
“Deprecated” in Apple speak generally means that something remains available in this OS release but will disappear in some major release that follows. This won’t mean you lose access to your IAA apps right away. iOS and the new iPadOS will deprecate IAA, according to the iOS 13 beta release notes. So now, having pushed their own format, Apple is abandoning it. And Tyson’s team developed this before Apple followed with their own IAA or the plug-in format AUv3. That expectation was also familiar from plug-in formats on desktop and inter-app tools like the open source JACK and Soundflower. Take an interesting synth, add a delay that sounds nice with it, patch that into a recording app – you get the idea. Audiobus changed all that, by suggesting users might want to combine apps the way they do on an stompbox pedalboard or wiring gear together in a studio. At first, iOS music apps were each an island. So he’s familiar with both what users and developers want here.Īudiobus is key. And he’s made frameworks for other developers, too, not only supporting countless developers working with Audiobus, but also creating the framework The Amazing Audio Engine, now part of Audiokit. Michael Tyson created popular music apps Audiobus and Loopy. What will that mean? I spoke with Audiobus’ creator to find out. But news came this week that Apple would drop support for its own IAA (Inter-App Audio), used by apps like KORG Gadget, Animoog, and Reason Compact.


Many iOS music makers want to route audio between apps – just as you would in a studio.
