It’s weird—I’ve done that exact same thing, and I still can’t get anything to work.
So, I like to do a lot of improvised stuff, so I don’t exactly need a powerful DAW: I just need something that is able to record Audulus patches. The little time I spent with Reaper was fine, but I think that Ableton just might be the way to go for me right now. We’ll see. I’ve been meaning to purchase new copies of Photoshop and Illustrator, so we’ll see what my bank account says, haha.
I’m beginning to wonder if it’s even worth it for the adobe stuff anymore. Seems like streamlined alternatives are just as good these days and some of them are free. Free vs $800 is a big difference. Also Ableton vs Adobe are very different business cultures. Ableton has a traditional purchase scheme where you buy big updates and enjoy several years of free updates. Adobe socks it to ya every year through subscriptions, so you are constantly getting what feels like needless tinkering with where features are in the menu and minimal performance improvements.
Oh, I know about Adobe–the whole CC subscription thing really ticks me off, but at this point I’m running out of options: I’ve been using the same copy of Photoshop CS6 since it came out in 2012, and it’s so incompatible with OS Mojave that crashes super easily. I guess there are alternatives to it, but I personally the program, despite the crappy way Adobe manages their business. Not to mention I’m trying to get into more illustration, and Photoshop and Illustrator are the industry standard for all of that stuff.
I might just wait a little bit to buy that Adobe software, though. I don’t think the new Apple OS comes out until the middle of October, so I can still make use of CS6 before it becomes completely inaccessible with the next update, haha.
It’s getting to be less and less the case (at least with 3D and video) but I agree PSD are still pretty ubiquitous and illustrator basically unlocks every PDF. Hopefully there will come a tipping point and we can move past the historical monopolies of these two formats.
You8 might want to look at Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher as an alternative to Adobe. I used the Adobe products for ages until they introduced the subscription pricing model. I bought Affinity Photo when it was initially released and then the others as they were introduced. I’ve been very impressed with the whole lineup. They can do everything I need and much more.
I’ll definitely look into Affinity—I’d much rather pay just once for a program, haha. Out of curiosity, though, what do you guys use any of those programs for? Like, work? Or just for fun?
I’m retired now so I use them just for fun. All of the SVG graphics I did for Audulus were done in Affinity Designer. Affinity photo is my primary photo editor. I haven’t done much with Publisher as yet.
Um back to Mac audio software, Ableton Intro is FREE and (mostly) full-featured. It doesn’t have the premium Simpler instrument and gazillion Packs that the $$ versions have, but it records! How about Audacity? Also lean but functional for the laptop part (and FREE)
Here’s a major dumb-$3s question- do you just need to record a big chunk of audio? Doesn’t Adulus have a, well, “tape” module or “database” module I guess is more modern. A huge buffer, as in, GB of sound. Anybody know of such a module or would that fit your need?
So, I mostly record improvisations with Audulus. It’s more about finding some way to record those improvisations than anything else—I really don’t need much in terms of effects packs or extra features or what have you. (Although, I have had an idea as of late regarding audio generation loss that would probably require something with time-warping possibilities, but I could make do without it.)
I didn’t know about Ableton Intro, so thanks for the heads up! I think I still actually have Audacity, but I find the UI to be really confusing and annoying, so I try to stay away from it.
Ideally this is going to be a feature in Audulus 4 - sample playback. Not sure exactly where Taylor is at in the dev of that since I stepped back in my official capacity, but one of the ideas is to wrap up samples inside the Audulus files so you don’t have to mess around with opening a file with missing samples, making it easier to trade files.
I’m not sure if it’s worth making another thread for this, but I’m working on an Ableton trial, and I’m not really sure how to hook up Audulus to it. Basically, I’m trying to use Audulus as a plugin, but I…I don’t know what I’m doing, I guess? The patch I’m using (the one I have attached to this reply) uses the microphone input as a modulation source, but I’m not really sure whether I need to use a speaker node at the end or an output? I’m not really sure what DAWs need from Audulus to work. I could try to use Audulus as an effect and use a microphone as the main audio input, but again, I have no clue how to make that work. If anyone has any tips/ideas, I’d be very grateful. voiceboxvox version 1.01.audulus (63.1 KB)
It’s probably better to just record the iPad through your audio interface and use Audulus as a controller. Also you can route midi to is if you have Korg Gadget (the taipei gadget) and even use ableton link to sync your transport.
In order to use Audulus as a plug-in within Ableton (or another DAW) you need to download and install the plug-in: http://docs.audulus.com/#audulus-audio-unit-mac-only
Install the plug-in in the system-wide location.
Once the plug-in is installed, launch Ableton and open the plug-ins folder in the Ableton browser. You should see the Audulus plug- under the Audio Units subfolder. There will be 2 versions of the plug-in, an instrument and effect. You drag whichever is applicable to the track in Ableton. The effect plug-in goes on an audio track and can have a stereo input and a stereo output. The instrument has audio outputs only.
The current Audulus plug-in has some limitations. It is running an earlier version of the engine and many new features are not available. Audio input uses the mic node and audio output uses the speaker node. The DAC and ADC nodes are not recognized. Also clamped knobs are not supported.
Your patch doesn’t use either so it will run without modification. Since it’s an effect, you will need an audio track in Ableton. Open the plug-ins folder, open audio units, and drag Audulus (effect) to the track or device window below the track display. select import patch and load your patch. It’s probably best to set the speaker level in the patch to max and adjust the output with the Ableton fader control.
Okay, this is all super helpful, thank you! I actually tried soundflower earlier, and I had no success. Maybe I’m not doing it right? I downloaded soundflowerpatch as well and set everything to ch2 as well as Ableton, but it wasn’t working at all for some reason. I’ll try to figure out using Audulus as a plugin, and report back (hopefully with success). I really can’t think of any other way of making this work, except maybe just dropping money on beatmaker or something that would actually work with Audulus on my iPad.
