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 have the same doubt...Unique????
The criticism about dropping IAA and Audiobus support in favor of AUv3 is understandable. Too many apps still only support IAA and AB3 is more relevant than ever so what you gain here, you're losing there.
IMHO that's just a stupid move by SB, and it's valid for some of their other apps like Egoist, Thesys, Cyclop and Turnado as well.
Ironically, AB3 was just introduced about a year ago in WOW and Effectrix.
Other than that, Unique has great filters, a fun modulation system, sounds good and is faster to use than Factory or Aparillo.
Which one to purchase of course depends on what you have already - For me it's Factory, without hesitation.
Maybe they knew something before everyone else?
Sugarbytes stuff blows me away with the included content in Egoist. It's like having a Siriusmo album you can interact with.
.> @BroCoast said:
Well, sooner or later ... anyway ... 😉
True, and then I'm often surprised how different the result sounds after heavy mangling.
Hard to recognize the original loop sometimes but it's what made the magic possible.
This is such an unfortunate misunderstanding. If an app is AUv3, it is automatically and completely Audiobus compatible. Dropping IAA and Audiobus support is irrelevant regarding Audiobus compatibility. I don't know how many times I've seen people think apps aren't Audiobus compatible because of statements such as this from SugarBytes. Technically it's a correct statement, but practically speaking it's totally misleading.
Dropping IAA is the only loss, and that only for hosts that don't support AUv3. Increasingly few.
Disagree. I'd choose Aparillo first over Factory any day. Tom-A-to vs Tom-ah-to.
Thanks, I have some days more to decide what to buy, all Factory, Aparillo and Unique seem great, bat cannot spend money for all of them. I need to look at some demo/tutorial and choose the more fitting me.
Just get the free restricted versions of Aparillo and Factory and play with them. I like the "trial" concept.
Yes, great way to try before you buy!
Now, there is a prove right now, that they don't do this well
Whatever....
That's it. Thanks
Anyone try adding Factory presets. I found this
http://patcharena.com/downloads/comment.php?dlid=1402&ENGINEsessID=e716d6208b36f226961850f16917e594
Just quoting this again because it seems some missed it. Michael was far ahead of this curve, thankfully.
I use both. Egoist for slicing only, I don't use the synth or drums. ReSlice is deeper and more capable in many ways. I find Egoist faster. Fun. Egoist has a 16 slice limit compared to ReSlice (64?).
The functions that differentiate Egoist; envelope length ( of the overall 16 sliced sounds ), and a separate, per step, decay shape ( this is in addition to the traditional envelope ). These additional functions seem to shorten the sample slices more than ReSlice. Can sound very clicky if desired. Aside from the expected per step pitch control, a separate keyboard icon allows quantised pitch control of the sliced loop (useful and fast).
There are a few more subtle things; all slicer functions in a single window ( I've never cared about this, but it makes sense with egoist ), the max out function, and the slicer time base function.
I enjoy them both. Both useful. Both elicit a different result ( with the same loop ).
Check the manual, page 96 (http://downloads.sugar-bytes.de/manuals/Factory_iPad.pdf). You need activate iCloud sharing and upload the patches to iCloud.
So, are this patches usable in iOS too, or only in Desktop? Thanks
I tried them on iOS and they work, although I do not have Factory on my PC to compare them.
Cool! Thanks
I know how you feel about SynthMaster. I couldn't use it even if I liked the synth. I felt the same way about Patterning 2 until the original color scheme option was added. Beta testing that thing with its drab, gritty colors was a bitch. The original Patterning was a brilliant app no doubt, but I think the color scheme really threw it over the top into total classic territory.
If there is no crackling and no dropouts, those numbers may just tell you that the throttling took a few cycles to kick in.> @frond said:
Tx
So ... the gripe is not about the synth itself but the dropping of IAA support? Ah, then how do we like the sound? Is it Unique from Factory? Thanks again.
How did you get these to work?
I paid for the Factory upgrade, then activated iCloud sync in Factory, then downloaded the patcharena presets (Artificial Intelligence presets) into my User folder inside the Factory iCloud folder.
In Factory it just shows as “path 1” in the presets. When I select it Factory crashes.
I wouldn't bother if you've got Factory - just my personal opinion, but I never use it.
It’s AUv3 and the iPhone version is only $1.99 on sale. I don’t use much, but it’s got some decent presets. I’ve got the iPhone version and just bought Factory. Since Unique for iPhone installs on the iPad and loads as AUv3... is Sugarbytes, sounds good, has some decent presets... for $1.99 on sale I’d buy it again even with Factory.
I used the free Documents App and extracted the presets to the Factory iCloud folder. There’s a folder in there called presets and another called User. Dropped them in there. The extracted folder is called Sonic Sirius and it contains 100 presets but when I launch Factory I can’t locate the presets. Anyone?
Ok they worked now.🎹👍🏼☝️
Extract as stated on my previous post but make sure iCloud is enabled inside Factory. Drop all the presets not the folder, inside iCloud Factory Presets User folder. Launch Factory and you’ll see user folder created!
Thanks @MonzoPro and @skiphunt for the opinions.
As mentioned above I do have a momentary dropout.
These CPU spikes began with the beta of the current release of AUM, which caused me to leave the beta program and return to the previous stable release, but now that the beta in question became the release, these dropouts have become a more regular issue.
I used another method... but your reply helped get me there. Thanks!
The file I downloaded from the page says is called "Artificial Intelligence presets by Che". What get's downloaded is actually a .rar file.
From your post, I gathered that .rar file needed to be extracted. So, I moved the file over to my Goodreader app (likely similar to your cited Documents app) and then double-clicked the file to "un-rar) it. At this point I had the Sonic folder of a 101 presets that I then moved into the icloud drive/Factory/Presets/User folder.
I don't disagree with MonzoPro's opinion though. If you have Factory, Unique is somewhat redundant.
I've got way too many apps, and more than I'll ever really need. I'm sure that's the case for many here.
However, often I like to scan through the collection and look for apps I've forgotten about or haven't used in a long time. I'll then have a little session where I'm ONLY using those, instead of playing with whatever is shiny and new. I always end up being more creative instead of succumbing to buying yet another app I don't need.
So, although I'm trying not to buy anything that's too redundant or too similar to what I already have and don't use... I also like having this giant palette of choices to randomly select from.
Yes, I'm indeed contradicting myself.
Haven't said that... $1.99 for a Sugarbytes AUv3 synth with a nice sound, sweet presets and not too big a footprint at 60MB, is a pretty sweet deal.