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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The workflow that works best for me is to run Zenbeats on iPad with MIDI out to either Auria Pro for the Fabfilter synths/effects or Logic Pro for desktop synths/effects. Then I record both the MIDI and audio into Logic. This gives me the Ableton Live workflow using touch and Logic everything else. So far so good, though only been using it for a few days.
Well, thanks to this thread, I discovered that you can drag and drop from Readdle’s Documents app, into other apps. Just did it with Koala, in split screen.
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The recent upgrades for this have been stellar. (Am not affiliated.)
Well, I do mostly Retrowave stuff these days and a few ambient tracks as well. My workflow is generally doing everything in Auria Pro for Retrowave and starting in Garageband then continuing in Auria Pro for ambient stuff.
I also make mainly edm music and I use beatmaker 3 for it. There are some flaws right now, but there is a workaround for everything. I just love the workflow with the banks/pads. One thing I really love is, that the build in compressor is the only one on the Plattform that can do real sidechain.
Things I would love to have in bm:
Besides those points I don’t really miss anything
A while ago I gave the Bitwig trial a shot on my desktop with Duet on the ipad as the touch screen for Bitwig. Not bad! It felt like having Bitwig and all my vsts on my iPad with the ability to switch to iOS apps. There were some hiccups like not being able to use the lightning connection for Duet if I wanted my midi interface and thus using wifi mode which was laggier than it should have been but it felt neat for a bit.
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For me, for getting electronic(ish) music created and developed, it’s definitely NanoStudio. No audio, no AU FX automation and no AU MIDI capture are bummers but far from deal breakers for me. Everything else is just delightfully good/easy.
Plus, there are work arounds for most things if you really need them. TBH, I mostly don’t use them though. There’s enough natively in NS that I just change my method and get on with it.
I should prolly add: 1) I don’t really work with sampled loops and 2) I was a beta tester/long-time-super-fan.
Anything and everything really. I don’t think there’s any approach that wouldn’t work.
Agreed I’m writing pretty much electronic music and I’ve now just settled on only NanoStudio 2 and nothing else on my iPhone. I’ve got a tune right low I’m finishing up that’s going to be 100% NS2 but figuring out the last arrangements. You can get an idea of various styles from my SoundCloud at
http://soundcloud.com/dreznicek
I tend to not be genre specific so you might be able to get an idea of it’s breadth.