An Ode To Studiomux

Lady_App_titude

Whilst searching my drive, I ran across this little piece of doggerel verse that I vaguely recall composing as part of a contest to win a copy of Studiomux back in the halcyon days of the olde Sound Test Room. Yea, though I didn't win the contest, now all of you, my brethren, and all of posterior posterity, shall win the blessings of my brilliant beatitudes in praise of this mux-worthy little app. (If only they would fix the AU MIDI and creeping latency problems! ) . -- Lady B. App-titude, Appford on Avon

I simply MUX have Midimux
And Audiomux too,
For without such a mux,
I'd have no mix to mux thru.

My DAW would be in awe,
My Propellerhead soar,
As Midimux sent triggers
To Figure or Thor

If I had such a mux,
And Audiobus,
I'd mux Z3TA+, and Animoog too,
I'd mux new workspaces
In places like Cubasis,
Or mux Flux:FX and Korg Mod-u-le.

I simply mux have them both
For to bridge such a gap,
To both audio and MIDI,
Make them mux-have apps

I never win contests, and suck at dumb luck
But life without muxes would be so muxed up

RajahP

There was an update two days ago..(ver.4.1.4) that claimed to fix IAA/Auv3 issues..

Lady_App_titude

@RajahP said:
There was an update two days ago..(ver.4.1.4) that claimed to fix IAA/Auv3 issues..

Hallelujah! For the first time ever, MIDI to AU is working!

There is, however, a trick to get it working, I discovered.

In my DAW I have to assign the output to the MIDI track to "studiomux-generator-1" for an AU instrument.

With IAA instruments, you assign them to "studiomux @ YourName's iPad-1" (That has been the way up until now, and it wasn't until I tried studiomux-generator-1 that voila MIDI started working!). Now we have this second MIDI track assignment option, and w/ IAA instruments, either option will work. But with AU, the only way to get MIDI working is with the "studiomux-generator-1" output assignment. As long as you remember that, you should be fine.

Other than that, I got some crashing when unloading one instrument and loading another. (Rebooting Studiomux fixed it, relatively minor inconvenience.)

I need to continue testing for a couple of hours to see if there is still creeping latency, but this is great progress! Thank you, Studiomux!

Janosax

I keep to have audio distorded with Studiomux. Have to reload Studiomux vst’s as audio sometimes disappear too. I think about going iConnect interfaces way, but not totally sure as I almost don’t use Ableton those days. Having Studiomux as an option was a nice way to try that iOS/Ableton integration for ten bucks, but that audio distortion kills everything. Not sure I want to spend 300 dollars if workflow don’t fit my needs/taste. Can always use Thomann refund BTW.

Lady_App_titude

@Janosax said:
I keep to have audio distorded with Studiomux. Have to reload Studiomux vst’s as audio sometimes disappear too. I think about going iConnect interfaces way, but not totally sure as I almost don’t use Ableton those days. Having Studiomux as an option was a nice way to try that iOS/Ableton integration for ten bucks, but that audio distortion kills everything. Not sure I want to spend 300 dollars if workflow don’t fit my needs/taste. Can always use Thomann refund BTW.

Not having any distortion with Studiomux. Of course, my system is probably much different than yours (I haven't tested w/ Ableton). I did find that I was getting audio dropouts until I updated the driver for my audio interface (MOTU 828mk3 FW).

Back in late 2016, I did start to get some distortion issues w/ MusicIO, which is what prompted me to switch to Studiomux.

My tests with 4.1.4 so far (about 2 hours) have been pretty much excellent. No dropouts, no distortion, no latency. If there is creeping latency, it takes longer to show up than w/ IDAM (which starts to appear in less than an hour).

Janosax

@Lady_App_titude said:

@Janosax said:
I keep to have audio distorded with Studiomux. Have to reload Studiomux vst’s as audio sometimes disappear too. I think about going iConnect interfaces way, but not totally sure as I almost don’t use Ableton those days. Having Studiomux as an option was a nice way to try that iOS/Ableton integration for ten bucks, but that audio distortion kills everything. Not sure I want to spend 300 dollars if workflow don’t fit my needs/taste. Can always use Thomann refund BTW.

Not having any distortion with Studiomux. Of course, my system is probably much different than yours (I haven't tested w/ Ableton). I did find that I was getting audio dropouts until I updated the driver for my audio interface (MOTU 828mk3 FW).

Back in late 2016, I did start to get some distortion issues w/ MusicIO, which is what prompted me to switch to Studiomux.

My tests with 4.1.4 so far (about 2 hours) have been pretty much excellent. No dropouts, no distortion, no latency. If there is creeping latency, it takes longer to show up than w/ IDAM (which starts to appear in less than an hour).

This certainly is my issue, as I use internal soundcard and IkMultimedia iRig Pro I/O, both with Asio4All driver. Ableton works perfectly with audio interfaces, at low buffer latency with no distortion nor audio dropouts. Its only with Studiomux. If I have to buy a new audio interface, I should buy iConnectivity directly. I use iOS apps exclusively, and almost never touch my laptop setup at that time, but if that changes I will certainly go that way.