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@Paulyboy69, I managed to make it work with GarageBand.
First, you need to turn on 'Run in Background' and (optional, but recommended) 'Use with Music Apps' switches in GarageBand settings.
Second, turn on notes output for the 'Virtual Output' in Xynthesizr MIDI Settings.
That's it!
A major drawback is that it only works for only one (currently selected) instrument and only in instrument mode, but that's not my fault obviously.
about iPad4 performance: I killed all apps, rebooted, and the problem is still there. Not a big problem. When the sequence is running, I don't see the actual position. I see that it is running, but the current position is often stuck. It updates every second or so, much too slow. Looks like the app is not running properly, maybe this is also the reason why MIDI out is not working at my place.
@YuriT said:
I did mean separately. When you hit record it records two separate files: one audio, one midi.
Thanks for the reminder about existing options now. Maybe I should try recording it all into BeatMaker. App always frustrates me to no end but may be worth it to capture Xynthesizr's midi output too.
@anyone is there a simple (low resources) virtual midi compatible recorder with 'open in'?
No doubt and no ideas, even bad ones. That whole idea is definitely not a 'tweak' sort of idea, big old feature.
I deleted the app and downloaded it again. Surprisingly the performance is even worse now. When a sequence is running, the display updates every 3-4 seconds (!) and becomes almost unusable. Adding and removing notes is extremely difficult.
I admit this seems very strange. I also tried 1x and 2x display sizes, makes no difference. Besides, I know the app, learned it when it came out, and have a couple of hours experience. It has become quite unusable now. This is just for information, I'm not complaining at all. Didn't pay a penny for it, and it is working fine on my iPad2.
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Oswald! Thought I recognized it. http://typecast.com/9JhPc98Y-H/showcase-font-family-template-
Man, type counts. I wonder what my impression of the app would be if it were in Helvetica.
@Phil999
Hmm, this is way too weird. Any difference when MIDI is on or off?
@YuriT said:
I had this a couple of times on my Air. BPM set to 16 and after going through the sequence a couple of times it locks on the first step.
Edit: MiDI was off
here too, no difference if MIDI is on or off.
Man, this app has indeed become unresponsive on iPad4. I have to wait several seconds for each input I make. Took me almost a minute to check the MIDI settings! Really weird.
Sound is ok by the way, it's only the graphics. Must be the higher resolution (retina display). We've seen that in other apps as well, should be known among developers. (Again, not a negative critique, just saying that other devs might help in this matter)
I have had this App from day of first release and never had any issues. Originally on ipad2 and now Air. Only happened since the update @YuriT?
@Phil999, thank you for the info.
However I doubt that it has something to do with higher resolution per se.
Do you remember the names of that other apps?
Also, is it correct that you've trying doing a simple restart, not a reset?
@thinds, thanks for the info.
Yes, at least no such reports for the initial release.
@YuriT sorry, that sounds a bit like i was complaining. I'm not:-)
@thinds, why sorry
These issues are not what I would consider normal anyway.
I had it working fine until I tried audiobus and now it will not respond at all.. I have tried shutting down audiobus and the apps but nothing gets it going again.
@Tritonman2, does a reboot help?
Now I think about it a bit more, my issues started after I tried to record within the app. I was not using AB.
@YuriT said:
I'll give it a try. Thanks so much!
Well, I'm glad to report that apart from not syncing with bm2 everything works well on my air. I just had a jam with animoog, sunrizer and turnado slaved to bm2 and xynth happily ticked along the same tempo never going off. So while it doesn't midi properly it definitely has a solid clock engine and the start button has no latency to speak of. Unlike dm1.
@supadom out of interest what bpm are you using? I am only getting the probs at low settings
@thinds said:
I don't tend to go very low. I've been using 90 most recently. I just tested the same set up at 60 and it worked fine. Xynthesizer had midi off and was started manually. I actually find this quite surprising as animoog sometimes manages to throw everything off sync when I start swiping between apps.
So I have had Xynthesizr for few months and hadn't used in a while. Now after hours of using it my favorite setup is Clock Input the midi from MidiBus (so I can use 7/8, 19/6, 12/8 odd times) and use iRig Midi to control the Aalto Synth on my mac..... I let these run while I try new sounds on Aalto
@thinds, thanks for the info. I'm sure the problem can't be related to recording, unless you have not enough free disk space. Maybe it just started to happen. How often do you encounter this issue?
@Phil999, yesterday I received an email from a user who reported an issue which may or may not be the same as what you have. This is how he described it:
He's using an iPad Air.
First I though it is the same problem you've encountered, but it is now doubtful, because rebooting seemed to help in his situation.
I did not reboot because I was doing some recording from my Korg M50 into cubasis via a Griffin studio connect. This morning I brought up audiobus and had xsynth controlling animoog into cubasis perfectly! I will try with the Griffin later on to see if that was the only problem and keep you posted. Even so having it work into cubasis alone works for what I will be doing so it is all good.
@ShawnLeonhardt, nice, thanks for sharing
Would you kindly let me know what's the benefit of using MidiBus in this setup? MIDI clock itself has no notion of time signature, and I wonder if MidiBus simply adjusts the BPM accordingly for compound time signatures or does anything else?
@Tritonman2, thanks for your report!
Yes, please keep me posted.
@YuriT said:
I used the app for over an hour last night and could not duplicate the problem! I had rebooted the Air due to other issues though, so perhaps that's all it needed.
@YuriT, Midibus just allows me to try very odd signatures... I actually change the BPM to suit the time signature myself, also the Step Length in Xynthesizr, otherwise the odd signatures do not work well. Midibus also lets me know any latency issues, but really there are none. The setup I mentioned above is just for music experimentation.
Also I had some freezing issues for Xynthesizr too, but that was on my iPod 4 that is filled to the brim with music apps and TrueFire lessons... and a reboot did help. A truly great app... thanks
@thinds, good news.
That doesn't guarantee that the problem won't show up again though. Please keep me updated.
Just detected a typo in my message. It should be "the problem CAN'T be related to recording".
@ShawnLeonhardt, thanks for the info!
I think that the same thing can be accomplished by simply changing the number of steps and step length in Xynthesizr, but I may be wrong, and I haven't used MidiBus myself, so I'll better shut up now