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.
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Indeed crazy times. 😳
Well, tbh, that's not really true. You can give AI prompts to do creative things like 'Make some humorous names based on the names of famous Star Wars characters, the names you create should have references to body parts'
The results can be hit and miss but sometimes are quite good.
Example:
Obi-Wan Kenose: A wise Jedi master who has a large nose that can sense the Force.
Chewbacka: A hairy Wookiee who has a lot of fur on his back.Chewbacka: A hairy Wookiee who has a lot of fur on his back.
Being creative, in a way that humans find interesting, basically involves making associations between things that have some degree of novelty and also a degree of familiarity. An AI can be trained to do that for sure.
AI can be a fantastic aid to creativity for creative people though, and, at least for now, it seems we need human interlocutors who are good at giving prompts and sorting the wheat from the chaff, tailoring things to fit their audience etc.
People still want connection with creators, but I believe they can also make connections with AIs. It's not much different from the connection that people can make with fictional characters, like Luke Skywalker. I fully anticipate that we will have AI idols who will be adored as much as or more than any of the pop or rock or movie stars that people obsess over today. Both are at quite a remove from the fan and the relationship is mostly mediated through screens, and augmented by the fan's own projections into the idol.
I love this topic, it's fascinating, and I personally am finding AI an incredibly useful tool. Interacting with AI stimulates my intelligence and creativity in fresh and exciting ways!
I too am enjoying making new robot friends and colleagues, I particularly like having an enthusiastic writing partner to just bounce ideas off, and who isn’t going to try and wrest the pen from my hand and write their own story…
This app may be the reason I decide to get a new iPad. Impulse purchase? Perhaps!! Investment? Indeed. Besides music; art & animation are my passion. Procreate was the main reason I stopped using Android apps. Before diving deep into many music apps, I dedicated some time to learn more about Procreates animation features. Today, I scroll through posts and find this lovely bit of info. I’ve tried quite a few animation apps for iOS, and I believe Procreate Dreams might be a game changer. I still have yet to find out more about this one. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing this
we will explore how Procreate empowers artists, both amateur and professional, to unlock their creative potential.
Are you from Savage Inc? 🙂
Weird, it’s working fine for me. Maybe restart Safari?
Works fine on my Mac Mini and iPad Air 3 and iPad Pro 11' M1 (Chrome Browser)
Pre-order (Nov 22nd release)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/procreate-dreams/id1595520602
Done!!!!! Was waiting forever to find out if it’ll run on my 2020 IPad Pro and apparently it will!!! 😁😁😁
Preordered. Always wanted to dabble in animation, even if just creating simple gifs.
I've never checked that before. Although I think it warns you if you try to buy?
iPad only nooooooooo 😭
works on my ipad, im crying with joy.
Just to be sure I’m not missing anything that hasn’t occurred to me, am I right in thinking there is absolutely nothing to be gained by preordering this app as to just purchasing it when it is actually released?
If you don't think you need it, you don't need it.
I haven't found anything to contradict that. Wouldn't it be a bummer though if you skip the preorder and then the price is double when released 😳😂
Haha. Procreate has been consistently one of the best-selling apps on the platform, whatever they've been doing they've managed to become extremely popular (and I suspect also extremely profitable).
What they've been doing is one hell of an amazing app. Simple as that.🙃
Just imagine! I think they’ve been very clear about the price though fortunately, 19.99 it is and 19.99 it will be.
It is a bit weird though to have a preorder which offers no benefit whatsoever. I mean, don’t get me wrong, they absolutely don’t need to sweeten the deal - they have an almost guaranteed success on their hands - but you’d have thought they could chuck in a free brush pack or something small just to make the preorder special in some way?
I used to use SketchClub quite a bit, but Procreate has gone above and beyond all of the others.
"ArtSet" is also a nice app. https://apps.apple.com/app/id1418530800
Not sure how easy it is to add in bonuses like that. I suspect it's not possible. I've only ever heard of pre orders giving pricing discounts.
It is a bit strange, but I think a) the app is sooo ridiculously cheap already b) people will order pre-release anyway, just out of excitement or to help them rank highly in the charts. Tbh though, surely this would be number one anyway, in the entire appstore, and they would have been better not doing a pre-order, as that way they will perhaps actually be less likely to dominate the charts over a longer time period. Who knows. Either way, in today's market $20 is laughably cheap for a one off purchase for sth like this, so not worth puzzling over too much either way!
I've been a ProCreate user for roughly 10 years since about the time it was first released (before the 1st Gen Apple Pencil became a thing). It used to be "just okay" at first and quickly became possibly the best art app within a couple of years.
Can't wait to give ProCreat Dreams a shot, even if I'm not an animator by any means. Yep, I preordered just to have a new toy to play with. 😂
Haha once I get a new iPad with more space I’m gonna give it a go as well. Even if the animations are shitty, I just wanna have fun 😂
Yeah, i agree, certainly not something I’m wasting my time thinking about, I just wanted to check that I hadn’t missed something.
And yes, $20 is an amazing price which I’m extremely grateful for. That said, it’s a canny decision on their part - even with computer aided tweening, animation is a lengthy process (unless they’ve really reinvented the wheel somehow) so keeping the price low will allow people to buy it out of curiosity…and then perhaps never really use it after an initial play. This, I suspect, wouldn’t happen if it were, say, $40 so I think they are very much targeting maximum profits overall with their pricing not doing us all a favour. In other words, price low, sell in vast numbers; as they’re almost guaranteed to do and has worked so spectacularly well with Procreate.
Still, personally, I’m very grateful to them for keeping the price within reach!
Yeah! Let the curious bring down the price for the people who will actually use it. I'm probably in the former camp, you in the latter - thank me later 😂