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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Oh yeah, AUM!!!
I know it seems to be universally loved by everyone but not me.
I use a DAW (Cubasis 3) and I'm pretty happy with that. I can understand some people pair it up with Xequence or whatever for that DAWless experience but I just cannot see the point otherwise.
I've read people eulogising it as some kind of musical sketch pad or the genesis of everything they do... Fair enough I suppose but other than multi out or side chaining, C3 (or other DAW) will let me develop my little synth jam into a song in one place and that works for me.
Am I really missing something awsome here?
Korg Gadget. There were usability issues it seemed only I experienced. The cost for added modules was IMO beyond ridiculous.
blasphemy!
There's this app developer who makes really cool apps but every time I hear them or see them in a video I'm disappointed. Why? Because I know I can't use them because I simply can't stand the user interfaces...
I am disappointed in NS2 audio tracks and that fact that half of my AUv3 apps won't render properly in NS2. I was equally disappointed in BM3 being abandoned for a year between updates and now at 9 months since the last update and there are still a lot of basic issues with CPU performance compared to other DAW apps
Agree with everything, but this...
Supporting devs is nice and all, but this isn't charity and imo there is more downside to this approach than up.
Buying apps for the sake of it will result a bunch of totally unused apps (not good for productivity), and another lot that you use just enough to be able to draw up a nice list of things essential to your workflow...
Providing support to a typical entitled customer is probably worse than not having him/her onboard at all if it isn't his/her cup of tea. It's a niche market and devs know that... and this won't solve the problem...
every single app has something wrong with it. they all suck. especially all of the free ones.
Tell me the name. Now. Resistance is futile.
Shun! Shun the heretic!
Check out the free Tape Cassette AU. I like it much better for tape saturation.
iMonoPoly - my favourite synth by far, for still not being AUv3
Cubasis 3 - for still being buggy as hell, at least on my iPad
and
Aphelian - looked fun at first, but everything i got out of it sounded quite boring (might be my fault, lf course)
I meed to mention BeatMaker 3 here.
From the strange problems at release, the lack of information, the lost of valuable beta features that were then not released to other stuff that was removed, the incredible slow rate of updates, now the lack of updates, the fact that i needed about 1 year to find a way to get MIDI in and out of this App, the crashes and also the strange non-standard way to handle drum MIDI, this App needs to be mentioned.
NS2, Drambo (really down to me not getting into it properly), Playbeat (not state saving on my Air2), and sEGments as it crashes constantly.
Bass 808.
Biggest waste of $1000 EVER!!!!!!
😛
In this aspect, it’s just like the Octatrack!
apps that crash and like @Krupa knobs thats behave and are hard to dial in cough 4pockets cough
Cyber Tuner was my biggest mistake. My hope will be that I could tune my piano like professionals, and....
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cybertuner/id490451741
I have a few apps that are disappointed in me...
How much are the IAPs?
😀 Don’t we all!
I'm coming to appreciate Drambo more and more as I learn to do things, so any flatness I felt on launch was down to me not being able to hit the ground running with it.
I tend to use it to create custom FX rather than as a groovebox and it's great for that.
Not for charity.
To try it and see if it clicks.
ding ding effin' ding
I'm very disappointed by 3 apps that are now abandoned and that I'd be so happy to see "coming to life again" : Flux:FX, Diode-108 and BM3 😢
For me, the main one is FL Studio Mobile 3. It's an app that has so much potential for being one of the best music apps. It looks beautiful, is easy to navigate, and is super powerful. However, its only "sidechaining" feature is an autoducker (which is of little use to me as a producer that works with vocals). Also, it's a walled garden type app (well, may as well be since I can't stand IAA) due to not having AUv3 support. At least it has a built-in autotune effect now? 🤷♂️
(Low key, Nanostudio 2 is a lot more like how FL Studio used to be back in its Fruity Loops days, back before FL Studio had audio clips.)
Another disappointment is Gadget 2. I would've been happy to pay for better built-in effects (improved EQ being the main one). And the "new and improved" GUI, despite being improved, still bothers my eyes. The original Gadget's GUI was much easier on the eyes, at least for me.
(EDIT: And yes, I did purchase pretty much everything Korg released on the iPad, including all of the IAPs. Hundreds of dollars spent on their ecosystem!)
The third would be Drambo, but that disappointment is in myself for not being able to wrap my head around it, not with the app itself.
Beepstreet outdid themselves hands down.
The fourth would be Z3ta+. It finally got the bugfixes after a year or two of no bugfixes, and then Cakewalk was bought out. Thanks to Cakewalk being bought out, Z3ta+ no longer exists (at least on iOS as there does appear to be a Z3TA+ 2 that exists on PC/Mac).
The fifth would be Thor. Why Propellerheads Reason Studios refuses to update it to be AUv3 compatible is beyond me. Then again, at least that one is still available in the appstore.
I miss Diode 108 too. I can’t even find it it my purchased list. Do you know a way to retrieve it?
Any app you have purchased can be located using your iTune profile under the "purchased" link. It will list chronologically every app you have purchased using that account and it has a search box too to save (for me) an hour of scrolling to find SampleTank. Apple and the developers respect that fact that there should be a version
downloadable long after the developer has stopped selling it.
Now... hardware and IOS version levels maybe be required for you to meet the criteria
for the re-installation process. Old iPhone and iPads are good for these corner cases
and experiments to see how far we have come from Nanostudio or Beatmaker One.
You can also create a list of "family members" and share these purchases and then you'll
see how evil IAP's are for apps like iSymphonic( or any Crudebytes roach motel), BeatHawk,
or Gadget (Korg Module too).
ALL iOS DAW’s. Literally every one. They’re all missing important features or are unstable in some way. Not ready for primetime. But then again I have low expectations for any “DAW” that’s soo cheap. I’d gladly pay double or more for a complete DAW (that works!).
Also disappointed at the general level of sync in iOS. As long as you’re “in the box” its OK, but in a pro studio environment it can be incredibly frustrating. Sync isn’t a “feature”. It’s a necessity. And no, Ableton Link isn’t a panacea.
Remember Modstep?
@markk yes I bought it . Looked at it and got visual brain ache