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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I wonder how much it would add to Laplace. Looks totally different and theoretically more powerful but when I listen to the sounds, it's very similar to Laplace.
What do others think?
I agree with the 'nasal' description. It's not like it's too trebly, it's just too thin. And then reducing the treble or adding bass, again like you say, only makes it muddy. So frustrating to play with a Telecaster and not being able to get the proper twang out of it.
@hisdudeness: I don't think all the iOS sims sound terrible. ToneStack, the Bias apps, and AmpliTube are all capable of creating some nice simulations if one sticks to their sweet spots . None of them creates an arbitrarily good sim of an arbitrarily wide range of tones.
In their sweet spots in a mix, I think most people (even guitarists) wouldn't notice that the guitar was being run through a sim rather than an amp. (I don't think this is true of stark on its own, though.)
But, I would add that none of them are as satisfying as being in a room playing a guitar through a good amp. But that is generally true if good amps, too. Being in a room with the amp is a different experience from being in a control room with your amp in another and listening on cans or through studio monitors.
Some tones they don't do convincingly. Using the Celestion IRs in Bias makes a huge difference in Bias. And maybe all the sims would benefit from being run through a good cabinet IR. @flo26 did a nice demonstration that Stark sounded a lot better when run through a good cabinet IR.
Anyone know if we’re able to add IRS to AltiSpace?
You can. The free fiddlicator can also.
Ampsim aim to reproduce recorded guitar sound not in the room sound. Maybe that would be a good idea for a business. 😉
I can live with some IOS amp sims, I even like mobile pod (not seems the most popular around here), but talking about Stark there is something strange and very dissapointing in the sound produced. I hope they can fix/improve it soon, because its the only AU amp sim at this time and that is an advantage for the moment. It is probably a minor problem.
About running Stark through some good cabinet IR what options are there?
Holy crap I’m glad I got Reamp. It sounds so warm and delicious
There are a number of apps that can run IRs: AltiSpace, iConvolver, Fiddlicator. Many people rave about the IR cabs from Ownhammer.
Gestrument Pro by Gestrument AB
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1105890031
Thank you
Shimmer AUv3 Audio Plugin
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1451968439
That feeling when you see a list of sales and realize you own everything listed. 😭
Auria Pro - Music Production
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1016291290
Mellotronics Streetlytron Pro
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1447100877
Streetlytron '63 Edition
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1394220877
Better off getting these super cheap Joyo all analog amp sim pedals at around US$35 each:
Yes that pedal is a bargain, and one of the best investments you can make for getting decent tones into an iPad. It's way better than any of the iOS amp sims.
Another really good bang-for-buck is the Behringer Tube Screamer clone, it's about £20 and is a great way of getting dirtier tones on a budget, again much better than the amp sims.
Wow, thank you. I'll look into it, and at that price, probably order it today
Almost got me to buy more hardware. I decided to get the Kat Bass Drum pedal trigger instead with my gift card
and buy more guitar strings of a heavier gauge. I'm sick of the thin 9 high E string tone and will see if my hands are ready
to play 10's. Playing bar chords close to the nut is still hard for me. I've decided to focus on learning stretch triads to sound
better with my chord work.
RE: Apps on sale. I recommend:
KRFT (Universal) for $4.
Auria Pro $25 (then you can get the FF plug-ins that have side-chain support in this DAW)
Cubasis $24
I'm coveting the iMPC Pro apps:
iMPC Pro for iPhone $5 someone wrote it still loads on the iPad but has the tiny GUI
iMPC Pro for "not an iPhone" $13
and
LumaFusion $15 (video editing on the iPad? Then I'll need more Storage FAST).
If only it was AUv3
It is meant to be happening.
Looperverse by Retronyms Inc
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1169664121
KORG Gadget 2 - 50% off and IAPs on sale
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/korg-gadget-2/id791077159
Koder is free atm - a handy editor for your scripts, notes, configs, whatever.
Does not support binary plist files unfortunately (no editing of MOZAIC files) but it supports (S)FTP, WebDAV, Dropbox and it even has an SSH terminal client built-in.
https://apps.apple.com/en/app/koder-code-editor/id1447489375
Audiokit: Digital D1 Synth
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1436905540
Yonac apps $0.99 Right Now! ONE DAY ONLY
IAPs for Tonestack + Steel Guitar are on sale too.
You only need Motherload v1.0, Expansion v2.0 + Expansion v3.0 for Tonestack and you've got the whole enchilada..
Kaspar
Kauldron
Galileo Organ
Galileo Organ 2
Magellan
Magellan Jr
ToneStack
https://appsliced.co/apps?sort=latest&threshold=all&price=paid&l=nav&cat[]=6011
Kaspar is a superb synth and at 99 cents is a steal. Grab it if you don't have it
Oh wow sellers are jumping in before the July 4th mayhem!
And my PayPal account is rejected , plus my debit , without reason....
Blimey. That ended up being a lot of cool apps for sale in one month.
My bank balance doesn't seem to reflect the huge savings I've made ;-)