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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OMG iSymphonic
Wow Why does iSymphonic take hours to download in app purchases? I downloaded all my apps to a different iPad and iSymphonic is taking a ridiculous long time to download in app purchases makes me want to just delete the app all together but the sounds are so amazing.
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You just answered your own question. The app sounds so amazing because the sample sets are so large.
Yes, notoriously slow.... the sounds are somewhat outdated, especially now with the SWAMs, but iSymph is polyphonic. Beathawk, Module and PureSynthPlatinum are good alternatives.
I still love iSymphonic, even with SWAM. It has 3D Touch, and if you pair with something like Pen2Bow it can be pretty close to SWAM.
I would usually load one pack at a time and sometimes have to restart.
My only wish with iSymphonic would be to somehow route one instance to several tracks, as one instance can drive all 16 midi channels. Paging @wim?
Curious why you feel the sounds are outdated. Less realistic than those you mentioned etc.?
Sorry, I can't help as I don't have the app.
@Ben, the strings are the best part of ISymphonic, but it sounds too repetitive, IMO. The choirs don’t hold a candle to Module and there are too few solo instruments. The basic app is the best part. No need to get the inapps when you can get just as good with module, BeatHawk and PureSynth. Also, glitchy with Cubasis. Didn’t know it could do 3D touch, tho.
SWAM cannot replace a symphonic set-up and iSymphonic has the best orchestra sounds for me on iOS (beside StaffPad which is another league).
BUT....the app is really crap, sorry. The attack and decay/release is really terrible with many presets but once i sampled it and edit it to my taste it sounds way better for me as in the dedicated app.
I have tons of large Kontakt libraries and whatever but I still often use some iSymphonic presets.
But some constellations of instruments are really strange and a lot presets have too much overlap.
I think the standard are fine and there are already some of my favourite included.
A while ago I heard they working on new tools but maybe its abandoned, not sure.
So the content is really good but the editing lacks a lot and make the app unusable. Resampling is the way to go here for me, otherwise its hard to get a dynamic and moving sound out of it.
Bro its still downloading just one pack not many 1 pack and still going this makes no sense my internet speed is great too
outdated lol how? They are orchestral instruments how can those ever be outdated? Best orchestral sounds on the IOS platform in my opinion. Its just never taking this long to download its been over 2 hours
@Shazamm, just review the other comments. Compare the control to something like PureSynthPlatinum, or even BeatHawk. The pianos didn’t even make it into the piano poll of yesteryear. The choirs are stale compared to Module’s Monumental Choirs. I stopped using it cause it would never freeze correctly in Cubasis 2 and constantly required reloading if you had two or three instances. State saving very irregular. It’s outdated cause the iOS world has moved on, but iSymph never gets an update. It does have hermode tuning, however.
There are two ends to an internet connection (and hundreds of routers and other shit in-between). Your internet connection can be fine while their servers or bandwidth could be crap. You can hook a fire hose up to your kitchen faucet, but you'll still only get what the faucet puts out, not what a fire hydrant does. You might need to contact them.
Thats what I meant its not on my end Bro
You said it didn’t make any sense. I was offering an explanation that’s all. Sorry for the distraction Bro.
No distraction, glad you made the comparison, am going next door to casually use it as my own to the complaining bro 18 year old etc
Yeah I haven’t used that app in a whilllle
Spent a grip on all those packs too
Maybe should revisit
He’s got an updated or new version coming soon anyways right
Cruel business this endless innovation and improvement - but I agree on the limited expressiveness iSymphonic .... still has some lovely samples in it though - especially the full strings when that solid bass kicks in, and it has some unusual and rare attributes quirks and powers that the rest haven't got. But our ears and expectations have been educated by the likes of Swam etc and we are more demanding now... it just sounds flat and lifeless up front.
I pretty much use it for sketching things out these days ... that goes for the whole ipad business really - but I've found whacking Eventide's Undulator into the chain gives the app a much more fluid and dynamic sound ... not for solos but for background stuff - much improved. Strangely enough the full strings on hi-hat settings in Undulator are the most interesting to my ears.
But a serious re-working of this gadget (mpe fer instance or some specialised processing IAPs) would fill a yawning gap and give this classic another decade of life.
I have yet to find anything to replace Oriental Strings. Here’s a quick jam from a few months ago. I should go back and develop this one. Oriental Strings and Mideast Drummer are a match made in heaven.