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.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
Is there a legit way to emulate iOS or something?
I've had my fifth - yes, fifth - iPhone stolen this year. That's 2023, thus far, unfortunately. Usually I buy cheaper models because I'm clumsy and drop them a lot but I've never had so much thievery afflict me so seriously. Especially this last phone I spent a decent chunk of change on so I could ramp up my production and get some work done via my phone while I'm in transit to help pay it off... stolen. Along with my wallet, that time.
With the wallet missing i'm effectively bankrupt and I've been locked out of my account and the $$ I had in it while my bank tries to "figure out" how I keep getting robbed. So to top it off I haven't been able to get groceries for over a week. But this post isn't about problems, sorry (although I did need a good vent), it's about SOLUTIONS!
The main one being... finding a way I can use all my apps without having an actual phone! I'm not holding up high hopes given how hard it is to even sign into apple without having an iphone or i-device handy (just to sign in on my PC now I have to go through a 10-day validation procedure while they confirm my ID) BUT, you never know. During these times I would love nothing more than to relieve the stress of a stolen phone by doodling some tunes on my phone, but the lack of a phone makes that more challenging than entertaining :P
Unfortunately all my old phones are busted and/or in disrepair and probably too old now to utilize most of the apps I'd be wanting to use, otherwise I'd consider just getting a screen reparied on an old iphone 6. Anyone know if they're still viable?
Oh - and I found the answer to an earlier thread that i made when i was asking about iOS-like apps for desktop: the combination of Bitwig with the Reason Rack Plugin. My goodness that's the only thing that's been able to pull sway on me since discovering the iOS ecosystem. Plus since BITWIG CAN OPEN .ALS FILES, it's just as compatible in my current workflow. If you haven't tried Bitwig as a DAW or any of reason's awesome intuitive modules, doooo it.____
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I think the most obvious solution is to move to a different neighbourhood 🤣
The short answer is no. You need to have an Apple device to run them.
Hope you get everything figured out soon though, as it sounds like you’ve had a 2023 that no one here would envy.
You might look for a used iPod touch. Since it looks like a phone it might get stolen anyway though.
Fifth? Sorry to ask the question, but what is the main reason for that do you think?
Let's take my sister as an example. She leave in a micro town where everyone knows each other. She can let her doors unlocked without problem. But she's the kind of person to let her phone on the table at a Starbucks (I don't say it's your case, it's just an example) of a big city when she have to go to the bathroom. Her behaviour is the complete opposite of paranoia. But she often "loss" her things. I'm the complete opposite of that.
I once found an iPhone in a Café and I bring it back to the barrista. Maybe I'm naïve but it must be complicated to do something usefull with a locked iPhone. Jailbreak I guess? Can you jailbreak a locked iPhone?
If you don't want to talk about it, I understand but I'm always curious to know more about unusual case like that. Maybe we will all learn something.
I'm not here to judge, just to learn and share ideas.
Best of luck.
I don’t even know why anyone would want to steal an iPhone. I mean with all the biometrics, FaceID, and strong passwords, aren’t they virtually impossible to get into?
No
I remember when there was this mass shooting in California, and the FBI had the iPhone of one of the suspects, and they basically trying to force Apple into unlocking it, when IIRC they had some hired gun hacker figure out the password with some kind of algorithm thing.
I mean, I know nothing is 100%, but I’d like to think the average Joe isn’t going to be able unlock my stuff if they “Stole” it.
It’s difficult to get an owner’s data from it (unless they are careless with security), but not that difficult to reset it, or even unlock it to use it with a different carrier.
I had a backpack stolen from my car some years ago. A lot of the stuff where gone, but my iPad I was able to "recover"
I used the find my device feature, located who had it. It ends up some random chap bought it cheap from someone.
This other someone could be some crackhead who stole my bag or his dealer
tl:dr - Yep, some people may try to sell a locked stolen device
There is a big différence between accessing datas and jailbreaking a phone to make it yours with a reset.
I hope they didn't take your phone
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-tech-company-says-it-can-break-into-all-iphones-ever-made-some-androids/
It’s an article from 4 years ago though, so might not be accurate in 2023.
Even the cheapest 2nd-hand iPhone, these days, would allow you to get some worthwhile stuff done. Not that it would be thief-proof, but if anyone was prepared to take the risk, the loss would be much less. Try to keep it in a case that makes it just look like some generic smartphone. Might help
@fornax55 sorry to hear about your troubles.
One cheaper option is Android, it's a lot more limited, but still entirely possible to make music with a half decent handset (I use a midtier Samsung).
I think the OP is looking for a way to use existing apps though.