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I don‘t see any from iceWorks in the list: Mersenne, Kronecker, Laplace, etc.
I‘ve dabbled with Mersenne.
I tried login in to the wiki but I don't have the rights (not enough messages). If someone creates one, my suggestion is to classify it by 1/ type (synth, sample, sequencer...) 2/ developer 3/ name of the app.
If no one does it, I'll do it eventually when spoken enough on audiobus :=)
Yes, absolutely. iPad apps that run on Mac should just work in a window and operate the same way. Where you might run into trouble is in apps that have actions or gestures that are explicitly multi-touch. But most iPad apps these days seem to be written to be compatible with keyboard and mouse, since you can use an iPad in that mode, e.g. with a Smart Keyboard case.
Real talk: For my money, I feel like this category of apps (x-platform iPad/Mac) is just not mature enough. I don't know if that's down to Apple's libraries or whether developers just intrinsically need to do more to support it, but for the most part I try not to rely on iPad apps on the Mac. Notable exceptions are the Moog apps and Nambu (maybe Lagrange too, I don't have enough time with that one). Getting a Logic project to open and work properly on both iPad and Mac while using anything other than stock plugins is a real crapshoot. And a lot of AUv3's that work on iPad won't even open in Logic (in my limited experience Ableton seems a bit more forgiving with AUv3s). Preset sharing is similarly hit-and-miss. There are good x-platform workflows, but they tend to be one-way iPad->Mac and tend to avoid 3rd party software (Ableton Note, GarageBand or Logic with stock plugins, maybe the Avid thing I dunno).
I hope for this situation to improve but I'm not expecting it any time soon. When a developer makes their iPad app available for Mac, it seems like a likely outcome is they get a bunch of new support cases but very little new revenue. Kind of breaks the motivation to do a x-platform release.
Definitely not mature enough. A bonus when the developer opens their ios AUv3 to be used on Mac, but still rare. It's unclear if the app store or pricing models are mature enough e.g. to support an iAP to add desktop capability to an ios app. I've yet to see that specifically. That's what is needed to make it worthwhile for devs to implement, because I agree it probably is a support time sink.
Do midifx auv3s not work? I have cykle, polybeat, all the bud apps, helium, etc. downloaded on my m1 mac but when I open reaper I can't see them -- only auv3 instruments.
Curious about midifx auv3s also
I've only got polybeat and stepbud from that list.
Both show up in Logic as midifx. Polybeat seems to have an issue where when you press play it messes up the first few bars then plays fine from there, but it's an issue that makes it a non-starter. I use the build in pattern editor so it's no great loss, but still... Nearly there.
StepBud seems to work OK. I haven't tried it much, again, the built in pattern editor is much more convenient and more powerful -- it makes using either plug-in pretty pointless. It's so much better being able to see the pattern regions on the timeline.
I could be wrong, but I think Logic might be the only DAW on Mac that supports AUv3 MIDI effects today. Last I knew, support was not yet there in Ableton. I admit I have no firsthand knowledge of Reaper. But supporting AUv3 MIDI effects is a separate effort from supporting AUv3 instruments or audio effects.
Maybe it's an issue with Reaper -- none of the midifx auv3s I own show up when I start Reaper. I'm new to Reaper, but I don't believe that it has anything like Logic's pattern editor, unfortunately.
In any case, I'm more interested in using the generative or esoteric midi sequencers like Cykle, Musebud, Bouncebud, Polybud, etc. to get midi patterns that I wouldn't normally think to program. I was really hoping for a way to do this inside Reaper -- I wonder if the iOS midi fx auv3s work in Logic. It could sway me to purchase Logic for Mac, though I have to say that the Ableton Max4Live devices seem so tasty (though Ableton feels like more money than I'm willing to spend at the moment).
Anyone who uses Logic able to see midi fx auv3s?
Yes, with the caveat that not too many of them have been released on Mac.
Ableton Live suite looks great, but IMO there is no better value-for-money DAW on Mac than Logic, and I include free DAWs in that assessment.
Thanks!which midi fx auv3s show up in Logic for you? Yeah, Logic for Mac just looks like incredible value between the stock synths, pattern editor, drummer, live loops etc.. Max4live is a huge draw but that's a lot of money to spend beyond the Logic outlay.
The Bud apps, Cycle, Polybeat, Octachron, mLFO, some 4pockets apps, OODA and ZOA, MIDI tape recorder, and let's not forget Drambo. TBH I have not tested many of these, but those are the ones that are downloadable and that load in Logic. Logic on Mac is a little picky about which AUv3's it will load, not all of them pass the validation checks. You have the option to enable plugins that fail validation, so there might be other plugins that will load if you manually enable them.
I don’t like generative midi so don’t have any of the others you mention, but cykle is by the same dev as polybeat and if the _bud apps StepBud seems to work fine in Logic. So I’d be hopeful the others would also work.
The caveat being polybeat has a pretty huge bug whereby on playback it plays nothing at all then all of a sudden will play back every beat it missed at the start all at the same time (great for your speakers) and then will play back properly. But it does the same thing every time you press play. So it’s effectively broken. The UI and other parts of the plugin all seem to work as they should in Logic so it’s hopefully not too much of a fix if the developer wants the plugin to be compatible with the Mac.
Thank you sir! That's good Info about Logic and auv3 mfx. Oh, I've been listening to your album on the morning conmute!
No Way! Wow cool, thanks for letting me know, makes me all warm and fuzzy inside knowing somebody is actually choosing to listen :-D
Just tried PolyBeat on my other Mac and it seems to work fine. Not sure why it wasn't working on my MacBook
Drambo is loading in Sonoma but no audio. There is some error message and also no settings for audio stuff.
"Can't activate audio device (RemoteIO start error 0). Please restart Drambo."
I get this:
I don't have an "On my iPad" folder on my Mac :-/
(It is in the ~/Documents/ folder on the Mac)
Yeah man, I really dig the intensity of the album. Polished as hell! Perfect for getting ready for my day working in special ed public school ☺
After I heard your collaboration with @JanKun, I was sold. I really liked the industrial vibe of that track.