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Same here, although I find IAA pants in most hosts
There was a point where I told myself, 'forget about trying to be creative and get in the flow, just learn the app'. So i sat for a few hours over a couple evenings just diving in and out of menus, drawing automation, tapping bank letters to see where it takes me etc. I thought of it more as building muscle memory, not concerning myself
with how anything really sounded.
Anyway Saturday morning came and I
found myself just making music, not even thinking much about the app. It was all music ideas, creative experiments and flow from that point. Removing the creative pressure to be productive and create for a bit helped A LOT.
That's excellent advice.
Me too. Just forced myself to make a track over a weekend for the forum battle and had a blast.
I'm sure there's an easier way but I do it by clicking on the add track (+) insert a midi track in Cubase. Then tap on the track icon to bring up the inter-app audio panel.
Click on the instrument button to bring up the list of iaa
scroll down and select the BM3 out (Audio).
Then click add track (+) and add an audio track which
will record the midi out from BM3. So you need to arm both tracks for recording. Hit record help if you use count in
open the BM3 from the midi track instrument icon and start playing.
Thanks for that, @hacked_to_pieces
I'm unclear where the midi is being recorded? And also why you can't hear the BM3 pads while you're playing them.
But that's a promising start.
Slightly OT question: Is there a preferred midi controller that interfaces well with BM3? The Akai MPD218 looks good, but I haven't used it.
Using this method all the midi is recorded in BM3. When screen recording using ios only you can only capture audio from the host app which in this case is Cubase. To capture all the audio you have to use quicktime on a desktop system.
I think this controller would work. You’d just have to map the pads in the settings to correspond with the pads in BM3. It’s pretty easy
This made me genuinely lol.
yup, agree (optimist)
BM3: Has an initial learning curve that is steeper IMO than Cubasis, but once learnt, it is so easy to make any type of music. I use a linear approach mostly and while I agree that Cubasis is slightly easier, I have found a fast and efficient way of working with BM3 in a linear fashion.
I find most AU apps that I use work well in BM3 with only the odd quirk such as no built in patch saves unless the AU already has them - BM3 is more designed to save anything as a bank that saves the settings, fx etc. Most AU apps have their own built in patch saves, so this is not a problem mostly.
BM3 has taken onboard AU Midi, full screen AU and other very up to date features that admittedly are not in wide spread use at this time - nice to see them included.
BM3 is quite good for midi setups, yet it is complex to my mind and not the easiest set ups to get ones head around. Midi note editing could be improved IMO.
BM3 has a nice selection of fx tools that feel more part of the patch due to how the bank / sampler / pad / macro structure works.
BM3 Still needs some added tweaks, but is my choice for now.
Cubasis: While still gives me much more to smile about then my once loved Auria for quickly getting some tracks down, it now takes a back seat to BM3. As Haq said in the video, Cubasis really makes messing with editing midi and audio much easier than BM3.
What Cubasis really misses for my own fun is AU Midi as Rozeta is now firmly a creative tool I use often. As mentioned mixer groups need adding.
I think while Cubasis has been honed well to be a smooth transition tool - I.e. make the basic track quickly then transfer it to their own professional DAW on desktop - in this way it is a masterclass in simplicity and design.
I made a tutorial on how to map MIDI controllers in BM3 you might find of interest. I'm mapping knobs, but you map pads the same way.
That isn't how you assign MIDI CC on the sampler at all, that is how you assign MIDI CC to Macros, just double click a control in the sampler and you can set its MIDI CC direct, you don't need to use macros or focus actions.
Why do so many people give out this bad information ?
I just read in another thread that Cubasis and Auria Pro still don't have Link implemented. Is that right? That's a showstopper for me as I Link up AUM and Xequence with BM3 all the time. This with the AU MIDI implementation for Rozeta apps means I don't think I could switch from BM3 right now.
All subjective musings, I know. Fun discussion though.
Cubasis, no Link. It cannot slave to anything, it only sends Midi clock to Virtual Midi.
It works with Midi Link Sync app though, so there is that option. It controls hosted apps pretty well too.
I always felt at home with Cubase since the '90s and using hardware MPCs. So Cubasis was easy for me to get along with when I first got into iOS apps. I bought BM3 when it was released. But I just can't seem to get into it like I do when I power up my MPC2000 and start sampling right away. There's too much involved with software samplers that takes away all the inspiration from me. So I stick with my trusty hardware that never crashes or needs to go through several steps in order to get the same results.