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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Things - Voice by AudioThing & Hainbach (Released)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/things-voice/id6470745112
Intro Price: $1.99, ends Dec 31st. Full Price. $4.99.
Things - Voice is a simple one-knob "throw it on and it sounds good" compressor for voice-over and vocals. Based on our channel strip Dials it gives you everything you need to make your voice loud yet smooth. The compressor is an unusual and complex design from a German 1950 radio broadcast instrument. If you desire to get even closer to that unit's vintage tone, add authentically modded tube gain with the saturation button. For an authoritative bass boost we have added a rather euphonic EQ that excites just the right frequencies.
This is the seventh plugin in our ongoing collaboration with Berlin musician and video personality Hainbach.
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Another one??? They just don’t slow down.
The fun thing is that it could literally be anything 😄
As YouTubers go Hainbach is fine but I'm getting kind of bored of plug-in companies throwing YouTuber names on their products hoping to incite more sales. Hainbach is clearly "making" plugins for himself that have very limited use cases towards making actual music. They're certainly novel and interesting and I have picked up a couple and found very little use for them once the coolness sheen wares off.
Satirical representation of a possible outcome.
Hey, more obscure weirdness?
Hainbach really fits in with the AudioThing bubbling chemicals bottle logo.
Wtf!?
Yeah, they’re so niche it hurts. Like, they are fun if you have all the time in the world to experiment and get lost (because you’ve successfully monetized your YouTube so that that’s both your job and your fun), but these are things I’d never use but for a track or two very occasionally.
None of this means they aren’t quality, they are just not what I’m looking for at this point in time.
Depends what you’re doing, really. I love the things, so many interesting textures to explore.
You could hardly expect a plug-in developed in conjunction with Hainbach to be something he wouldn’t use himself.
A similar thing happens in “audiophile” mid-fi headphones and earbuds. Companies have been doing a lot of collaborations with prominent YouTube reviewers to try to garner more sales.
I think it’s just a general business move that is gaining traction to capitalize on the fact that people love YouTube personalities.
I'm rather curious. Hainbach seems to have a clear direction for the plugins he wants to create (which are almost always geared for Ambient and Experimental) and seems to work in conjunction with talented devs to have his visions realised. Hopefully a plugin based on the Casio SK-1.
Have you looked at SK-51 by Fingerlab? It’s like an SK-1/SK-5 hybrid. So another SK-1 plugin might be just duplicating.
That would be excellent! We make dream pop so these Audiothings/Hainbach collaborations are perfect and get used all the time. I feel lucky to have access to all these weird and wonderful sounds. Thanks Audiothing, thanks Hainbach, I know these apps are a lot of work, it's deeply appreciated here.
I have and love all his apps . If they are niche they are most definitely my niche!
I completely disagree. I don’t see at all how they’re limited for making music? I use them all quite often to make…music. And I don’t really think it’s purely just to get sales. Hainbach is clearly interested in simply just making cool apps.
I’m not monetized in any sense of the word but I still love them and experiment constantly lol
Not saying they're not quality, they are. I get the niche market but simply haven't found a use for myself. My main criticism is using YouTubers as marketing schemes. Andrew Huang and Hainbach. What's next, Hainbach coasters and hoodies? It's capitalism, I get it. But I personally don't like it. Just my commentary.
You’re not gonna catch me defending capitalism but I don’t really see this as the same thing as both parties have genuine interests outside of anything monetary. Both are clearly passionate about making cool and weird plugins and sharing it with others.
Also what’s wrong with YouTubers selling merch? They gotta make a living.
Capitalism sucks but why are we going after small fries? Artists making a living is not where the anger should be directed at. There are much worse, MUCH richer problems.
Have you thought about moving to China or North Korea?
Yes. Hainbach makes audio apps, not music apps.
But you can use them in music tracks if you wish.
Nice! I'll have a play about with that.
Before you invest, I’ve just had a play after not using it for a long time. I’d forgotten that it seems to only sample in IAA mode (unless I’ve missed something), the AUv3 just has the factory sounds. Which is a pain. So maybe a fully functional AUv3 would be less of a duplication.
My source has other informations:
I think jwm meant an emulation of the SK-I with the typical and not so typical hacks associated with it. I wish for that as well. Over the years, I have passed on a couple of dozen SK-5 and SK-I to others for modification. I am too shiftless (a combination of cheap and lazy)
to acquire the modded instrument, but I would love an app.
Yeah I have no idea why they left that outta the AUV3 version. The standalone has a recorder function and with the endless delay can lead to some cool experiments and I’m glad it works in IAA at least but still a bizarre omission.
As @bygjohn said there are some weird omissions with not being able to sample in the AUV3 but like all Fingerlabs apps, it’s free to try. It’s still one of my favorites but I really don’t get why that was left out of the AUV3 version. I hope it’s its an SK-1 too
I really don't get this assumption. You seem to think Audiothing created a synth, then reached out to Heinbach to get his branding just in order to get more sales? If that's what you're saying it makes little sense to me to jump to that conclusion.
Isn't it more likely that it was a joint effort initiated by one or the other party (or both) to make something fun, useful, and/or marketable? Heinbach isn't just a "Youtuber" he's a musician and experimenter who enjoys designing unique ways to mangle sound. It's reasonable to think that he would enjoy designing software to do that as well. It's reasonable to think a non programmer would reach out to a developer that's interested in collaborating to that end. It's reasonable to think a developer that enjoys creating unique apps would reach out to collaborate with an innovative designer. It's reasonable to think that both would like to make some money by doing so?
I don't see any reason to assume that this something purely marketing driven like sticking Michael Jordan's name on some basketball shoes.
Yeah they’ve left multiple comments through this thread about that and I asked something similar but I’m not getting any replies so not sure what the thinking is. There are a handful of people here who seem to really dislike anyone that uploads to YouTube in any kind of professional manner and always complain about it any time it’s brought up in a thread.
I wouldn't go that far. I don't see any reason to assume anything about the poster and my response isn't meant to be judgmental but only to add a way to look it that I think is more reasonable.
Yeah this is more in line what I was looking for. Still gonna get SK-51 however since the AUv3 still has functional instrument patches I assume. Just a $4 tide-me-over.