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Looking for an app to do live jam sessions
Hello guys,
I have an iPad, cheap USB-Midi Drums, a cheap USB-MIDI Keyboard, an USB Audio Interface and an lightning to USB adaptor.
I want to connect all these devices to my iPad and have the iPad turn the Midi signals to Piano and Drum sound. I also want to plug in my guitar into the audio interface and have a software do a little bit of amp/effect emulation. All these sound should be played back in real time to the output of the audio interface.
Basically I want to turn all the junk I have laying around into something usefull for mobile jam sessions.
I am looking for an app to accomplish that.
Is it even possible?
Do you guys know an app (the cheaper the better) which can do all this?
I tried garageband but it only supports one midi device.
Thank you for your help.
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I’m pretty sure Audiobus will fill the app part of your requirements. You will also need a usb hub and some way of powering it.
Thank you very much for your reply, I will look into it. My OTG adaptor already has 2 ports. The two midi devices work without an external power supply and for the audio interface i will tinker some in between cable.
Or of course our beloved AUM. That's the one I would use.
Either way, you'd have to look for drum/piano/synth/guitar amp apps/plugins as well, because both AUM and Audiobus are hosts for other apps.
I agree, I'd look for a powered hub. Just to be on the safe side. Everything individually might work without a powered hub, but all together, it might be better to have a powered one...
I think aum is the way forward but as @dobbs says you’ll need a separate app for each instrument. And that’s really down to taste and budget by this point. And style of music you’d like to do
Cubasis and Zenbeats are my first thoughts if GarageBand doesn’t do it for you. You can get a lot of mileage for amp simulation out of Overloud TH-U’s free version.
Thank all for you for making me understand that on ios it's not about finding one app which does all but rather chaining apps together.
Actually I got an OTG Adaptor with 3 USB ports and I managed to hack together a cable which powers it from one port.
I just tried tonebridge and I was amazed as there were finished presets for almost every song I know how to play.
So I can use GarageBand for the keyboard.
So all I need is audiobus and a drum app which is absolutely reasonable.
I don't think that if you have garageband running you'll be able to use two MIDI devices for two different instruments. I think garageband just accepts all midi input and doesn't discern between input sources. And also afaik, it only is "active" and accepts input when it's on the screen.
(by the way there are also a handful of free synth plugins, like Synth One or Viking Synth or Primer, you might also consider using one of these, at least for testing. Then you have garageband out of the picture entirely. Don't know what sound you're going for with the keyboard, but maybe you'll find a preset in a free synth that you'll find OK. You'll have a way easier time with MIDI routing once you're entirely in AUM or Audiobus.)
Another free guitar amp plugin would be Crunck V2, if you want a more "realistic" setup with a frontend like a real amp, vs. the menus of Tonebridge. Overload TH-U also has a few amps etc. in the free version.
If your piano requirements are not too fussy, there are some excellent free soundfonts available, and the SoundFonts app is a lightweight AUv3 that can play them.