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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Do you get it to export more than 4 bars of midi? I don't and I contacted the dev about a week ago but, no reply. 4 Bars are in some songs just the intro of the song arrangement so that is pretty annoying. On another occasion the drums were not included because of this (they were not in the intro)
The audio export is as said above extremely slow, even on an Pro M1, while midi only is instant.
It's 250 monthly.
Dev is a bit slow to reply. Think it took a week for me to get a reply when I contacted him a few weeks ago, but he did eventually reply
Alright, thanks! We'll see then but I take it the 4 bar export is what everybody gets, not just me(?) as you don't say anything about it.
I'll have to check that again later, I have only used the app a few times but I definitely remember having some dodgy experience with exporting before
I tried this app out yesterday. I had no problem setting the key, but I couldn't work out how to set the scale, try as I might. I haven't managed to find a manual yet either.
There isn't a manual, and even though it is fairly simple, it could do with one. Maybe request this from the dev
Indeed, it seems straightforward enough, but oh, to work out how to change the scale from major to something else.
I have no idea yes whether this is really AI or just generative - they're definitely not the same thing as you know. But it is indeed pretty musical.
Maybe you have it in loop mode instead of song mode
I've tried both (and then some). So, are you saying that you get a midi export for the whole song?
There’s an option to export different genres of arrangements of the loop beyond 4 bars. Or you can generate a random arrangement. Essentially what it does is it takes your loop and does the classic copy paste, with various parts coming in and out and occasionally being split into smaller chunks. So for example, the intro might just take the first 2 bars of the 4 bar loop and repeat it a few times with just the bass or chords, etc. and yeah you get a midi export for this whole arrangement. You gotta go to the Song tab rather than the loop tab and export from there
How do you change from minor to major?
Tapping on minor only toggles the lock on/off.
Yes, you can, I’ll try to make a video of it
I'd a appreciate that, although I decided to cancel the sub after just a month, expires in a few days. Still not a word from the dev., and that is really disappointing.
Do you think there's really any AI going on here?
Just a tip I got from the Songen support team. As of a recent update, the app now has a loop variation feature. It works like this:
1. Generate a loop
2. Open the editor (top left icon with faders in it)
3. Open arrangement editor (top right with cog wheel)
4. Select "Loop Variation" arrangement style
5. Hit "Generate Variation"
(repeat until satisfied)
6. Hit "Convert into a loop", it appends the varioation part to the end of the original loop, resulting with an extended loop which can be again varied.
What do you mean by AI? AI has a wide range of meaning and what people mean by it is often context-sensitive.
Well, in this case I mean whether it has used machine learning to analyse and replicate genres, and has some kind of inbuilt learning / feedback / improvement mechanism. Or whether it is just generated based on human-built algorithms and is using AI as a buzzword. In which case it would simply be a generative app like Polyphase etc. Since documentation is so sparse, it's hard to know.
AI does not have to mean that it uses machine learning.
The play actually stops when you press export but it seem to do the trick as I finally got an image like this (below) when I tried. I also did an import to LK and the parts are separated so all is good from that perspective. I bow and say: thank you!
About audio export: I don't know why it's so slow but suspect poor coding but I don't really want the audio anyway as this is just a probable start for something, sounding entirely different
EDIT: I did try to use the NanoStudio option (export/midi/settings) and it worked. Very good. I just wonder why the dev couldn't bother to do a manual for all the people that don't have the collective brilliance of this forum
@Pxlhg - were you exporting stems as well as the multitrack? That seems to really go slow. Also not sure whether they count the multi plus 4 stems as 5 exports, which possibly would be counted as over the limit for the free version.
One interesting thing about Songen is that it is apparently receiving MIDI from external devices to the lead channel when it is playing a loop. Might be a developer oops, but fun as jam tracks.
Yeah when I tried stems I only got 4 bars. It's only the audio export that is slow so I have skipped that part as I don't have the patients and I don't need it either. It was mainly a test for fun and also see if I could render out a few prospects for a months subscription - now, when I can export full songs I only have a few days left. Pretty disappointed in the devs silence.
Oh really, haven't tried that. You can import a sample too which I also haven't bothered to test. I will let this app rest and mature for a while before I try again.
I agree with this