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Best virtual instruments to work with audiiobus and cubasis please

Chris6003Chris6003
edited August 2014 in General App Discussion

Hello

I am new to making music on the ipad but recently purchased GarageBand and Cubasis and Audiobus. The instruments in Cubasis sound rubbish so I would like to buy some more. Can you help me pick ones please? I play guitar anyway but would like to have orchestral instruments and decent pianos and bass guitars too

Comments

  • DarbyADarbyA
    edited August 2014

    ThumbJam is a staple, works great with Cubasis

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thumbjam/id338977566?mt=8

  • FitzFitz

    IFretless Bass. I would add DrumPerfect but you didn't mention drums so ....

  • Chris6003Chris6003

    Cool thanks guys, and yep I'll add DrumPerfect too. What are the main players in the field? I know Sampletank and Thumbjam are good, what are the other main competitors?

  • DarbyADarbyA
    edited August 2014

    The field is synth-heavy and sample-light right now in terms of virtual instruments. Beatmaker 2 allows you to build your own instruments from wav samples as does ThumbJam. This has been my approach, I prefer acoustic instruments for the most part. There are at least a couple of good soundfont players, Bismark BS-16i works well for that and a search through this forum will bring up lots of links to great free and paid soundfonts.

    Also CMP Grand Piano has some nice sounds but works without Audiobus via inter-app audio.

  • JohnnyGoodyearJohnnyGoodyear

    Agree with the above. More than anything this forum (to which I am a Johnny-Come-Lately) is a vast repository of insight and angst worth reading on almost any related subject you might be considering as regards ios etc. All the best. JG

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]

    Don't forget the movers and packers...

  • TGiGTGiG

    Haha

  • WillWill

    What @darbya said. BS-16i requires a little up front work but if you want great sounding acoustic instruments (in addition to thumbjam), it's the way to go.

  • DarbyADarbyA
    edited August 2014

    I've experienced a much higher level of quality using wav files. The cheapest and most convenient way to go about it would be soundfonts but if you really want a sound to rival PC quality it would be apt to spend the money on a good software instrument and bring the wav files into BM2 or, with fewer options and less stability, ThumbJam. Amazing quality is possible on mobile but requires rolling up sleeves a bit right now while the field is so bare.

    Also Doug mentioned something recently about organizing a collection of HQ samples on http://www.thesoundtestroom.com/, that might turn out to be a gold mine

  • thesoundtestroomthesoundtestroom

    @DarbyA said:

    I've experienced a much higher level of quality using wav files. The cheapest and most convenient way to go about it would be soundfonts but if you really want a sound to rival PC quality it would be to spend the money on a good software instrument and bring the wav files into BM2 or, with fewer options and less stability, ThumbJam. Amazing quality is possible on mobile but requires rolling up sleeves a bit right now while the field is so bare.

    Also Doug mentioned something recently about organizing a collection of HQ samples on http://www.thesoundtestroom.com/, that might turn out to be a gold mine

    Yeas we are preping samples now, these will be really top, all custom made with my hardware and software, all the loops will loop perfectly, all the instrument samples will be labelled properly, most of them will be un normalised so you have headroom for FX. The idea so far is to have a pack a month, each pack will contain around 50 samples if various things. The full fifity will probably have a small price, but there will be like 10 free samples from each pack.
    Very soon now
    I will be posting some on here and asking you guys to test em out.

    It may also be possible to do some private request samples for specific sounds

  • DarbyADarbyA
    edited August 2014

    Such great news! Thank you Doug! Can't wait for this :)

  • sonosaurussonosaurus

    @thesoundtestroom, very interesting! Let me know and I can even make TJ instrument metadata files with them to be distributed along with.

  • JohnnyGoodyearJohnnyGoodyear

    Sounds like a good project and one you're well suited to Mister Doug. Look forward to the first samples.

  • funjunkie27funjunkie27

    That would be great @sonosaurus!

  • TGiGTGiG

    Great news indeed

  • WillWill

    @sonosaurus said:

    @thesoundtestroom, very interesting! Let me know and I can even make TJ instrument metadata files with them to be distributed along with.

    Yes! And +1 to you Jesse for making the format plain text and easy to work with. I have an unfinished branch of http://luktown.org/random/trg/ in git with an 'Export to Thumbjam' option because it was easy to cook up. I broke 10 other things in the rewrite though that I haven't gotten around to fixing!

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