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.
2020 - SEMI MODULAR BEAT-MACHINE for MAC
It’s going to be pricey at $119 but it looks nuts:
https://www.musicradar.com/news/2020-semi-modular-beat-machine
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/2020-semi-modular-beat-machine/id1106656393?mt=12
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Don’t want to be negative, but this UI on iPad? And we already have something like Drambo. 🤔
Edit: This is for a Mac only app, don’t know what is wrong with me today, sry!
Is it available for the ipad too?
Edit: I think I would need two screens!
Yeah this is Mac only. I've already preordered. Been waiting on this since 2016. I know it looks busy on the screen, but it's laid out very well. I've read through all the documentation. I look at it as a Digitakt and a couple channels from Digitone all exploded out on one screen instead of menu diving and added bussing and routing options. The sequencers are genius designs and the ability to switch patterns and presets with the QWERTY keyboard is great for jams. You can record all the busses out to files in realtime and then pull those into whatever DAW you want. It's not a VST, but it does have LINK support so you can jam along side other apps. This looks like something I will be able to sit in bed with and mess with for hours.
Ok, noticed this but overlooked it till now..
Now you made me really interested about this
Thanks for inducing GAS in my head 
Hey, if it potentially replaces thousands of dollars of hardware in a convincing way it might find a fan base.
I know you are elektron'd, but man this thing looks so fun. With your sound design skills, you could just create a bunch of samples to throw in here and sequence the F out of it. The ability to set the resolution per beat...,
This describes it in video form:
Sry, bombastic title from musicradar.com got me on the wrong foot!
😱🤩❤️
‘ This looks like something I will be able to sit in bed with and mess with for hours.’… 🤨
Well...the other thing.
i got in this when it was crowd sourced, (2016 was it? wow) and ive never had a mac. too cool to pass up, hoped my mac based son would use it but he is off mac now…alas.
Significant overlap with Strokes--which is on ios--but maybe a little more normal and less modular-sounding. I prefer weird myself.
Are there any demos of it's slicer? I am curious how chops work. IE - do they autochop, how long can a sample loop be..etc. I love what it can do with one shots, but I'm curious how it works with loops. Not sure if you know anything about that.
I didn't see anything referencing it in the docs. It feels more like a "looper" than anything, so I'd be surprised if it was designed for anything beyond 4 bars. Also it does not reference time stretch or anything, so not sure how it calculates or if you can select endpoints within a sample and have them time stretch to that, or if you can then set the number of bars within that. No details at that level in the documentation that I've seen.
Having ableton this doesnt have any sense idk
This UI would work great on the Apple Watch.
This is what I imagine James Holden’s max patch looks like.
this looks incredible, would likely purchase it if I had a Mac...
Have you seen how fast it is to modulate about anything on this? It's just a must more immediate piece of software, once you understand the GUI. Not a must have, but I have used Ableton daily for years and this is still very appealing as a complimentary piece, imo.
To me it seems like a powerful hardware groovebox if you map a controller to it.
Right. Everything is on one screen. All the sequencers, all the samplers, the 2 FM synths, the 2 scale modules, all the fx, etc. You see it all and don't "switch channels" to get to anything. It's all right there to see how everything is working together. Can't wait for it to drop tomorrow!
4 bars is honestly fine I think. I see Division in the docs, so i think the plan for me would be to record stuff into ableton and get it trimmed to 4 bars, which I already do with Slate+Ash samplers, then throw it into this sampler.
I'd mainly be messing with vocal loops I take from records and youtube and then maybe some stuff I record off my hardware.
Looking forward to your thoughts. I may be grabbing it too, but if not, I'll be reading your review
Yea yeah one screen, but its limited to specific workflow and cannot be integrated. I dont see how it stands against vcv2 for exaple. Well as long as there is TA its all good
Curious if you got it, and if so how do you like it?
I've been pretty slammed with work BUT I can tell you that I'm still figuring out how to "make it do what I want"
There can be a ton of chaos if you want it, so its finding how to make all that power actually musical. Understanding how things interact with each other. Also, the bussing allows all sorts of craziness where you can share "modules" like spin across busses. The two scale engines are kinda strange, and understanding how those affect each thing you assign them too is interesting.
I'm not saying it's bad, it's just gonna take me more time to make it work for me...and I haven't had a lot of time lately
Awesome, I appreciate the feedback. It sounds pretty great, just will take some time to learn which is why I have not bought it yet. I have to finish up a few projects first.
Do you think it is pretty easy to map a MIDI controller to it and have it save all the mappings? Looks like a great match for some knobs.