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.
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It’s native to Cubasis with optimal performance.
Are you familiar with this feature outside of iOS? In other words, have used it elsewhere?
Unless you’re completely dialed in on music theory (which perhaps you are, most are not), I’m struggling to understand why anyone would think they wouldn’t use it? To be able to immediately see which notes are in the scale you’re working in, with the option of ignoring the rest can often be vital to finding variations or getting out of a spot where you’re stuck.
Gadget has this feature, so does Zen Beats and LK. Those are just the first 3 to come to mind, there are certainly others. It’s definitely not a boutique/niche/obscure feature. It should be standard.
*edit: Auxy Pro defaults to this format. You have to go into settings and manually change the piano roll to chromatic if you want to use anything but notes in the chosen scale. This is the reason I asked whether you’re familiar with the feature - it’s extremely prevalent.
@LFS thx for the templete info. Great product with great support 👍🏼
Fair enough, I admit that I haven't spent a lot of time with Gadget's piano roll, and I only used Zenbeats for a few minutes before deleting it. I've mostly used NanoStudio 2, Cubasis 2+3, Beatmaker 3, Auria Pro, and Xequence 2 on iPad. I've recently begun using Reaper and Ableton Live Lite on Mac, but I haven't enabled the feature on either of them.
Is chromatic mode only for experts, or is scale mode only for beginners? I suppose that's a matter of opinion, and I don't want to be the dogmatic elitist who discourages people from creating music without learning scales. Like I said, I don't want to discourage anyone from requesting features that are useful to them. I just think Cubasis 3 should fix what's already there before adding new things.
Why wouldn't I, personally, use the feature? Well, scale visualization doesn't come naturally to me at all, so I avoid anything that could act as a crutch. But that's my decision, and I wouldn't want to force that decision on anyone.
I was just being a goof as I could easily read the text through the ‘black out’
I get it constantly on iPhone, and it seems auv3 specific
This makes total sense to me. I’ve wondered about this myself. I’m still very new to music production and didn’t even really understand this feature until maybe 6 months ago. Once I found this feature, I’ll admit that when working in tools without it, it feels very, very foreign (hence the feature request and this discussion I suppose!).
I’ve kind of assumed that I’ll slowly pick up more and more scale knowledge and theory as time goes by. But, it did just recently cross my mind - if these apps all keep down the path they’re going, becoming easier and easier for a complete beginner to pick up and use, I imagine the prospects of slowly learning these things over time starts to become more and more unlikely.
Interesting dynamic. At some point, you might as well just flip on the radio...🧐
Gotcha. More like ripple editing across multiple tracks. I can see that being useful for sure.
So will this multi core support stop C3's DSP meter from spiking every time the play head moves over the start point of audio files that you might have sprinkled throughout a track? If I slap a drum loop on a track, use time stretch, and copy/paste that loop, I’ll hear a crackle every time the play head plays the loop. I only see this in Cubase/Cubasis. 🤷♂️
Hi @ChrisG,
Cubasis 3.2 will go live tomorrow morning our time.
The update includes +45 fixes/improvements (close to 60 actually) to many user-reported problems - including time-stretch and pitch-shift issues. Be assured, I will publish the list alongside with the release announcement.
Please give Cubasis 3.2 a try once available, and let us have your updated feedback afterwards.
Thanks in advance!
Best,
Lars
Hi @hibjshop,
Sure thing...
We hope you will enjoy the upcoming Cubasis 3.2 update too...
Stay well,
Lars
Can you automate the waves plugins?????
I cant figure out how..? Can you do it in Auria Pro?
Hi @ehehehe,
Hope you're well!
Are you talking about Cubasis issues here?
If so, please let us have more details, to make sure we are ware of the problems!
Best,
Lars
Hi @iLLaFenT,
Sure!
Please check out our Getting started with Cubasis clip, to learn more about the app's general workflow.
Please note that the YT description includes dedicated chapter marks...
Alongside, please find lots of additional Cubasis-related automation clips on the web.
Here are a few examples:
How To Use Automation In Cubasis 3 | MobileMusicPro
How to Use Automation and MIDI CC's in Cubasis | Steinberg - Sebastian Moench
CUBASIS 2 AUv3 Automation EXPLAINED │ haQ attaQ 291
While some clips have been produced with Cubasis 2, the steps are somewhat similar with Cubasis 3!
Hope that helps!
Best,
Lars
Hi @ehehehe,
Thanks for the updated comment - glad to read that Cubasis 3 works stable for you, having multi-core support disabled.
What exactly do you mean with "infinite freezes"?
Cubasis allows to create customised freezes via the following steps:
Once done, simply set the locators as desired and tap the freeze button.
Does this help?
Best wishes,
Lars
@ehehehe
I also had to turn off multi-core support to get cubasis stable. This is also stated in the user manual that this may be necessary for some older devices. By the way, you can freeze as many tracks as you like.