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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Not a favorite aria in here, but do you hear a lot of countertenors?
Che gelida manina from La Bohéme. Beautiful. I love this simple version. Just the piano and Pavarotti’s voice:
Nessum Dorma....
Mrs Monzo walked up the aisle to that one (not the BA version). Proper posh we are like.
I was at the opera yesterday to see Alcina from Haendel.
One song that I think might be appropriate for the current situation “Verdi Prati”
My all time favorite is Maria Callas singing „Ebben? ne andrò lontana“ from La Wally. I heard it first time in the French movie „Diva“ in the 80s and it still gives me goosebumps.
The most unearthly moment in Opera: Maria Callas insane high E flat at the end of Aida, 1951 in Mexico City. Hear how the audience goes crazy.
My best live experience of an Opera was Aida at the Arena di Verona, Italy. A roman Amphitheater without any electrical amplification - it was magic.
Can you believe that baroque music can be that beautiful
Alcina from Haendel
Here is another one…maybe one of the most beautiful ever…
Va! laisse couler mes larmes
elles font du bien, ma chérie!
Les larmes qu'on ne pleure pas,
dans notre âme retombent toutes,
et de leurs patientes gouttes
Martèlent le coeur triste et las!
Sa résistance enfin s'épuise; le coeur se creuse...
et s'affaiblit: il est trop grand, rien ne l'emplit;
et trop fragile, tout le brise! Tout le brise!
Go! Let my tears flow
they do good, my dear!
The tears that we do not cry
in our soul all fall,
and with their patient drops
Pound the sad and weary heart!
Its resistance finally exhausts itself; the heart digs itself...
and weakens: it is too big, nothing fills it;
and too fragile, everything breaks it! Everything breaks it!