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.
Comments
Exactly my question, but I couldn't have phrased it so nicely....
Can’t help much mate but I hope you’re doing alright
Really enjoying the workflow now that it is auv3. Couple of questions that I haven’t been able to find. Anyway to see a file name of the loaded sample. When I’m loading a bunch of similar samples I sometimes forget what has been loaded. Is there anyway to send midi from the pads themselves so it will record in say BeatMaker or do I always have to map midi to a keyboard? If so I echo a previous post that midi map would be best not buried in the settings. Amazing app and workflow. Thanks for bringing to auv3!
It does not currently send MIDI out for the pad taps. So, better to trigger the pads from MIDI and record that MIDI into BeatMaker
I am, in fact, using them together.
How does this AUv3 IAP differ from the Koala FX AUv3 that I already have?
@skiphunt its the entire koala app. not just the FX
Ah man, sorry to hear you’ve been unwell. Hope you get back to physical and mental health soon!
I’ve not used koala much yet as I was waiting for auv3, it’s workflow is really immediate and fun. As for using it in cubasis, apparently you can load it in an fx slot and record into it, but I haven’t tried it. Some tips in this thread - https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/47008/tube-au-and-websdr-in-cubasis-3#latest
Im using it in AUM - you can put it into an fx slot and record into it that way just like sEGments, or put it in a normal audio track slot and load a wav into it. It’s similar to sEGments in some ways, but has more pads, some great easy ways to resample pads to other pads. If you have the samurai iap , you get easy sample chopping and a really high quality timestretch.
I’m sure koala experts can help more. The @elf_audio youtube vids are also excellent!
Hi there, hope you are doing better now.
Cubasis user here.
So uses for Cubasis :
1. You can use Koala as a drum machine. One thing that stands out compared to other drum auv3 apps(samplers) is the midi editor, you can make a pattern as long as you want it to be and it has various grid options (1/4 1/8t …)
It has a sequencer and a midi editor.
if you are in the sequencer, you can open the midi editor where, you can add different pitches to your high hat for example.
Multiple drag and drop from files app. so if you drag lets say 64 sounds, it would load all the sound on the 64 pads.
here is a mini video i made (
) you can create different patterns and try them on the go with your project .
Impossible in the context of the question, which was whether it could be implemented in the app. My point was no app can do that in software alone.
Ah nice! Didn’t realise you could edit pitch in the sequencer!
I like to bounce my sample abuse to file once I’m happy with it (same for most of my track’s elements for that matter) so that I can then move on to the next bit of the track. If I allow myself the option to keep messing with each element of a track then I never finish anything, just noodling & tweaking ad-finitum.
I use Slate as it’s incredibly lightweight & can run hundreds of instances (& the sample browser has preview 😊) I use Obsidian if I want to automate filters or want unison features. Really long samples I load in to AudioLayer for it’s streaming-from-disc functionality.
All the best @onerez
I just like using really long sample fodder files (several minutes) but typicaly just very small bits from them (under eight seconds or so), hence why I like nondestructive editing that BM3 or Koala does, as opposed to Slate. Eventually a lot of things get cropped but I like to keep those big sample fodder wavs intact and easily accessible just so I can easily still use the source willy nilly at any point.
Hi guys
I am trying to figure out how to play back a sample on the keyboard (or grid) without the speed of the pitch getting faster or slower , as I play notes up and down the keyboard ? Can someone please shed some light on how I can go about doing this in Koala?
If I remember correctly, you can't do that in sEGments.
Doh! Wrong app. 🙄
Haven’t succeed too.
I fear it’s only possible in BM3 for now.
hope I’m wrong.
Enable stretch for the sample in Koala, pitching works in all stretch modes except 'modern' for now...
Ah playing timestretched sounds on a keyboard is the holy grail of time stretch algorithms - BM3 can do it, yes, because they pay big-bucks for their time stretch algorithm - my one is homemade - you can use the BEATS and RETRO time stretch algorithms in koala to make the note stay the same length no matter what the pitch, but the MODERN time stretch algorithm can't do it (yet!)
Btw. 'retro' stretch mode is very nice and adds character to the sound when playing pads etc.
The BEATS time stretch is remarkable for drums. I love it! I use it so much that I almost wish for a setting to choose the default time stretch method.
Ah... that's what I figured. Didn't want to read the whole thread to find out. Thanks. I don't really use Koala that much, but it's one of those that I can really respect the work and design that's gone into it. Very fun and the dev has always been on top of maintenance and improvements. I bought the other IAP so I'll likely grab this one as well.
Loaded filename in the GUI would be a nice touch..
creating a library of dozens of .koala files Would be nice to see which one is loaded when recalling a DAW project
Great.
Thanks for the info.
Any recommended workflow to sample into Koala when it's loaded into Cubasis as an AU?
If you've got Cubasis and NS2 you might not need it.
But it is very quick to record and manipulte samples in Koala. And now it is AUv3 you can have multiple instances of Koala in AUM.
You can use it as a sample chopper and export the sample to another app. Or you can use the built in sequencer to make a song.
It's a bit like AUM in that you can use it many, many different ways.
Watch this video and imagine it as an AUv3:
Oh man, what would a COTCD sample pack for koala sound like!
@elf_audio
Anyone else see this? I’m using Koala and all is working as expected. But if my iPad sleeps, when I go back to Koala the Play button and pads/sequences don’t work. Play does nothing and the pad/sequence buttons animate and change but no sound. Closing and restarting clears it.
iPad 8th gen / iOS 14.8
Hi there, does anyone knows how to load a whole folder with wav files at once (I’m looking at my Maschines kits folders !)
Maybe we should talk to the kitmaker developer so that they can make the koala format available as an export option ?
Cheers
I've gone into a folder, tapped select, then select all and and then open. This has added all the samples to pads.
Oddly though, sometimes when I've done this, the samples have all ended up pitched way down. Strange. This seems like a bug @elf_audio.