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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Audiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.

If you had the chance to meet a musician and show them an app….

Who would it be, and why?

Also, what app would you show them?

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  • Depends on style but Koala Sampler for sure, instant fun :)

  • @Samu said:
    Depends on style but Koala Sampler for sure, instant fun :)

    Koala is definitely my go to. I did show Switchfoot a while back when we were talking app setup.

    But I’m looking for more app recommendations that are quick, easy, and fun to show other musicians and producers.

  • edited August 12

    If AUv3 is not a must I really enjoy Ampify Groovebox as a quick and fun idea generator and it's easy to export stems from it for use with other apps when needed.

  • edited August 12

    @Samu said:
    If AUv3 is not a must I really enjoy Ampify Groovebox as a quick and fun idea generator and it's easy to export stems from it for use with other apps when needed.

    That’s the thing…most of the apps that are super fun to use aren’t AUv3

    Ableton Note, Ampify Groovebox, Reason Compact, Blocs Wave, Figure, TONALY, and Oval Synth.

    It’s almost as if moving to AUv3 took the fun out of some newer apps. They’re better in actual production, but every time I open the apps I mentioned above, I get so much enjoyment out of them, it’s insane.

    Edit: Of course, fun is subjective. And there’s levels to fun. Wanted to add that here.

  • @seonnthaproducer said:

    That’s the thing…most of the apps that are super fun to use aren’t AUv3

    Edit: Of course, fun is subjective. And there’s levels to fun. Wanted to add that here.

    For me it's often enough if an app has decent export options to keep the flow going without too much hassle.

  • Not sure which musician in particular, but I'd show them Nanostudio 2, FL Studio Mobile, and Korg Gadget 3.

  • If it is a musician that plays an instrument, I would show him Geoshred.

  • I sometimes wonder what Mozart or Beethoven would think about Staffpad, and what compositions they would make with it.

  • edited August 12

    Obviously Drambo and then some Swams and Pianoteq.

    Covers everything really.

  • wimwim
    edited August 13

    Depends on the type of musician.

    • Performer: Loopy Pro
    • Noodler: Loopy Pro
    • Desktop DAW user: Cubasis or Logic Pro
    • New to mobile platform: Koala or GarageBand
    • Nerd: Drambo
    • Mega nerd: miRack

    Default: Koala or Loopy Pro
    Honorable mention: Groove Rider

  • Drambo, of course...

  • For the biggest wow factor, I'd second Geoshred. And for a beginner producer, music maker, I'd say all of Ampify apps.

    Also, I am an avid Drambo user and one of it's biggest fans, but if you want to send someone running, show them Drambo and miRack first.

    @wim, I agree nerds and anyone with some modular synth background would love Drambo, miRack, etc.

  • One iOS/iPadOS app…works well on whatever sound source thrown at, excellent way to show the benefits of a multitouch device and a wonderful user interface.
    http://www.humbletune.com/frekvens/

  • I have showed several musicians AUM and DrumComputer. DrumComputer first cause it’s fun and immediate in sequencing and in sound design, and then I show them it hosted in AUM with other apps.

    I did that with a drummer while I was waiting for my mom to finish her physical therapy. And I showed his kid how to make chords with a piano app.

  • edited August 12

    I have a daydream fantasy of running into Harry Mack on the street and beatboxing for a sesh

    (god how I miss that... Been a few years now*)

    Moreso fantastical would be having my portable Loopy Pro setup and a short Live Cypher template performance (90s boombap on the fly)

    *Handful of years ago, any time people would be over, we'd sit out back just shooting the breeze. Id pull out my phone, hit record, and just throw a beat. Had 2 or 3 people that would just jump on. Magical times they were

    Here's an example if ya care to hear
    (Audio recorded on voice app, RJ* put it up on his channel w/random filler vid)

  • Loopy pro for sure. And every artist!

    Koala, spacecraft, noises as well

  • Tough question, and very dependent on the musician.

    The ones that spring to mind are:

    1. AUM, because it makes audio and midi routing such a breeze.
    2. Fluss, because it uses the touch screen to such good effect, while sounding unbelievable (who needs a Microcosm?).
    3. Rymdigare, because it’s so beautifully quirky while sounding totally magical (and it’s got Fairfield and Chase Bliss mostly covered).

    Bonus one would be MiRack, because of the way it integrates with the rest of the iOS ecosystem with multi I/O in AUM, or hosting AUv3s in the standalone.

    There could be others, but I’m cheating already so I’ll stop here. Main thing, though, would be to highlight ease of use/flexibility and the beauty of well thought out touch interfaces.

  • I think just showing any musician from the past an iPad would make them shit their pants with excitement.

  • @michael_m said:
    I think just showing any musician from the past an iPad would make them shit their pants with excitement.

    If you showed me an iPad back in the early 2000s, I'd have shat my pants. Even if it only had Xewton Music Studio, just to be able to create music anywhere without requiring a laptop would've been gold. Man I used to be glued to my laptop with FL Studio proper, but when I got my first iPod Touch (what I used to create some lighter music with), that started the rabbit hole. My first iPad (iPad 2nd Gen) opened a lot of possibilities. Then when Korg Gadget came out and I updated to an Air 2, that became my main way of creating music.

  • Jimi Hendrix or Prince: Geoshred.

    Seems unlikely, but I’ll still try to make it happen

  • edited August 13

    I’ve met a well known artist here in Sweden for many many years ago on a party - showed him Thumbjam and what he could do with both TJ and a iPhone/iPad and the onboard gyroscope - instant love from him and probably from there an die hard iOS fan…

    If I should had met Ry Cooder for many years ago I certainly would have shown him Drumjam - insanely amazing app!

  • @HolyMoses said:
    I’ve met a well known artist here in Sweden for many many years ago on a party - showed him Thumbjam and what he could do with both TJ and a iPhone/iPad and the onboard gyroscope - instant love from him and probably from there an die hard iOS fan…

    If I should had met Ry Cooder for many years ago I certainly would have shown him Drumjam - insanely amazing app!

    I wasn’t thinking Cooder, good pull there, I was thinking so many artists, but I was thinking Drumjam!

  • edited August 13

    “Singing fingers” has proven instant fun for musicians and non-musicians alike. Sadly it seems to have vanished from the appstore but I still have it.
    I know it’s not the answer you intended, but still a great showcase of what makes music and a touch screen fun 🤷‍♂️

  • I woul ask him first what is his approach to creating music, what inspires him in terms of workflows and types of instruments he uses .. only then i would consider apps list to present him ..

  • Yeah, but first of all singing fingers

  • If I ever meet Mozart I will show him Notion. I think he can do a good use of it 😉

  • Pretty nice mentions already.
    I would probably show Loopy (any version), Impaktor, Samplr, Drum/ThumbJam and TC-11
    Awesome touch interfaces with enough experimentation and way to record it.

    If on extended period, would add something like Geoshred, iFretless and Gestrument

  • @jwmmakerofmusic said:

    @michael_m said:
    I think just showing any musician from the past an iPad would make them shit their pants with excitement.

    If you showed me an iPad back in the early 2000s, I'd have shat my pants. Even if it only had Xewton Music Studio, just to be able to create music anywhere without requiring a laptop would've been gold. Man I used to be glued to my laptop with FL Studio proper, but when I got my first iPod Touch (what I used to create some lighter music with), that started the rabbit hole. My first iPad (iPad 2nd Gen) opened a lot of possibilities. Then when Korg Gadget came out and I updated to an Air 2, that became my main way of creating music.

    Me too. I first started making music on computer in the mid to late 90s (before I moved to the US) when a friend got an expensive sound card for his PC and it came with a copy of Cubasis.

    We would get stoned and make all kinds of stuff for hours on end until we couldn’t focus on the screen anymore, so we would switch to guitars and turn on a cassette player (I wish I knew what happened to all those tapes). Great fun, and once in a while we actually made some good music.

    I can’t imagine what we might have done with an iPad loaded with apps.

  • I'd say Tonality for theory and GeoShred for practice

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