Quickest way to play a virtual instrument into Koala

joegrant413

So I’m very comfortable with AUM and pretty comfortable with Koala.

But I’m wondering what is the quickest way to play a virtual instrument like scaler 2 and have the audio directly go into koala.

I know I can do it through AUM but would love to leave the question open and heart whatever you folks suggest.

Thanks,
Joe

reasOne

I don’t think there’s going to by anything easier than AUM to capture audio into koala

cokomairena

Nothing beats aum…

But remember you can use it as IAA… that might be better than auv3 for this as you get the fullscreen koala

Tentype

Honestly, AUM is the probably the best way,

BUT

often I'll set koala recording on the mic in the background and then open up a synth in the foreground and start playing out the iPad speakers while catching it on the iPad mic. Sometimes it distorts, or catches background noise, or room reverb, but often it's just fun to work with. And fast. Which feels like the whole point of Koala to me.

joegrant413

Thanks. Part of me wants to recommend Koala add a feature for AUv3 plugins on its own. And part of me says Koala should keep its design model simple.

jwmmakerofmusic

@joegrant413 said:
Thanks. Part of me wants to recommend Koala add a feature for AUv3 plugins on its own. And part of me says Koala should keep its design model simple.

I'm in the latter category. Koala should remain simple. It does what it does extremely well, and the AUM method of sampling is for me by far the quickest.

wim

Adding AUv3 hosting would suck the life out of the development momentum for Koala. Also Koala is cross-platform. Android doesn't have hosting and Windows only supports VST's, I doubt the developer is much motivated for to do something that would only work for iOS. It'd be a shitload of work even just to deal with the UI design considerations.

It's so simple to sample into Koala in just about any host, I don't personally see value of adding hosting capability myself.

What would be nice though is to have midi out from the sequencer.

jwmmakerofmusic

@wim said:
AUv3 hosting would suck the life out of the development momentum for Koala. Also Koala is cross-platform. Android doesn't have hosting and Windows only supports VST's, I doubt the developer is much motivated for to do something that would only work for iOS. It'd be a shitload of work even just to deal with the UI design considerations.

It's so simple to sample into Koala in just about any host, I don't see the value of hosting personally.

Exactly.

reasOne

Sometimes i wish the mixer could host audio effects in the slots but, i usually just route the audio out into aum channels and flavor from there.
Creating a template in AUM to be ready to go for this makes it pretty seemless

reasOne

Just like this!