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.
Minimalist exercise: you only can keep 5 iOS music app! Which ones?
Ok, I plead guilty; like 99% of people on this forum, I probably buy to many iOS apps. I dont need 22 synth, but, hey!, it's cool. I buy many many app just to try them and I use them 1 time each 2 years.
Just for the fun of it, supposed that you have the obligation to only keep 5 music apps on you iPad, what would be these apps?
For me, this is probably gonna looks like this:
1- GarageBand (Yes, I know, but I'm not a pro and I love this DAW and it's very simple to use).
2- EOS 2 Reverb
3- Poly 2
4- Kaspar Synth
5- Re-Slice (or Samplr, not sure).
Wow, its tough. I may change my choice in 2 min. 10 times.
Let's see your answers.
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NanoStudio2
Rozeta
Drambo
SunVox
LayR
NanoStudio 2
FRMS
FAC Alteza
Lagrange
Drambo
Gadget
JammPro
Auria
Audio Share
Samplr
NS2
Looperator
Proq3
Egoist
Synthmaster One
AUM
Egoist
Enso
Animoog
Flux:FX
BM3
Drambo
Toneboosters EQ
Synthmaster One
Moog Model D
(Ask me again in 5 mins and it'll probably be different)
NS2
miRack
Luxe
Korvpressor
FAC Transient
This thread will have a consequence on me; I will buy more apps.
• Amplitube : because I'm a f$#% guitar player and this thing is brilliant.
• Drambo : I don't know what it is... but I love this app. Powerful, nice gui and addictive. It can do so many things well...
• Tonebooster reverb: warm, clean and deep. It feels good on any type of track.
Zeeon: best synth on ios if you are like me and love the analogish 80s kind of vibe. Buy the iaps aswell... filters are gorgeous.
Cubasis 3: well... it is very very buggy. But it's the only linear daw that I like on ios. What can I do? ... wait till logix maybe..
Pure Acid
Blocs Wave
Gadget
Turnado
AUM
. DRAMBO
. Continua
. REAMP
. DubStation
. BlackHole
Five apps is not minimalist, at least in my book. Should be three apps at most.
Cat Piano
Cat Xylophone
Fart World Premium
Celebrity Voice Changer
Cat Synth
-Cubasis
-Drambo? (still learning the app, but seems to have many flexible uses)
-Toneboosters EQ
-Audioshare
-SWAM instruments once they are released
Endlesss
BM3
ProL2
or
NS2
ProL2
Synthmaster One
1.Cubasis (plus Waves)
2. BeatHawk (with all inapps)
3. Pure Synth Platinum
4. RC275
5. Syntronik (all sounds)
drambo
mirack
aum
fac alteza
evolver
and i’m going to try sneak a synth like zeeon or magellan 2 past the security guard 😎
Aum
Poison 202
Elastic drums
Moog model d
Elastic fx
That's too hard for me at present, but I have actually been thinking about how to narrow this down. Think of it as something like the 'live box' that modular people have and get to know back to front.
This is a lot more interesting, btw, if ppl explain their choices rather than just making a list.
AUM
). Or maybe Spectrum for its versatility and slightly more organic sounds, also mpe.
1 synth.... Far too hard to choose, probably FRMS as that gives me a mix of live input, using samples, granular and mpe (though currently the live input doesn't work well, and mpe only works on default settings, not on your own sampled presets
1 drum machine....probably Elastic drums, maybe Noir
1 FX app, too hard to choose.... Maybe Kosmonaut for both delay and looping. I almost chose enso, but Kosmonaut is more versatile and hella more stable.
One of the Nembrini amps for saturation and distortion, maybe bst100, tough choice.
Auria Pro
BM3
AUM
Drambo
the fifth one is a variable.
Aum
Drambo
Groovebox
Samplr
Grooverider
The app that I see the most: Drambo. It is just the "new" factor or I miss something? I don't have this app.
If I only get 5 apps I'm buying an Android Tablet. How about which limb can we chop off?
Or Sophie's Choice.
OK... thought experiment:
AUM - DAW
Mozaic - MIDI FX
Zeeon - Synth
AudioLayer - Sample anything
FAC Alteza - reverb for trips to Mars
SCARTCH THAT: I should probably use NS2 instead of AUM, drop the synth, sampler and reverb.
OK.
NS2
Mozaic
Drambo
AUM (I have the budget so...)
iSymphonic and about $250 in iTunes cards for the IAPs.
Can you just take the left foot?
NS2-The only iOS daw I’ve enjoyed using
Aparillo-Soundscapes galore, great synth for experimentation
Alteza-Best Reverb ive heard on iOS
Sunrizer-I love the workflow I have with this classic
K7D-such a warm sounding, organic feeling tape delay
AUM
Continua
Turnado
Soft drummer
Geoshred for upcoming swam presets
Drambo for synths, sequencing, and all effects.
AUM for hosting and mixing. I use it as my daw too.
RC275
AudioShare (need it to work with aum)
BeatHawk
Honorable mentions: fac maxima, geoshred, neosoul keys, and tb reverb.
Cubasis
BM3
Quantiloop
Turnado
Lagrange
Cubasis 2
KQ Dixie
Moog Model D
Arturia iSEM
SampleTank
People are choosing it because it's basically the iOS equivalent of Sauron's ring, except it isn't evil (well, apart from threatening to make every other ios app obsolete 🤓)