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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That’s exactly what it is doing. The amplifier before it is set to invert the phase of the R2XL output. Junction 3 mixes this phase inverted signal with the dry input so cancels out anything that is common to both outputs, meaning it removes most of the centre but leaves the sides intact.
Junction 4 then acts as a mixer so you can balance up the dry centre with wide stereo sides according to taste.
Mid side processing is a really useful technique. It’s probably my favourite way to record in stereo (in the studio) which is why I was motivated to see if I could get something similar happening in the WAE. Fortunately, Pete had the foresight to give the amp unit a phase invert option. It’s been there for as long as I can remember but I don’t think I’ve made much use of it before now.
This is utterly fantastic; I'm completely obsessed with this technique now. It's the perfect antidote to the kind of reverb soup that I keep spilling over everything.
Coincidentally (I know you know this, but I didn't and it seems worth sharing), @imtim was just explaining to me about the hidden reverb settings in the W23 templates, where most of those in the Drones and Bass paks have a bypassed Reverb in the Cell FX or sometimes the in-cell signal chain (R2XL for the Drones, R1 for the Basses). They're bypassed because Schemas include FX presets at Mix level and you don't want a Cell-level reverb if it's going to be slathered in R2XL further down the chain – but if you're using these templates outside Schemas, they offer a ready-made reverb setting that you can just turn on ad hoc for an extra serving of awesome.
FYI AUM has mid-side balancing built-in.
Oh wow. Never even noticed that, let alone the tip in the manual about splitting the signal before adding FX; there goes the weekend…
Yeah I realised recently when I did that little vid using the phase invert before a reverb that I've really been sleeping on those internal AUM fx / tools. Definitely have to explore those more!
I flat-out stole your Generator setup for this celebration of my all-time favourite film and soundtrack.
Blimey, that’s a lot of work! Excellent!
And also one of my favourite OSTs. And films.
On the subject of favourite soundtracks, as soon as I got my hands on the new filters, this had to be done….
Oh, that is fantastic! Just watching the LFO readout dance across the screen gives me tingles.
Drowning by numbers perhaps?
Thanks for the update!
Been enjoying distressed tape loops recently. Thought it might be fun to see if Wotja could auto generate something in the same ballpark. If you don’t like the loop, replay to generate a new one. Feel free to steal the preset.
Lovely, thanks for sharing, I shall explore this.
I'm really interested in this app. I would purchase it for my iMac but wondering if it is comprehensible by those of us with average technical brains? I've seen a couple videos which suggest that some people have spent years with it and still don't understand. Maybe it's better to not understand some things but just wondering if I'll buy it and spend a lot of time and never be able to have any small measure of control with it
I'm still trying to work out how to use this. I'm guessing I need to find somewhere to drop a sample in?
You don't really need to get an indepth understanding of it as long as you're happy to just let it generate stuff for you. If you do want to really understand and master it, definitely would need patience and motivation to work through the manual and understand all the settings etc..
Really appreciate this @Gavinski !
My experience is that you can let the app do all the work, then learn by digging into it, a little at a time. For example, I'm loading it onto my AppleTV for generative ambient, and just let it do its thing. But on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac, I tend to start with a template, for example, a drone, and develop it from there, adding to it, a little at a time. Alternatively, in the past, I have started out with a Wotja generated piece, then explored and adjusted its innards, until its secrets reveal themselves to me.
I say give it a go. You can always go with a one month trial period, then pay in full later if you go for it. I currently subscribe monthly, it's the model that works for me with Wotja.
Thanks for the great info. I was going to look into whether a Pro one time purchase is just for one year or for the lifetime of the app. I read through all the purchase options and can't even comprehend those!
Would you say you can achieve a great degree of variety? That's the thing I've noticed with other "generative" apps is that you begin to notice repeating patterns over time.
No. It’s set to generate its own sample. You get a new one each time you hit play.
As the sample is generated from a generative template ( recursion much?) there is a risk that it might just be silence sometimes but if that happens just play it again to see if you have better luck.
I'll try again, thanks for the info!
Ah, I hear something now, very quiet, but I have an issue with Wotja 23 not going to my bluetooth speaker, as the rest of my computer audio is. I'm digging around for a setting to change that now so I can dive into this patch a little.
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You have full control over the variety available, ranging from predefined, unchanging sequences to completely indeterminate and all points in between.
Being pattern sensitive creatures, we tend to impose patterns on the information we receive anyway, regardless of whether that info has been pre organised or not, so I can’t guarantee you won’t hear patterns emerging from time to time. But usually Wotja doesn’t do patterns unless you ask it to.
Very interesting to think about. Thanks!
Not sure there is a Wotja setting that is specific to Bluetooth output. Just the usual generic level controls.
FWIW the patch was created in iOS using Bluetooth headphones (mostly because it’s currently 4 degrees C in my studio so that’s a no go today)
I forgot to mention the sound issue is on my MacBook Pro, not iPad. I'll work it out. Or it will work itself out, more likely.
4ºC is too low for the creative juices to flow, that's for sure!
https://macitbetter.com/>; @UMCorps said:
I’m a bit late to this but Better Zip ( https://macitbetter.com/ ) will allow very easy manipulation of zip archives on a Mac. Plus a whole lot more. It’s a paid app though. I use it for work so it’s a no brainer for me, but others might not see the value at the end of the day.
Thanks for the recommendation – BetterZip is also in Setapp, so I'm probably not the only one who has it already but never really looked at what it can do.
Good call.
Bookmarked. I think the time has come for me to install Ventura now but once that’s done I’ll have that.
Thanks