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'm Givin Up on You" Ambient piece done in Koala Sampler
In this track, I used Koala's sequencer to sequence the sonic events and recorded that. Then I used the file player in AUM to play it back through Alteza and Reelbus. The live performance aspect came in when I "performed" knob tweaks in Alteza and a little in Reelbus to constantly shift and evolve the timbres, with the intro being filtered in with a simple lowpass filter. I normalised the final results to -3dB in TwistedWave. See screenshots below, and enjoy!
P.S. The title of the song came from the fact I sampled myself playing "Say Something" on the piano, but you can't tell it's that song given how I cropped the samples, lol.
Comments
Good one! Getting me in the mood for international drone day on Saturday!
@jwmmakerofmusic : excellent work - your stuff is evolving fast. Some of my own favourite things/apps you might want to add to the mix:
Art Kerns’ MIDILFOs on knob twiddling, eg super-slow filter sweeps or random knob twitches.
Gatelab and Filter Step on infinite mode to provide rhythms, breathing space and variety;
doing a local mix, one channel hosting the sound source, bussed to the adjacent the effects chain - use MIDILFOs on random to switch out the instrument ‘enable’ in the AUM channel settings, and the effect chain tail will cover and smooth out the switch; or use it to do channel fader automation.
Multiple duplicates of a File Player loop, varispeeded to half or double speed, and/or Beat Offset against the original…
…and run everything at 20bpm! (But only because AUM won’t let you go slower) !!
Been missing you, Jim! Massive what you’re doing lately within the ambient cosmos!
This is it
Wait! International Drone Day is Saturday mate? Well shit! I better come up with something spectacular and epic then!
LOL! Awesome tips mate! I'll be sure to buy the apps I don't have on Thursday and try all this out.
Thanks mate. I appreciate it.
Here you go @jwmmakerofmusic Koala hosted in Drambo:
I'll do a longer setup process in a bit.
I'm looking forward to it! 😃 Checking the video in a little bit.
Yep yep!!
https://droneday.org/
YES!!! Then I will make something for Drone Day!