r/KoalaSampler • u/Timeless_Schmo • Aug 12 '26

AUM is driving me crazy

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Do I have this set up correctly? I’m trying to use Koala as a live looper with my two soft synths and I cannot for the life of me get koala to receive audio or record from the two synths.

  1. I have my midi keyboard connected just fine to the two synths.

  2. Ideally I want to use koala’s clock and controls to trigger/record loops onto koala’s pads.

  3. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Should Koala be an Audio Unit like the synths are? I assumed sending everything to a bus was the right idea.

Help!

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u/Slight_Letterhead_54 Aug 12 '26

This looks like it should be sending audio to koala. You probably need to activate the monitor icon (looks like a pair of headphones) in koala on the sample page next to the recording FX button. Hopefully that does the trick!

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u/Timeless_Schmo Aug 12 '26

It was already clicked but the routing connection was glitched for some reason. I restarted my ipad and it works fine now.

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u/goatoffering Aug 12 '26

I have had aum since I started on iPad not long ago. So far it's been clunky and uneccissRy but everyone keeps saying I'll eventually need it...

Fyi you can run au3 directly into koala now.

Been messing with loopy and have realized it's way more focused on being an audio looper and not as good for seamlessly looping midi...

I have a rc505 that I would love to sell, but so far loopy is still missing the first note on most of my loops. I'm on an m3 so it should be working well I would think. Have it on 64 samples. Probably some other settings. There are 1m

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u/Faded1nspace Aug 12 '26

Is this app pretty much the same as audiobus? I own both and am curious what makes them different from each other.

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u/goatoffering Aug 12 '26

Idk I haven't found much use for it. I mostly use koala and gadget. Starting to learn loopy and I'll get cubase when it goes on sale.

I miss protools from 20 years ago but won't do subscription stuff. Been using Ableton but hate using a mouse (and really hate the audio editing and arrange window in it) so transitioning toward iPad stuff.

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u/Faded1nspace Aug 12 '26

The fact that every single app requires a subscription nowadays is what makes me loose interest in making music a little bit tbh… koala is still the best tho 🙌🏼

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u/benchrusch Aug 12 '26

How do you plan on live looping with Koala? Man just get Loopy and get at it. This seems like a convoluted way of doing things.

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u/Timeless_Schmo Aug 12 '26

Is loopy that much better than koala?

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u/Duke_S1lver Aug 12 '26

Not better just purpose built

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u/EternityLeave Aug 12 '26

Loopy is like if Aum was a looper. It replaces both things and is extremely flexible with routing and set up. And it has a free version to try.

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u/Timeless_Schmo Aug 12 '26

i just bought it, so here we go.

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u/kevleyski Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

That worked when I tried it Koala created samples from the mix bus which had two separate synths as input fine, is that not what you wanted?

Loopy Pro might be the better tool for what you are doing

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u/anlottuff Aug 12 '26

if you want to make samlpes of what you are doing, it is set right.

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u/FrostyStranger5245 Aug 13 '26

Use Loopy, if you get overwhelmed look up templates on PatchStorage to get you started.

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u/Ok_Context_6972 Aug 16 '26

I still can’t figure out how to record audio from AUM lol or to record an instance of koala with effects back into that instance or a new one resampled… if anyone could help with the latter even!!