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.
Rebirth on sale! $14.99->4.99!
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that's some sale!
From 14.99 to 14.99 ?!? good :-) lol
Looks like it's 4.99 USD.
http://www.ghettoredhot.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/christmas-price-fail.jpg
Hahaha ghetto red hot?!
Official vid:
NICE! Has limitations (and I thought they abandoned it) but for 4.99 I will absolutely get it. 14.99 wasn't going to happen.
It's free for PC but meant for older computers so it's a pain to run.
Anyone ever do anything on this (on the iPad) that they liked? Worth it for the Old Skool satisfaction or a complete delete? (Posted this on the other thread also...)
Shame that an official vid didn't correct peace to piece. Nitpicking, for sure.
@JohnnyGoodyear said:
For you JG, I'm gonna guess it's worth it for the Old Skool satisfaction. Is that like nostalgia?
http://forum.audiob.us/discussion/comment/70986#Comment_70986
Once you get the hang of the layout, it's pretty easy. Just break it down into the 4 components and focus on one at a time.
Here's a couple of takes by the inimitable Tim Webb
http://discchord.com/blog/2014/8/1/lets-play-with-rebirth-song-composition.html
Thank you chaps. Good use of inimitable as a sobriquet there....
@telecharge said:
Touché Captain, touché....and thereby lies my interest in this object
Pretty sure they had one of these on the space shuttle.
fixed it, guys.
@StormJH1 said:
What are the main limitations? Seems like it hasn't been updated in a little bit. How's the workflow for this one?
@hwangman said:
Mostly the obvious stuff. I'm not experienced with it yet, but I read about it and have the PC version. It was big from about '98 to '05 when they discontinued it. The iPad version is a port of the same thing, and it's not a bad port, but even the PC version had pretty low-res graphics/display. In fact, there are 6 or 7 mods that look like they were taken directly from the PC on a SVGA monitor or something.
The musical "limitations" are just that it does the 303/808/909 electronic/acid thing, and not too much else. The sounds kind of are what they are, so there's not a lot of synthesis or making it sound different. I think it has ACP and AudioBus (not 2.0 or state saving), but I haven't tried either yet. With the default skin, I felt it was pretty easy to use (it does have linear knobs) and sounded good.
Ok, thanks. I saw Tim's "Let's Play" video and loved the sounds he got out of the app, so I was very tempted to try it for $5.
I'm tempted too. I'm also tempted with Oscilab. I can't decide. Help. :-)
I got this on a mini retina. The controls are small and a bit cramped, but not unusable. The biggest problem for me is that it won't sync start from Cubasis. I posted on the steinberg forum and they came back saying the bug was repeatable at their end and they have informed Propellerhead. I'm hoping this sale precludes an update that fixes it
@oblique
I'd go with Rebirth, it sounds really good, includes a number of skins that contain different drum samples. The original 808 and 909 emulations are great and it can be used to make full tracks or cool sample loops using the in built sequencers.
I've not clicked with Oscilab yet. It looks like it has potential, but, for me Rebirth is way cooler.
@oblique I vote Oscilab. Who needs more 808/909/303? Earth doesn't, that's for sure. I mean, unless you want to be nostalgic.
But fair enough: Oscilab doesn't really have a song mode whereas you can, if you're patient, build entire songs with Rebirth. Like it's 1997, which was apparently like 1985.
@syrupcore
Heresy! You can't have too much 808/909/303. Retro is the new next-gen
Ah the votes are split! I do have a soft spot for anything 808/303/909'y - but yes I probably do have enough apps which are more of the same. I'll probably end up getting both anyway ... they are only £3 FFS!
Thanks for the advice :-)
I'd vote ReBirth over Oscilab. So much great music has come from ReBirth... (check the producer EOD, for instance)
True. Classics are classics for a reason I reckon. I'm just really tired of hearing most of those sounds, personally. But to this day, when they work, they work wonderfully.
Well, I'd vote for Rebirth as well...but I have both of them.
With Rebirth you can get a lot song and mods directly from the app (from the museum), but not all of them work into the app.
And Oscilab has more tactile experience.
This whole nostaligic vibe made me have an acid flashback to dirty techno I used to release back in the 90's (with the real machines of course!)
You can never have too much 808, 909 & 303... but I'm going to leave my hat in the 90's and pass on this very very tempting sale!
@skoptic
Liking that!
As someone new to the scene it has been a great month for buying music apps. So far I got on sale Cubasis, Polysix, iMPC1 Pro, iSem, Sample Tank, and the iKasolator. Most were half off. I don't think I missed any sales.