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.
AI: your new creative muse?
I found this podcast from two days ago to be a good listen with insightful comments.
Hannah Fry (from the Curious Cases podcast series) talk with the guy who developed Magenta back in the day, a nice Python library for music development. Now it is all about the latest image, music and video models, of course.
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LLMs, given the right prompt can give the reasoning behind their decisions. With multi modal AI (same model for text, videos, music etc.) this will also come to other media. If it can explain why it did what it did it's definetely a game changer.
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The day I surrender any part of the creation of my music to AIs is the day I subsequently surrender music, to those that deserve to be doing it at all.
The way to use it is to let it do the parts other artists usually outsource so that they can focus on their strong point, the creative part. It's kind of like having a secretary and team at your disposal.
Right now it's basically just for mastering engineers working with entire songs. But one that's tailored to music production could cover any part in the process, e.g. marketing and finding local gigs.
Agreed. I wish that AUM had a built-in AI assistant which I could give instructions to for grunt work. Describing how I want my channels set up, for example, taking care of all the routing options for audio, midi notes and cc etc, instead of doing it by hand. Would be a great time saver and there is no real pleasure for me in doing those tasks myself.
yeah, it's like an assistant.
In chess everyone watches humans play, no one wants to watch the two best engines play each other even though they are AI and better than humans. however, using an engine is very helpful to improve your own chess.