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Can you automate music apps with Shortcuts?
I was wondering if you could automate music apps with Apple’s Shortcuts app? Basically wondering if there is a chance I could automate using SynthJacker and AudioLayer to make a sampled synth instrument with a click. Like if you can hit record and make a macro, like you can on the desktop.
I couldn’t figure out if there is a way to get into 3rd party apps with Shortcuts, from what I could tell, it seems to just string together things with the OS, like things you can ask Siri to do, like give you directions to the pool hall, and immediately start playing Highway to Hell.
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Shortcuts can only automate functions that apps specifically expose to it. No music apps appear anywhere in the shortcuts app actions that I can find. The only thing I can imagine using are maybe some of the file actions and clipboard actions. There’s no macro recorder either.
But maybe my imagination is just too limited to think of ways it could be of use.
Not with Shortcuts, but you could possibly automate things with this technique using Accessibility features: https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/31245/how-to-remotely-control-any-ios-app/p1
I was thinking of using a combination of Voice commands (Accessibility), and Pythonista (paid app), but it's cool that @aplourde shared that link. That combined with Mozaic (paid app for MIDI) and Streambyter (free MIDI app) should prove useful.
Thanks for the feedback, it was seeming doubtful. That is interesting with the accessibility thing.
It's the only way I know that is almost unlimited in terms of on-screen control but it relies on fixed on-screen positions of controls and automating is somewhat limited in that you'd have to record all gestures into one recipe.
Accessibility control used to work with MIDI notes on some iOS versions so you could use a MIDI sequencer with different MIDI notes automating different actions but I can't say which iOS versions work, as iOS 13 broke a lot of features that had worked flawlessly before.
Just Press Record has shortcut actions.