AUMI Instruments

AUMI 2.1 allows you to easily import user instruments in a simple package.

To install an instrument from this collection, simply click on the name of the instrument in the following lists. If you are reading this on an iOS device that has AUMI intalled on it, AUMI will launch and load the instrument into the "User Instrument" sections of the Instruments list. This will also work if you are running the iOS app on a MacOS system, which some newer Macs can do!
The sounds will be available as percussive, loop, and relative instruments, and if following the proper naming conventions, melodic instruments as well. This page can be bookmarked, and it even provides an icon if you save it as a bookmark using "Add to Home Screen" in the sharing menu.
AUMI 2.2 provides access to this list from inside AUMI itself, as teh "More" button on the instrument screen. !
An AUMI Instrument (aumiinst) is a directory of sound files, compressed with the Unix tools tar and gzip. On Unix-like systems, this would be:
tar -vczf "NewInst.aumiinst" "NewInstDir".
Under Mac OS, this can also be accomplished by making a directory of sound files and then choosing Compress from the right-click menu.
The .zip file should then be renamed to .aumiinst as its file name extension.

This makes it much easier to bring in special sets of sounds to a group of AUMI users.
If the sound file names end in a number between 36 and 96 , e.g. piano_48.mp3, that's taken to be the MIDI note number it corresponds to, and will be considered a melodic user instrument. If you don't want you sounds to be considered melodic, but you still would like to number them, try starting the numbers from 100 rather than 0 or 1!

While this collection is hosted here, there's nothing stopping you from hosting your own collection of AUMI instruments on a web page you control. Simply use the URL scheme aumiinst:// instead of http:// or https:// when setting up the link. AUMI Instruments can also be installed by dropping them into AUMI via the Files app, or using a Mac Desktop's access to an iOS device's files, or even texted or mailed to a device!

Here is a list of AUMI Instruments that are now available.

Melodic

• Bamboo Clarinet played in the Widow Jane Mine...partly melodic, partly percussive. (H. Lowengard)
• BassMelodica Bass Melodica (H. Lowengard)
• Bras Buzz Homemade buzz instrument (Nicolas Braas)
• Ancient Conch 18,000 year old Conch instrument, extended to more than an octave. (U. Toulouse/ Lowengard)
• Detuned Mandolin ChucK Detuned Mandolin (H. Lowengard)
• Guitar String Noise Guitar scraped string noises (H. Lowengard)
• Gyil2 From Leaf's upstairs gyil (H Lowengard)
• Mandolin ChucK Mandolin (H. Lowengard)
• Piano Bird Piano like autoharp (H. Lowengard)
• Throat A little throat singing (H Lowengard)
• Toy Piano Amplified Toy Piano (H. Lowengard)
• Toy Piano Damped Amplified Toy Piano hit with felt hammer (H. Lowengard)
• Trombone Modeled Trombone, GEOShred SWAM instrument samples. (H. Lowengard)
• Trout Lake Piano Really out of tune piano. (H. Lowengard)
• Synth Bars ChucK ModelBar 0 instrument, 2 seconds long. (H. Lowengard)
• Ocarina ChucK Ocarina, 2 seconds long. (H. Lowengard)
• s-cello Steel Cello. (H. Lowengard)

Percussive

• 0-100 Zero to One Hundred (Voxeo 2001)
• Accordion Loops Long accordion noises (H. Lowengard)
• Autoharp autoharp chords (H. Lowengard)
• 19 EDO 19 EDO bars, .5 secs per sound (H. Lowengard)
• Bfive A zither-like stringed instrument tuned to one chord, hit in a number of ways. (H. Lowengard)
• Birthday BBC Orchestral version (YouTube, BBC Orchestra)
• Byrdcliffe Door A very squeaky door (H. Lowengard)
• Canjo banjo made of a tin can (H. Lowengard)
• Carrot Chewing a nice carrot on June 8, 2020 (H. Lowengard)
• Cartoon 2 More cartoon sounds (H. Lowengard)
• Chinese Bell Traditional Chinese Bells (Norman Lowrey)
• Counting 1-10 in English (H. Lowengard)
• Covid19 Recitation of 750 Covid-19 bases (Wendy Tremont King / H. Lowengard)
• Droning Loops Control the volume of a 110Hz tone and some harmonics as a loop. (H. Lowengard)
• E-Night Reso "EAr"-idescent Nightingale with resonance (H. Lowengard)
• Flexatone Fun old boing-y sound effect (H. Lowengard)
• Frogs Frogs at night, best as a loop (H. Lowengard)
• GPT2 Dreams Machine Learning describing a dream, read by Google WaveNet (H. Lowengard)
• GeoShred Bowl From GeoShred's Tibetan Bowl voice. Not a lot like a bowl, though. (H. Lowengard)
• Gurgling Radiator The heat is on, 4 second loops (H. Lowengard)
• Hyper Piano Simulation of inharmonic piano (H. Lowengard/Kevin Hobby)
• Key Chimes Brazilian Keys (Leaf Miller)
• Knife Beats Knives and letter openers rattling on a table edge (H. Lowengard)
• Mine Drum Stomping on the stage in the mine (H. Lowengard)
• Mini Koto Toy Koto plucks and strums (H. Lowengard)
• Mailbox Brian Woodbury's mailbox (H. Lowengard/Brian Woodbury)
• Mrs. Miller Basset Hound pleas (M. Lerner)
• P600 Sequences Tiny repeating synthesizer lines (H. Lowengard)
• PO Laughs Pauline Oliveros laughing, umming, etc. (Red Bull Music Oct 2016)
• PO Talks Pauline Oliveros talking (Red Bull Music Oct 2016)
• Paddles Canoe Paddles (Jesse Stewart)
• Panerus Panerus gamelan instrument (H. Lowengard)
• Paper Paper: rattled, crumpled, ripped, curled, and popped (H. Lowengard)
• Schwa Consonant phonemes linked by "schwas" (H. Lowengard)
• Silicone Jar Tiny Silicone jar drum (H. Lowengard)
• SK1 Sounds Casio SK1 sound samples (Casio/archive.org/H. Lowengard)
• Speak + Spell Numerals and alphabet (maximumporges.com)
• Steel Cello Bowed Steel Cello sounds (H. Lowengard)
• Stenciler Stencil cutting machine (Instagram castironmachines)
• Suling Suling flute gamelan instrument (H. Lowengard)
• Suling Degung Suling Degung loop patterns, 4 seconds long. (H. Lowengard)
• Tea Kettle squeaks from a tea kettle. (H. Lowengard)
• Toddler A Toddler's English vocabulary (H. Lowengard)
• Train Variations on a passing train, good for loops (H. Lowengard)
• Vest Frottoire Zydeco Vest Scraper (Leaf Miller)
• Wrenches Wrench chimes (H. Lowengard)
• Wrenches 2 New Wrench Chimes (H. Lowengard)

You may want to delete an AUMI Instrument, to save space, for example. In the Instrument control screen, whenever you select a user instrument, a Delete Instrument button appears. Tap it, confirm , and the instrument will be removed. The current instrument will change to the Piano.

You can also delete individual sounds from an imported AUMI Instrument. To do that, select it as a User Percussion instrument, open the Sounds page, and select the sounds in that instrument and use the "delete" button to delete them. If you select ALL the sounds, it will also delete the AUMI Instrument itself. You can re-import it at any time later. Saving this instrument with its re-ordered and edited list of sounds is possible when you save it as a Setup.
Remember that if you share that Setup, the device receiving it has to also have the same AUMI Instrument installed, although in some cases it can ask the device to download it if the sending device can tell where the AUMI Instrument came from. That is, it can't tell if it was installed by hand or emailed in.

If you are experiencing technical issues with AUMI, please contact tech@aumiapp.com for assistance. Similarly, if you have an AUMI Instrument you'd like to share with the rest of the AUMI community, send it to us