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.
IOS Maker Types?
Interacting with others here I have discovered other IOS use cases I didn't know about.
I'd like to generate a list of Genres/Categories for typical use cases:
- GrooveBoxers
- Multi-trackers
- Live DJ/Jammers
- Generatives
- Loop-style Songsters
- Synth/Sound Designers
- Ambients
- Acousticians
- ???
- ??
- ?
Any more that need representation? Who likes labels... it's a short hand for context and allows "birds of a feather" to flock and share best practices around some of the typical FAQ's:
What the Best DAW?
What's the best MIDI Controller?
AB3, AUM, ApeMatrix or [Your_Favorite_DAW_Here]?
Who uses IOS to make the best music?
Do you support Doug's Patreon as "Tips for Tips?"?
Do you miss @Dawdles? (FYI: He reports he voluntarily deleted his account)
What apps are you waiting for Updates (or just to be released... Drambo?)
Mentally I do tend to place other posters into boxes but I could mis-read someone's interests.
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DJ Loopers (Nothing like the other type of looper) are extremely popular.
I'd like to generate a list of Genres/Categories for typical use cases:
Linear timeliners?
Mix and mashers - for us that use whatever is needed at the time and try to blend all of the above - much of it unsuccessfully lol
Forum app fondlers - those that discuss the apps more than use them
GOLDEN !
Those who don’t fit in any case: « multi hat » musicians!!
Sequencers
MIDI
A/V
Auxy-ers
I play guitar and make late 70s-early 80s type rock and roll stuff. And modern Krautrock. And by modern, I don't mean it has a hip-hop inspired drum loop, just that it is being made in 2018.
I'd like to generate a list of Genres/Categories for typical use cases:
Are you represented here?
I have programmed a nice space bandoneon patch on my KingKorg to play some lunar tango tunes. Does that qualify for 6. and 21.?
Techno Poets - those that mix technology with poetry- modern day Leonard Cohen’s lol
Host Hooligans - those that go around trashing which ever host they are not using at the time, while swearing blind their host is the heavenly host!
Chronic Clippers - those that make loads of little ‘clips’ of music, get bored, then move on to make more clips. I’m a bit like this
We'll have to ask an expert... hang on.
Screen Strokers - don’t care what they are doing as long as it’s some cheesy touch screen action - the more noise there fingers make the better!
UPDATED LIST
1. Linear timeliners
2. Multi-trackers
3. Grooveboxers
4. Generatives
5. Loop-style Songsters
6. Synth/Sound Designers
7. Ambients
8. Acousticians
9. DJ Loopers
10. Gadgeteers (Korg tm)
11. Mix and mashers
12. Forum app fondlers
13. Sequencers
14. MIDI
15. A/V
16. « multi hat » musicians
17. Auxy-ers (subscription tolerant Groovebox?)
18. guitar rock and roll
19. Piano-centric (in a reverse linear line back to Fats Waller)
20. Krautrock
21. Synth-Accordion
22. Midi-Harp
23. Techno Poets
24. Host Hooligans
25. Chronic Clippers
Are you represented here?
Old iOS hacks - it’s gotta be an old version of iOS with an app that’s doesn’t run on a new version. The older the better and the older the iPad the more real they feel!
Are you represented here?
23.App collectors
49.Preset browsers
1388.Aimless pentatonic noodlers
Guilty in all three cases.
Hm, wait, my english is not that good. Is someone who browses a browser called a browser?
Jury says:
Beatmakers!!
People who think the hashtag #dawless is dumb hahaha and wanna Drop kick those who use it to think they are superior 😄
But yes I fit into the ambient slot
Why bother you-can-do-everything-with-Sunvox’ers
I got one...
-The workflow-adapting chainsmoker who ironically thinks that the Chainsmokers' music is midrange cack.
This week I'm #8 an acoustician. No recording just playing solo instruments. But I started this thread intending to discover genres/styles that I didn't even know existed.
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