Audulus 4 Released, now Freemium - Ask Us Anything!

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Littlewoodg

@Audulus_Mark
This new version looks fantastic, as does the wealth of training and tutorial material you’ve made available.

This may be more a Taylor question, and a stinker at that. I hear cries of “foul” already:

I’m an early adopter of the Audulus project and my question has to with the first version and its update- (Audulus 1 and 2)

I’m enough a beginner to still find that version challenging and interesting, even though it is long past it’s day (2014?). I do still have access to that version through the AppStore.

What I don’t have access to, unfortunately, is the upgrade IAPs that I bought in the app (the app downloads from my Purchases, the IAPs do not). I wondered if there is something that can be done to make that $45 worth of IAPs available. Essentially re-opening that store. I admit, having paid for that app ($15 for the app itself, $60 all-in w/IAPs), and then Audulus 3, makes me slow(er) to buy in yet again.

Telstar5

@Audulus_Mark : “Hours and hours of tutorials “ and an extensive owner’s manual? I’m in!

Audulus_Mark

@catherder said:

@Audulus_Mark said:
A lot of people also asked how to save your own custom modules and patches - this is how.

There seems to be no sound in this video. I can only see the cursor running around but no voice.
I just checked on YT and there are more of these short tutorials without voice. Please keep in mind that (new) users are not as quick as you demonstrating things, and that it really helps if someone would explain what is going on.

I was pressed for time yesterday and just wanted to shoot a quick one out demonstrating both of these concepts since it seemed like a lot of people were looking for it. I'll make some longer ones that show even more to do with iOS and talking, I promise!

That said, does anyone know a quick way to screen record and capture voice at the same time so that I don't need to pop everything in Final Cut and sync it up? I use OBS on Mac and it just spits out a completed video, all I need to do is trim the start and finish and it's a lot faster that way.

espiegel123

@Audulus_Mark said:

@catherder said:

@Audulus_Mark said:
A lot of people also asked how to save your own custom modules and patches - this is how.

There seems to be no sound in this video. I can only see the cursor running around but no voice.
I just checked on YT and there are more of these short tutorials without voice. Please keep in mind that (new) users are not as quick as you demonstrating things, and that it really helps if someone would explain what is going on.

I was pressed for time yesterday and just wanted to shoot a quick one out demonstrating both of these concepts since it seemed like a lot of people were looking for it. I'll make some longer ones that show even more to do with iOS and talking, I promise!

That said, does anyone know a quick way to screen record and capture voice at the same time so that I don't need to pop everything in Final Cut and sync it up? I use OBS on Mac and it just spits out a completed video, all I need to do is trim the start and finish and it's a lot faster that way.

You can turn on the microphone for screen recording on iOS. Long-press the screen recording icon to reveal the microphone on/off switch.

Audulus_Mark

@espiegel123 said:

@Audulus_Mark said:

@catherder said:

@Audulus_Mark said:
A lot of people also asked how to save your own custom modules and patches - this is how.

There seems to be no sound in this video. I can only see the cursor running around but no voice.
I just checked on YT and there are more of these short tutorials without voice. Please keep in mind that (new) users are not as quick as you demonstrating things, and that it really helps if someone would explain what is going on.

I was pressed for time yesterday and just wanted to shoot a quick one out demonstrating both of these concepts since it seemed like a lot of people were looking for it. I'll make some longer ones that show even more to do with iOS and talking, I promise!

That said, does anyone know a quick way to screen record and capture voice at the same time so that I don't need to pop everything in Final Cut and sync it up? I use OBS on Mac and it just spits out a completed video, all I need to do is trim the start and finish and it's a lot faster that way.

You can turn on the microphone for screen recording on iOS. Long-press the screen recording icon to reveal the microphone on/off switch.

Omg lifesaver thank you!

Audulus_Mark

@Littlewoodg said:
@Audulus_Mark
This new version looks fantastic, as does the wealth of training and tutorial material you’ve made available.

This may be more a Taylor question, and a stinker at that. I hear cries of “foul” already:

I’m an early adopter of the Audulus project and my question has to with the first version and its update- (Audulus 1 and 2)

I’m enough a beginner to still find that version challenging and interesting, even though it is long past it’s day (2014?). I do still have access to that version through the AppStore.

What I don’t have access to, unfortunately, is the upgrade IAPs that I bought in the app (the app downloads from my Purchases, the IAPs do not). I wondered if there is something that can be done to make that $45 worth of IAPs available. Essentially re-opening that store. I admit, having paid for that app ($15 for the app itself, $60 all-in w/IAPs), and then Audulus 3, makes me slow(er) to buy in yet again.

I just talked to Taylor and there's no way we can resurrect the old Audulus 2, so what I'll do is send you a promo code for the IAP for Audulus 4 - sound fair? Sent it in a DM.

Thank you by the way for your kind words about Audulus 4! If you're an OG user like myself I think you'll really like the new environment we've created with it. It's so hard for me to imagine going back to 2 now with all of the quality of life improvements in 4 as well.

Audulus_Mark

@Telstar5 said:
@Audulus_Mark : “Hours and hours of tutorials “ and an extensive owner’s manual? I’m in!

There will be even more hours and hours of tutorials on iOS thanks to @espiegel123's hot tip on enabling the mic while recording!

Jeeze I should've just googled it, lol.

ik2000

@Audulus_Mark said:
A lot of people also asked how to save your own custom modules and patches - this is how.

Thanks Mark… these videos are exactly what we need. Wish every developer devoted as much time to plain and demo the functions. Mind you, not many apps are as complex as Audulus, except for maybe Drambo and MiRack.

Gavinski

@Audulus_Mark you can just set up an AUM session with your mic attached and whatever mixing / mastering / sidechaining apps you want / need to make things sound better. AUM will still run in the background if you are using Audulus standalone, then just screen record!

catherder

@Audulus_Mark said:

@catherder said:

@Audulus_Mark said:
A lot of people also asked how to save your own custom modules and patches - this is how.

There seems to be no sound in this video. I can only see the cursor running around but no voice.
I just checked on YT and there are more of these short tutorials without voice. Please keep in mind that (new) users are not as quick as you demonstrating things, and that it really helps if someone would explain what is going on.

I was pressed for time yesterday and just wanted to shoot a quick one out demonstrating both of these concepts since it seemed like a lot of people were looking for it. I'll make some longer ones that show even more to do with iOS and talking, I promise!

That said, does anyone know a quick way to screen record and capture voice at the same time so that I don't need to pop everything in Final Cut and sync it up? I use OBS on Mac and it just spits out a completed video, all I need to do is trim the start and finish and it's a lot faster that way.

Thanks a lot, I'm looking forward to it. This is a great app.

handed

@Audulus_Mark Wanted to ask a few quick questions. Congrats on the release. How slow is the absolute slowest slew limiter in the app? I’m interested in slides/transitions that can take up a miniute or more to go from min to max values. Can the slew rate be modulated? Also, is it easy to convert internal CV to MIDI CC out, or take MIDI CC data and convert it to internal CV data? Is there a max number of simultaneous MIDI CC outputs? And broadly, are there a bunch of modules that could potentially be used for creating MIDI CC and note effects?

Audulus_Mark

@ik2000 said:

@Audulus_Mark said:
A lot of people also asked how to save your own custom modules and patches - this is how.

Thanks Mark… these videos are exactly what we need. Wish every developer devoted as much time to plain and demo the functions. Mind you, not many apps are as complex as Audulus, except for maybe Drambo and MiRack.

The skills it takes to do tutorials let alone really good ones with nice video production and the ones it takes to make the app itself don't really overlap. I made one really well-produced one where I was bringing it lots of different clips and everything and it took so, so long and I never did it again. I finally found a setup that's really quick and easy, basically like streaming, and that's about what I can muster at the moment, especially since my computer is so slow at editing video.

Audulus_Mark

@Gavinski said:
@Audulus_Mark you can just set up an AUM session with your mic attached and whatever mixing / mastering / sidechaining apps you want / need to make things sound better. AUM will still run in the background if you are using Audulus standalone, then just screen record!

Thank you, that's great to know! I honestly spend most of my personal time making music on my computer, so there's a lot I still need to learn and catch up with on the iOS side of things as well, clearly.

Audulus_Mark

@handed said:
@Audulus_Mark wanted to ask a few quick questions. Congrats on the release.

Thank you!

How slow is the absolute slowest slew limiter in the app? I’m interested in slides/transitions that can take up a miniute or more to go from min to max values.

20 seconds, but you can easily go inside of the module and change that to whatever you want - you could make it change over a minute, an hour, a day, a week, a month, year, decade, century...how slow do you really want to go?

First go inside the slew limiter module by double tapping on it and you'll see this Slew Limiter Code submodule - go inside that as well.

Once inside the core, you'll see this - just change where it says maximum to whatever number of seconds you need. For example, two minutes would be 120 seconds - two years would be 63072000 seconds.

Can the slew rate be modulated?

Yes - something that's fun to do is to use a sequencer to modify the slew rate so you can apply glide selectively to notes. Come by the Discord and I'll make you a patch for that, I don't think I can upload Audulus files here. It would look something like this. The sequencer on the left would play notes and the one on the right would change the slew for just those two steps.

Also, is it easy to convert internal CV to MIDI CC out, or take MIDI CC data and convert it to internal CV data? Is there a max number of simultaneous MIDI CC outputs? And broadly, are there a bunch of modules that could potentially be used for creating MIDI CC and note effects?

You can read about the CC Send node here - no there's no maximum outputs as far as I know. There aren't specific modules for creating those effects, but you can use the modules in Audulus to create them. I think in answering your question I'm realizing I need to pack the CC Send node in a way that can make it more versatile for connecting to modules without needing to use the node directly. I'll think about that more and get back to you.

http://docs.audulus.com/nodes/#cc-send

Audulus_Mark

Talking with you guys made me realize that I forgot to include an Audio Input module in the initial release, so I made a Wired Up with Mark episode making them - they'll be included in the next update soon. In the meantime you can grab the patches over at the forum, and watch the video below:

https://forum.audulus.com/t/wired-up-with-mark/3166/1

Krupa

Really lovely to see this engagement, and great tutorials on YouTube, to the point and broad in scope as well as being specific to audulus…

on desktop, is it likely that there’ll be a VST version at some point? I’m asking as ableton doesn’t let AUv3 plugins put out MIDI (yet, maybe never) and it’d be great to use this for some sequencing/modulation there at some point… related to that, has anyone messed with expert sleepers/hardware tutor and this; I’m wondering if I could make a utility setup to augment my limited euro setup…

Cheers @Audulus_Mark great work, I’m almost regretting getting reaktor now 😅 (not really, there’s room for it all in my head I think)

handed

@Audulus_Mark said:

@handed said:
@Audulus_Mark wanted to ask a few quick questions. Congrats on the release.

Thank you!

How slow is the absolute slowest slew limiter in the app? I’m interested in slides/transitions that can take up a miniute or more to go from min to max values.

20 seconds, but you can easily go inside of the module and change that to whatever you want - you could make it change over a minute, an hour, a day, a week, a month, year, decade, century...how slow do you really want to go?

First go inside the slew limiter module by double tapping on it and you'll see this Slew Limiter Code submodule - go inside that as well.

Once inside the core, you'll see this - just change where it says maximum to whatever number of seconds you need. For example, two minutes would be 120 seconds - two years would be 63072000 seconds.

Can the slew rate be modulated?

Yes - something that's fun to do is to use a sequencer to modify the slew rate so you can apply glide selectively to notes. Come by the Discord and I'll make you a patch for that, I don't think I can upload Audulus files here. It would look something like this. The sequencer on the left would play notes and the one on the right would change the slew for just those two steps.

Also, is it easy to convert internal CV to MIDI CC out, or take MIDI CC data and convert it to internal CV data? Is there a max number of simultaneous MIDI CC outputs? And broadly, are there a bunch of modules that could potentially be used for creating MIDI CC and note effects?

You can read about the CC Send node here - no there's no maximum outputs as far as I know. There aren't specific modules for creating those effects, but you can use the modules in Audulus to create them. I think in answering your question I'm realizing I need to pack the CC Send node in a way that can make it more versatile for connecting to modules without needing to use the node directly. I'll think about that more and get back to you.

http://docs.audulus.com/nodes/#cc-send

Thanks so much for the detailed response, very much appreciated. I’ll have a proper look through soon.

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uncledave

@Audulus_Mark Just a suggestion. You can upload Audulus files here. Just zip them first.

Audulus_Mark

@Krupa said:
Really lovely to see this engagement, and great tutorials on YouTube, to the point and broad in scope as well as being specific to audulus…

on desktop, is it likely that there’ll be a VST version at some point? I’m asking as ableton doesn’t let AUv3 plugins put out MIDI (yet, maybe never) and it’d be great to use this for some sequencing/modulation there at some point… related to that, has anyone messed with expert sleepers/hardware tutor and this; I’m wondering if I could make a utility setup to augment my limited euro setup…

Cheers @Audulus_Mark great work, I’m almost regretting getting reaktor now 😅 (not really, there’s room for it all in my head I think)

Thank you! For VST, I don't know - I will talk to Taylor about that. I hear from a lot of people a lot of interest in making MIDI effect, and I think Audulus would frankly really excel at that.

I have used Audulus with Expert Sleepers hardware myself - there are several videos about it already on YouTube that I'll link to below. Unfortunately, when I moved to Croatia with my wife 2 years ago, it was the middle of the pandemic and I wasn't sure that we'd have jobs for a long time, so I sold all of my Euro gear. Now that we're a little more established, I plan to start again with an ES-8 and a Doepfer Minisynth module to showcase Audulus 4 + modular stuff.

I'm using my attention on things that people immediately want to see happen, and I had sort of put ES-8 stuff on the backburner until I have one myself, but if you show up in the forum or Discord and describe the kinds of things you want to use if for, I can make an Audulus ES-8 module for you to try out and play with - would be cool to have more "beta testers" for that.

Audulus_Mark

@tja said:

@Audulus_Mark said:

@Gavinski said:
@Audulus_Mark you can just set up an AUM session with your mic attached and whatever mixing / mastering / sidechaining apps you want / need to make things sound better. AUM will still run in the background if you are using Audulus standalone, then just screen record!

Thank you, that's great to know! I honestly spend most of my personal time making music on my computer, so there's a lot I still need to learn and catch up with on the iOS side of things as well, clearly.

My standard AUM setup for this includes channels for multiple inputs (Mic, Fileplayer, Neon, Loopy Pro), some plugins for cleanup (EQ, De-Esser, optional Gate or Noise Removal), some plugins for dynamics (MB Compressor, EQ, optional Compression) and finally for mastering and recording.

I love it, but it makes heavy use of FabFilter plugins:

I should rebuild this with mostly AUM plugins 😅

That's excellent! When I record on my computer, I'm just using the API Channel Strip Plugin from UAD, it's got all these great utilities for voiceover. I wish I could more easily use it with iPad tho

Audulus_Mark

@uncledave said:
@Audulus_Mark Just a suggestion. You can upload Audulus files here. Just zip them first.

Ah good to know! I'll keep that in mind for the future

Littlewoodg

@Audulus_Mark said:

@Littlewoodg said:
@Audulus_Mark
This new version looks fantastic, as does the wealth of training and tutorial material you’ve made available.

This may be more a Taylor question, and a stinker at that. I hear cries of “foul” already:

I’m an early adopter of the Audulus project and my question has to with the first version and its update- (Audulus 1 and 2)

I’m enough a beginner to still find that version challenging and interesting, even though it is long past it’s day (2014?). I do still have access to that version through the AppStore.

What I don’t have access to, unfortunately, is the upgrade IAPs that I bought in the app (the app downloads from my Purchases, the IAPs do not). I wondered if there is something that can be done to make that $45 worth of IAPs available. Essentially re-opening that store. I admit, having paid for that app ($15 for the app itself, $60 all-in w/IAPs), and then Audulus 3, makes me slow(er) to buy in yet again.

I just talked to Taylor and there's no way we can resurrect the old Audulus 2, so what I'll do is send you a promo code for the IAP for Audulus 4 - sound fair? Sent it in a DM.

Thank you by the way for your kind words about Audulus 4! If you're an OG user like myself I think you'll really like the new environment we've created with it. It's so hard for me to imagine going back to 2 now with all of the quality of life improvements in 4 as well.

Dude you are the man. And dude, Taylor is the man. Dude you are the men.

lasselu

@Audulus_Mark said:
I hear from a lot of people a lot of interest in making MIDI effect, and I think Audulus would frankly really excel at that.

I would love to see some examples of that! I'm trying to decide if I need Audulus and that could tip the balance for me...

Krupa

Thanks @Audulus_Mark a lot to dig into there, I’ll find my way to the discord too 🙏

Audulus_Mark

@Littlewoodg said:

@Audulus_Mark said:

@Littlewoodg said:
@Audulus_Mark
This new version looks fantastic, as does the wealth of training and tutorial material you’ve made available.

This may be more a Taylor question, and a stinker at that. I hear cries of “foul” already:

I’m an early adopter of the Audulus project and my question has to with the first version and its update- (Audulus 1 and 2)

I’m enough a beginner to still find that version challenging and interesting, even though it is long past it’s day (2014?). I do still have access to that version through the AppStore.

What I don’t have access to, unfortunately, is the upgrade IAPs that I bought in the app (the app downloads from my Purchases, the IAPs do not). I wondered if there is something that can be done to make that $45 worth of IAPs available. Essentially re-opening that store. I admit, having paid for that app ($15 for the app itself, $60 all-in w/IAPs), and then Audulus 3, makes me slow(er) to buy in yet again.

I just talked to Taylor and there's no way we can resurrect the old Audulus 2, so what I'll do is send you a promo code for the IAP for Audulus 4 - sound fair? Sent it in a DM.

Thank you by the way for your kind words about Audulus 4! If you're an OG user like myself I think you'll really like the new environment we've created with it. It's so hard for me to imagine going back to 2 now with all of the quality of life improvements in 4 as well.

Dude you are the man. And dude, Taylor is the man. Dude you are the men.

You're welcome, I hope you enjoy!

Audulus_Mark

@lasselu said:

@Audulus_Mark said:
I hear from a lot of people a lot of interest in making MIDI effect, and I think Audulus would frankly really excel at that.

I would love to see some examples of that! I'm trying to decide if I need Audulus and that could tip the balance for me...

What kind of MIDI effect in particular would you be interested in? Like, some kind of advanced arpeggiator? What app or control surface are you imagining running before Audulus that's creating the MIDI you want to alter?

lasselu

@Audulus_Mark said:

@lasselu said:

@Audulus_Mark said:
I hear from a lot of people a lot of interest in making MIDI effect, and I think Audulus would frankly really excel at that.

I would love to see some examples of that! I'm trying to decide if I need Audulus and that could tip the balance for me...

What kind of MIDI effect in particular would you be interested in? Like, some kind of advanced arpeggiator? What app or control surface are you imagining running before Audulus that's creating the MIDI you want to alter?

I'd be interested in seeing if it's possible to create something like Ruismaker Rozetta, specifically Particles and Collider.
I'm more interested in generating MIDI rather than altering it...

Gavinski

@Audulus_Mark said:

@lasselu said:

@Audulus_Mark said:
I hear from a lot of people a lot of interest in making MIDI effect, and I think Audulus would frankly really excel at that.

I would love to see some examples of that! I'm trying to decide if I need Audulus and that could tip the balance for me...

What kind of MIDI effect in particular would you be interested in? Like, some kind of advanced arpeggiator? What app or control surface are you imagining running before Audulus that's creating the MIDI you want to alter?

Yeah some kind of generative midi patch would go down well!