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.
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@SecretBaseDesign I was thinking about you and yours (in this context yours being your app, not your family ) just last night. There are some apps that just become part of your at-least-once-a-week fiddle toolbox but never get mentioned much (they do what they do; what's to say?) and I can imagine devs must sometimes wonder if everyone's forgotten them Better than problems and complaints, but still.... Happy hols.
Likewise, was glad to see your comments in the thread, @SecretBaseDesign. I use your apps all the time--just found a use case for voxkit this week! Hope you and yours have happy holidays...
Welcome @Markosdee!
Cheers Luke!
Very much looking at the AU stuff, and that should happen in the next release. I've been kind of quiet on the forums, but there's plenty of stuff happening at the 'base, with roll-outs planned for early next year.
In addition to AUs, I'm expecting to have support for multiple SoundFont files, and I might even add in a sampler. There should also be more complex audio chain processing, so that you can host effects apps, mixers, and so on, all in one wrapper.
And -- happy holidays to everyone! (Also, everyone get ready for February Album Writing Month, the happiest time of the year!)
@SecretBaseDesign Great news. It's going to be a good new year.
Your MIDImorphosis is indispensable on my surfaces. It's a workhorse that gets quite a workout.
I'm interested, how do you use MIDImorphosis?
Following this! I know @SecretBaseDesign has moved many of its features into Infinite Looper, but I never use it there, instead preferring standalone. But I'm always interested in how other people are using it!
Converting audio files to MIDI. Often I will end up with strange and useable results.
what’s the difference in features between Infinite Looper/Aleph? apart from ipad/iphone? pls. ta+
Aleph is iPhone only, and bargain priced. Infinite is universal. They have all the same features, except that Infinite uses the iPad screen fully (and it can do the slide-over/side-by-side thing). I was sort of envisioning Aleph as the "trial size" -- for folks who aren't sure it's the right app; there's a bundle to upgrade to Infinite so that if you dig it, Aleph is effectively free.
There's no "try before you buy" with the app store, and a lot of people don't like to return apps for refunds (and Apple can make it a pain), which is why we went this way. Hopefully, an easy and inexpensive way to check out the features.
thank-you for the quick reply sir. bought! i especially like your last update. i’m looking for midi modulation functions, like midi delay and swing. Any more humanise functions (see mpc live & mashine vids for cool intergrations ) , or condition trigs on patterns/notes ( elektron digitak ) most welcome!!!
what drum-machines have you enjoyed using it with? thumbDrum and mpd pads are going to be my first adventure today.
Those all sound like great features, but mostly I am here to ask about tempo change per scene. How is that coming along? That is the only feature stopping my band from using this live.
I'll see if I can get that into the next release -- if the tempo is set by the song section -- e.g., you switch to a new section, and then it sets the tempo -- would that work for what you need?
I'm grinding away on the code; there's a major new feature that I'm putting in, and that's sort of eating my brain at the moment.
Yes, yes...section not scene sorry. Appreciate your prompt response!
So a section change would change the active tempo/midi clock.
Key feature is having an arrangement with sections with different tempos. Rarely do we have intro, verse, chorus, bridge, all the same tempo.
We can do barebones midi backing track esque setup and just play the outboard or soft synth effects and call it a performance. But recording midi loops live would be ideal.
In other words, would be impressive, but not a deal breaker if you could lay down parts on the fly a la
And have empty sections, maybe that would just take having an empty midi clip in them with the coding your are already planning? And record more midi without stopping and add them to the (tempo adjusted) section.
Keep at it! Your brain has done useful things already!