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Quick Question for Audiobus Users!
Hello! I have a question for those of you who regularly use Audiobus.
Are you still adding apps from the "Apps" tab (rather than the "Audio Units" tab)? This includes adding apps to the "Output" slot.
I’d love to get a sense of how many of you are still using Inter-App Audio connections, as that’s the underlying Apple technology when selecting anything from the "Apps" tab.
If you’re using apps from the "Apps" tab and don’t mind sharing, I have two optional follow-up questions:
- Which apps are you using?
- How’s the experience been for you lately? Is everything working well?
Thanks so much for your input!
- Do you use the Apps tab?29 votes
- No, not at all34.48%
- Yes, occasionally37.93%
- Yes, all the time27.59%
Comments
IAA absolutely. Lumbeat Drummers, IK Multimedia apps, DrumJam, ThumbJam, Amplitube, FunkBox, TC-11, SampleTank… It is essential. I like and use AUv3 apps of course, but if that was all I wanted to use I’d be using a MacBook.
Hi,
IAA is important to me. Thumb jam,DrumJam,DrumPerfectPro. Sometimes even some multitimbral apps that are fiddy as auv3.
Things seem to be working OK w audiobus. Thanks for your great creation! Is there an impending "drop dead date" or something? Already have 1 iPad frozen, so it may be 2 iPads frozen if iOS 18 messes with IAA.
As an aside, the bs that ppl have to go thru with apples strategies..including devs .....is total garbage. I left apple at the end of Mac os 9, but got lured back with musical iPads.
But never again.
Oh almost forgot...my main iPad is an 8 gen iOS 14.5...I know I waited too long to upgrade....but an issue I have is with multi outs from DrumPerfectPro. They don't work, but its prob the app, but I have read about "multi-out issues". I don't use any other apps that have multi-out.
1: AUM. As using Xequence if I can’t add AUM then workflow is not viable.
2: Generally ok, some random issues that I’m not sure I can trouble shoot.
I'm not really using Audiobus anymore since Loopy Pro came along. But the IAA apps I still use are the Lumbeats apps and iELECTRIBE.
For me it’s essential for IAA midi sync especially transport. For example AB works great with Korg Gadget 3.
Another advantage is that it’s very handy since it can be used both as midi clock source and destination so it’s great for keeping IAAs, AUs, and hardware in sync.
FWIW, in the Loopy Pro Facebook group, BIAS FX and the Lumbeats apps are mentioned pretty frequently as IAA apps people use.
yep, Lumbeat....
Thanks heaps guys! No, no imminent failure's anticipated, but I'm just trying to gauge it's usage, as Apple have deprecated the underlying tech a few years back - and let's face it, it wasn't a particularly stable technology even from day one. Just trying to figure out how much of a headache it would be if Apple killed it entirely.
🫣 I hope not. I’m a big user of Launchpad, Remix Live, Blocs Wave, Gadget and Groovebox.
Samplr is still in my heart although I barely ever use it since it only loads one fifth of the time.
I use:
with my iPad Air 1, sending the audio to a MacBook.
I've always loved Audiobus' tab to quickly change to another app and have been on the verge of purchasing AB Remote but, as you say, IA is deprecated, so who knows...
I use Borderlands Granular and FieldScaper w/ AB quite a bit.
….Have you heard something imminent eventually to take place???
Audiobus is essential for my IAA instruments.
I use Audiobus frequently but I use the tab very infrequently. The apps i use is Sooranotron and Streetlytron
Is that because LP Pro replicates AB's state saving functions? Or some other reason?
Loopy Pro seems to be on the brink of replacing everything else for me, which means apematrix, audiobus, AUM, etc.
No, Loopy Pro doesn't have AB's state saving function unfortunately. But I've come to think of my remaining IAA apps as something to use temporarily, freezing to audio as soon as possible, and moving on. If I think I'll need to come back to do more then I save a preset in the app with the same name as the Loopy Pro project, so that I can restore the preset later.
But because of the inconvenience, I avoid using IAA apps altogether 99% of the time. The two above aren't exactly replaceable though, so I work around the limitations.
Yes, tbh, it took quite some time before setting up a session in Loopy Pro was as immediate and accessible as AUM, but as I've become more comfortable with it, I'm starting to use Loopy for everything.
I hope you are not gonna stop supporting Audiobus. I use it every day. I think it’s great.