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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I don't have this issue. Which device and iOS version are you using?
Tl/dr, can someone tell me if you can do bus processing or (real) side-chaining yet?
I liked zenbeats a lot but those features are essential to modern conventional ‘home studio’ workflow, even on iOS. If it isn’t gonna ever have those features, I would still like to use zenbeats to send an audio signal to a different app that can do those things…cuz I do like the drums and some synths …anyone know if this was added yet either?
Thanks!
Better but still not as fluid as version 2.
I believe it will be improved in coming days but until then I will like to stay with version 2. It was my mistake to upgrade.
Could you please provide a link to download version 2? I would greatly appreciate it!
same issue with send , creating a send track should either automatically add an effect to the send track (instead of insert)
or do nothing , select the send track first , add then fx
After much fiddling last night I found what works:
I know you mentioned DM, but to save some potential duplication, here are my 'problem' AUv3 sound generators:
Fail to load at all (straight to white screen):
Synthmaster 2
SugarBytes Drum computer
nLogSynth
Ravenscroft275
Load OK, and will 'sound' with DAW virtual keyboard, but crash to white screen when attempting to play sound via the plugin window (e.g plugin keyboard or pads):
FAC Drumkit
Koala Sampler
Yonac Kauldron
Yonac Magellan 2
EG Pulse
EG Segments
nLogSynth
TB Flowtones
All my AUv3 effects appear to load fine (and a lot of my synths work fine too, for the record), but trying to automate anything and then moving automation points around, (during playback) immediately crashes the AUv3 plugin on everything I've tried so far.
(11" M1 iPad Pro 2021)
How far ahead of Loopy is Zenbeats in enabling the Ableton clip-to-timeline experience?
Mainly, Zenbeats has MIDI clips in addition to audio clips. It also has automation in the timeline (and in clips) whereas Loopy doesn’t.
I tried to grab that thin edge of the slider, even with my Apple pencil (just out of curiosity), but got more or less the same result.
Finally I found out they might have changed the way, how the UI processes the vertical and horizontal drags. In v2 I could drag along both axes at the same time, meaning the keyboard could be resized and slid horizontally at the same time.
In v3 once I start to drag along one of the axes the UI won’t process any movement along the other axis until I lift off my finger and tap the slider again. Maybe it was not a bad idea to change the UI behaviour this way, BUT it seems the UI is much more sensitive to the vertical movements than the horizontal ones. If I want to slide the keyboard left or right I have to be superprecise to drag strictly horizontally while resizing with vertical drag is very easy.
@MatthewAtZenbeats, can you please put this on your list?
Hey Everyone,
Thanks for all the reports. We're currently working to fix the issues> @CapnWillie said:
OSI scrolling and zooming will be better int he next patch. In the meantime, use the drop down presets and the left and right arrow buttons.
Thanks for the list. Are you on ios 15.5 by chance?
Urgh, I'm so sorry @MatthewAtZenbeats for wasting your time - I wasn't on iOS 15.5 (I remember postponing the update now, as I was in the middle of a track I didn't want to risk 'breaking').
Having updated to latest version, I can now confirm all of the synths mentioned above work perfectly (except Synthmaster 2 - straight to white screen).
The automation issue (when editing points) is still the same as far as I can tell.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and 'rookie' mistake on my part(!)
What a BIG downer!
I did a hard reset, and tried again. No effect.
Animoog Z was quarantined. So i looked at quarantined apps, rescan Animoog Z, and suddenly it shows up.
Next i tried unquarantine Rozetta Bassline (midieffect), and that suddenly disappeared from the list of apps?
I'm using iPad Pro 2017, with latest iPadOS
I wonder how thoroughly they test this app. Its really a shame...
They are working on a fix for MIDI FX, hopefully not too long to wait!
It’s also easier and faster to set a record environment with Zenbeats. Zenbeats also support non linear Sequencing, (it can be bone in loopy pro with the help of LK and midi route but it’s a very unstable and complicated solution)
Loopy pro on the opposite is more flexible and better integrated in iOS environment ( drag and drop support )
It also support set list
Thanks! Had thought to try the sub at some point, but that's a bit of a show-stopper. Perhaps during the Winter, when I'm more likely to be inside.
More time with the ZR1 today. Import from anywhere, even iCloud Drive*. Slicing, though I’m still on that learning curve. Apply separate effects per pad. Instantly arrange in the drum sequencer. It’s seriously well done and probably obviates the need for other sample-related apps.
*Drag and drop would be awesome.
A couple of things with ZR1 I think you'll want to look into @MatthewAtZenbeats
*When you click on + to add a new pad, then immediately try to add a sample to that pad, the new sample gets added to pad 2 (C#2 for the default kit) even though you’ve clicked the folder icon on the new pad. Adding a new sample to an existing pad by tapping the pad then clicking the folder icon works as expected.
*You can add sends to individual drum channels in ZR1 which is great. But I'm seeing strange behavior when trying to add automation for send amount on that individual channel. I added sends to the same return track for both the main ZR1 channel and an individual channel and turned send amount on the main channel all the way down and turned send amount on the individual pad up. Worked as expected. I then added automation to the pad by first selecting the pad then adding automation for send amount. Automation gets added for every pad and the added automation has no effect on send amount for the main channel or the individual pad. I tested automation of send amount for the main ZR1 channel before adding a send to the individual pad and automating send amount worked as expected then. In doing this troubleshooting I'm also seeing "blank" entries in automation parameter lists which probably isn't what's wanted.
*In the sample editor, when snap is turned off, there’s still a hard limit to how far you can pull the right bracket to the left. Zooming in allows you to pull the bracket further but having to zoom in seems odd.
ZR1 requests…
Normalize and trim in the sample editor
Being able to set sequencer lanes to variable lengths
@MatthewAtZenbeats Hi, Apple Pencil doesn’t work properly with ZBv3 on iPad Pro3 iOS 15.5, Cheers
Tal absolutely destroys ZC-1. I tried all the packs for it with cloud subscription and there is no Roland juju in there. Hilarious how far the 101 sounds sounded from my real one.
There’s some good stuff in ZB but it’s too much of a mess for me to touch. Not when Drambo gives such a smooth and effortless music making experience.
Funny how differently peoples brains work. My experience is the exact opposite! 😎👍🏼
I can confirm this. Intentional or bug?
Yes, please!
Thanks guys for these insights. If one were working only with audio loops, which app gives the easiest clip-launching to timeline experience?
I'd say they're both about the same. Both support cut and paste and have the ability to record a performance to the timeline.
Both are free to try. I think ZB's free version is enough to try out what you'd need to. Loopy Pro includes all features to try, but only for seven days.
Seems to be some strange (buggy) behaviour in ZB3 (Free) on iPhone.
Unlike the iPad version, where the automation gets edited on top of the Waveform, the iPhone editing is done in a separate window underneath. This wouldn't be a problem except it seems to be impossible to resize (Using the arrows icons) the windows on screen. On the small screen of the iPhone 7, it's impossible to work with.
Works ok here. iPhone 13, iOS 15.5. Even though the little resize window is there I can’t resize the window.
Interesting! There's a clear size difference in the windows. But neither of us have working resize (I assume you also can't resize the upper window?). I thought clicking the 'X' button on the sampler might allow full-screen automation editing, but it just quits that entire editing page.
Still find it strange that it doesn't work the same as on iPad, which would make so much more sense given the space limits.