Garageband Audio Units Ipad

What is Audiobus? — Audiobus isan award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you useyour other music apps together. Chain effects on your favouritesynth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app likeGarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface outputfor each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive asynth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDIkeyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear.And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.

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One of the largest makers of Audio Units and other GarageBand plug-ins is AMG. MDA-VST: Which contrary to its name has over a dozen AU plugins includung Amp Sims, Detuner, Delay, Comperssor/Limiter, and more; MacMusic.org: a HUGE list of Freeware, Shareware and Commercial Plug-Ins.

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1. Oct 10, 2017  It is also affecting Logic Pro X. I don't know whether it is significant but even though my Audio Units stopped working in Logic Pro X and GarageBand 10.2 (both 64-bit apps), for some reason they DO work in the old 32-bit GarageBand 6.0.5! I have both copies of GarageBand on the same MacBook Pro running macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
2. When you first open GarageBand you'll be asked to select the kind of instrument you want to use. At the top of the screen you'll see two options: Live Loops and Tracks. Live Loops is a relatively new addition to GarageBand, which allows you to sequence existing recordings in real time.

Audiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.

I ran into some nice juicy problems whilst making this video but I left them all in, so If it's me doing something wrong maybe someone can help, otherwise this is a big problem using AU at the moment in GB

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• edited January 2016

  @thesoundtestroom - Doug, same here and I just left a reply on the STR post. I did eventually manage to get a full track rendered that included my two iSEM AudionUnit tracks but I don't know what I did that made it work. (After watching your video I went back to GB and exported the same 'good' song file, but it messed up again and is missing one of the iSEM tracks).

  Anyway, I'm on the hunt for a solution, as are others I hope.

• That's a huge issue if AUs are not being exported!! Thanks for raising it.

  P.S. Are you going to be taking a look at DrumPerfect Pro? I can't decide without a Doug style overview! Maybe GB drummer gives me what I need..

• No idea what's going on. After watching this video I recorded two isem AU tracks on an existing song then select open in an export the song to audioshare both isem tracks were included in the recording, Tried a second time and everything went fine as well. Maybe merge the track so it converts to audio and then export would solve the problem.

• There is one setting in Garageband that is worth checking out.
  Under advanced settings enable 'Use with Music Apps'. The description says.

  'Switch on to optimise Garageband performance for use with ochre music apps'.
  iSEM is still an 'external component' even if it's an AUi.

  I'm thinking this setting has to do with memory-allocation and audio buffers as there is slight lag when playing the touch-instruments and they don't switch as fast.

  As for the sharing 'bugs' missing AUi's when sharing..
  I've only tried merging tracks and AUi's are present in rendered file(new project with audio-track).

  I guess it's time to bombard Apples feedback pages.
  http://www.apple.com/feedback/garageband_ios.html

• Djay pro ios free trial. Definitely some weird sh1t going on there, is it GB, iSem, or AU implementation ???

• @Samu -- I had that setting turned on, although I may try again with it off. However, thanks to @stormywaterz for the great suggestion. On the first try GB only merged (rendered) the 2nd iSEM track (the remainder was blank audio), but I tapped the undo button, did the Merge again and this time it rendered both tracks fine and dandy. I exported the file and glad to say it has all of the audio!

  I reported thie issue to Apple, and the guy that I talked with (yeah, Apple called me, and I didn't even know that was a thing..well, now I know)..anyway he was hopeful that others will report this issue as well so as to help it gain traction with the bug fixers.

• I shall try MERGE see if that works, and also try the ADVANCED SETTINGS thing too

• I found that with several iSEM instances, some or even all can become blank (au crashed?) -- in that case the audio unit might still play from memory but will not render to file. What worked in that case was opening each instance iSEM to make sure it is active, and then render to file. No problem exporting the audio that way.
  Also, restarting GB and then exporting the audio seemed to work.

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Are you curious about AUs?
Curious about Hey Yous? No, not Hey You, AU.
Okay what's an AU? It's an Audio Units Plugin, part of Mac OS X's Core Audio system level plug-in architecture which allows developers to write plug-ins in a single format which any OS X application can use ..
Huh? Oh, scary geekspeak, sorry.
All that you really need to know in regard to what an AU is can be simplified to: It's the kind of Plug-In that GarageBand uses.
Why would I want or need one of these Plug-In thingies? Excellent question, they allow GarageBand to do things that it can't do 'right out of the box.' You can add New Effects, or even New Synths, and there are hundreds of these available as Commercial, Shareware, and even Freeware releases.
Where can I get some of these Freeware AUs?
Here are some sources:

1. One of the largest makers of Audio Units and other GarageBand plug-ins is AMG.
2. MDA-VST: Which contrary to its name has over a dozen AU plugins includung Amp Sims, Detuner, Delay, Comperssor/Limiter, and more
3. MacMusic.org: a HUGE list of Freeware, Shareware and Commercial Plug-Ins.

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How do I install them once I have them? I'm not very computer literate. Then you're going to like this, simply drop them into your Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/ folder
My what/where folder?

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Oh, still too geekspeak, huh? Okay, trust me this is simple. Make sure GarageBand is not running. Go into Finder and open a new Finder Window. Open your Hard Drive Icon. Open your Library folder. Then open your Audio Folder. Then open your Plug-Ins folder. Drop the .component file that you downloaded into the Components folder. You have just installed an AU Plug-In.
So how do I use it now that I've installed it? Well that depends on the type of AU it is. For now let's stick with the two most common types, an Effect, and a Synth.
To use an AU Effect click the button to display Track Info. If the Details triangle is facing towards the right , click on it so that it points down.
It now displays the effect settings:
Click on either of the effect PopUp menus
And your newly installed AU Effect will appear somewhere in the popUp list. The list is sorted alphabetically, so where it sits in the list depends on its name.
This is what my list looks like:
All the plug-ins below AUSampleDelay are AU effects that I've installed on my System.
Once you select an Effect, you'll likely want to tweak (Geekspeak for 'Change') its settings. After an Effect is selected in one of the two popUp menus the button becomes enabled. Clicking this icon brings up the controls for that Effect. What these controls are will vary wildly from one effect to another for two main reasons:
First, different effects would obviously need different sets of controls. For example, you're not likely to see a 'Room Size' control for a compressor, but you might for a reverb or echo.

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Second, since these are generally written by many different people with many different ideas, the entire look of a plug-in is bound to be radically different, from bizarre, to radically cool, to simple and functional. Here are some examples:
The other type of AU Plug-In that you're likely to run into, and may want to use, is one of the many Synth Plug-Ins that are available. Using these is very similar to using one of the Effect AUs.

• Create a Software Track.
• Open Track Info again.
• Open Details if they are not already displayed.

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And finally click on the Generator PopUp menu.
You should find the Synth you've installed under the Audio Units Modules section of the popUp menu
Once selected, much like the button for Effects, the button for the synths lets you tweak the settings of your Synth. Much like the Effect Plug-Ins, each Synth is likely to look radically different then any other synth.
Here's an example of what daHornet looks like:
Once you have the settings the way you want you can play the Synth with your MIDI Keyboard, the onscreen keyboard, or even Musical Typing in GarageBand 3.
..........And there's your crash course in Hey Yous, errr, I mean AUs.