus has built in midi sync support, have you tried just enabling that for your midi source? You can find the sync settings behind the gear icon at the bottom.