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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Your favorite iOS effects with guitar?
What are your favorites iOS effect to use with your guitar?
FAC chorus is a big winner for me. And I often use the room reverb in Bandit.
Do we have a doubler in iOS?
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And in 2023, what is the best octaver for iOS? Someting like the EHX Pog
I bought ToneStack Pro including IAP during BF sale and I don't think I need anything else. The range and quality of effects is more than sufficient for my guitar playing. My main amp sim is IKM ToneX.
My favorite topic!
I’ll preface this by saying that when I began my iPad guitar journey in 2020, I was mainly interested in emulating “real” amps and pedals. That’s still important but thanks to some amazing developers, and a proliferation of apps that stretch the bounds of convention, I’ve become increasingly drawn towards more exotic and unpredictable treatments of guitar tones.
Most or all of the suggestions that follow are demoed on YouTube and discussed in this forum so I won’t try to describe why I find them so compelling. Suffice it to say that curiosity and budget permitting, you can take this exploration to the far reaches of space and time…
OVERLOUD TH-U
Bedrock amp SIM with (for me) the best balance of tone, feel, and importantly, user interface. Often enhanced with OwnHammer speaker/cab impulse responses (IRs).
AUDIO THING
Nearly every one their apps can be used to enhance, mutate, or mangle the guitar. Current favorites include Valves, Wires, Lines, Springs, Speakers, Mantis, Texture, and Bubbles.
BRAMBOS
Fluss, Gauss, and Kosmonaut for sure. Salome will probably play a big part too but I haven’t had enough time with it yet.
NEMBRINI
Killer amps and pedals as well as Delay3000, Doubler, The Voltour, and their very useful IR Loader and Tuner.
CHOWDSP
BYOD is a giant effects pedal playground with exceptionally high audio quality at a ridiculously low price.
WEIRD & WONDERFUL
AUDIO DAMAGE - Other Desert Cities (you’ll come up for air in an hour or two)
ICEWORKS - Kajita, Koshiba, Yukawa (we may never see you again)
K DEVICES - TTAP, WOV (even more flavors of spaced out)
PAUL DRIESSEN
PD Space Guitar Synthesizer 2 makes your guitar sound like a zillion things it was never meant to. Wonderful.
Sorry for throwing so many of these out at once. Check the YouTube vids, then try one or two and see where they lead you. Great fun awaits.
Favorite Haas effect on iOS for guitar?
I don't fuss about it much. Just any delay on a send with feedback all the way down and a very short delay time. 100% wet. Pan the original left and the delay right. Done. There's nothing magic about the Haas effect.
Doing it that way gives lots of options such as EQ'ing or filtering the two sides differently, modulating the pans a little, putting them through different amps or speaker IRs, etc.
On my pedalboard I have the conventional pedals, and in IOS I like the EFX that create big and huge sound, a combination of reverb and delay, like Velvet Machine, Cascade, stuff like that. Also because these kind of EFX in pedal form is really expensive. And still digital, so why bother to buy such a pedal.
And I am getting more interested in flanger and chorus efx, I used to dislike this kind of sound, but I am listening more and more to Jazz Fusion and chorus is a big part of that. I already have some stand alone EFX apps, but I bought the EFX pedal pack in THU, for convenience, to use with the Rig player, in one app environment.
I like Eventide Micropitch - nicechorus combined with Blackhole Reverb’s default setting to get the sound I like. But 20th Anniversary app has a bunch of my favorite guitar settings.
Magic Death Eye Compressor, Saturn, FAC Chorus and Timeless 3 and Pro-R 2. That’s my simple and classic go to setup preset, also with an IR loader.
We have SO many great apps to have fun with our guitar(s)!
When it comes to choose an amp sim, I (very) often end up using Nembrini's Bst100 (with an IR loaded in Impulsation) or BgExtasy with stock cabs.
For the FXs, there's no "rule" for me! I love experimenting with the tons of apps installed on my iPad. But, il I really had to choose just a few, I can say that I like and use FabFiliter's Timeless 3, Saturn 2, Volcano 3 and Pro-R very often.
I remember finding the latency with the octavers in THU and ToneStack Pro to be unacceptable. Of course, most digital pitch shifters have this problem, but my Sub’n’Up pedal is less unacceptable than what I’ve tried on the iPad, and for monophonic down I have an analogue Nether.
But sometimes I want to do everything in the box, particularly when reamping my dry channel from scratch. Recommendations?
What sound card are you using?
For an octaver, I use Drambo with my Motu M2 and it's very good!
I like the Octaver in Eventide Crush Station.
I remember having octaver problems when I was using a Blender, and that seemed to have better latency than what I'm using now! (Please don't hurt me, but I have a TX-6, which does have documented latency issues.) After I noticed some serious lag, I realised that my latency settings had reset in AUM, but even after correcting this, the virtual pedals in my guitar apps are slower than my Sub'n'Up. I'll try Drambo and Eventide.
I had latency when I used my Blackstar TVP as a sound card. But with my Motu, problem solve. I also have better result with my Motu and Midi Guitar than with my Yamaha AG03.
-IK Multimedia MixBox. A nice and varied collection of effects.
-IK Multimedia Amplitude 5. Not cheap, but when they have their sales there are things worth getting in this one.
-IK Multimedia TONEX. Better than you might think and the iPadOS version is worth testing out.
-Tonebridge Guitar Effects. Great for when you want to sound like one of your favorite bands without a lot of fuss. And it's free.
Tu fais quoi avec Saturn 2? J'ai jamais réussi à bien faire sonner ma guit avec ce plug-in. Tu t'en sers comme ampli ou distorsion?
Je l'utilise surtout comme une sorte d'EQ. Je trouve que les simulations sonnent toujours trop "sombre" et que leurs réglages Low Mid et High _(surtout pour le BST100 ; le BgExtasy s'en sort mieux) _ne vont pas assez loin pour éclaircir le son. Je trouve Saturn super efficace pour booster notamment les Mid et High en leur donnant un "complément d'âme" apporté par la gestion fine de la saturation qu'on peut leur donner.
How many effects do you know react to the intensity of the playing?
High intensity playing = a lot of the effect
Delicate playing = low intensity of the effect
I try Roxsyn guitar synth on lots of things just for fun, not so related to the question , but i always assumed it was an effect to add to guitar for some reason
I bought Tonestack Pro Pot O Gold IAP ($15) during last BF and fortunately had a time to compare it to Overloud TH-U FX pack ($18). I was looking for choruses, flangers, phasers and delays primarily and from that point the Overloud pack is a clear winner for me and my guitar.
Ha, thanks, good to know! I bought the THU EFX pack with the BF discount, and was wondering about the Pot of Gold. In the end I just bought the THU OD and dist pedals too. No need for the amps en cabinets pack.
For me an advantage is to keep the rig player and the pedals and efx units in one environment ("closed box"), instead of putting Tonestack before and/or after THU in the signal chain.
PD Space Guitar can work as a normal pitchshifter and has a variable latency setting, so you set it to very,very fast for monophonic work.
Just use an envelope follower app like MMM (free, by GSDSP) or Envolver (FAC), put it on the chain that has your guitar, fiddle with the envelope follower settings, and then send the midi the follower generates to modulate your chosen parameters in whatever fx app you want to respond dynamically to your guitar playing.
Ooooo fantastic idea! Grabbed Envolver recently for the express purpose good ole lofi ducking and voiceover ducking (whilst forcing myself to understand envelopes better) -- with hopes (assumptions?) of much more potential use down the line.... And this is the exact kind of stuff I was hoping to see!! Thanks so much!
...are there any aggregated sites for these kinds of ideas? (Found the og release thread here, and Fred asked for 'best use ideas' for entrance to the giveaway. Brilliant ideag - definitely diving thru that!)