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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Can you record notes by playing with a midi controller into the sequencer?
I fiddle with SPA past tonight. I don't have the first version because I thought I didn't need it but.....
This is the best app that I use NEVER in terms of inspiration and flexibilty.
I used several instances with Modstep and Rozeta and seems "magic".
Amazing work.
So most folks using this in AUM or anyone enjoying it elsewhere?
Didn't know this was possible....
apeMatrix, which is nearly ready to drop, probably this weekend if not then next week
Great stuff, looking forward to seeing what Doug makes of that one.
It's good to go on my air2, let me give it a thorough testing. I actually have a theory that you can basically use the step sequencer mode to pretty much create an entire track entirely inside Aum. Just have to see if the theory in my head translates to actual usage. Will make a video if my efforts pan out
Although I'm not so sure people really expect much from me now lol.
This is plenty of endorsement for me. Bought.
I'd also like to know too, also does it work with external gear via CCK and Bluetooth?
Any info would be great thanks.
I don't have this new version yet but SPA was one of the first apps I remember that had BT MIDI baked into the app so I would be shocked if it didn't have it now. I never tried the original SPA with external gear but I suspect it will work.
Working flawlessly for me so far
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I’d put money on him liking it.
Doesn't SPA have its own modulation channel?
What are the automation options with the new SPA? For example, what could I point Rozeta LFOs at?
Yes, please, anyone who has it (the UNIT version) - please could one make a screenshot where the automation/cc sending stuff is? Thank you!
Unfortunately the SPA automation parameters don’t appear to be exposed for use in AUM.
There are some midi specs for a few of the Arp settings.
See pic
It sends out mostly, but here’s what it can receive other than program change...
Ok beat me to it
There’s no AU parameters exposed though but you can use SPA to modulate I think about 5 CCs per instance so use it like a step modulator.
Yeah, the automation looks limited to send, no receive.
What does that exactly mean?
Does that mean one can not configure MIDI Routing for SPA UNIT inside of AUM via the side menu in AUM?
I am new to this automation stuff, so please forgive if that question is stupid:
Can i, for example, send something to (example) CC66 (or whatever number) or are these all predefined and “set for good”?
Yes, please Thanks in advance
Thanks to all you picture posters
I was slightly wrong.
I can confirm these work well.
These, plus pattern change and latch...
As I guessed you can basically make step poly arp do pattern changes on itself. This basically means you can have some of them running at much slower clocks being the “pattern selector” for other instances. Thus theoretically making an entire song in Aum.
Here’s very early proof:-
@ExAsperis99 I’ll try and make an actual track now and probably post a video eventually how this works XD
Not sure if this has been covered, but if you load Rozetta LFO and SPAunit into AUM, pick the LFO as the "Midi Source" for SPAunit and it automatically changes/modulates the "Speed" setting in SPAunit. No idea why this and other parameters are not uncovered in the Midi Control tab of AUM, but this is pretty interesting.
Further to the above - so cc# 17 seems to control "Speed" in SPAunit. I'm sure some other controls can be found just by poking around.
Ooops - this has already been covered by SpookyZoo.
The Audiounit responds to all the Ccs mentioned in the manual. It's pretty much how I got the pattern changes to work in m video above. I just made 1 step poly arp send midi cc 21 to a second instance with both instances running in sequence mode.
Values 0-15 trigger patterns 1-16 respectively. End result is it can basically automate itself.
Now the more advanced sequencing experiments can begin
That's really cool. As an arpeggiator, is SPA somehow lacking as a sequencer? Can you do chords?