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.
Good Xylophone in wood that do not cost 1 leg?
Hi! I want a Xylophone. I prefer wood. I found one at my music store, but the price tag was a big turn off for me (5999$). Do you have any suggestion for less than 1000$? I ask the question because I dont know what is a good and a bad xylophone. Thank you!
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Something like this?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gearlux-37-Key-Wooden-Xylophone-w-Mallets-Stand-/401567983311
I have no idea how good they are, and ratings for chinese products are usually fake 😉
Yes! But I had SOOO many bad experiences with chinese product from Ebay. The best would be something buit in Canada.
Yamaha has 3.5 octave models for around $1500, dunno about canadian models..
Wholly cats 6 grand for a wood xylophone?
Yeah I guess so it’s specialty shit and I bet it sounds dreamy!
My choice would rather be the Pearl EM1 mallet station (also compatible with iOS) and the Grand Marimba, Vibraphone, Array Mbira and Morpheus Kontakt libraries from Soniccouture. But that's closer to 2k unfortunately.
This one is beautiful. 7050$.
https://www.gear4music.com/Drums-and-Percussion/Yamaha-YX30G-Xylophone-3-Octaves/1NS6
Super nice, but 2500$ CAD + txs = 2875$. I'm looking for something around 1K
@Montreal_Music Does sound quality matter?
For me it does so I prefer purchasing a well-sampled $15k instrument for the fraction of the price. But it sure feels different playing it, no question.
This is the monster they've sampled at SC 😁
Availlable for iOS?
No but I've converted their great Vibraphone library for AudioLayer and it's fantastic. I even got the tremolo halfway authentic. I can't share the instrument but if you send me a MIDI file I could render it for you, also using the desktop Grand Marimba library if you want...
I hope your not confusing xylophone, marimba and vibraphone. Many do.
Xylophone uses hard plastic mallets and sounds like the skeleton's ribs in the classic cartoons.
Marimbas use soft rubber and wrapped yarn mallets and sound like the Baja Marimba Band. They have a gorgeous tone and very large resonator tubes below each bar that's
tuned to the pitch of the bar. Some xylophones (expensive one also have resonator bars).
If you're really in love with the xylophone (I pity your neighbors) you can also go cheap
just to wait until you get better with the mallets and are worth buying quality bars:
https://www.amazon.com/Wooden-25-note-Xylophone-stand-Carrying/dp/B07PLVDCFC/ref=sr_1_15?crid=3RRV1CGIC12YG&dchild=1&keywords=xylophone+professional&qid=1597426164&sprefix=xylophone,aps,247&sr=8-15
And the Vibraphone has metal bars and must be played with soft wound mallets. It also typically includes some little rotating fans in the resonator tubes that add that "Hawaiian Village" tremolo sound. The fan speed is variable so you can make it sound really shitty too. Most modern players never use it at all.
The Pearl MalletKat of course can let you swing away and imitate all 3 as well as any Synth.