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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Interface help!
I want to make an interface with two ipads, one using loopy and the other turnado, and have a least two inputs for a microphone and bass guitar. Is this currently possible?
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Two iPads so you can have both Apps visible at the same time? And no laptop? (if laptop also I would recommend iConnectMIDI4+, the laptop would have something like a Focusrite iTrack Solo for audio I/O). Otherwise you'll be looking at solos for each iPad and a little Rolls mixer to mix their outputs for the PA. Or a USB mixer with Aux sends for one and a simple interface for the other, but getting the mixer to platy nice without feedback loops is tweaky. I ended up with a 4 bus mixer to solve that problem but they don't come small or cheap. Worth it for me 'cause I also have 4 hardware synths to add to the mix.
If one UI at a time is OK a single iPad and an iTrack Solo will do the trick. If you already have the two iPads you could set one up as a MIDI control surface mapped to the two Apps running on the other one, using Apollo Blue Tooth between them.
Welcome! Not sure how much experience you have with routing apps in Audiobus, but I really think you want to have Loopy and Turnado running together on one iPad. Routing options will be a lot more flexible that way.
The other iPad would just serve as a MIDI controller for whichever app is running in the background.
For an interface, anything class-compliant with two XLR or 1/4" inputs should work. Here's a list:
http://audio-mastering-studio.blogspot.com/2014/05/ios-compatible-audio-interfaces.html
You might want one with MIDI inputs, if you later decide to add foot pedals to control Loopy.
@QuinnH said:
Can you explain what you want to do with your mic/bass/loopy/turnado in a little more detail? Two good suggestions above (more actually!) but they required some speculation.