Getting Loopy and Garageband to Play nice together?
I am relatively new to the MIDI world, but I am trying to keep my head above water with the lingo and the learning while going insane at the amount of possibilities. So in other words, pardon me if my question seems a bit dense...
I want to know if I can use a midi keyboard, playing sounds through ios garageband, to record into loopy.
I am using the iRig midi device to get the hardware keyboard into my iPhone.
From what I have messed around with, I can start a loop, play it in the background, and play (for example) the piano in garageband along WITH the loops, but can not actually record something from the piano onto a loop.
Throw in the magnificent softstep (by keith mcmillen instruments) and my live looping set-up would be perfect, if for this one feature being possible.
Thanks for the help, and the support for this app astounds me. Michael, you are tre impressive!
I want to know if I can use a midi keyboard, playing sounds through ios garageband, to record into loopy.
I am using the iRig midi device to get the hardware keyboard into my iPhone.
From what I have messed around with, I can start a loop, play it in the background, and play (for example) the piano in garageband along WITH the loops, but can not actually record something from the piano onto a loop.
Throw in the magnificent softstep (by keith mcmillen instruments) and my live looping set-up would be perfect, if for this one feature being possible.
Thanks for the help, and the support for this app astounds me. Michael, you are tre impressive!
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Funny you should ask - no, this has never been possible. Until... well, soon. I'm currently working on what I think is a pretty game-changing new project for iOS called Audio Bus, which will facilitate precisely this kind of usage scenario. It'll need cooperation by other app developers (which Apple, being Apple, is unlikely to give, so don't count on Garageband ever supporting this), but it will allow you to play instrument apps straight into (among others) Loopy. We're looking at a launch within the next couple of months.
Untill Michael completes his new project - the audio bus, doe anyone else have an 'ultimate' hardware set up to share? - that would be appreciated.
On the Softstep topic: Is Softstep compatible with Loopy?
Hi Michael. I'm still leanring about Audiobus capabilities, but can you verify for me if I can open up Garageband on my iPad 3 and somehow record sounds from my Korg iMS-20 app that I have loaded onto the same iPad? I also use an Alesis IO dock for guitar and vocal inputs. Thanks and nice work!
@stratt both of those apps would need to explicitly add support for audiobus. Apple is extremely unlikely to do it. I'm doubtful about ims-20 as well but perhaps Michael has some inside info he's willing to share.
Thanks, @syrup
Yep, that answer pretty much covered it. I won't speculate on likelihoods though.