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General Setup
Hi,
I am producing music since 25 years, having hardware and a treated room.
maybe ten years ago I produced a song using nanostudio but that is all there is.
I am thinking of starting to use my mobile a bit for making music but I am struggleing to understand how to set everything up.
I have aum, loopy pro and some other apps. What I would like to to is being able to make "scenes" comparable to ableton live to trigger certain things.
Now I don't understand a couple of things so far.
- what exactly is aum for? is it a hub to route midi and audio?
- What would be the best way to set things up? making scenes in loopy pro and starting midi clips / scenes in lk from there or would I use LK to trigger "scenes" in loopy?
- It seems loopy allows to load devices as well. What would be the advantage using aum?
- lets say I am running several apps, is there a way to save everything all together or do I have to save every single app?
Thanks for helping
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Hey mate! Hope you're doing fine.
On a quick break here at work, so i'll just answer #1. Be back later for the other ones
AUM is a mixer / patchbay of sorts. You can host your other apps inside each of it's lanes and route however you wish.
It has some mixer busses, you can route midi around, use some internal processing for eq,filter, dynamics and etc.
https://kymatica.com/aum/help
You can do a quick read/skim on the manual to check it out.
(after writing, I just noticed you already have both AUM and Loopy Pro)
Both may have some overlap in functionality. But I think Loopy is awesome for the kind of scene launching you want.
Thanks for your answer. I would then use loopy to launch audioclips as well as sequences in other apps sequencers? I am still struggleing to understand how to control things like midi CC from there.
Also could anyone recommend a decent sidechainable compressor, an eq like fabfilter pro q3 (just ipad as I see) and a musical EQ I could use on Iphone?
Also is there an app to slice loops by transients and trigger the slices using midi?
Sorry for asking the obvious but I am completely new to ios music.
I’ll be the first to declare: “You can do all these things in Drambo”.
I love a DAW capability that also supports loading into an AUv3 slot: Loopy Pro and Drambo for example.
The learning curves for DAW’s is intense. AUM is DAW like if you purchase and add a Sequencing AUv3, FX, etc.
You should start with a DAW and do some projects in it. If you are patient and have the funds do several. Watching tutorial videos can help you decide before purchasing.
Logic Pro is on IOS with a totally new user experience but most of the content for example.
Overtime I think you’ll appreciate “touch” and mobility. You won’t have to suffer loss of audio quality too much and anything can be pulled into the desktop for post production mixing.
+1 on drambo if you want scenes as it has literal scenes as in ableton live 🤣
Theyare just for midi tho.
Garageband (and i guess logic) have scenes that can also be audio loops
Thanks I will have a look into it. Also wondering how to do things like fills, breaks etc.
I dont really want to produce tracks for this I have Ableton but make nice drumpatterns to play with, switch between parametersets, add and take away elements. Mainly for jamming.
I will check it out
Maybe taking a look at koala could be of your interest, its A different workflow than ableton but it exports to it
All IMO ...
in most cases you don't need both AUM and Loopy Pro - they cover much of the same ground. AUM is more intuitive and spontaneous for routing and mixing duties. Loopy Pro is immensely powerful and can do virtually everything AUM can + a lot more. If there are features of Loopy Pro that you need which AUM doesn't have, then in my personal opinion, it can do the job on it's own.
My personal preference to handle both sequencing and looping is Drambo AUv3 running inside Loopy Pro. LK is great for sequencing too, but something about Drambo is more satisfactory for spontaneity for me. Drambo has the added benefit of having plenty of its own good sounding synth racks for use when that makes sense.
Some time in the next year or so, Loopy Pro will also have it's own midi sequencing. I don't know if that'll replace Drambo for me, but it will be there. It will also have a Mac version (separate purchase I think) that will be able to be used as an AU or VST in Mac DAWs. Whether or not there will ever be an AUM version for the Mac is unclear.
This isn't a commercial for Loopy Pro. I'm agnostic on that subject. tbh - I reach for AUM almost as often as Loopy Pro just because it's so streamlined and intuitive. But, when I really want to make some music, and if I had to choose between them, it's Loopy Pro all the way. One thing I almost never do is use AUM and Loopy Pro together. For my uses they're redundant together. ymmv.
I am still struggleing on how to sidechain and do busses, looking for some decent dynamics and a way to switch in between patterns during the cycle and back but I suppose I just have to try a bit.
Are the plugins like soundtoys or similar to just get a warm and punchy sound? I like the fabfilter plugins but unfortunately the are just available for ipad.
For synthetic drums I am using elastic drums at the moment which sounds ok but I wouldn't mind other drum synths. Elestic drums is great as if switching patterns allows switching sounds as well.
A ggod sampler with slicing would be nice too and a limiter.
Going to read some reviews now
Drambo is good for sampling and slicing. Koala is excellent.
Hey welcome! I highly suggest checking out Jakob Haq, The Sound Test Room, and Gavinksi’s Tutorials for their deep dives on AUM and Loopy Pro.
Most apps your curious about will probably have a video by at least one of them and it will give you a really good overview of what they’re all about.
I'm not so versed in Loopy Pro to be honest. If the other apps have sequences and are synced with Link, you're good to go. Not sure if when you start a clip/donut on Loopy, you could trigger a midi start on other app. Never tried that.
As of now, Loopy doesn't have a midi sequencer / midi clips, but if i'm not wrong, it's on the works (not sure on the ETA)
You could assign midi duties to stuff like LK or Drambo as previously mentioned
On the sidechain side, I didn't sidechain in the past
Just being lazy. I tried to work with mixing and eq only.
But recently got Bleass Compressor and dived into this video
Hi, and thanks for your answers.
Is it possible to morph in between parametersets in elastic drums using a midi cc (lets say I have a drum kit a and a drumkit b that I blend the parameter values with a cc?)?
Also I would be looking for a musical EQ like a pultec clone or a neve 1073, a noisegate preferably sidechainable,
Can the effect slots of drambo be used as plugins for other instruments as well?
I am also struggleing on how to get the single channels of elastic drums out in loopy pro. It seems that I can just use the mail instance
Maybe I might go for a mpc instead. The plugins are quite pricey as well