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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Audiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.

I have fully stepped away from iOS music production

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  • edited May 2020

    my next piece will be 100% Human Scum. wait, SUB human scum :D

  • Hey Sam. How you liking that SSL sound card ? I been looking at they little number myself lately and wondering what your experience with it was like

    @Sam23 said:
    iPadPro 2018 / 12,9
    32 tracks, with a lot of fx all in Garageband

    @Sam23 said:
    iPadPro 2018 / 12,9
    32 tracks, with a lot of fx all in Garageband

    @Sam23 said:
    iPadPro 2018 / 12,9
    32 tracks, with a lot of fx all in Garageband

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  • edited May 2020

    @Clueless said:

    @gonekrazy3000 said:

    @Clueless said:

    @gonekrazy3000 said:
    I have no idea why people think you need to singlehandedly use one or the other. Both platforms have their benefits. I’ve been a PC/iOS user for years now. You can just as easily export stems or sketches you make on an iPad into Ableton or whatever daw you use on PC/mac. The export to ableton specially is a godsend.

    I mostly just do sketches on my iPad that I then export and complete on Ableton.

    Or I use my iPad as a sound module. Model 15 is one of the best moog apps you can get. And there isn’t a vst that sounds anywhere near as good.

    The third use case is to use midi apps like fugue machine or even multiple stepolyarps with your daw.

    I do wish you luck in your future endeavours @Bill_Brasky But it seems a bit sad that you’re just discarding something that could supplement your daw without even thinking on ways of incorporating it into your workflow. To each his own I guess. Being a hybrid user for years I can’t seem to understand your point of view.

    I agree with all you said, beside Model 15. It sounds good but there are far better sounding modular software synths out there, even for the "Moog" sound, lol. I see more Model D at the very top end of iOS synth and Zeeon. But of course its all relative.

    Oh don’t get me wrong. Vcvrack is an entire universe in itself. Specially with the Vult modules that I actually helped him develop lending a hand with recordings from my make_noise 0-coast amongst other synths. And while I might get flak for saying this it’s a lot better sounding on my PC. But that’s more a stand-alone app than a vst. Thanks to my ica4+ I use it via audio loop back and find it better than using vcvbridge till the vst support comes out but it’s not something everyone can do unless their audio interface supports loop back.

    But in terms of vst plugins and owning a lot of the Arturia apps I still find the model 15 better for the moog sound I need. Zeon is indeed powerful too but I don’t use it as much. As you said it’s all relative. But I think between serum, pigments, drc, frms, gadgetVst and ableton internal synths I have most sounds natively on my PC. Gadgets vst export is particularly powerful since the project can be imported directly into an existing ableton project complete with the plugins loaded and automation that can be modified. So it helps go from an iPad sketch to more advanced project in record time. Patterning ableton export is also incredibly useful. Not to mention blocs wave, Groovebox et al. Abletons ability to smash projects together just via drag and drop makes it incredibly easy to just convert a jam from the iPad into a project on PC in record time.

    I realise I’ve monopolised too much time on this discussion so I will shut up now :)

    All is good i was more taking about things like Reaktor, but especially P900 which is the closest to Model 15 but sounds way better (but still mac only and AU only but maybe its coming to iOS in the future). Arturia is indeed far away from the sound i want. But still i like Model 15 since it can do sounds others cannot do and the polyphonic expression (MPE which is not full MPE here) is nice to have as well.
    But i just talk about analog sound, otherwise of course there are tons of other synths and each are unique for its own.
    VCV rack is the biggest cpu hog ever on my mac and unusable and not there sound wise for me personally if i want phat analog sound like a Model 15 f.e. Here miRack on iOS is much better for me (at least for mono synth) since it just runs even on old iOS devices.
    Once a proper VCV plug-in is out i would consider it again.
    But again all relative and what sounds you prefer. I f.e. are in a minority and do not like the sound of Serum at all.
    Of course it does not matter as long as we like what we are doing ;)

    I have a 12 core 3900x. So vcvrack really isn't a problem for my rig lol. But yeah. It's a cpu hog albeit a negligible one for me. Also, Serum can basically do whatever you want with it. Feeding it wavetables from real analog synths like a Jupiter 8, 0-coast etc and then using a random oscillator with random timing to modulate the pitch knob by a very small amount can create surprisingly real sounding Analog synths. It's all in how you use the tools you own. Heck. You could basically make a masterpiece using just abletons wavetable synth if you gave it better wavetables. And with the right amount of faffing about still make it sound really analog. Enough that the average listener might not be able to tell the difference. But I get your point. My serum is heavily modified from what comes in factory. I've filled it with tons of wavetables sourced from real analog gear. I guess I just like the immediacy of assigning custom curves to modulation etc.

    P.S:- Im actually curious. Vcvrack seems to run pretty alright on my older i7 quad laptop. Maybe it's just ineffecient on Macs ? Cause most of the people complaining about it being horrible seem to be using Macs. But even my old quad-core seems to handle it with barely that much effort. It does have a dedicated GPU though.

  • I love it - only ONE (!) USB-C cable necessary, class compliant, no external power supply neede - great sounding (4k button ;-)

    @JackRubinacci said:
    Hey Sam. How you liking that SSL sound card ? I been looking at they little number myself lately and wondering what your experience with it was like

    @Sam23 said:
    iPadPro 2018 / 12,9
    32 tracks, with a lot of fx all in Garageband

  • I really have to say that I am enjoying this thread much more than I probably should.
    I'm not really buying the "apple is forcing me to buy a new ipad every year" argument.
    Out of personal experience I can say that casual users (those who started buying apple products after the iphone came out and are using their ipad pros to research cupcake recipes and then send the ingredients list to their apple watches using siri) seem to be the ones who are constantly updating their apple hardware and not the more serious users.
    I think the OP wrote his post after updating his OS and finding that the update didn't improve his user experience as expected. It is understandable that such an experience is frustrating.
    My personal update policy is to stop updating OSs on both macs and ios devices after a while. None of my machines are running the latest OS except for my newest ipad. I am currently still running Mavericks on my iMac. Build your machine up over a year or two and then freeze it in an optimal state and use it until it breaks down. This was a bit more problematic at the beginning of ios but right now, if you have 100 music apps on your ipad you can theoretically work with this (rather powerful) set up until your hardware breaks down. I am still using my ipad 2gen for various specific tasks today.
    Updating the OS has always been a source for troubles no matter which platforms you are using.
    The greatest gift apple could give ios users is to enable them to revert to the prior ios after an update but I do not see that happening. Apple might be milking the cash cow but consumers are still in control of their udders.

  • @Jonny8 Yeah, On my desktop daw Its not even connected to the interwebs... using usb ssd for updates

  • How do I send a cupcake recipe from my iPad Pro to my iWatch using Siri?
    Please help!
    🤣

  • Why all the drama?
    We’re music creators.. we need tools to create..
    -Use (or lose) what you have at that moment..
    -Use whatever inspires your creativity..
    -Use the tool/instrument that gets the job done..
    S-i-m-p-l-e..

  • Tuba

  • wimwim
    edited May 2020

    @royor said:
    Why all the drama?

    I think the only drama around here has been from the people characterizing the OP as drama. I see none there. I see someone simply sharing their thought process.

    OK, he did get kinda high and mighty about Apple and the environment, but other than that I'm just not seeing it. I don't understand the agro toward the original subject matter, nor why anyone would disagree with someone's conclusions about the workflow that works best for them.

  • edited May 2020

    @wim said:

    @royor said:
    Why all the drama?

    I think the only drama around here has been from the people characterizing the OP as drama. I see none there. I see someone simply sharing their thought process.

    OK, he did get kinda high and mighty about Apple and the environment, but other than that I'm just not seeing it. I don't understand the agro toward the original subject matter, nor why anyone would disagree with someone's conclusions about the workflow that works best for them.

    Well I for one am pretty offended. Dude has been here since way back in April and just up and abandons us like this?

  • @wim said:

    @royor said:
    Why all the drama?

    I think the only drama around here has been from the people characterizing the OP as drama. I see none there. I see someone simply sharing their thought process.

    OK, he did get kinda high and mighty about Apple and the environment, but other than that I'm just not seeing it. I don't understand the agro toward the original subject matter, nor why anyone would disagree with someone's conclusions about the workflow that works best for them.

    op just got super cocky with me so i rolled back with it 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @Sam23 said:
    iPadPro 2018 / 12,9
    32 tracks, with a lot of fx all in Garageband

    How did I miss this ....

    https://discchord.com/appnews/2020/01/21/namm2020-solid-state-logic-ssl-22-audio-interface-for-ipad

  • @echoopera said:
    “There is no solution...because there is no problem...” -Marcel Duchamp

    Noise, noise, SIGNAL, noise.

  • edited May 2020

    The German says: The situation is serious but not hopeless.
    The Austrian says: The situation is hopeless but not serious.

    We revisit this every so often, no? It’s like a dance routine already. Apache dancing. It’s just fun to beat it up now and again.
    Obviously the situation with iOS, for now, is hopeless but not serious.

    Meantime, with my trusty iPad I can record tracks, orchestrate and arrange them, post them here and on SoundCloud, assemble them into an album, ask my friend @rs2000 several thousand miles away to please design the cover and then post the entire album free on BandCamp. All the while emailing, buying shit, looking up anything I want to know about, watching Netflix, getting the news and watching porn without a mouse and feeling like I’m at a desk doing it. Now that is fucking impressive from a guy who remembers the Beatles making their best albums with four tracks of rotating polymers.

    And speaking of the Beatles... tools never prevent creativity, IMO. Ask the subhumans who painted that two dimensional bullshit with powdered rock at Lascaux. It’s in the heart and in the mind. The rest is ephemera. I’m all for Bill seeking his bliss, but I don’t think one has to piss on Apple or on the reality, potential and promise of iOS to do so. You don’t dis the cook cause he/she made meatloaf and you wanted filet mignon. Meatloaf can be damn tasty.

  • edited May 2020

    2 facts

    1/ You can do any imaginable type of music in IPad, from scratch to final master, in superb quality. No exception. If you're ready to adapt your workflow to available tools. You have to be super flexible.

    2/ Not everybody is capable to adapt workflow to available tools. Such people are more or less suffering on iOS. Waiting for perfect set of tools, perfectly matching their preffered workflow. I'm afraid they will be waiting for long time, meanwhile people from category 1/ will make a lot of amazing music.

  • Excellent 👍. Does look very nice. .. read some great reviews too..

    @Sam23 said:
    I love it - only ONE (!) USB-C cable necessary, class compliant, no external power supply neede - great sounding (4k button ;-)

  • @dendy said:
    2 facts

    1/ You can do any imaginable type of music in IPad, from scratch to final master, in superb quality. No exception. If you're ready to adapt your workflow to available tools. You have to be super flexible.

    2/ Not everybody is capable to adapt workflow to available tools. Such people are more or less suffering on iOS. Waiting for perfect set of tools, perfectly matching their preffered workflow. I'm afraid they wilk be waiting for long time, meanwhile people from category 1/ will make a lot of amazing music.

    facts for sure

  • wimwim
    edited May 2020

    @dendy said:
    ... meanwhile people from category 1/ will make a lot of amazing music.

    ... and so too will many people from category 1/. Just maybe not on iOS. ;)

  • @LinearLineman said:
    The German says: The situation is serious but not hopeless.
    The Austrian says: The situation is hopeless but not serious.

    We revisit this every so often, no? It’s like a dance routine already. Apache dancing. It’s just fun to beat it up now and again.
    Obviously the situation with iOS, for now, is hopeless but not serious.

    Meantime, with my trusty iPad I can record tracks, orchestrate and arrange them, post them here and on SoundCloud, assemble them into an album, ask my friend @rs2000 several thousand miles away to please design the cover and then post the entire album free on BandCamp. All the while emailing, buying shit, looking up anything I want to know about, watching Netflix, getting the news and watching porn without a mouse and feeling like I’m at a desk doing it. Now that is fucking impressive from a guy who remembers the Beatles making their best albums with four tracks of rotating polymers.

    And speaking of the Beatles... tools never prevent creativity, IMO. Ask the subhumans who painted that two dimensional bullshit with powdered rock at Lascaux. It’s in the heart and in the mind. The rest is ephemera. I’m all for Bill seeking his bliss, but I don’t think one has to piss on Apple or on the reality, potential and promise of iOS to do so. You don’t dis the cook cause he/she made meatloaf and you wanted filet mignon. Meatloaf can be damn tasty.

    Brilliantly put @LinearLineman.

    You know when I joined the forum in late 2015 I was just in awe of what could be done on iOS. I began recording on Tascam PortaStudio’s in the early 90’s, and later worked with several project studios here in Las Vegas that had analog eight track and then later ADAT’s and Mackie Consoles. Later into the 2000’s I went to a DAW in my home studio but often went back to my Tascam 488 mkII eight track cassette multitrack for demos & experimenting. I loved that tactile workflow of touching faders & knobs and committing something to a track without having 10 alternate takes, etc.

    When my wife surprised me with an Air 2 for my birthday In 2015 I really didn’t know what to think. I had Android phones since the beginning, like the very beginning with a 2009 HTC Magic on T-Mobile. I had no real beef against Apple I just thought “wouldn’t an Android tablet be better?” Well, thank Christ my wife got an iPad vs. some Samsung tablet. I had no idea how far advanced iOS music production apps had come because Android was, and still is, woefully lean on pro music solutions.

    I get that not everyone has a journey like that through different technologies. But having a fully functional professional quality recording studio with virtual instruments and industry standard desktop plugins (FabFilter, etc) on a slate smaller and thinner than a magazine will NEVER cease to amaze me. Taking things in life for granted brings about a skewed reality sometimes. I’m sure that it’s difficult for those born after 1995 to imagine a world without the internet. Well there was one, I remember it (kinda).

    I think @Bill_Brasky was just venting, I didn’t take it personally. Lots of people shit on Apple, deservedly so; but I don’t subscribe to the baby with the bath water axiom. There’s issues with Apple for sure but their products have also allowed artists of all descriptions to create with some very powerful tools. If someone enjoys the equipment Apple provides, so be it- no one else is forced to & calling someone out for choosing to use their stuff is a bit pious & pretentious. Corporate America sold it’s soul decades ago so trying to be a conscientious consumer will lead to you consuming nothing. Everything sold has strings attached; someone got taken advantage of somewhere down the line to create most goods & services...that’s the system we’ve agreed to live under.

    Tools are needed to create, and that is what gear is no matter how emotionally attached we get...Even though I wanna be cremated with my Stratocaster, it’s a tool. May we all find the tools we all need...without being tools ourselves.

  • edited May 2020

    @wim said:

    @dendy said:
    ... meanwhile people from category 1/ will make a lot of amazing music.

    ... and so too will many people from category 1/. Just maybe not on iOS. ;)

    yes of course same can be applied on desktop... there i'm totally member of category 2/ :-)))

  • Maybe he gets a lot of “Apple-Shaming” from people in his life.

    Most people don’t understand that higher specs doesn’t mean higher quality.
    A MacBook with half the specs of a pc will run smoother and for much much longer.

    Most people don’t understand that cheaper doesn’t mean cheaper.
    Pay once instead of constantly paying less with your money and more with your health.

    Don’t get me started on those who bought a fake Apple product in some parking lot and now prefer other “cheaper” options.

  • @LinearLineman said:
    The German says: The situation is serious but not hopeless.
    The Austrian says: The situation is hopeless but not serious.

    We revisit this every so often, no? It’s like a dance routine already. Apache dancing. It’s just fun to beat it up now and again.
    Obviously the situation with iOS, for now, is hopeless but not serious.

    Meantime, with my trusty iPad I can record tracks, orchestrate and arrange them, post them here and on SoundCloud, assemble them into an album, ask my friend @rs2000 several thousand miles away to please design the cover and then post the entire album free on BandCamp. All the while emailing, buying shit, looking up anything I want to know about, watching Netflix, getting the news and watching porn without a mouse and feeling like I’m at a desk doing it. Now that is fucking impressive from a guy who remembers the Beatles making their best albums with four tracks of rotating polymers.

    And speaking of the Beatles... tools never prevent creativity, IMO. Ask the subhumans who painted that two dimensional bullshit with powdered rock at Lascaux. It’s in the heart and in the mind. The rest is ephemera. I’m all for Bill seeking his bliss, but I don’t think one has to piss on Apple or on the reality, potential and promise of iOS to do so. You don’t dis the cook cause he/she made meatloaf and you wanted filet mignon. Meatloaf can be damn tasty.

    Jeez....... are you a Guru??? I was all ready to light a fire under Bill for his pissing parade. Even had a a few post replies typed up. But thankfully I waited. Great words here @LinearLineman ...... Thank you!

  • I sold my Vic20 to get a C64.
    I sold my C64 to get my first drumkit.
    I spent hours first learning to use Cubase on an ancient Atari.
    I spent hours learning to set up & use an Akai S2000.
    I spent hours learning to use Protools in a studio environment.
    I sold an audio interface to get a top notch Djembe.
    I have owned 2 iPads in the space of a decade & intend to go for a 3rd.

    Non, je ne regrette rien.

  • @onerez said:

    @LinearLineman said:
    The German says: The situation is serious but not hopeless.
    The Austrian says: The situation is hopeless but not serious.

    We revisit this every so often, no? It’s like a dance routine already. Apache dancing. It’s just fun to beat it up now and again.
    Obviously the situation with iOS, for now, is hopeless but not serious.

    Meantime, with my trusty iPad I can record tracks, orchestrate and arrange them, post them here and on SoundCloud, assemble them into an album, ask my friend @rs2000 several thousand miles away to please design the cover and then post the entire album free on BandCamp. All the while emailing, buying shit, looking up anything I want to know about, watching Netflix, getting the news and watching porn without a mouse and feeling like I’m at a desk doing it. Now that is fucking impressive from a guy who remembers the Beatles making their best albums with four tracks of rotating polymers.

    And speaking of the Beatles... tools never prevent creativity, IMO. Ask the subhumans who painted that two dimensional bullshit with powdered rock at Lascaux. It’s in the heart and in the mind. The rest is ephemera. I’m all for Bill seeking his bliss, but I don’t think one has to piss on Apple or on the reality, potential and promise of iOS to do so. You don’t dis the cook cause he/she made meatloaf and you wanted filet mignon. Meatloaf can be damn tasty.

    Jeez....... are you a Guru??? I was all ready to light a fire under Bill for his pissing parade. Even had a a few post replies typed up. But thankfully I waited. Great words here @LinearLineman ...... Thank you!

    I know right? He’s like the boards sage advisor, and as Keith Moon said that ain’t just a flavor of chicken. I wish I knew @LinearLineman’s shoot first name so we could do the “What Would Jesus Do.” thing but use his name.

  • @Paul16 said:
    I sold my Vic20 to get a C64.
    I sold my C64 to get my first drumkit.
    I spent hours first learning to use Cubase on an ancient Atari.
    I spent hours learning to set up & use an Akai S2000.
    I spent hours learning to use Protools in a studio environment.
    I sold an audio interface to get a top notch Djembe.
    I have owned 2 iPads in the space of a decade & intend to go for a 3rd.

    Non, je ne regrette rien.

    Weirdly, my brain read this to the tune of ‘There was an old woman who swallowed a fly’...

  • edited May 2020

    @jolico said:

    A MacBook with half the specs of a pc will run smoother and for much much longer.

    Oh, please. What a crock of s56t.


    Anyway, I find it interesting when people who have spent a year or more making iOS music step away from it. Honestly, I never checked on the OP. But maybe that's only because I was in the same boat. For me, it's because I couldn't do what I wanted to do with the quality I wanted and the workflow I wanted when using iOS. And I didn't want to have to buy a new iPad to do it. I made several tracks in Gadget, bought hundreds of dollars of apps and IAPs and... have since just stopped using iOS for music entirely. It was a great novelty, being able to make music on my iPhone. Maybe I'll be back. I do still tend to buy some MIDI related apps, just not audio. If/when I do use my iPhone now, it's for MIDI out.

  • @dendy said:
    2 facts

    1/ You can do any imaginable type of music in IPad, from scratch to final master, in superb quality. No exception. If you're ready to adapt your workflow to available tools. You have to be super flexible.

    2/ Not everybody is capable to adapt workflow to available tools. Such people are more or less suffering on iOS. Waiting for perfect set of tools, perfectly matching their preffered workflow. I'm afraid they will be waiting for long time, meanwhile people from category 1/ will make a lot of amazing music.

    +1

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