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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Yeh, VNC from iPad works surprisingly well. I kinda hate cluttering up my pi with all that desktop stuff, but it is satisfying in a kind of weird way seeing an XFCE desktop on the iPad.
The Pi could also be a nice LINK/MIDI Clock/WebDAV companion 😊
The huge advantage, well, two huge advantages of Raspberry pi are the community – it’s a very large and solid community where there’s a lot of knowledge, documented understanding and help – very few of the alternatives offer this sort of advantage of copious and friendly help from others, backed by very strong help from the manufacturer
The other advantage is that the products have very long support lifetimes compared to a lot of the competing products if they have any support at all – I remember buying an Asus Tinker Board when they first came out, the OS hardly worked, the support was not there, the forums were just people asking why things didn’t work and in the end it was all too unfriendly, then they released further models and the manufacturer completely lost interest in the first model which was the one I’d bought (until very recently with a recent OS update which includes it too)
I have a lot of Raspberry Pis
• 1 x 2B in a Raspberry Pi touchscreen, currently doing nothing but was going to run some sort of text scrolling cue software underneath the live streaming head camera (but nearer me so I can read it)
• 2 x 3B, with cams pointing out the window, running MotionEyeOS
• 3 x 3A+, with Raspberry Pi High Quality Cameras and a variety of lenses, each configured as an HDMI camera for my live streaming into the video mixer
• 1 x 4B, in case, headless, SSD boot, running my html website and my firefish server for fediverse (
@[email protected])• 1 x Pi 400, which is my main (and now only) keyboard mouse and monitor type of Linux computer that does Linux things when I need Linux things (runs Raspberry Pi OS but I’ll probably take it up to the new Raspberry Pi OS soon) and runs the text scrolling cue software for live stream script reading out, as a web page
Yeah agree, it's the community and software support which is a big part of it's success, this does not relate to the competition but it is good there are other options to keep them on their toes.
I would miss the Pi OS which you can grow to like quite a lot, if I used the other Linux flavours.
It all originates from the spirit and rich history of Cambridge as one of the homes of computing, which a lot of us grew up with too:
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/from-edsac-to-raspberry-pi-75-years-of-computers-that-work
And also ARM has the same origins.
I think the academia and knowledge sharing remains in the spirit of the Pi devices, community and products
Absolutely – even the naming is a tribute to the BBC computers of the 80s, the Pi A and the Pi B series are because there was a BBC A and BBC B computer (if you ignore the Zero and the CM and the 400) – and of course there’s an inherited path via the Archimedes, etc which also was compelling to get people into sensible computing at a time when all other 8 bit computers had become mostly games machines
Yeah and it's easy to forget that the Pis are created as educational machines, just like the BBC computers were.
I went to the cathedral school in Bristol and have memories of crossing the old cloisters and quadrangles to climb creaky stairwells to be greeted by rooms packed with BBC computers....
And of course most of those computers will still be operational to this day
Tried that for MIDI Clock. It's not really great for accurate timing. Maybe with a real-time kernel, but I've never gone through the effort to get one working. I should some day.
Arduino is much better for timing based things. And for a few bucks you can add an even more stable clock source. I've got one around here somewhere that I haven't messed with yet. My experiments with how crummy iOS's at midi clock receiving put me off. Why build an accurate jitter free clock source if what you're pointing to sucks at receiving it?
It'd be interesting to see if Link can be implemented on RPi. I've never looked into that. I don't suppose it would be possible on Arduino.
OMG I know nothing about any of this. (Dumb Mac guy)
I did just order a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W that I will have to solder header pins into because I Also ordered a Minidexed Shield off reverb so I can build a poor mans Yamaha TX816Z since my DX7 Died. I only have a Mac so I hope I ca do it, I have never programmed a damn thing and can barely send an email attachment!
YOU said you run an ad blocker for your whole house! Please tell me more of this magic!
For me soldering (well) is far harder than programming. 😂
The ad blocker I run on the RPi is Pi-hole. It's not difficult to get up and running, but you do need to know how to reconfigure your internet router to disable it handing out iP settings (DHCP) in order to get your devices to use it automatically.
Might not be a great thing to try if you aren't technically minded. But if you figure out the other thing you're doing maybe you're more nerdy than you thought. 😉
On nice thing about the RPi is if you have a spare SD card or two around, it's easy to experiment with other things without screwing up a well working setup.
Will it work with My Roku TV?
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Will it break the Roku so it doesn't work? No. Will it block ads? In most cases no. Unless you're doing web browsing on the Roku.
What it does is block DNS queries to known web advertisement providers and their trackers so that the ads don't come through. A streaming TV station isn't going to be using those kinds of services, or if they do it will be on their backend. For instance, it doesn't block ads from YouTube videos.
Ahh I wanted to block YouTube ads and ads on Pluto TV on the roku tv,
If you're quick Raspberry Pi 5 8GB is in stock here in UK, but will be gone by the end of the day I would think:
https://coolcomponents.co.uk/products/raspberry-pi-5?variant=40765600596029
Even the ancestors to ARM processors (Acorn RISC Machine) compiled BBC Basic.
Yea I'm getting an old-ish optiplex micro for my needs. I'm not driving any hardware so it seemed simpler, cheaper (after adding storage + case) and more powerful. For the price they make an amazing local server.
My Pi 5 arrived, looking forward to putting it through it's paces
