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.
Korg KAOSS Replay hardware
Nice upgrade from the original time to break out the iPad version
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I’m going to watch some videos about this now. Is it anything like a hardware Koala?
the idea is good but its half baked
and the price... not quite inviting...
1150 euro ($)
at that price one will get an ipad pro with m2
and full of audio software...
Maybe they will be able to get round to fixing the sync drift on the Kaoss Pad 3 now.
This is definitely interesting but imo, a couple hundred $$$ too much. It’s double the price of a new 404, more expensive than an MPC One, Electribe, original OP-1, etc. I need to watch and read some more to see what all it can do to see if the price is justified.
price too big imo.. for 400-500 i would consider it, for 300 no brainer .. this way i think SP404 mk2 is much better considering it costs less than half, covers a lot of features like this thinkg plus adds lot more ..
It doesn’t even have a sequencer
TAETRO sent his back!
That price is... something.
Price is way off! Looks cool tho.
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Woooooow NO
Wtf Korg
Someone wasn’t impressed
@Jumpercollins
@Tarekith
I’m sorry. I made a mistake. I deleted this post.
Why would you post that here? Just not understanding the reasoning for posting something you already know is off-topic?
I like his channel, he knows a good deal about midi controllers and grooveboxes and seems to always try to find the good. If he doesn’t like it that’s not a good sign.
At the price it’s going for though I don’t see why anyone wouldn’t just get the new 404. Hell even a $100 Akai midi pad controller and koala would be a better value proposition. If Korg drops the price by $400 or adds a TON of features, then maybe I’ll consider. But right now I’m more interested in the SonicWare stuff.
I think it looks pretty awesome. I can’t afford it and have other gear I need much more than that, but I don’t feel I need to complain about the pricing the way I’ve seen people sounding off about it… After looking at the in depth settings, it does have a lot more features to justify the price tag imo. The drive and other effects sound really good too. The screen and UI overall is light years above so many other pieces of hardware in this price range. It’s also a much more niche item that fits a specific workflow, and while it shares a lot of characteristics and functions of the 404, I would use it way differently tbh. And sure you can just do most of these things in a DAW, but you could say that about anything lol. Not trying to sound like a korg apologist, but yeah I do like it and feel like a lot of the hate is overhyped. But hey, at least we can be sure this will get its own episode on Bad Gear now 😁😁😁
But also this is someone who LOVES the kaossilator apps and honestly this is giving me literally everything I’ve ever wanted that the app couldn’t do. I’ve literally sent them a support request form once and listed things I wanted updated or fixed and this gear basically is everything I asked for so I might be a bit biased. If anything, to me the old kaossilators were all overpriced, because at their price range with their feature sets I could never justify getting one. But if you think about the combined cost of hardware for a high quality multi effect processor that can have looping parameters, a looper, a vocoder, a sampler, the touchscreen functionality added to all of that with some exclusive functionality, and whatever else it does, plus even some simple audio interface capabilities thrown all in together and the price makes a lot more sense to me? Dang, maybe I am talking myself into GAS lol
I think it looks pretty cool too. Plus it’s so much more than a Kaoss pad now, I don’t think the price is all that unreasonable. Not sure it’s something I want to get into right at launch, but it will be interesting to see if Korg provides new features via updates.
Yeah definitely more in the “nice to have” than a “need to have” but with the way it’s set up I can totally see them adding some great new features via firmware updates
I need to watch Loopops video on it. If it’s as powerful as an MPC I’d say the price could possibly be justified. But if it’s doing less than the 404, that’s not a good look. I’ve been eyeballing the Sampletrek lately and I still think it’s the top contender for me. Especially the new Lofi one.
They may change after I watch this however.
It's essentially 1/5 of a SP-404 MK2 for double the price. The 404's DJ Mode does the same performance stuff but is more powerful and flexible, plus the Replay has none of the 404's production tools: No sequencer, chromatic sample play, envelopes, doesn't support powerbanks or batteries...I could go on and on. I think Korg fumbled the ball on this one. I guess if you want a new Kaoss pad for basic use and have money to blow, it could be cool.
That’s how seemed to me in first glance also. I love Korg but I’m not sure about this one. I’m pretty happy with my iPad for this anyway and if anything I may get the Sampletrek. It’s more reasonably priced for what I want. I’ll still keep an eye out in case it has some hype feature updates.
I get the comparison to the 404 given the form factor, but the Kaoss has oodles more high quality effects and hands on control of them. Plus an arguably more intuitive DJ features with the cue points you can embed per track. There’s a good bit of overlap, but I really didn’t think the this was a direct competitor to the 404 myself.
I’m getting mixed messages with this one in the description. One of the pictures implies audio and midi over usb but then in the written description it doesn’t mention that at all. Do you know if it’s class compliant and does send/receive audio and midi over usb? That’s the big factor for me when buying hardware these days.
I have no idea tbh, I just bought new gear and haven't dived in that deep on new stuff lately.
I’m pretty sure I did see somewhere that it can function as a class compliant audio interface? How that actually looks in practice remains to be determined…
Interesting. Thanks. Guess I have to research to do.