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’ll keep using my Mini 2 till it shits the bed. Hardware synths always take preference over a new iPad.
My iPad Pro’s usually last a year or two before I just thrash them in the bin 🗑 😆 😆 👿
My volume buttons are getting crunchy... think the battery may have expanded a touch.
iPad #1 in service since 2010, now with the cool deprecated apps like Electrify, NS 1, Alchemy, the iSequence in which ACP export still works, etc etc
iPad 4 gave to a friend
Air 2 currently in use as a Xequencer 2 for Creamware Scope system (also some deprecated apps preserved there in) still a great machine, though I dropped it and the screen has funky shadows at the top- which are invisible using Xequencer 2s dark theme
Pro 10.5, up for anything thrown at it, so far.
3 ipads - a ipad2 /air2 /Pro - everything works!
All of them I bought used - trying to lower my ewaste / carbon footprint
I almost always renew with the next major upgrade..Only this last time with iPad pro when it had its drive upgrades did I buy a new iPad each time. I just repurposed the old ones. I doubt I'll get the next gen unless it has something truly worth it for me from a business perspective.
Fun to see this thread spring back to life and see how people are using their devices. I have been thinking about a new ipad mini 5, but keep spending my money on hardware, so will probably have the mini 4 for a while yet.
My 1st gen Air is still going, but really needs replacing.
iPad 3 (didn’t realize how bad it was for making music) until I got my Air 2 which is great since ios12, and just bought a 2018 Pro 11”.
I’m loving the Pro so far but I haven’t used it with an audio interface yet.
Ordered a Steinberg ur44. Excited for that to get here. Thanks to Doug’s @soundtestroom video.
Update from an iPad 2 which lasted 4 years to a mini 5. My Air 2 battery was EOF and started to shut down and at 30-40%. With the latest proc I think it should at least last for 4 years.
We have two iPad 2's that are still working -- one in spite of very cracked glass.