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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long shot... app that uses water wave type algorithms to drive pitches
I was thinking about how cool and complex water waves and interference of waves are and would love to find a way to use waves to generate pitch (and other parameters for that matter maybe).
I know its a long shot and kind of experimental but just I'd ask if anyone knows and app or person who is doing something similar. Probably would take setting up wave parameters in a 3D program using particles and generating the ripples that will drive MIDI note data or something similar.
Does anything like this exist that you know of?
any leads appreciated!
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Different Drummer 😂
This might help get you at least part of the way there.
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/34958/audio-amplitude-to-midi-cc#latest
A “complex” lfo?
Looks like this could be useful at some point, thanks!
yeh, this is a great and simple idea. I was hoping to somehow have the interference of waves happen in a more 3 dimensional way. I could use 2 complex lfos but they would be separate from each other and not influence each other. I'm thinking of 3d where there are many notes all playing at the same time like evolving cascading arpeggiations. So the audio would be like the visual impression you get from looking at water in a pool or lake.
And, aside from simulating waveforms like sine waves and turbulence, you could do an actual Schrödinger equation to simulate the waves in the wave function of the universe eventually! (kind of not joking)
Chaos LFO solves differential equations:
https://patchstorage.com/chaos-lfo/
Wouldn't it be much more fun to have some device that can record real water waves?
From your sink or bath tub?
Everybody has a laser pointer at home for sure, and I like this setup:
You don't need the speaker because you're making waves for yourself
The water would deflect the laser beam in the shape of the waves, now all you need is to capture the moving laser dot on the wall.
Maybe shoot a video and have some image processing convert it to a waveform audio file?
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/springsound/id866583243
Some wavetables used in wavetable synthesis look very much like water to me and when you play them it's like you're surfing across a static wave (i.e. you're moving but the wave is not as if it were frozen in place)
Scythe Synthesizer has an IAP wavetable editor you can use to create wavetables.
WaveGenerator by Wolfgang Palm can import photos and convert them into wavetables.
Photo by vorster vanzyl on Unsplash
Nature Oscillator by Alexander Zolotov could be used with your iOS device's camera to view water waves and synthesize sounds from them in real time.
Omg! So many great ideas! Each and every one! I want to try them all. Seems like I opened a can of worms
MidiLFOs app. Each lfo can modulate each other. Route them to pitchbend or other cc
Oscilab
I really want to try this. How can I learn how to transfer the script to my iPad and load into Mozaic?
In Safari, go to the link and find the red download button. You will then need to copy the file to Mozaic. In Mozaic go to user presets. If it’s not there in user presets, you might need to hit the refresh button in the upper right corner of the preset window.
If you’re not on iOS 13, the download process may be a little different after you press the red button.
Thanks a lot for this! Easy to follow!