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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Radio plugins
I’m curious if there are any iOS AU or VST plugins available that output AM/FM Radio and allow you to shift through the bands. Just to explore some random noises, bits and blops for further processing.
Comments
yes!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/websdr/id1558990423
Great, thanks!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-unit/id1545928014
Radio Unit
If I’m correct that’s only “streams”. I’m orientating for the real AM/FM stuff.
iOS great for music production, but weak when it comes to radio related apps. This is mainly to the heavily restricted OS and the fact that when it comes to any kind of web media access Apple forces the devs to use their Apple implementation and not develop their own. My guess is one of the main reasons for this restrictive approach is possible copyright infringement. As a result you cannot use RTL-SDR dongles as a software defined radio on iOS, and the already mentioned "Radio Unit" app works fine with many commercial radio stations, but does not work with many amateur radio related streams that use the open source OGG container format.
Radio Unit can play any radio station being streamed from a website, you do need to find the proper link, usually ending in m3u, mp3, /stream or a couple others. So if you know the station you want am or fm, you go to their website in a browser, find the streaming link, not the website link, then copy and paste it into Radio Unit.
Oops I see you said shift through the bands, my mistake. Yea you can’t do that in radio unit.
Yeah as @sevenape mentioned the only thing that will approximate that experience is WebSDR. You can give it a try in your browser at http://websdr.org before you buy, and keep in mind that you need to keep the AU window visible in order for it to work.