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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A farewell sale would have worked out for everyone.
Why not just leave them up and keep revenue coming in? All the PPG apps are pretty stable at this point.
Well worth freezing an iPad for these if that ever becomes necessary. Never have issues with any of the PPG stuff, apart from the initial learning curve!
Alchemy Pro still gets loads of use here on a frozen iOS 10 device.
Hopefully the new owners leave the synths as they are, thinking a lot more people will discover these, Wolfgang wasn’t big on marketing!
Has anyone written to Brainworx? It is possible that they will re-appear and that some sort of thing has to happen behind-the-scenes to set up the transfer of ownership.
Plugin Alliance is leaning heavily into subscription on desktop. It’s not going down well with customers but looks like they are going that direction.
Highly unlikely we will see the PPG stuff on iOS. I’m surprised it was taken away without any warning. I’m sure quite a few people on the fence might have decided to get something.
OMG what a great app. Maybe it’s possible to get it from dark sources and sideload it.
I was recently getting into Infinite's matrix, after acquiring the Apple Pencil. Before that, this wasn't even a possibility.
As Joni Mitchell said, and they seem like fitting words for this year in general now,
'Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone'
Welp, RIP PPG iOS apps
Hope they rise like the phoenix for the ashes
I sent an email to Plugin Alliance using their support page. Maybe it won't do much, but it makes me feel better than saying nothing. I believe in the future of the iPad, and I'm sure we'll see these apps return at some point. That first 30 second clip of Wolfgang Palm is exactly the kind of vibe I feel when I'm making music on iPad; it allows you to be playful.
By the way, does anyone know which preset he's playing there? I looked for it in the app, and I couldn't find it.
PA's support page:
https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/support.html
we should all email them requesting they keep ios alive!
I just did that, yeah c'mon folks, email the buggers pronto
Hopefully this is just a matter of rebranding and consolidation under an existing iOS publisher account. Of course Apple doesn't make that kind of migration painless for the consumer.
I asked Plugin Alliance on FB
That’s a bloody shame ... Kicking myself for putting off buying Wavemapper. just glad I have Infinite at least. I would have likely spent $60 to buy the 3 I’m missing, had I known this was going to happen.
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Non permanent access is just the norm in this digital age. I’ve lost access to about 20 music videos bought from iTunes in this last year alone! A few albums have disappeared over the years and apps are just the same. No easy way to back up anything with an iPad alone these days. The continual push to change us into a renting society - getting the young ready for ownership free pod living.
That's very frustrating to hear, I love these apps, hopefully they can be updated again in the future.
The Appstore isn't designed for this.
I think and feel what we'll see is that the apps will get re-branded and published as subscription things just like the rest of the plugin-alliance stuff. I'll keep the PPG apps on my iPad as long as they keep on working...
This shows sadly again the limits of iOS.
Towards the end of this survey it asks about iOS apps.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SQ7NLM9
Any software, including mac and Windows, could have the same problem though, no?
Given time yes, but changes to iOS, constantly updating, means it would become semi-defunct in a shorter space of time, plus you can’t downgrade iOS to overcome this problem.
On those it’s simple to archive installers and install as long as the platform is compatible.
This sounds like if he'd find a developer ready to take over his PPG apps' iOS development, there would be a future for PPG apps on iOS.
There’s always Stefan Stenzel.
Regarding the PPG iOS/iPadOS apps...
...was it actually Wolfgang who programmed them or did he hire other contractors to do the work?
survey complete
+1
He definitely didn’t work alone, but not sure how it was managed. I got a support email once from a colleague.