Sonic Touch - AUM Audio Mixer and AUv3 - SonicLAB Review

[@ELEKTROGOWK]

This is the best app I ever got. This is my base app for all my modular music production

[@GazWilliams]

My apologies to the excellent app developer Bram Bos for misreading their name as Bram Bros and subsequently calling them Bram Brothers! Whoops!

[@brambos9370]

No worries! That had me laughing out loud! :D

[@777wisdom7]

Gaz You guys need to hire Doug Woods from the sound test room to assist in your IOS music department. Not saying that you are not good but Doug would add a deeper perspective to the topic in my opinion.

[@RubenDari]

forgiven

[@PlayitonPan]

I call it Bam Bam 😄✨

[@tedstahl3794]

Nick and Gaz FTW! So great seeing a Sonic Touch from you guys after so many years! Your insight and observations are such a treat when presented with your unique banter and pacing. I especially love your enthusiasm in this format! Thank you both for years of educational entertainment. You're both an inspiration! Peace to you both and Happy New Year!

[@sanderager]

Yay! I’ve missed sonic touch! Keep em coming!

[@sokoleski]

Yes.... bring back the sonic touch! There is so much goodies to be coverd

[@redskylullaby]

Great to see a Sonic Touch resurrection. More please

[@valdiskrebs566]

Welcome back, Sonic Touch!!! Love my iPad Pro(ver 1) and the great AUv3 synth apps and AUM! Of course, the “micro studio” is completed by a Keystep... and a Rolli.

[@TheDjchriscollins]

Brilliant vid, bought AUM yesterday to use with a Digitakt, was doing my head in not any more, cheers

[@zetetick395]

I would love to see a regular (ish) show from these two fine gents, as their legacy episodes have been very useful to me for getting my head around all this new tech *Sonic Touch* has helped me understand music creation via apps with their solidly informative dialogues, AND introduced me to some truly lovely apps that I would not wish to be without now. - I hope you fellas consider getting back up into the dual drivers seats of your great (audio) bus, I for one, am already stood at the bus stop, ready to get onboard! :)

[@perrypelican9476]

Good video, as usual. Thanks. You missed the best feature of audio units which is that you can have as many separate instances running at the same time. The old iPad Pro could also be charged while connected to things using the Apple usb3 dongle. AUM is great but there is another similar app called Apematrix that has better built in LFO control. There is an app called MIDILFOs that you can use to modulate apps in AUM. AUM can accept midi from outside itself, which reduces messiness in some cases. A good thing is to use a powered USB hub to improve power efficiency, although the battery of the new iPad Pro is much much better. Just a note that the guy who created the Rosetta apps is Bram Bos, not Bram brothers, easy mistake to make. So Nick now you see why I was bugging you to do more IOS videos. There is so much mire. There are some mind blowing synths like Layr, Unique, Aparillo, Synthmaster One, Syntronik, Kaspar, D1, and it goes on and on. Thanks again for the video. You guys are cool.

[@GazWilliams]

Perry Pelican fair play everything you say here Perry is spot on. It’s tricky with the free flowing style Nick and me follow which is always totally unscripted. Nick may interject just as I’m about to pursue a particular detail and the conversation veers off somewhere else. Subsequently we can’t always fit everything in. However stalwarts like your good self help out terrifically filling in the blanks. Ta!

[@rdean150]

@Perry Pelican Which of the synths you listed would you recommend one check out first? I've tried Unique on Android via the now defunct Samsung Soundcamp. It was my favorite synth app on that platform actually. New iPad Pro owner here, and so far I've tried Korg Module (had to find a good piano first and foremost) and Korg's Arp Odyssey app. Both are quite good but I need moar!

[@perrypelican9476]

Ryan Dean its hard to recommend synths because we all have our own taste. Try an amazing free one called synth one by audiokit. Its free but is up there with the good ones. Listen to Gaz and get AUM and audioshare. You cant do without them. Watch videos by jakob haq and thesoundtestroom and hopefully more from Gaz and Nick. They are knowledgeable guys.

[@perrypelican9476]

Gaz Williams i was not trying to put you down, just give you info. I have been hoping you guys would do more IOS stuff because of your freewheeling style. Nick is a smart guy with a ton of cool knowledge that is way beyond me. I just play around. I wanted to make videos but i am not musical enough. I am more of a technical guy. I love playing around with midi and making things work. I love the iconnect interfaces. I have an iconnectaudio4+. What an amazing thing it is. Dedicated port for ios amd another for computer and another for a powered hub. It has a software interface that is insanely great. Its wild and not expensive at all for what you can do, which is absolutely anything. Wow here i go on a major tangent. Thanks again for the video and watching for more. Have fun!

[@Kymatica]

Awesome, thanks! As far as I know, iOS 12.1.3 beta 2 fixes all the CPU vs audio performance issues on the new iPads.

[@GazWilliams]

Jonatan Liljedahl ah that’s good to know thanks!

[@winddealer1]

Thanks for a great 2018 guys!

[@synthanatomy]

Wow welcome back :) always loved Sonic Touch :) AUM is great :)

[@RubenDari]

sonic talk was the beginning for me

[@TheHoinoel]

What is that great sounding flute instrument?

[@lextron-audio]

Bring back Sonic Touch!!!

[@leslie1526]

Thank you so very much for sonIc touch - so very overdue and PLEASE make it a regular show on sonIc touch again. Please, please, please...

[@leslie1526]

Btw:You can use very inexpensive apple USB C to audio adapter. - works a charm ;)

[@leslie1526]

Shame apple doesn’t bundle it with iPads Pro

[@dadadrew]

Miss you guys!

[@jrr832]

Love the lower thirds

[@Boback111]

Hoping for a reunion episode reviewing that new Dro-Ram-Bo app.

[@johnmiller19925]

Thanks for showing Jussi - was looking for something just like that!

[@wallyblovideogramsinc.5616]

Nice to see SonicTouch back , but I’m afraid they seem to have overlooked a couple of key aspects of AUv3 that should have been highlighted : Firstly that AUv3 allows MULTIPLE instances , so similar to VST you can use the app many times in same set up . I thought Gaz would have duplicated one of the apps to show this . Secondly AUv3 stores & reloads its current preset in the host , solving a previous issue that not all apps implemented StateSave even if you used Audiobus , & so loading Host presets didn’t guarantee the hosted apps had their own correct preset loaded . Also as a BTW , if Gaz wanted to show the desktop equivalence of IOS , a few floating instances of FabFilter ProQ , now available as an AUv3 ( freed from Auria only) might have got an Ooooh from Nick .

[@GazWilliams]

Thanks Wally, yes you are right of course but may I point you to the answer I gave to Perry Pelican above.

[@RobertKildoo]

brilliant!!! More of that please!!

[@Allomerus]

This will be awesome eventually!

[@LeeCrampton]

Excellent guys thanks. What is the blue keyboard producing Indian style bend via the keys please?

[@ReneeNme]

Did you know that you can take an old school Yamaha QY10 and get all sorts of gorgeous sounds simply by going to lower registers and can actually play it as a handheld instrument if you're so inclined ?? I own one and jam on it all the time. And when I say " It ", I mean only the QY10, nothing else. " Drive those buttons, boyyy !!! …

[@elshuffles]

great stuff guys

[@kentxx12]

Good show,more Sonic Touch every week ;)

[@foxglove9]

This was great! I just picked up AUM over the holidays but haven't had the time to check it out. It looks confusing to me, but I think experimenting a bit it should all make sense. It's considered a must have app for iPad musicians. And I always thought they were called Bram Bros as well!

[@trevormalcolm4328]

Please, please, please. More sonic touch videos. I’m pretty sure more people have ipads than modular Synths! You can clearly see gaz is into his into his iOS tech and nick is thinking “hmmm,no patch cords?”

[@milk_bath]

Sonic Touch is back!!!! Please review Touchable Pro!!

[@trip9600]

Agree with everyone else. More sonic touch!

[@PlayitonPan]

🔥🙌🏾 @8:02 *Buddha:* “I feel like Ravi Shankar…” 😄💫

[@pheotus]

Have you seen Nanaostudio 2. its amazing......

[@leslie1526]

pheotus NanoStudio sucks I’m afraid

[@pheotus]

i disagree i like the original, simple but made for a great sketch tool

[@pheotus]

audio tracks are to be added soon. i like it. happy new year everybody.

[@waltmodul7948]

Files in and out is no nightmare re any more. You can move them to IOS date folder from AudioShare

[@spaceman103]

@gazwilliams Now you own Bram Bos a special episode on his brilliant apps. Fun functionel and if the make noise, they are sublime.

[@KozmykJ]

Does that voice app do Tuvan Throat Singing tones ?

[@bucketofbarnacles]

What hub are you using?

[@PROEVISTA]

is there any way to set the output to an app like Video Camera of the ipad or iphone? i mean this to record a video using AUM Audio Mixer outup instead of anything else?..thanks

[@nicomarofficial]

Hello guys, thanks for the video. I’m just getting info about AUM for my setup. Will AUM on one IPad 32gb 6th gen connect and sync a novation circuit, microfreak, a keystep pro connected to the same iPad, and a minilab mkII connected to an iPhone? Will AUM connect, Sync and record all the apps and hardware to play at once together? I also want to connect to a MacBook Pro for live streaming. Thanks in advance.

[@ChokDK-bryllupsmusik-duo]

"let me invite this guy to tell about how AUM works............... naaaaaaahhh let me interrupt him every other second to show everyone how much I know" :D

[@alexehlke707]

lol and w/ very outdated takes

[@kentxx12]

But where is Sonic Talk 564?.....Nick.

[@thechronicnoizeco.6675]

Over due.

[@Fedor_Tkachev_Music]

Is it of any use if I had Cubasis?

[@robertsyrett1992]

Cubasis has got you covered. Steinberg is a boss brand!

[@MSS-g7f]

@@robertsyrett1992 how does CPU usage match up

[@thedrumunkey]

If you guys were to bring this series back from the dead, I'd love to see your unique angle to be to go into more detail on the "why should I give a fuck" angle of all the features and functions so many apps have. Very little reviews or videos or even app docs explain WHY a feature even exists... Like: "This app has feature A and feature B and those are great because it allows you to do X, Y, and Z, where if you didn't have these features then you'd not be able to do D, E, F." I think SS's history/legacy/context would be perfect for that kind of approach. There are already FAR too many channels that are essentially Audio Books for the manuals. No context, little value.

[@Christof_Classen]

*The older they get, the better they look ;)*

[@hurrlipurr]

Which USB-Hub are you using for the iPad Pro 2018? I read some reviews but they all seem to have some issues. Any recommendation appreciated.

[@IanScottTybeeGuy]

More SonicTouch videos Gaz....

[@Angelstarscotland]

Thanks for this I am very interested. Do you know if the SWAM packs from Noise work through the AUM mixer as they don't work in Garage band?

[@starkravine]

Swam packs are not available in Noise when using this app.

[@Angelstarscotland]

@@starkravine thanks for letting me know. Basically the app is no use for what I need because of this although I think it's the fault of Roli Noise they need to get that sorted out! I'm a bit gutted because this would have been perfect for me, Just now I need to constantly open and close apps.

[@starkravine]

Angelstar Scotland , I believe this is because of licensing issues with Audio Modeling. I think they don’t want the competition with their more expensive virtual instruments.

[@Angelstarscotland]

@@starkravine you're probably right,

[@conspiracies1014]

Q, I have a Behringer Xenyx X1222 USB mixer. I have 4 microphones hooked into 4 XLR input channels. I have the mixer hooked into the USB into the computer. I also have software (Magix Samplitude Pro X3 and others) but I can only get it to record on 2 tracks. By splitting tracks L & R, stereo tracks. But I can’t get the DAW to record on no more than two tracks. So, can it be done and if so How? KR222.

[@robertsyrett1992]

New iPad makes me angry >:( AUM AUv3 makes me happy :)

[@Dickator007]

No scaling needed it uses BOOKMARKS to instantly move to any part of the mixer with a single touch.

[@erniesfo]

Great discussion folks, thanks.

[@kentxx12]

Ok no show tonight then we go GAZ Style : kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpOZnWqtormjZrc

[@CaidicusProductions]

That's a pretty neat, albeit expensive for what you're getting, setup.

[@cresshead]

apple make expensive toys

[@parisedomenico]

We find Jesus at last... Only joking you should c me

[@yreham3]

laptop power can’t recongnize a mouse or a hard disk…Don’t promote half baked products

[@LeeCrampton]

Excellent guys thanks. What is the blue keyboard producing Indian style bend via the keys please?