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I've been talking up the effectiveness of iOS Jam Origin MIDI Guitar with AUv3 plugins lately. Vet your virtual instruments and this is a relatively cheap, extremely playable solution IMO. But having never gigged this setup, I never had to get as far as programming MIDI control to switch between sounds in a hurry. Well, I did so over the weekend, and came to the terrible realization that JO is incredibly slow loading presets. (It's got to load all of its own settings, and whatever virtual instruments and effects you've used in the preset, and any samples those instruments use, and so on. A lot of work for a little A14 chip or whatever.)
I started doing all kinds of mental gymnastics trying to get this load time down - use different voices on the same plugin (always a compromise), use one instrument as a plugin and drive another via Virtual MIDI (works, but no consistent way to control mix), etc. - and nothing was working. I did a random Google search ("iOS Jam Origin preset change too slow" or something) and an app called Camelot Pro came up.
audiomodeling.com
There's never enough information on the App Store to tell what an app actually does. And per modern decree everything online is a 45 minute video that probably contains the information you need but also 40+ minutes of completely superfluous babble. So I decided to just roll the dice ($20).
Anyway, the app is incredible. First impression: it's a little bit overcomplicated (I wound up watching about half of that 45 minute video LOL) and the UI could be a little more consistent. But the complexity is largely in service of its flexibility. All I wanted was the ability to load multiple instruments simultaneously, and switch between them without a gap. This app does this and tons more. It lets you build out Setlists of Songs... each of which has multiple Scenes (for song parts)... each of which has multiple Layers... each of which can have its own signal path of instruments and effects. Then there's functionality to control all of that with a timeline or MIDI control. The best part for me is that it handles loading all of the component software (e.g. Jam Origin and all the instruments in your song) as soon as you load it. Launch one app and you're ready to play. Amazing!
This is not easy to get through, but it covers the functionality pretty well:
I started doing all kinds of mental gymnastics trying to get this load time down - use different voices on the same plugin (always a compromise), use one instrument as a plugin and drive another via Virtual MIDI (works, but no consistent way to control mix), etc. - and nothing was working. I did a random Google search ("iOS Jam Origin preset change too slow" or something) and an app called Camelot Pro came up.
Camelot Pro | Audio Modeling
Get ready to rock with Camelot, an application created to address the most complex live performance needs with a simple and guided workflow.
audiomodeling.com
There's never enough information on the App Store to tell what an app actually does. And per modern decree everything online is a 45 minute video that probably contains the information you need but also 40+ minutes of completely superfluous babble. So I decided to just roll the dice ($20).
Anyway, the app is incredible. First impression: it's a little bit overcomplicated (I wound up watching about half of that 45 minute video LOL) and the UI could be a little more consistent. But the complexity is largely in service of its flexibility. All I wanted was the ability to load multiple instruments simultaneously, and switch between them without a gap. This app does this and tons more. It lets you build out Setlists of Songs... each of which has multiple Scenes (for song parts)... each of which has multiple Layers... each of which can have its own signal path of instruments and effects. Then there's functionality to control all of that with a timeline or MIDI control. The best part for me is that it handles loading all of the component software (e.g. Jam Origin and all the instruments in your song) as soon as you load it. Launch one app and you're ready to play. Amazing!
This is not easy to get through, but it covers the functionality pretty well:
so it has been a bit. Very rich sounding synth for the $ spent.
