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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Did u look at the 'styles' feature? Paul also gives some examples of this in his preview vid. I am fairly sure it will let you do this
Am I missing something or does this actually have no undo / redo function, which is actually pretty indispensable in something like the song sequencer, imo.
I think it must be - at the moment it just mirrors the 'Sync all' option.
Styles applies play, and other settings to a selected chord as far as I can see - it doesn't allow you to assign multiple play modes (strum, open chord, arp) to a single chord, so that has to be achieved via multiple instances, which is a bit clunky.
Yeah I've needed an undo button a few times, haven't found one
I do like the custom arp feature that follows a chord progression - I'll use that, but the app hasn't solved my Scaler 2 requirements like I thought it would. Hopefully an update will cover the missing features.
Anyone found a fast way to delete selected chords from an autogenerated sequence? Ideally I just want to long press on the offending chord and hit a delete…
Anyone want to try to duplicate these apparent bugs? (I'm using AUM)
Manual says 'Tap and hold on one chord, then tap and hold on a 2nd to get a prompt to exchange them' - this does not seem to be working
'Go Back' button in the manual is unresponsive
Adding 'empty' to a slot in song mode, then long pressing the number above it crashes the app
I get the exchange prompt, and it works ok when accepted
‘Go Back’ button does nothing
Not sure what you mean about that last one
Yes it definitely needs an undo button.
Thanks - are u doing that on the pad toolbox or song mode? For me works in neither
Add an empty slot in song mode by pressing the 'empty' button in the 'add pattern' section. Then find the empty slot in song sequencer and long press on the number above the slot
Very much so. It also needs decimal note lengths like 1.5, 1.75 etc rather than just 1,2,3 etc....
Song mode is very buggy it’s crashed several times, when replacing and deleting or even changing style, but I’m running stand-alone to external hardware here.
I've had a few crashes editing song mode when it's hosted in AUM as well.
Yup crashes the app as you describe.
Also, I can no longer toggle to “Block Chords” from the buttons in the lower section, only Arpeggiator and Strummer are available
Oh right, in pad toolbox, to your 1st Q
Until it’s fixed it’s probably a good idea to save the preset state before opening song mode.
OK that doesn't work for me huh
Would others feel this would benefit from
preview button added to song mode pop-up?
A) ability to drag chords around in chord toolbox
Absolutely, both would be an improvement, especially preview in song mode
Yup for sure
Definitely.
Yep, plus multiple play options per chord, and just a simple tap to select a chord - none of this 'long hold' stuff.
It often takes enough people to ask before devs feel the impetus to add a feature, so get in there
Absolutely
Yes and definitely undo - redo.
I agree with the last bunch of comments for improvements
I feel the circle of 5ths is nice to see, but there is no interaction, nothing happens when I touch it, so really it could be made smaller and therefore have room for more buttons like ‘undo’ etc
If I am wrong about circle interaction, someone please correct me as I haven’t spent a long period of time on this app, finally tonight on night shift should get a big chunk of time and use the iPad version, as only played with iPhone version so far
Weird… just tried on iphone version so far, works fine in toolbox, no go in song mode
Circle of fifths is visual only so yes, could be smaller to make room for undo / redo etc
Spoke to Paul. He's taken the ideas on board. Some issues and responses -
About swapping pads in toolbox - So you need to TAP one pad, then while the initial finger is still pressed TAP and HOLD on the second pad.
About 'Go Back' button in the manual being unresponsive -
This button is only active after visiting an external embedded hyperlink that is viewed within the same window.
About Could we have the ability to drag things around in the song mode? -
I’m not sure as we swipe to scroll, TAP and HOLD to select in the column header to change selection, TAP and HOLD in the body of the columns to copy/paste. Maybe TAP, HOLD and DRAG in the header would work, but to be honest I plan a revamp of song mode.
Will look into the decimals for beats too 👍 - that's really key to me
Hi Gavinski, it has been kind of hectic these last 6 months but everything is ok. Have become more a lurker than an active member. Take care
Any idea why we have to tap & hold to select a chord, and not just tap once? That would then leave tap & hold available for dragging/re-ordering.
These are the two most important missing functions for me - single tapping a chord to select, play and hear/preview it (in Song pop-up, and in the top section), and the ability to assign multiple play modes per chord. Otherwise it's just a beefed-up strum or arp sequencer.
Wow, still no joy. I have both an M1 iPad Pro and the M1 MacBook Air, but I do not see it anywhere in the Mac App Store including the iPhone and iPad sections. Searching for both "4Pockets" and "Progressions" doesn't yield anything.
If you’re logged into your account the same as iOS device you can then click on your account on the AppStore bottom left, then look at the iPad apps for your purchase’s it should be there.
Paul said:
The long press is to allow both scrolling without accidentally changing the selected position. I will see if there is a way to speed this up.
Another thing I kind of find myself wanting here is something similar to Scaler 2s white key right hand playing functionality. Because I'm creating some lovely progressions but if they are complicated I find them difficult to play over as I am far from a great keyboardist and the whole point of this app is to escape traditional scales, so something like Atom2 white keys scale filtering is not really a solution. Any suggestions? I'd love to have the ear and fingers of a Linear Lineman to be able to jam along to the truly interesting progressions this app can come up with