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.
iOS 15 best new feature…
This is so simple, and yet I’ve been getting a ton of mileage out of this feature…
You can now copy and paste text from a photo or screenshot. Have been using this feature many times a day and it works almost perfectly. No more flipping back and forth trying to copy something on your phone.
Comments
It's a very cool feature.
That’s very cool, but I’m surprised you’re doing it so often! Can you give examples of when these opportunities present themselves?
Any new feature for makin' Music?
The best thing for me with iPadOS15 (beta8 just now) is that you can run all apps in landscape mode, even this that earlier forced you to flip your iPad to portrait mode - great!
Overall - iPadOS15 is stable, awesome, best ever…
It is very stable and snappy for me running many different types of music apps. I’m on a 2020 iPad Pro.
I used it yesterday to send my mixer’s serial number on a support email. Also good for copy complex router passwords when visiting a friend/family. Or calling a phone from a paper poster.
Another neat feature is that iOS indexes all text it finds in all your old photos. All those menus you snapped while on holiday over the years? All searchable, so you can easily fond where you had that amazing pasta dish a decade ago, right from Spotlight search.
Don't burn me, but if that's the best feature then, what an amazing time to be alive.
This is in the off topic thread - so I have not used the feature while making music yet - although it may come up in the future.
I had to email my bosses Mac ID so he could be whitelisted for the WiFi. I just took a pic off his phone and copied and pasted it. Also can copy and paste from a document or website that doesn’t allow highlighting or copy and paste. I wanted the nutrition facts from a label and since I copied the text into a note I can search it on my phone easily.
I could see it being hugely helpful while traveling as well. Basically no more of, “read me off blah blah, or what does it say?” As a note taking tool it’s pretty powerful!
I wonder how does this tie with Apple scanning your iCloud pictures. 🤔
This is not at all surprising given that the tech has been already there from Google but it definitely poses even more privacy questions.
I suspect that this is done on device — Apple have traditionally gone this route for privacy reasons. I know that the latest child porn hash flap has put their privacy credentials in question, but I seriously doubt they’re doing text recognition on their cloud servers.
Coincidentally, I purchased https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/scan-thing-scan-anything/id1542730895 yesterday which also has image to selectable text functionality, though the object detection feature was what I bought it for.
One of those ‘magic’ bits of software. I think it pulls together a number of existing open source algorithms in a nice package.
Doing a lot of traveling at the moment and being able to take a picture of the Airbnb info printouts hosts leave in order to copy and paste long, complicated WiFi passwords is great!
Sweeeet!
That is an excellent use case.
I’d like a full file of all the text in all my photos. I wonder if that’s possible? Probably with shortcuts repeating and appending, but not exposed otherwise?
Also, just tried this by taking a screenshot and long-pressing. No lasso comes up. Maybe one of those features they bait you to get a newer than 2019 iPad to use?
And this is just the beginning of the kinds of things possible in our coming machine learning / artificial intelligence age.
Won’t be long before all passwords and most standards methods of encryption will become useless against computing that will have more processing power than all human brains on earth combined.
Been smooth all around but it really doesn’t like Audiokit AUv3s they crash at the drop of a hat