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.
thesoundtestroomUS Demo, Tutorial for Midi Designer Pro, Plus Free Templates
Hello everybody, Doug here, as you all know I'm a midiot, but thankfully Colin is a midiwizy. Seriously this is such a good video, even I understood it, Midi Designer is on sale at the moment too with 50% off, and Colin has made a stack of templates to download free from the site, just go to the EXTRAS page, find Midi Designer templates.
http://www.thesoundtestroom.com/midi-designer-pro/
Its a long one so grab a coffee, and if you think you may want to buy MDP please use our site link as we get a small percentage from apple, thanks
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all those templates!! thanks Colin for putting in the time to do this. MDPro is one of my favorite apps allowing my main "hardware setup" of two iPads and a pair of headphones to really do a lot.
Thanks for this. Will get two cups of coffee and settle in.
@Hmtx I think you should start us a thread 'Things to do with two iPads'. I have often wondered how I could leverage my over-indulgence, but as of this juncture don't get any benefit or crossover for having two of these infuriatingly lovely objects...
Wow Colin, great tutorial. Very straightforward and you have certainly clarified a lot of things for me. It's all so bloody obvious when someone explains it like you have here. Bought, and thanks for the templates too.
That's great Colin! Definitely picked up some useful tips in that one. Thanks for the templates as well!
I want to love MIDI Designer. I just really dislike the, um, design of it.
I DO love MIDI Designer but dislike the design so I feel ya
@syrupcore said:
Hah, if you are talking about graphics (not UI) I have to agree. Those default color schemes are so... Candycrush :-)
For me the "serious tool" factor far outweighs the design quirks. (I think it's phenomenal)
The polish is far less important to me than the functionality.
Watched whole thing and have a head full of, you know, stuff. Would love someone to share a sentence or two about how they use this in workflow in a way they find a real benefit or advantage to the 'usual' way of doing things....sorry if this is very obvious to others, but while I often play the n00b in this case it's utterly accurate... Thanks.
Two useful scenarios for me....combine controls for two or more apps, or using wifi to control apps on another iOS device. Both are pretty great adds to the toolbox.
I'm not certain that the second would matter to me too much currently, but combine controls for two or more apps makes sense or at least gets my tinkerer's heart ticking a little faster. Thanks Mister @funjunkie27.
De nada señor Juan Bueno Año. I haven't used it as much with wifi, but I'm thinking an iPhone (i's universal) as a controller for an iPad app would be quite interesting.
We're going to need to get you added to The Sound Test Room Team (Emiritus). It seems every idea of yours I want to watch the video of
Thanks Doug and co!
Just drop on by. How far are you from Atlanta?
Thanks for watching everyone! I agree with the overall look of it lacking a certain something, but as @Hmtx said, it's all about what its capable of.
@JohnnyGoodyear, if you just want to experiment with combining apps, you could download a few of the templates I made and append them on top of one other. Then maybe use the Animoog (though any app would work with it) demo keyboard on one half of the screen and say the AUFX Series template XY pads on the other half. Now you can play and tweak at the same time. You could then create a button to launch a preset of Animoog into space, dub, and peakQ, to whatever output you like!
Same thing with the Holderness template. With all four loaded inside of AB or IAA, you could adjust the controls for each app on a single screen. And though I try and replicate everything in the original app when I make a layout, you could just as easily only create controls for certain functions across several apps in your chain.
That's why I like this app so much. It appeals to my inner nerd to create, layout, and map controls and it appeals to my outer, super suave badassness to play music in new ways with it.
Well @funjunkie27, Austin to Atlanta is 921 miles. Maine is something like 1,200, but it looks like GA should be somewhere in the middle-ish. I am threatening to drive from Texas to New England one of these summers so maybe I could make a Road Trip out of it. Stop for coffee along the way. Have to be a few other of us Appologists (ha, I like it) between one place and the other....plenty of time to consider that, but off to Chicago in the morning (721 miles, but still too far for coffee
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@CSwinn super suave badassness + +
I can see the picture you've laid out there and I can also see it's could be an appealing one. I certainly appreciate you taking the time to walk us through the funhouse.
I have the sense that Dog has found his Midi Yang
Keep up the good work.
Woof Woof
I believe there are a few of us In the ATL area. Stop on by!