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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About sampling web radio. Have you tried this?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/streemur/id1307609511
I was thinking it will take a year or two for people to really get to know it, get creative with it and for the cream to rise.
Try foldable sections and layer modules.
Precisely.
This is an incredible roadmap @giku_beepstreet
Once it has AU hosting, it’ll likely replace all iOS DAWs for me.
Keep up the amazing work!
this is very exciting! i seriously love the quality of all your apps ive tried. drambo is a powehouse for sure, just a little difficult for me to grasp at first. but im sure over time things will start makingg a lot of sense and i’ll be able to make some awesome stuff with it! very excited for granular and looping too! and drag and drop will be very very helpful. thanks for the work you’re doing, giku.
I use Ström by HumbleTune for that
http://www.humbletune.com/strom/
(I load it as an IAA generator in to BM3 or other hosts and just mute the pad/track it's hosted on when I'm not sampling).
Honest and constructive conversation here. Nice to see @giku_beepstreet in it too.
I have to insist that if Drambo doesn't click with me is more due to my own stupidity than the app itself. Drambo, in my world, falls in the category of top of the top, along with AudioBus and AUM.
A couple of examples: Drambo fans talk about the sampler in it and I have trouble imagining what it can do. Now you show me EG Pulse and I get it. Tell me I can build a substractive synth in Drambo and I think: well, I have Zeeon...
So, @giku_beepstreet great you're learning and improving Drambo, amazing roadmap. But please, set a little bit of time aside to implement MPE in Zeeon and Sunrizer 🙏🏻
Does anyone here know if it’s legal to even use a sentence, phrase from a radio interview or a music clip to remix into our own music from apps like STREEMUR? Hard to give credit to a spoken voice that I don’t know from a talk show I don’t know but I love a line they said and that I want to use in my song!
wow. this list is impressive!! thanks for all the hard work. looking forward to au hosting and the new modules!
That's far too harsh on yourself! There are far more reasons why people take to something or not than just intelligence. Certain workflows suit some and not others just as some people take to a certain instrument but struggle to learn another, or can sing like an angel but couldn't master an instrument to save their life. Those outlooks aren't static either, they can change over time as the lightbulb goes on at some point.
We're all individuals, and that's a good thing!
Some of today's posts have me truly scratching my head over why some people seem to resent others liking apps that they don't. So strange. To me it's totally great that people have different tastes and that they love to talk about what they love. I so don't get why that bugs some people so much.
(P.S. I'm not complaining about that or saying people shouldn't express those opinions. I'm just puzzling over it. 🧐 ✌🏼)
Amen! I may jive well with Drambo, but tbh I have an extremely hard time finishing a track in general. I really enjoy getting down in the nitty-gritty to the point where I get bored with my actual compositions. Not jiving with complex modular does not mean anything when it comes to enjoying and creating music.
Oh, don't worry, @wim I sleep very well at night
Maybe it would be more precise to point the amount of interest or will, rather than "intelligence". I'm sure if the interest was there, I would learn it but, as you say, it is a question of preferences and workflow. I don't want to spend time "building" a synth - I just want to play. And yet can see the fascination in what Drambo has to offer, so many possibilities.
Iv'e been addicted to Drambo since the beginning of April since it was first released.
Even though I've been playing synths since the early 80's and have a basic idea about how to program sounds. For me Drambo has become a laboratory for studying sound synthesis.
The Drambo modular paradigm of breaking down the basic parts of a synthesizer into individual sections, has enabled me to study each of those individual synthesizer sections, and form a new depth of understanding that just never happened with "pre-built synths".
I think the reason Drambo has been such a great educational tool for me, is the ease and speed by which I can find answers to questions immediately. For me, the Drambo Oscilloscope has provided a visual way to learn about sound waves, and learn exactly why certain types of sounds, sound as they do.
The past two months have been a continuous series of discoveries. I'm at the point now where I'm researching vintage synth designs for details about old analog waveforms and filter designs.
I'm not done studying subtractive synthesis, but I am becoming aware of the limitations of subtractive synthesis. I bought a D50 and an M1 in the late 80's..... 30 years later, because of Drambo, I have new insights into the how's and why's of the history of synthesizer evolution. Before, I was aware of much of this in a very abstract way, but now I can visualize the layering methodology of sample based with analog type sound, from a technical sense.
My favorite thing about music has always been playing great sounds. For me sound is inspirational. Certain sounds can cause me to play improv for hours.
My goal is to understand sound design thoroughly enough, where I'll have the technical skill to construct (practically) any sound I can imagine. I can only do this if I have a solid technical understanding of sound design.
I built a guitar once. It didn't sound as great or have as high quality workmanship as a factory guitar costing less than I spent on the parts too make it. But I learned a ton and had a great time doing it. Every time I pick it up I have the satisfaction of remembering that process. I can get that feeling in miniature by making something in a modular app. Different strokes for different folks. ✌🏼
Exactly. When I played bass I had three: fretless el-bass, acoustic fretless el-bass & cheap contrabass. I never ever thought about building one.
Holy fuck, au hosting? I was joking to myself at how I wanted this yesterday. That’s awesome that it’s a reality
Beg pardon?
Clips and nonlinear sequencing ( quite a big revolution )
I hadn’t fallen in love with Drambo until I added it as an AUFX on something the other day and it blew my mind. The running forum gag of “you can just do that in Drambo” turns out to be true, and in no time at all I’d got it creating some effects that I’d bought various AUv3s to do only to find they couldn’t do it.
My understanding of modular sound design is almost non-existent, but Drambo as a DIY fx app is an absolute joy.
Thanks for pointing this out. I haven’t bought Drambo yet either, but I would if this is what I think it is.. but I’m not sure if it is.. I’m not sure about anything these days... Does ‘clips’ mean clip launcher like Ableton? Or is it some other sort of clip?
Really appreciate this thread. It sounds like an amazing piece of kit for folks who like that kind of workflow. I sensed this was not my workflow and this thread confirms it.
thats a good idea! i have really only used it ad a standalone but i can only imagine the type of effects you can get with some of the modules in drambo! i gotta give that a shot for sure
Model 15, Animoog, Thumbjam, Geoshred...we have some great ones.
Yes I meant a clip launcher like in Ableton live. In fact it will be just an another level of zoom in pattern editor, where each step will represent a track in a pattern.
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Nonlinear sequencing - each track module may be detached from main sequencer and controlled by its parent module: play, stop, reverse, set tempo etc...
Could I ask if there will be step advance by gate/trigger, or ability to reset sequence?
I've been working on a project with another forum user, and those features would be the missing key to the puzzle.
Ready made synth modules are coming as well from what I gather from conversations with J.
The more time passes the more approachable Drambo will become to newcomers. Patchstorage has already a lot to offer but I think large amount of built in presets will make a lot of folks very happy.
For those who are not fans of long strings of modules there is compact mode where one can choose what controls are exposed and what's hidden which makes the interface not unlike any of the synth apps out there but with the advantage of being able to hide stuff one doesn't use.
@giku_beepstreet Stems export in standalone would be very useful. ;-)