It’s understandable, because how else could the app makers sustain their work by releasing their app in the open? Open source business models are still contentious.įurthermore, some limitations of iReal Pro are structural. Philosophical considerations aside, this means that its development is gated and that fixes and new features are up to the whims and fortunes of a single organization. Now that’s what I call a successful product!įor all its greatness, iReal Pro suffers from one big (but understandable) flaw: it is not open source. Because the app is flexible and easy to use, it has attracted a large community of users who have contributed the bulk of the leadsheets that are in active use today. It allows to specify a full chord progression and to play it back in a number of styles, from pop to jazz to latin. iReal Pro (source) MuseScore (via ireal-musicxml) OSMD (via ireal-musicxml) What’s the point?įor musicians, iReal Pro is an indispensable tool that captures the essence of practicing a tune. Click each thumbnail to see a larger image. In this post, I hope to summarize the challenges, lessons learned, as well as the context around this work.īut first, some pretty pictures! Following is the same iReal Pro leadsheet for Herbie Hancock’s Butterfly, as rendered by iReal Pro, then rendered by MuseScore and OpenSheetMusicDisplay (OSMD) after MusicXML conversion. Yesterday, I finally published an online demo of my iReal Pro to MusicXML converter (unimaginatively called ireal-musicxml), having spent around 300% of the time I had originally anticipated to reach the first release of this module. That might be your problem.Further description of iReal Pro playback emulation

I just noticed: you are running iOS 14.3 which has some serious core midi issues. SWAM AU, Audiobus and iRealpro have no trouble running together. never seen that in the options.Īnd you are probably right, jblock, that the AU operability is not a priority for the irealpro people but it would be so good for us keyboard/wind controller players jamming along happily with our said:Īnd you are probably right, jblock, that the AU operability is not a priority for the irealpro people but it would be so good for us keyboard/wind controller players jamming along happily with our headphones!! I'm not sure what you meant by 'allow background audio'?. I understand now the difference between standalone and AU swam and have tried both. Anyway, happy for now with the magellan being able to be used in the background behind irealpro (thanks to audiobus). Standalones be works as usual, just not in background to anything yet. Funnily I can see midi activity being registered in the AU interface but no sound (checked physical volume controls & mixer). and yet I have no usb audio attached, just headphones out of the ipad. then opening AU swam from within audiobus I find I get no sound produced at all from SWAM. I'm still having trouble with SWAM background play, even with care to start with 'blank slate' (all apps closed and ipad restart). Thanks, espiegel, for letting me know you have made it work.

Maybe you are loading the SWAM standalone and not the AU? If that is the case, you need to turn background audio on in it. Here is SWAM Trumpet loaded as an AU in Audiobus with the Sensel Morph playing SWAM Trumpet while iRealPro is in the foreground (works in the background, too). It sounds like something might be misconfigured. IRealPro and SWAM loaded into Audiobus can be used at the same time. But wondering whether there is something I'm missing? Surely two iPads and a mixer not required in 2021! I am aware that the problem would probably vanish if iRealpro offered AU/IAA compatibility and the problem lies with this app. I resort to using a separate device and small stereo line mixer (not ideal for on-the-go) Without using audiobus, irealpro audio dominates, multitasking sidebar is the same, so I'm thankful for the solution using audiobus.Ī problem comes with SWAM instruments which are Audio units, I load ewi and swam AU but then when I switch to irealpro the swam is not usable. Loading Ewi5000 midi/Magellan audio into audiobus seems to allow me to switch to irealpro and be able to play along with it (even though irealpro not visible to audiobus, non-AU?).

Hi, been having a blast noodling with EWI and a very expressive saw patch in Magellan (mkirino01)/ iPadOS 14.3/Audiobus/irealpro.

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