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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@Apex yes mate thats cool & part of why I posted this OP was to enjoy creative visions
Nah... i get ya.... sorry I came off as a di*k. I just wish I had the access to some of the old vinyl......
@onerez who said anything about just sampling vinyl & if its vinyl you do want then save money from buying sample packs fora while ( if you do) “ innit geeza” Old vinyl lot of it is cheap as pack of peanuts
Why do I feel sooo roasted🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love sample packs and they do help when I lack ideas.
Take a psytrance library and make the best damn country album you can. (Yes I know this is OT)
@Turntablist @Apex @stormbeats @samu thanks for the replies, I definitely enjoy learning about other people's workflows. I'm very aware of these digital artifacts, though a few times I've found interesting stuff there.
@NoiseFloored cool
My method of sampling YouTube and Spotify is simply called AppleTV hooked to a TV.
The TV is then hooked to my UR-242 and I can 'record' everything that happens on the TV-Screen.
The TV also has optional artifact reduction for both audio and video which is always a nice bonus
@Paa89 hey no worries, i originally posted this not to roast anyone. Just observation
@Max23 exactly.
you speak sense to the people
For me it basically comes down to whether you use sampling as an artistic practice or as a technology. While commercial sample libraries might let you play the piano even if you don't own a piano they lack any kind of social, political, historical context.
Artistically it seems a bit like quoting from a book of ancient greek quotes.
Negativland's Dispepsi didn't sample soft drink commercials because they loved the sound design from the commercials but because they wanted to make a relevant comment about society. Sampling is appropriation. It allows the artist to recontextualize a piece of the "real world" (even if it's just about your own biography or musical influences). Sample libraries can not really be used for this as they lack context and even content.
Just messing around, but you definitely do have some valid points and so do others in the comments..
Most of us new producers are trying to be like the next man ( the YouTube producers) thinking that could make us better and forget that practice is what brings the best. One other issue is that artists all tend to want a certain type of sound and this is making hip hop, trap and drill more and more unauthentic.
I do understand people who use melody loops and try to flip them, but one thing I can never understand are people who keep buying drum packs 🤣🤣 same sounds, recycled over 1000 times, all the packs sound the same but people still want to buy them. But to each their own.
Sorry I hate being controversial but I'm going to have to argue that these are "musician problems." No one who isn't really deep into music technology and/or creation is going to know or care. In fact, the sheeple love familiarity! Don't get me wrong, I admire and encourage Originality but it probably actually harms your chances of becoming popular in most cases. Maybe the point of making music is the emotional reaction it generates rather than being the most original. The good ones can start with the same source material and form it into something beautiful.
Also, who has time to start from scratch with everything?!
Prime example - a certain company brought an MPC app to us on iOS - it is now a bugged out software with devs now & again promoting sample packs instead of updating the actual app. This I confess is what triggered my mood today .
I did that once. Unfortunately I forgot to sample the sounds my wife made cuz I didn’t want to get stabbed.
I always strive to be original when I'm sampling somebody else's music.
I already have the Amen Break sample, though.
Are you telling me there is more stuff out there to sample?
plenty! 'When the Levee Breaks', 'Breakin up is Hard to do', uhhh, the theme to 'Gimme a Break'...
@stormbeats You are totally right. But I'd imagine that when YOU were ripping samples from Cymande records, there was a graybeard who was crowing about you and all those youg'ns needing to learn an instrument! and stop stealing samples!
A lot of the joy of sampling is finding the thing nobody else has. You're curating your sounds, and you're in competition with everybody else. A sample pack means that somebody else has curated these sounds, and I don't trust the dude who works for Novation to come up with a good Stax shuffle for Blocs Wave.
But that's probably old-guy thinking. Kids today [old man yells at cloud gif here] have literally never had to pay for music. They don't care where the sounds come from. The same defense of sampling Meters LPs and Otis Redding tracks — combining these existing pieces creates something totally different — holds for sample packs.
Whoa, that's hardcore.
The British electronic musicians' devotion to the Amen Break is totally baffling to me. It's like the French devotion to Jerry Lewis.
Love that, sounds like a sample from Oblique Strategies...
These are the breaks!
Break it up! Break it up! Break it up!
Okay, I have to play Devil's advocate for just a second: I know several dudes who would say "Dig in the crates" and "be original" is a juxtaposition with some high hypocritical irony attached to it.
However, even as a bit of a traditionalist myself, I wouldn't agree with that summation. You go on in your post @stormbeats and lay down some advice that is truly excellent; plus your feelings of abhorrence towards Sample Packs sees you cheering on creativity in and of itself.
I view sampling in three categories:
1: Digitally recording an instrument (like an acoustic piano) in precise, extreme detail to apply it as a virtual instrument. Drum sampling could be included here because you could record an actual Roland 808 unit in intricate detail using round robin, velocity & tuning variations.
2: Capturing a wide variety of audio, be it real instruments, snippets of recordings, real world noises and atmosphere, etc. and through pitch and speed alterations, adding effects, playing in reverse etc. creating another wholely unique and independent sound to be used in sound design or spread chromatically across a keyboard.
3: The wholesale reappropriation of an existing piece of music, melody or distinctive harmony to create an entirely new "song" (i.e. Rick James' "Superfreak" becomes "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer).
Sample Packs can be used in a sort of "paint by numbers" fashion. While I would feel weird about saying I wrote a "new song" that was just a bunch of Apple loops jigsawed together, it can be (especially early on in a musicians development) used as a tool to develop arrangement skills.
But if Sample Packs are used creatively, turning a spark of inspiration into a cool new sound or new track, not just stitched together as-is, then they can be very useful.
Yeah, mash up Jimi Hendrix (cross town traffic riff) with some Johnny Cash or take a choir hook from Edwin Hawkins Singers (Oh Happy day etc) and mash it with some 808s and jungle beats...
Still a lot of old stuff that can create cool genre mashups
20 song's that use the "amen break" yet they're all pretty different so you can you the same sound source as everyone else and still be original. https://mixmag.net/feature/the-20-best-tracks-that-sample-the-amen-break
I kinda enjoy mashups...
I'd say that's pretty much exactly on topic.