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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I think it is about tone AND technique. If either are great, it probably sounds good.
To sound great probably requires greatness in both areas.
I even wonder how much physical differences between individual players ultimately effects the overall sound. Things like finger shape and size, skin texture, bone shape, skin surface conductivity. I can imagine that each unique fingerprint might play some small role in the final sound, if you can measure the right things at the right scale to show the differences.
I probably phrased that wrong. 😉
You don’t have to be a fan to appreciate this, I would think.
Heh heh ... I'd probably let you insult my momma and get away with it, but say anything bad about BB around me and there's gonna be a bar fight.
I also feel that Tonestack gets most things right, but for me the upgrades are expensive - too expensive, so my Tonestack setup is rather limited.
Having played around with Nembrini’s free Crunck V2 amp sim, I’m now quite excited by the idea of getting hold of a couple of their amp sims during the summer sale.
But there are a couple of things holding me back - I don’t have AUM, so I have only been able to use AB3 as a way of combining different Nembrini and other effects with the Crunck v2 amp.
On the Windows/Mac platform Nembrini provide an option for racking up all your Nembrini amp sims and FX into a single integrated unit. Unfortunately thus far they haven’t thought to port that across to the iOS platform, and in my experience trying to do something similar using AB3 doesn’t work. Why? Because the Crunck V2 amp for some reason **defaults to a muted mode **whenever it is started up from within AB3, and even worse, the user saved presets from the standalone amp do not seem to be accessible any longer via AB3.
Someone asked why not just open the Nembrini amp sims and FX directly within Tonestack? Well, if it worked reliably, I probably would, but it doesn’t, since the amp sim always fires up muted! Not only that, but within Tonestack only two control knobs on the Crunck V2 amp sim are available, and only one actually works!
Having tried most of the available competitors products, such as Bias Amp2, BFX mobile1/2, GE Labs etc, and finding none of them to really be a polished, practical product with both excellent tone and a well thought out UI, I’m not prepared to waste any more time on them, since none of them tick all those boxes.
So now I am having a rethink, because I could probably make do with only a couple of really high quality amp sims, and from what my ears tell me, there’s not much on the iOS Platform to compete with the sound quality of the Nembrini products. I just don’t know which of their amp sims to choose.
I’m looking for Dumble ODS edge of breakup to Suhr Badger relatively high gain sounds for the Jazz/Fusion genre.