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Instrument still playing when removed from input
Hi!
I've downloaded Audiobus yesterday and I already love it! However, I have a slight issue and I'd like to know if it's a bug, a feature, or something I simply don't understand.
I use IK Multimedia's iLectric and process it with Amplitube (as effects) or Garageband (as output) on my iPad 3. When I add another instrument in the "inputs" (like iGrand Piano or Galileo's organ), it plays both instruments simultaneously, which is great.
However, when I remove an instrument from the Audiobus "inputs", it still plays. Even when I remove all the instruments from the Audiobus "inputs", all the instruments continue to play simultaneously. The only way to fix that is to "kill" the instruments I don't want to hear (double click on "home" button, tap and hold the app, tap the red (-) in the corner), which isn't very convenient, I thought that removing it from the "inputs" would simply make it stop playing.
This problem occurs when the iPad is controlled by a midi keyboard, but it also occurs when using the iPad alone. It also occurs when I simply use multiple inputs (when I don't use any app as effects or outputs).
Thanks again for this great app, which would be even better if I could solve this small issue.
Comments
You have probably have one instrument controlling the other. check your midi settings. It shouldnt normally do that unless you set it up. Welcome to the Audiobus world.
Thanks for the answer, I didn't set anything like that to my knowledge, but I'll check. The weird thing is that it happens will all my input instruments (iGrand, ilectric, Galileo, KinderKlavier).
Sorry if this is totally irrelevant but maybe your instruments are functioning as they are intended. These are pro audio apps and they are designed to function in the background (receive MIDI and produce sound) even when they aren't the onscreen app you are looking at on your iPad. And this doesn't at all depend on Audiobus either. Audiobus just changes the routing. As soon as you take an app out of the Audiobus chain, it just functions as a normal app, producing sound direct to speaker or headphones.
Possible Solutions:
You'll find that the "force close" process you describe is an essential part of doing music on an iPad. Especially if you have anything older than an iPad 4 to keep so many apps running in the background. If you don't force close, apps will start to crash.
Something like MIDI bridge can manage your keyboard routing so that you can toggle where the MIDI notes are being sent to.
If your iPad has no trouble keeping all your apps running simultaneously, you could just mute the volume on each app when you don't want to hear it.
Looks like Galileo outputs to 3 channels. Channel 1 is upper keyboard, channel 2 is lower keyboard, and channel 3 is pedal. You may have to set other app instruments to a channel higher than those in Galileo. I know using Cubasis in output only allows selected track instrument to play by default.