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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Worst thing about them is you don’t notice until it’s too late. You save a state with intricate settings and go back into it the next day and then it’s not there 😭 that’s why I do a quick screen record of all the jam sessions I save in AUM now, just in case.
I've come across another reproducible state-saving bug (in Logic): if you set the filter to high-pass, then close a project, it will revert back to the default of low-pass when you reopen it.
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No point @ing him here Richard, I think he rarely checks. Better to email using their support page or whatever
I just reproduced that btw Richard, in aum, and emailed the dev @richardyot
Done, sent using the contact form on the Audiothings website.
Sweet!
This is a known bug btw and they should have it fixed soon, apparently
Yeah they just replied to my query with the same info, should be fixed in the next update hopefully.
I’ve got Mixbox, paid version. This app would be pretty redundant, would it nit? Apart from the added convenience of more focused apps …
Also, People seem to regard mixbox as a mixing tool, rather than an effect rack for some reason. Because of the name? And is it even a meaningful distinction? I hope I’m not speaking in riddles, English is my second language, and I never had a first one.
I think people use MixBox for mastering because of the many EQs, Compressors, Channel Strips, etc. But if you’re happy with it then it probably does have you covered. Valves has its own sound and is more focused like you said but unless you really want a standalone tube saturation app you’re probably fine I would imagine
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Valve drift is cool. Nice one
what is valve drift?
Valves or Nembrini’s Vulture emulation ?. Anyone can compare?
don’t forget WoodValvet
The main thing that jumps out is:
Valves has a multimode filter, Voltour has just a low pass filter
Valves has cabinet IRs included. Has oversampling possibilities
Has resonance control of the filter
Nembrini has separate control over left and right if you want it (of course you could do this with any plugin by separating your signal into left and right and using 2 copies of the fx)
Nembrini has an overdrive button
Nembrini has 3 valve types and the 3rd one is quite unique
Has an auto leveling function and a phase knob
Yay the update! I had a bunch of presets made before I realized the bug so back to making presets
Having compared these 2 just now for a good half hour (turned off the IR section in Valves), I have to say I personally am preferring the sounds I can get out of the Nembrini Voltour. Separating the left and right channels and dialing them in slightly differently can also work a lot better than I was expecting.
I also find it good to combine any of these with a nice bit of tape saturation too, Reelbus or ChowTape or whatever.
Agreed. I like WoodValvet for its experimental approach but Voltour sounds the best, especially for extreme saturation and distortion.
For me on order it’s WoodValvet, Voltour, and Valves.
But all 3 of them are pretty different and take pretty different approaches.
Voltour has the best sounding and most “analog” sounding distortion and saturation. WoodValvet has the LFO for modulation and can push it into some unique territory. And Valves is more esoteric and less heavy on distortion but sounds really unique.
That sounds like a fair summary yes. Given that the differentiating aspects of both WoodValvet and Valves mainly come from things that can easily enough be done with other apps - IR loaders, filters, lfo etc - of I only had the money for one, I'd chose the Nembrini
Note that even with stereo spread button set to zero, it sounds like there is some slight stereo offset, that is very pleasing with things like a saw lfo, when effecting all 3 of WoodValvet's drive knobs. To get a similar sound on the Nembrini I had to apply separate saw lfos to the right and left drive controls and very slightly offset one of the lfos. Doing so sounds great.
I’m definitely gonna try that.
After messing with them for a few days it’s gotten harder for me decide but yeah I think the Nembrini app may be the best sounding of the bunch. I’m just partial to the Woodmans app for whatever reason.
I just don’t’ like to see people wasting money on apps they may not need. Plus btw, NoInputMixer can also be used to do this as an fx. But you need to turn the overprotect knob up when you turn the gain up. I have yet to compare the sound back to back.
Anyway, all of these apps do a decent enough job. For most people, if they have any one of Valves, Voltour or WoodValvet they’re already covered, or as mentioned they can also use NoInputMixer for that, and it can do much more on top to boot!
It seems like some people on this forum just buy every single app
It’s a genuine behavioral addiction, so should be treated with some sympathy, but yes! Mind you, if Apple forced devs to allow demos of their apps it would be a much rarer phenomenon, which is exactly why that will never happen, unless maybe the EU step in, lol
From the developer: "Valve Drift, when enabled, allows for tiny random changes in the valve algorithm."
Probably akin to the small changes in sound experienced as a real valve warms up, which is why guitarists often turn tube amps on some minutes before they intend to play.