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.
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I wasn’t enough of a frequent user of BM3 to really know about its instabilities. I knew just enough to be able to load my plugins for testing, but I never explored the deep aspects of it. So I can’t speak from personal experience on it.
What about in comparison to Vatanator Pro (if you’ve tried it)? I have both but have never dove deep enough into either of them. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do but I’m trying to figure out if it’s worth keeping both. I guess I’ll have to decide.
It's okay mate, lol. I am on the Autism spectrum, so I'm no stranger to overreacting and sometimes acting a bit of a looney. 🤪 But I've gotten better at reigning it in over the years.
HA! As @gusgranite mentioned, you might've just given Intua the jolt they need to update BM3 with at least some manner of maintenance. If such be the case, BM3 will no longer be a "soon-to-be dead" app. And there's nothing quite like getting a gift card from Apple.
This reminds me of the time when Premier Vintage Organ was still available for Module Pro. Korg and Premier then had a licensing dispute (since Korg were licensing the Premier Vintage Organ sounds to be available for purchase in Module Pro) and Korg discontinued the pack and removed it from Module.
I was furious , because Korg removed the pack entirely back in late 2017/early 2018, taking the money I spent on it with them while ruining the Gadget projects I had made with said pack. I wrote Apple and Korg, telling them if they want to take away IAP sounds I purchased and ruin the projects I used it in, to either give me a refund or to put the sounds back. I told them I didn't care about their "stupid back office politics" and demanded they give me one or the other. And I'm not the only one who complained about this either thankfully.
So Apple gave me 10 iTunes credits, and Korg and Premier worked out their differences and put the Vintage Organ pack back into Module Pro (albeit no longer for sale, but those of us who purchased it can still redownload it under "Manage Packs" for project compatibility).
The point of this rambling is - sometimes the best way to bring about change is to involve Apple somehow, at least to get you some appstore credits for the trouble or a month of Apple Music for free. 😆
You’re not a looney at all, you’re one of the good guys on here, don’t change.
I think it can be off-putting for some potential purchasers if they see an app hasn’t been updated for a few years, even if there are no reported issues, hence this thread. It’s something I usually check before getting my wallet out, and I think it’s particularly relevant with an app as complex as this one.
Cheers mate. 🍻
They may not enforce annual updates but they do give devs deadlines for updating their apps eventually. I hope when the time comes they are able to at least recompile what is there.
This^ . What update does it need when it is stable and one of the most ambitious iOS apps and DAWs? Looks like some strange animosity is harbored at Intua but it’s not clear what’s wrong with BM3?
BM3, best “glass” finger drum out there, hands down. The velocity slider on the left is genius. I still pull this app out when I just have my iPad and practice drumming.
Yo wait is this a viable method of obtaining a gift card?
Did you get a gift card for asking legal about updates? ( btw. I’m laughing out loud)
Hey @legal I'm pissed that you chodes killed Alchemy and Logic Pro sucks. Gimme a gift card bitch!
Cheers me fellow neurodivergent brother 🍻 it’s certainly a struggle but I like to think it makes us unique
It sure does make us rather unique mate. Cheers 🍻
This video was from when I first started on the iOS platform.
The music was done entirely using BM3 which was the reason
why I found the Audiobus Forum in the first place.
I also did a remix using BM3 to test its capabilities
on an old Air 2, it could rock 24 channels of audio,
a mixture of auv3's, recorded audio and softsynths.
I still use BM3 on occasion especially if I need to do a remix sharpish.
and the remix myself and other BM3 users did for a BM3 forum challenge.
Here was my offering.
🫂 🍻
Oh and I found this one.
Another BM3 forum challenge.
https://on.soundcloud.com/iWwLF
Thanks for sharing my guy 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Has it been 2 years?? Danm time flies when you’re having fun.
Just want to add that intua is not dead and BM3 is still alive. That is all.
Yup.
Agreed.
That’s good to hear.
I have been revisiting BM3 lately. It’s still the best app for what I do and most of what used to irritate me about it is now a thing of the past.
If anything it was too far ahead of the state iOS was in at the time of its release.
One of my favorite workflows is loading up Hammerhead in BM3, pulling up some of my Hammerhead patterns that I've entered using the examples from this site: http://808.pixll.de/index.php, then loading up some kits and chopping up vinyl samlpes!
Lol!
Hey @AppleLegal you guys need to pull Logic Pro for Ipad from the AppStore because it doesn't have IAA or MIDI Learn! But BM3 does:) Gimme $25 to make this go away......
tru, a ton of my stability problems went away simply by going from a 2019 base model to a 2019 pro.
Also, I think it is one of those apps that has a ton of respect from people who do not see themselves as 'iOS producers' and may have come to it later; with it really being pretty much the only iOS app they use because it fits their world so well. The ratings on the Canadian store are super high and there are a lot of them. It really is anomalous that way. I can imagine it is largely beatmakers/maschine/mpc users etc who see it is a sweet addition to their existing workflow and are not simply trying to put all their middle aged last ditch dreams of affordable stardom on what they hope is a 'complete daw'.
Whoot! The movement begins...
Lol - I’m glad I read further on in this thread
I can only dream that when I update my iPad Pro to the new m2 version my beatmaker3 crashes stop
BM3 runs ok for me on my new Ioad Pro. I love the concept, but just many things should be improved. It’s far from perfect. It’s a great app though even as it is. Any DAW for this price that is like an MPC, is still awesome.
sure
I have never had it crash on my M1 Pro. 🙂
Same here!