Live is also just an amazing playground for experimental sound design. Really good for creating samples to load up into the ipad
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I downloaded it but struggle to process my hardware in real time with an audio interface. When recording your piano did you use the iPad mic or you managed to use an audio interface?
Used audio interface. Had no issues what so ever.
Ok thanks I need to look at a tutorial as I donāt find the UI very intuitive
Any recommendations for AUv3 apps that do MIDI filtering?
AUM handles this well except that the filtering is global per output, so you canāt make distinctions between inputs.
If you donāt mind a little bit of simple text āprogrammingā, StreamByter is free and will let you write all sorts of MIDI processing.
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Was considering picking up Beatmaker 3 but saw a lot of mixed reviews, I remember thinking BM2 was ok, whatās the consensus on BM3 these days? I read somewhere the main dev left, no updates for a long time/years?
I looked into it when I bought my iPad and it seems that Beatmaker 3 is not well supported and is overdue an update.
As a result I wasnāt prepared to invest the time into something I wasnāt confident in.
Iām similarly worried about Cubasis given Logic.
Logic is a big rough and I donāt love the workflow but itās the obvious choice for a linear DAW.
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I bought beatmaker 3as it seemed the best option for hip hop and sample beat making but I couldnāt gel with it. Nothing wrong with it and nothing I hated but I just didnāt find a flow that was quick and enjoyable.
Itās certainly capable but not for me. Itās not exactly the same but I preferred zen beats. Thatās probably the closest daw to it I found. Again though thatās with limited use of bm3 as I quickly lost interest. On iPad things have to grab me quickly because itās down the pecking order of music making equipment and needs to be fun.
Saying that I did spend a year when most of my finished tracks were made on iPad. This was a mix of cubasis, Aum, zen beats and Drambo as my main choices.
I use this one a lot. Itās very simple, but easy and work for my use.
EDIT: Or perhaps I misumderstood, what you ask for?
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I bought BM3 on release but never found it stable enough when hosting AUv3 instruments and constantly struggled with it crashing. Others have had a much better time of it though so maybe my experience isnāt typical.
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Iād rather have a basic UI, but for now this and Mozaic are the only options I see. Thanks.
Oh, it seems MidiFire from the same dev can get me there, Iām more confortable with node programming. Itās a bit pricy though.
You did, thanks for the recommendation though!
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Midifire is not an AUv3 plugin, though. Standalone only. But it can host AUv3 MIDI effects itself, which enables building some really cool and powerful processing chains. And you can still use it in AUM through the MIDI Matrix, itās just not quite as simple as having a plugin.
So if you want something you can run as a plugin itself, StreamByter is the one.
But Midifire is a full-on modular MIDI playground, so if you want the power tool, thatās it.
Ah I read that wrong, thanks for clarifying!
What did you replace it with? Koala and AUM?
(I feel like having a big purge of my iOS appsā¦ I might set up a spreadsheet for the task :-))
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You can do that in Drambo
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I actually did that with AUM sort of. I opened my two last live AUM sessions and deleted each and every auv3 app that was not loaded in it 
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Yeah, exactly that. I resample other apps (mainly synths) into Koala so that I can sequence everything there and the multi-output means I send things to their own channels with filters etc on there and not lose much of the functionality of sending MIDI to the synths
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Do what?
Useful cable to have for mobile users
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