Don’t have a Mini, but Fugue Machine, Xynthesizr, Koala, and the MiniMoog Model D work flawlessly on an iPhone, so I imagine they scale pretty well to a small iPad screen. (Although Xynthesizr still doesn’t work with AUM).
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so, Baby Audio BA-1 is available in App Store for $20.
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I have a mini 5 and honestly I’m just used to the small screen size at this point. So far there hasn’t been anything it can’t do.
That is great to hear. I just loaded up all my apps to it, can’t believe there’s so much power in that little thing.
Good news about BA-1 too, I literally looked this morning hoping it would have magically appeared!
BA-1 sounds OK but no better than Zeeon which still sounds incredible, especially with the resonance pushed.
BA-1 is emulation, so for me it’s about certain sound, no matter how great other synths are.
since there is no SH-101 emulation on iOS, BA-1 (which is Yamaha CS01 on steroids) is very nice substitute.
x-post - K7D is solid.
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Quite specific question, but does anyone use the iPad for dub music?
I’ve had an idea and want to do something like this:
- Load a bunch of reggae stems into an iPad DAW.
- Dub these stems using something like Akai midi mix or Novation XL controller.
Does anyone know if this is possible? I’m not au fait with iPad DAW’s so I’ve no idea really?
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Try Koala sampler. You can load up 64 samples/loops to pads and seq or trigger them from ext midi controller. Or loopy Pro perhaps.
Not sure what you mean exactly with ‘dub these stems’ 
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the genre of music has no impact on the process.
there are good tape delays with nice feedback …
lots of nice sample playback (koala) / daws (cubase, logic, drambo, )
and yes you can plug in a midi controller via camera connection kit.
id probably use aum and setup fx chain/send bus… whatever genre of samples you trigger.
and send whatever output to a syncd looper if thats what you mean.
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It doesn’t really matter what music you listen to. You can take any material, chop it with any number of sampling tools (warp them or whatever you need) and jam with them alongside any other apps of your choice.
AUM or Loopy Pro can join all these things together so you have everything under control in one app. Logic can do this also.
If you want midi control of your parameters, then just plug in an appropriate controller. Here’s an old pic of novation launch pad and control XL gear being used with Loopy Pro.
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Thanks guys.
@Jimbo I’ve had a quick look at the loopy pro manual and this looks exactly what I’m after.
With the midi controller can you set these to control anything on loopy pro within the app (I’ve no access to a PC/Laptop)?
I’d be wanting to control volume sliders and effects (e.g. level)?
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I don’t play dub but my approach is exactly what you’re talking about doing:
There are definitely other options but can 100% vouch for this one working a treat
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@JCFAX81 - absolutely.
Loopy Pro (LP) has built in recognition of the two Novation devices I’m using, so maps things automatically - these standard settings work well for me, but you can midi learn/assign any control to any parameter in LP (or any plugin you’re using within LP) and then save that as a new midi profile map. I use most of the standard mappings, but I like to use LP with the Control XL in a DJ mixer style configuration. So I map the 3 rotary controls on the mixer to the EQ plugin that I typically use, to affect the corresponding channel I want to affect.
As an example configuration, say you have 8 tracks/columns of samples set up on LP, each column assigned to a column of pads on the Launch Pad and each channel/column mapped to the 8 Control XL channels. Then, for your Dub stuff, you may have a vocal loop on say LP channel 5. So, via the standard mapping, you’ll be able to trigger on/off that clip on the Launch Pad, via the corresponding pad (it will be colour coded), and then on that same channel 5, you’ll be able to control the ch.5 track level via the slider on the Control XL. Then for classic Dub vocal effects, you may want a delay AU plugin assigned to LP channel 5, which you can then assign the key delay parameters you want to tweak on the delay plugin via the 3 rotary controls on the Control XL.
This is basic midi mapping theory and would be a similar process on most DAW’s/plugins.
You can map as many parameters as you like across any number of channels that you have running on LP, it’s all done via the mapping function - there’s quite a few YouTube tutorials on this, but recommend watching ATastyPixel or JohnPaulMusic UK.
Hope that helps!
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@Jimbo Thanks man, that’s really helpful. I’ll defo take a look at those YouTube channels!
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This is an excellent tutorial, and I love your trip-hoppy beats.
One thing though, do you have 5/6 different instances of koala open via AUM or the same instance open multiple times?
I’m kinda confused how on koala you have beats/melodies/vox etc. on one sequence, but can then use AUM slider to adjust the volume of each one.
Hope that makes sense!
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Ah, sorry for the confusion: it’s one instance of Koala with multiple outputs (up to 8) each of which is mapped to an individual channel in AUM so that I can control the volume, sends and other FX parameters on each stem element
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@PeteSasqwax Thanks for the advice man, appreciate it!
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My absolute pleasure! I’ve got a few live performance setups with AUM and an external controller. It’s immensely satisfying to jam out with and introduces that “never the same performance twice” element I’ve always been looking for without needing to get something like Ableton involved (which feels a bit sledgehammer -> nut for my needs)
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You still just running that esi 8 out box? Or did you ever get it?
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