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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Audiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.

Your 2018 All⭐️Star Top 10 lists of iOS music apps

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  • @Telstar5 said:
    @haulin_notes : Aren’t there a ton of instructional videos for mitosynth though?

    Oh definitely. Just being a little tongue in cheek there. The GUI is excellent, as is the sound. Just hasn’t clicked yet, but will try again. I do appreciate complexity, even when it eludes me like a rabbit.😅

  • It has been an amazing year for iOS music apps. Here are seven pages of 2018 releases (sorted by release date). Such creativity! These developers just blow me away. RESPECT!
    http://synthyfrog.com/sort-released-desc/

    And let’s not forget the awesome developers that updated their apps to from IAA to AU in 2018. I hope you saw a bump in sales for your efforts. You have future proofed your apps and kept them in the mix for so many of us. MASSIVE RESPECT!

    Bring on 2019! 👊

  • 1) XEQUENCE
    2) AUM
    3) ZEEON
    4) NANOSTUDIO 2
    5) QUANTUM
    6) ROZETA
    7) MIDI DESIGNER
    8) MIDI FIRE / STREAMBYTER
    9) AUDIOSHARE
    10) MIDI LINK SYNC

  • BM3
    Zeeon
    discord4
    RX950
    Replicant 2
    Adverb2
    KQDixie
    DAWLP
    Model 15
    LayR

  • @gusgranite said:
    And let’s not forget the awesome developers that updated their apps to from IAA to AU in 2018.

    Too late!

    But yes, of course this should not go unnoticed. Thank you Sugar Bytes for the AUing glory!

  • Cubasis, Cubasis, Cubasis... did I mention Cubasis?
    And, if you guys were all apps, I'd buy you all.... but I'd wait for a sale.

  • SynthScaper, Quantum, ApeMatrix & Envolver.

  • edited December 2018

    I’m surprised by only 1 mention of gestrument pro yet. Do we need a gestrument ‘patch’/presets fest?

  • edited December 2018

    @AudioGus said:

    @gusgranite said:
    And let’s not forget the awesome developers that updated their apps to from IAA to AU in 2018.

    Too late!

    But yes, of course this should not go unnoticed. Thank you Sugar Bytes for the AUing glory!

    And Sunrizer, Model15, Squaresynth, Alina String Ensemble, Synthmaster Player, Virsyn synths, Iceworks synths, etc.

    DRC, iVCS3, D1, Synthscaper, Tonestack are on their way to AU glory.

  • edited December 2018

    We must give mr Pavlov ( @jimpavloff ) some love also...
    GrooveRider GR16 is awesome, and, is there any other music app that had this many update is such a short time, and with sooooo fuckin’ many new features every update?

  • edited December 2018
    1. XEQUENCE - midi song making awesomeness and dev attentiveness
    2. Patterning 2 - even better than 1
    3. Roseta - can't stop using all of them
    4. Synth One - great sounds and FREE
    5. StepPolyArp - improvise madness
    6. QuantiChord - chords for improvised madness
    7. Quantum - need channels and channels of midi, pattern sequencing, random gen AND

    dev attentiveness

    1. Gestrument Pro - my 'live' performance game changer
    2. AUM
    3. Audiobus
    4. waiting for the official on PolyPhase and Aphelian
  • @AudioGus said:

    @gusgranite said:
    And let’s not forget the awesome developers that updated their apps to from IAA to AU in 2018.

    Too late!

    But yes, of course this should not go unnoticed. Thank you Sugar Bytes for the AUing glory!

    +1

    And all the devs really, it’s been a brilliant year for iOS music apps.

  • @ErrkaPetti said:
    We must give mr Pavlov some love also...
    GrooveRider GR16 is awesome, and, is there any other music app that had this many update is such a short time, and with sooooo fuckin’ many new features every update?

    Word!

  • @ErrkaPetti said:
    We must give mr Pavlov some love also...
    GrooveRider GR16 is awesome, and, is there any other music app that had this many update is such a short time, and with sooooo fuckin’ many new features every update?

    THIS!

  • @dendy said:

    @ErrkaPetti said:
    We must give mr Pavlov some love also...
    GrooveRider GR16 is awesome, and, is there any other music app that had this many update is such a short time, and with sooooo fuckin’ many new features every update?

    THIS!

    Definitely wins the award for “Best Quality Update Schedule Ever” if anything and that’s a big deal

  • Audio Evolution
    GR-16
    Caustic

  • 1 Caustic 3

    Then in no particular order:
    BM3
    Beathawk (as AU)
    Blocs Wave
    Groovebox
    Audioshare
    RX950
    Sunrizer
    Dubstation 2
    FlyTape

    Runner up:
    Gadget

  • edited December 2018
    1. Korg Electribe Wave
    2. GR-16
    3. Grand Finale
    4. DAW Casette
    5. RE-1

    That’s the formula right there

  • edited December 2018

    Top new apps to me:

    App of the year:
    SpaceCraft

    DAW/Seq:
    AUM
    Rozeta
    BM3

    Synths:
    Zeeon
    Model D
    DrumJam
    Ruismaker Noir

    FX:
    Ratshack Reverb
    Woodpressor
    Discord 4

  • edited December 2018

    .

  • Just 5 faves from me:

    • NanoStudio 2
    • Xequence
    • SynthMaster One
    • Kosmonaut
    • Perforator
  • Great year moving things forward for iOS. Have to give a shout out to ApeMatrix for giving a new and powerful way to create and organise audio/midi.
    Also Spacecraft, Gestrument Pro, Streambyter and the recent Audiobus updates are winners. Aparillo is amazing and looking forward to D-1 AU update :)

  • edited December 2018

    Far too kind @kinkujin but I appreciate you, @LinearLineman and the whole Audiobus community and wish you all a great end to this year and beginning to the next.

    Salute to:

    @Michael
    @mathieugarcia
    @analog_matt
    @brambos
    @LFS
    @kv331audio_bulent
    @jimpavloff
    @SevenSystems
    @sugarbytes
    @MatthewAtStagelight
    @beep
    @giku_beepstreet
    @ka010
    Matt from Blip (NS2)

    And all of the amazing Devs I missed!

    My standout discoveries this year:

    Synths
    SM1, SMP, Model D, Poison, Aparillo, Noir, Volt, Synth One, Zeeon, NSK

    DAW/Workspace
    Stagelight, GarageBand (rediscovered how dope), KEW,

    Solutions
    AB3, Rozeta, Blocswave, KB-1, Egoist, ABF, Xequence

    Effects
    Kleverb, Discord, Turnado, Perforator, Kosmanaut, ProQ

    For me gratitude and appreciation are this seasons greatest gifts. I’ve been spoiled in more ways than one but certainly in no area more than the special tools on my iPad and the great Jedis who code them.

  • edited December 2018

    Grand prize winner: AUDIOKIT - and congrats to all of the devs behind the scenes in making an open source synth happen.

    Plus you made some other really nice synth apps too!

  • edited December 2018

    In order, for 2018:

    Nanostudio 2
    Gestrument Pro
    Auria Pro
    Xequence
    Model 15
    PPG Infinite
    Noise
    KB-1
    SynthMaster One
    Ruismaker Noir

  • @ohwell said:
    I’m surprised by only 1 mention of gestrument pro yet. Do we need a gestrument ‘patch’/presets fest?

    @ohwell said:
    I’m surprised by only 1 mention of gestrument pro yet. Do we need a gestrument ‘patch’/presets fest?

    Yes

    Yes please

  • 2018 releases that are now “essential” (in no particular order):

    • Electribe Wave
    • Model D
    • Quanta
    • Aparillo
    • Ruismaker Noir
    • SpaceCraft
    • Digital D1
    • Tardigrain
    • Patterning 2
    • Kleverb
    • Pro-Q 2
    • KB-1

    All-time top 3 iOS music apps:

    • Egoist
    • Aparillo
    • Cubasis

    It has been a great year for iOS music. :)

  • edited December 2018

    2018 was my first year with iOS. My favourites:

    • Caustic!
    • AudioShare
    • SunVox
    • KRFT
    • Gadget (Bilbao, Vancouver)
    • Xequence + AudioBus
    • Quantum
    • Zeeon
    • Poison 202
    • Patterning

    Didn't get on very well with:

    • Cubasis
    • BeatMaker 3
    • Elastic Drums
    • GrooveRider
    • Samplr
    • Synthmaster One
  • @SlowwFloww said:
    2018 was my first year with iOS. My favourites:

    • Caustic!
    • AudioShare
    • SunVox
    • KRFT
    • Gadget (Bilbao, Vancouver)
    • Xequence + AudioBus
    • Quantum
    • Zeeon
    • Poison 202
    • Patterning

    Didn't get on very well with:

    • Cubasis
    • BeatMaker 3
    • Elastic Drums
    • GrooveRider
    • Samplr
    • Synthmaster One

    My first year as well with iOS, I just grabbed caustic yesterday... Krft is really fun I wanna use it more.... Curious to hear what you've made with either of them

  • edited December 2018

    Hosts: AUM / modstep / ns2 / ab3

    synths: sunrizer / spacecraft / infinite / synth one / d1 / tardigrain / Magellan / model 15 / sm1 / kaspar / samplr / ripplemaker / reason compact / volt / hexaglyphics / layr / alchemy

    grooveboxes : groovebox / kew / gadget / auxy

    Drums: patterning 1&2 / seekbeats / ton

    Midi control : spa / fugue / gestrument pro / krft / xequence / refraktions

    This year I'm going to learn audulus and use quanta and ape matrix more, and master the above list rather than buy everything 🤣 haha ya right, I'll buy everything

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