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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From a review:
Music user case for Surface Go from Molten Music now up.
Thanks for the extensive comparison. The only question I have: does de fan strat blowing hard when doing too much work. My experience with Surface i5 and i7 tablets was that they became very loud (fan noise) as soon as the processor had to work a little bit. This is/ was a known issue, but maybe it's solved after some recent updates. for me this fan noise was always the reason to hold back from a surface purchase.
Awesome video, thank you. I'm at work can't sit through the whole thing but seems comprehensive. Even after only 15 minutes there's already so much hoop jumping, mostly due to Win10 S I know, but still. There's a lot to be said for the iPad (or anything really) where you just plug things in and go.
That said, a full version of Win10 non S would probably be decent. Like this nice gent says, you're not gonna load up a gigantic orchestra but for a few synths, some loops/drums and some audio channels it's probably more than enough. Personally, I'm hard pressed to see how it's any better or expansive than just using what's already available on iOS
This is only for Windows S but Stahelight seems to run fine . He’s gonna donanoroper Windows 10/Surface GO video next. Don’t expect iPad Pro level performance from this thing . YouTube has plenty of comparisons. This thing is underpowered . Works nice w the new HP ‘14 monitor extension though
Yeah, i suppose it could. Me personally I’d wait another month till the new MacBook AIR drops
The humble 'mouse' and keyboard are still excellent input devices, I'm hoping for full Desktop-Mobile modularity, the horsepower in the desktop and the UI via the mobile device with seamless low latency integration.
Mouse and keyboard are the two greatest computer essentials of all time, no mouse support on IOS is sad.
A long time ago I searched also for this option and there you could implement a mouse cursor with a jailbreaked iPhone. So probably it should be easy to make it mouse compatible for Apple. I'm afraid Apple keeps the cursor out because i no time nearly all Macbooks would replaced by iPads So muse cursor won't happen.
Funny, the lack of mouse is one of my favorite 'features' of iOS. I can't stand them. I try to avoid using the mouse/trackpad all day when working via keyboard shortcuts, etc. They're obviously great for precision clicking/selecting/etc type work but other than that, good riddance for me.
I do miss keyboard shortcuts on iOS though just because they can make many functions available quickly with minimal UI noise. Even something as simple as "Spacebar == Play".
Editing a lot of audio without a mouse and keyboard is complete hell, try retiming a couple of bars of loose drummer multitracks, that will make you sprint to the desktop.
@Dawdles : There ARE iPad Pro/GO comparisons on you tube
Mouse and keyboard are great and I use them all of the time.............
On my desktop.
My iPad is also great, and I like it exactly because there's no mouse and keyboard. People who want mouse and keyboard on a touchscreen device have never understood touchscreen devices imo.
I don't need to choose between the two things. I use both. They're different, and I use each one for its strengths depending on what I'm doing.
I have to disagree, just because i want mouse and keyboard when the iPad is at the desk (and i gave a perfect example why) does not mean that when i pick it up and go and sit at the sofa or lie on the bed, go outside and so on that i dont fully understand the touch aspect of the device.
Thereis no good reason for not having the ability of both.
I guess that half of what you want already exists, which is the keyboard part. There are options from Apple and a number of third party keyboards are available.
The mouse part is a different story of course. One thing that I'm pretty sure that Apple will not do though is make a hybrid machine like the Surface.
Trackball mouse was the game changer for me, PC @ Surface Pro 3. So easy to left click and ball for all kinds of controls...so much more relaxing. The ability to use a ball mouse on iOS would be awesome.
After about a year of terrible performance running Windows on a machine that used to run the latest Linux flawlessly I found the problem was the synced folders. Windows by default had me login to a “live” account where everything I did was indexed and tracked and synced and uploaded to a cloud. I couldn’t do a damn thing without waiting for some service to run. Finally after some forum research I discovered an obscure method of logging in locally and my performance problems nearly vanished. For all Apple’s flaws and sometimes dictatorial approaches, they are still the lesser of two evils when it comes to Windows, which I will try to avoid at all costs since the forced upgrade from 7. Never forget what they did to Clippy.
I was once like you... the problem with expandable memory is that it can get corrupted quite easily. The only thing I don’t like about Apple really is ITunes, but IMazing is free and does the job without any hassle.
I want to be able to connect a lead to my iPad and use an external monitor, like I can with my MacBook Pro.
And I’d also like a USB slot so I can transfer files to and from a thumb drive.
Let me do that and I’ll buy another iPad after this one.
Can’t argue against more memory. Funny that Apple hasn’t come up with some affordable external memory solution yet.
My gripe with the memory cards, Google and Windows come from personal experiences. I was once firmly on the Android and Windows side of the fence for lots of reasons but now I’m on IOS and plan to stay here for some time.
Nevertheless it’s 2018 and technology is growing more powerful at an increasing rate so all the power to the pioneers of touchscreen based PC music production. Many paths can lead to the same goal...
For all the love I have of making music on the iPad, the biggest frustration for me is that it doesn’t support basic connectivity developed years ago, which even the cheapest PC can do.
I presume it’s about money - if iPads could that, we wouldn’t need to spend £2500 on an entry level MacBook Pro.
Don’t forget about the extra £50 for the entry level dongles too
Joking aside... Air Drop is awesome. I transferred about 10gigs wirelessly the other day in under 5 minutes.
surface book 2 here and the experience is fine. It has the potential but I think maybe ios appeals more to the imagination. It's an eco system still developing. The surface go will be fine for people who naturally limit themselves or who have good methods for keeping systems tidy/bouncing/freezing for space/can make music without excess. There is no reason a windows system cannot over take ios and in that instance IOS could be used to supplement especially where Microsoft con people with the sizes of storage. The surface book 2 was the reason I got round to using my touch screen monitor properly. I use a hanns g and it's very fluid and natural with bitwig especially. Bigwig has a drum container function that plays just as well as you could hope. The surface go won't make a big dent regarding ipads but the price differential will appeal and the ability to run full daws etc will appeal. Connecting ipad to a windows tablet offers a lot of potential.
Am going back and forth but my attraction to ios was the challenge it offered not so much how great it was.
@MdM : How will you be making that connection? Through Studiomux?