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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Polyend Tracker Mini + iPad = works like a breeze

dendydendy
edited June 5 in Hardware

Bought Tracker Midi, tried how it cooperates with iPad ...

EDIT: Works like a breeze !!

Trick is to connect cable first with Tracker turned OFF - and only then with cable already connected turn ON Tracker. In this case EVERYTHING works perfectly !

Mini supports multiple audio tracks streaming into device and with my Mac Book Air M1 it works like a breeze - it sents all individual tracks and delay / reveb and main mix via USB and can act as sound card (one stereo stream from PC back to tracker, so on headphones connected to tracker you hear PC audio)

You cannot sample on tracker via USB from PC unfortunatelly (it's listed as feature request on polyend forums)

Unfortunatelly, it almost doesn't work with iPad at all..

First - iPad doesn't detect Tracker at all in case it is connected via usb hub, something like hyperdrive adapter or even via original Apple camera connection kit - it must be direct connection via USB cable.

Even then - it's more like lottery .. in 80% cases audio is just completely broken - lot of stuttering, lot of dropouts.. i managed once or two times to get clean audio from tracker / to tracker from ipad but it was completely random, in vast majority cases it is completely broken.

Tried it in AUM, NS2, Cubasis3, Logic - same result everywhere.

So for now, if you want try Mini (which is GREAT device on it's own, having a LOT LOT fun with it), do not count on using it together with iPad .. current firmware (1.1) is just not ready for this.

Good thing is, that from hardware standpoint, looks like it is fully ready, so this should be possible to fix just by firmware update - when it will work, i can see how this combination will be great. Until then, expect it to be used just as standalone device outside iOS ecosystem.

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