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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On the topic of SynthJacker -> NS2, is there a guide somewhere on expected formats and "the best way to do it"? I have looked but have only found scattered information, and right now I can't remember where that is either. I can of course re-start my search (I had a quick look a couple of weeks ago), but if there is a guide/instruction for this somewhere and someone knows it, please link/post. It will probably save time for a bunch of people.
Sure.
Download the pack from patchstorage in Safari, hit "More..." on the bottom and scroll through the list of apps and find Nanostudio 2. If it's not listed, scroll to the very right and hit the "More" icon with three grey dots.
A list pops up. Find Nanostudio 2 and enable it. While you're there, you can grab its right handle and move it up in the list so next time you download a zipped patch, you don't have to scroll that much. Then hit "Done".
Tap on Nanostudio 2 to open it in NS2. The zip will unpack and install automatically.
To see all my patches in Obsidian, open Obsidian, tap the PATCH icon on the left, choose "BROWSE" and "User" and on the right column, tap the search loupe and enter "rs2" to filter for my patches only. My patch names usually contain either "rs2k" or "rs2000".
See my post here. It’s that simple.
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/35788/black-friday-deals-2019-music-apps#latest
It's pretty easy, with just a couple of little caveats:
Ah, perfect instructions as always from you, hehe. I already use your SynthJacker -> DAW -> Mixdown trick for creating .sfz files to Lyra, so this doesn't seem to differ too much from that. I was more worried the naming convention had to be something specific. Final question: does it work somewhat the same (EDIT: i.e. no special naming convention needed etc) when doing kits for Slate?
I'm really warming to using NS2, especially as a tune-creation tool, and in particular now that I've worked out how to sync it with AB/AUM where I can record my guitar. Figured I can probably sketch/construct my tunes in NS2, and when getting closer to finished, export stuff to Auria for finishing it off there.
Obsidian is a lot more flexible than Lyra, since you can also do sample synthesis and mangling, which opens up far more creative avenues. Also the Synthjacker --> Obsidian workflow is really quick so you can create an instrument in a couple of minutes once you have it all set up
Using NS2 for composition and Auria for mixing is exactly my workflow too BTW, it's a great combination.
Regarding the file names just remember to add a space before the note name, see this post for Dendy:
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/comment/712718/#Comment_712718
Excellent guide! Thank you kindly. And a really fast way to sample desktop software too, looks like
It took me close to an hour to figure this out (I generally learn stuff quickly) so a better manual would be great but happy with the purchase now. Mostly using it to transfer BeatHawk acoustic stuff (Obsidian is very good for everything except recreating specific analog gear IMO)
Thanks so much @rs2000 ... Of to try it out.
Thanks @anickt as well
In the end, I‘ve got them all...
Would be great in the wiki
Well it all adds up... I went for Blocs Wave IAPs instead as I think they are more diverse. Most of the NS2 IAPs I have passed on as they are not sounds I can see myself using. It’s time for some new IAP sounds by new producers in NS2! I’m sure they will sell well.
@rs2000 the Rhodes is indeed beautiful.. so are the SH101 and MS202. To anyone, if the EPs in the Acoustic pack are not doing it for you, or you don't have the EP, this Rhodes on patchstorage could satisfy
Thank you!
Wow. Fantastic break down. Thank you.
This might be a bug. When you import a MIDI track into NS, it offers to import any tempo and/or meter changes. It won't change the project tempo, because it's polite like that, but should insert a 60bpm tempo marker on the tempo track. If not, yeah, this is prolly a bug that should be reported.
It might not be a bug, but if you mixdown the NS2 project without changing the global tempo Synthjacker will hang when slicing the resulting audio. The simplest thing therefore is to set the global tempo in NS2 to 60.