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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@jimpavloff
Just an idea to throw out there:
On the Electribe EMX there was a song mode which allowed you to pretty much stay on the one machine and "craft" your song in increments.
Song mode allows you to record automations that are only for the song mode so you could have a pattern repeat but on the second repeat it would have some tweak you record in during song mode, for instance.
It is like an advanced pattern chaining.
See this video for an explanation: (Don't think is shows the motion recording, though)
I really missed it when I sold mine and got the electribe 2. I could just write full songs on the machine and then just record the audio for clean up.
Thanks again, though, for the stem export on the GR-16 and ! That helped a lot!
Yes we had that discussion already.
It's a safe bet that anything you're selling we're buying! But by all means I don't care to tell you how to run your business, as long as there's no subscription involved.
@Dawdles @jimpavloff have to agree about having to go through a whole list of folders etc A search folder function would help and search samples within folders Saying that though samples&folders within files.app are an ok solution for now
I mentioned in earlier posts that is a bit frustrating that when you assign a sample to a pad from a folder then hit another pad to assign a sample the previous folder closes window meaning having to re locate the folder and sample Again not a major prob via files app but folder hold of sample windows in GR would help while assigning samples to pads.
All that being said though GR in all aspects is KING :-)
Agree 100% about a more comprehensive folder structure when assigning samples All else though is perfect for my workflow
you guys are blowing the pressing shift paradigm way out of proportion, it’s really not difficult, it’s much easier than menu diving, and I picked it up almost immediately having never used the hardware. Just take 2 minutes to learn
Guys not a big issue but the skin keeps reverting to default in AUM any ideas?
Agreed
Couldn't you just treat Groove Rider as a simple drum bank when hosted as an AU? In other words, simply load 16 drum samples and have the host play them back?
A good option. Maybe 16-part AU but without sequencer stuff, to be used and played by the host - a possible way for GR's audio unit.
That definitely sounds awesome.
I agree, there’s a special magic sauce in using GR16 to build the a
Flesh and bones of a song. I have yet to open the manual and got something going with it inside Cubasis, while adding Zeeon midi tracks. So in a way for me optimize the workflow in it would be coding resources well used IMHO.
You can use it in any DAW right now via IAA, using IAA host sync - almost the same that would be if GR was a fully functional AUv3. The only main difference is that you can use 1 instance only. In all the other things, it's the same workflow.
Yeah that’s how I’m using it in Cubasis. I think if one had the ability to use AUv3 instruments inside GR16, and have it all tightly integrated, like the way iMPC Pro2 does, now that would be so nice. This way one could literally never have to leave GR-16 until say you wanted to add acoustic instruments etc and that would be done in the DAW of choice. Just thinking out loud.
This is impossible, because GR's main power feature is to quickly change patterns with different patch setups on the fly during live playback. AUv3's cannot be loaded so fast in iOS without glitches, lags and crashes.
great! Thanks for clearing that up. For me, the flow of creating in GR-16 is what has me hooked! I’ve never had such experience in an IOS app before! Great job Jim!
Just how I feel. I avoid IAA hosted apps like the iOS version of the Black Death
Midi out would rock way more for me, cause if for some reason I really liked a certain melody or part in GR16 but I can’t quite get GR16 to sound like the way it’s in my mind, having that as midi would really rock! That way I could in a DAW select over AUv3 Synths! This might have been already talked about so wise disregard if it’s nonesense.
In the meantime you can get to sampling sounds. 16 secs max. That’s 8 bars at 120 bpm, plenty of room for any sampled sound to play nicely across several octaves
That’s deep! I’m barely swimming like a little tadpole on the surface
I’m an AU nut but I don’t ever care if this app goes AU. Just seems like a different kind of animal to me.
Yeah same here. I’d just like the sound engine to be AU, as it makes making patches so bloomin simple.
@jimpavloff hi jim - few things that could be cool for this already top app
1. Resample direct pad to pad
2. In sample slice edit window an ADSR and Pitch option per slice.
3. 16 outputs IAA though have to say the hard work you done on giving us chained pattern stems is excellent
4. multi select volume fader in the mixer - group faders
5.How's things developing with the stereo widener effect ?
6.Double tap SHIFT button to toggle on/off
All else is excellent - the simplicity of GR without all the extra not needed over the top functions in other apps makes me way more creative with GR - using whats on offer/limitations is keeping GR my top choice for beat creating.
keep up the good work -
To add I'am already about to sell one of my hardware Akai MPCs that I've used since 1997 - reason being ok GR may not have an inbuilt sampler but is able to do everything else an MPC can -
Can’t argue with that. Even though it’s based on poison, which is a great synth, getting results with GR is much more rewarding IMO. Really beautifully done.
Stereo Delay per Part is going to be in the upcoming update. Btw, you can adjust every slice's Pitch already.
ok cool I must have overlooked pitch per slice will check it out-