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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The new MOTU UltraLite AVB now works with iOS

edited February 2015 in Other

It's class compliant now and you can use usb or ethernet cable.

Up to 36 simultaneous audio channels.

It even hosts its own web app for control over the network.

http://www.motu.com/products/avb/ultralite-avb/

Comments

  • That's great news. On my shortlist to replace my aging and non-usb 002r. $650 at sweetwater

  • Note that with WIFI remote control you can also use this as a stand alone mixer with HPF, gate, LA-2A modeled compressor and 4 band parametric on each channel at about the size of a very thick iPad. 7 auxes, 4 busses, 60sec reverb... http://www.motu.com/products/avb/ultralite-avb/mixing.html

    Looking like a winner but a total bummer that there aren't separate main and headphone volume controls. Can be controlled via software but for a single user tracking at home (speakers off, headphones up and repeat), sounds like a pain in the ass. Look forward to real world reviews.

  • edited February 2015

    Yeah, I think it can still be controlled by TouchOSC by controlling the CueMix desktop software as other models too.

  • Yes, according to the tech stuff on their site, it can be adjusted separately in software but, in the moment of wanting to record something or a quick punch-in or (...), turning to another software app in order to adjust main vs headphone level and then heading back to your recording app (and then back again...) just sounds like teh sux. Really hoping I'm just interpreting this incorrectly! Sadly, it's not the only interface to go this route so I'm not hopeful.

  • That's all I'm say'n

  • @syrupcore said:
    Looking like a winner but a total bummer that there aren't separate main and headphone volume controls. Can be controlled via software but for a single user tracking at home (speakers off, headphones up and repeat), sounds like a pain in the ass. Look forward to real world reviews.

    My Apogee Duet doesn't have a separate knob for mains and headphones and I've never considered it a hinderance.
    If you really need that separate knob, here's a solution: http://www.amazon.com/TC-Electronic-Resolution-Computer-Independent-Control/dp/B001PGMNRG

  • @DJAdamJay said:
    My Apogee Duet doesn't have a separate knob for mains and headphones and I've never considered it a hinderance.

    That's good to hear. Do you track via microphone (in the same room as your speakers) much?

    As my set up is currently, it's not a big deal because I have a mixer between my interface(s!) and my monitors. But, at least the way I'm thinking about it anyway, having a single volume for both would limit the usefulness of this box as a stand alone unit someone might plug their mics, instruments and speakers directly into.

  • @syrupcore said:
    As my set up is currently, it's not a big deal because I have a mixer between my interface(s!) and my monitors. But, at least the way I'm thinking about it anyway, having a single volume for both would limit the usefulness of this box as a stand alone unit someone might plug their mics, instruments and speakers directly into.

    I do. Something I would do in those moments when there was a repetitive task of mute this, turn this up, turn this down, is just tie all of that to a single midi fader or button in my DAW.

  • I guess the new iPad control means you won't need TouchOSC or the CueMix desktop software anymore.

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  • Huzzah! RTFM to the rescue.

    Push the phone volume knob to control MAIN OUT volume.

    They are separate controls, sharing a knob.

  • With the UltraLite AVB, which apps on the iPad can record multiple tracks simultaneously? Auria, Cubasis, others???

  • wait so you can send 36 channel through AVB or just usb ?

  • @syrupcore said:

    Looking like a winner but a total bummer that there aren't separate main and headphone volume controls. Can be controlled via software but for a single user tracking at home (speakers off, headphones up and repeat), sounds like a pain in the ass. Look forward to real world reviews.

    If you need more power, there’s also the new 828es:

    http://motu.com/products/proaudio/828es

  • Does this UltraLite AVB also work with the Volta software by MOTU?

  • @Lady_App_titude said:

    @syrupcore said:

    Looking like a winner but a total bummer that there aren't separate main and headphone volume controls. Can be controlled via software but for a single user tracking at home (speakers off, headphones up and repeat), sounds like a pain in the ass. Look forward to real world reviews.

    If you need more power, there’s also the new 828es:

    http://motu.com/products/proaudio/828es

    Holy thread bump. Headphone/Main volume issue was sorted a little later in the thread. https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/comment/114902/#Comment_114902

  • Good luck recording your 36 channels simultaneously on iOS, but it is a really interesting piece of gear, with all the networking. Very cool for having a control room in a building that doesn’t have a snake, you put the interface in the live room. Interesting for location broadcasting as well.

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