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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It’s really amazing that you can get a Fairlight on your desktop for pocket money.
They used to cost £20,000
Pretty incredible to see this, but how does it compare with today's software? Aside from the novelty factor, is this actually worth getting?
Only if you’re interested in how the CMI operated, it’s pretty basic. But it’s fun to play with. It’s the closest thing to the original, no modern efx added like the Arturia version. The developer is doing a great job improving Qasar.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwid1NeBkbHqAhWQecAKHfpECZAQFjACegQIARAB&url=https://apps.apple.com/us/app/peter-vogel-cmi/id420212505&usg=AOvVaw1H9a_eI639k0nWNlS8LWg3
There is an iOS Fairlight app too
What's the closest thing we have on iOS to a Fairlight?
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/peter-vogel-cmi-pro/id427747876
Don’t forget that what was “groundbreaking” in its time is pretty tedious these days. The sounds are still cool but you’ve probably heard the more interesting ones a million times.
@jameslondon74 dude you wrote that right after I said theres an iOS version
I agree, for the most part the CMI IIX was a glorified drum sampler along with some very unique ways of modulation and additive synthesis. Of course the resynthesis was a big deal, though 8bit sampling was not good enough. I find playing with Qasar gets frustrating when I want it to do something it can’t - I’m so spoiled by the powerful software we take for granted.
Bottom line: it’s worth it and lots of fun, as long as you understand it's quirks.
The former Fairlight CMI (then relabeled after Peter Vogel split from Fairlight) was one of the earliest IOS apps.
As Fairlight did a lot with FPGA in their mixing consoles, they released a '30 Year Anniversary Edition' (expensive) of the original CMI, based on that technology.
Iirc Vogel once stated that even that approach didn't reproduce the original sound of the CMI 100% because the design was so bizzare, due to technology limitations at that time.
The instrument had 8 such 'strange' sound engines, so all emulation are just approximations, making the vintage $100k thing still a quite unique item.