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I feel sort of like a failure on this one.
I bought Cream and Modstep on day 1.
All they did was aggravate me out of the gate and have not really even looked at them again since the first 24 hours I bought them.
To me, I found the user interfaces to not be user friendly and intuitive at all. Just me though.
I rather use MIDI-SEQUENCER, MIDi-STEP, and SterPolyArp. Until the problems are sorted out I guess.
I have always dug Genome, just never paid my dues with it.
Is Cream usable at this point? I know a lot of people werent all that happy but didn't follow up
Well, I'm one of those who refresh AppStore on a daily basis right now, basically waiting for:
I think Modstep and Cream perhaps rushed a bit out the gate to take advantage of xmas sales etc, but I didn't take the bait and am now waiting for the reactions to the updates.
When do Apple open up shop again?
Smart man.
I tend to not hedge my bets well when it comes to IOS. It seems to defy logic and best practices on so many instances. Market forces be damned.
I also went and bought Auria thinking it would be a small priced upgrade when it went pro. Wrong on that one too.
Your plan sounds best.
I know they will hopefully get fixed, but, no reason to have spent money like I did.
It should be open again at dec 30.
Grazie. Saves on the checking reflex
@Rustik, Don't upset! you need some video demos to reinvigorate! Or, you should ask why, what bothering you? That is the forum does for answers.
Thanks for this. Will have to take another gander.
@syrupcore
My two cents on Genome v Modstep is a very narrow use-case, I wanted a clip launch setup married to a time line setup: like I've got with Bitwig or Live on "desktop" (which became Bitwig on tablet right after I found out about what I'm describing here)
So the track edition and processing features would come from the timeline DAW (MTS) and the clip launch side would slave to that clock...yielding synced tracks for editing and fooling with and adding to at my leisure.
With one button in AB that made it go.
The clip launch side drives a synth, a drum machine, and Beathawk (with midi dialed in).
AB made all the audio flow where it was spozed too, and MTS is the only DAW that runs with all this going on and stays stable.
The performance aspect was really just a way to play with clip timing, and take advantage of Genomes remix pads too, to structure a full "song".
It was @Matt_Fletcher_2000 that got me going with this whole thing, including finding the midi madness possible using iElectribe as the drum machine...another @Matt_Fletcher_2000 mind blower, big ups and thanks btw again!
Modstep is dead sexy and shit hot, and does not work for this indevice use case, unless I hook into my "laptop", but it kind of explodes the approach too, in an amazing way that would allow me to slave my teenage engineering OP things, and all the stuff I have on my laptop, into tracks in that DAW. I haven't figured that stuff out at all, it's a huge step outward from my little indevice schemes (in which I don't need audio interface, and don't even fire up the Surface Pro 3) the little voice inside says why involve the laptop when that software already would do all this without iPad...
Smiles and gives "thumps up'
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 and @Littlewoodg big preesh fellers. Exactly the sort of thoughts for which I was looking.
Matt's enthusiasm for Genome is seriously infectious. Swore I'd give it another shot after the last time the Remix Pad gospel was spoken but never did. Gonna.
Cheers @syrupcore and @Littlewoodg ...
Go play with Genome's remix pad @Syrupcore. It's lush.
And yep, I knew you could lock it... Thanks. I never seem to use this though. I use it for drums mainly - I go crazy with 16th, 8th, 6ths looping etc around different parts of a sparce pattern and then just release my finger for the initial kick on the 1 - keeping things just about together.
This track gives an extreme example for all the drums using just a two bar drum loop (I think - maybe two different ones) - remixed throughout with that remix pad. (I'm changing the drum timbres by switching midi cc clips sent to iElectribe, also from Genome).
My question to you @syrupcore and @Littlewoodg - and I know you must have the answer - is how the hell does anyone use pattern shifting in a useful way in sequencers.
They all have this (Bassline, Xynthersizer, ModStep etc) but I just don't get it. Doesn't it just get your pattern horribly out of sync (not neccessrily a bad thing) with no way of resolving it back, on the 1, in sync (a bad thing)?
Surely I'm missing some important trick of the sequencing trade here??
I see it mostly as a compositional tool just to see if things liven up with a shift. i haven't used it often, I normally just draw blindly but unexpected results can be had. But sometimes you need to nudge it by more than one step. Also forget about getting it back to square one with a push of a button.
Thanks @supadom. I see your take on it.
Sometimes the pattern sounds good but the natural start of the pattern isn't the actual start - so you can nudge it. Makes a lot of sense.
I can't believe some clever beat people aren't switching things up on the fly though. Maybe just with great timing!
@Matt_Fletcher_2000
I think I've only used the shift to fix something- a lot of patterns I make, the end works better as a beginning...hmm maybe I should look into this tendency a bit deeper. The rest of the time it's something to play with per @supadom
Good stuff @Matt_Fletcher_2000. Definitely lights the fire.
I use pattern shifts for variations. Not so much for drums though, usually melodic stuff. If you try a pattern shift on a duplicate track, you get a MIDI Echo. If you send it to a different sound or transpose it... things (might) start to happen. Pattern shifts are all fun for experimenting/songwriting ala @supadom. In particular, I find them inspiring when I have multiple patterns of different lengths going on because it can introduce syncopations I wouldn't have thought of.
Right here. I seem to be dispositioned to ending up with my start in the middle...
Yep, same here. Sometimes the natural 1 is elsewhere.
Hello all - I'm hoping this is the "right" thread to pose this notion:
One of the main proverbial dragons I've been chasing in terms of making music is the joy I felt with my very first set up and that was a MacPlus running non-Digital / non-Audio Performer (v1.0 by MOTU). Essentially a tracker-ish program MIDI-triggering an Akai s900 sampler.
If anyone can relate to this set up either first hand or conceptually my question is what iOS app combination is closest to this in theory / feel? My first guess would be Modstep coupled with an app playing the role of said Akai sampler but I'm a bit in the dark with iOS MIDI apps. Any input would be much appreciated. x
Video Demos? Where might they be? Still not finding much video buzz anywhere yet, perhaps after the update.
Thank you @Matt_Fletcher_2000 for the wonderful and detailed breakdown.
Err and everyone else for their comments as well
I can fully relate! I was chasing a similar dragon so hard that I recently set up an old DOS machine to get Voyetra MIDI Sequencer running. So first, don't take just finding an old mac and performer out of the sphere of possibilities. Or a current mac + virtual machine.
Otherwise, I'm gonna vote Nanostudio (surprise!). The piano roll is simple and Eden is as much a sampler as it is a synth. The filters are going to be different than the one on the 900 but whatever. NS' main problem these days is lack of MIDI out, MIDI Clock and some of the modern iOS music/audio standards. But if you're looking to capture the old magic of limited gear and tons of possibilities, NS' closed but flowy environment could be the ticket. If not, it's still a good multi-timbral sampler which you can drive from other sequencers.
@syrupcore big Thanks man -- I have amassed Three working MacPlus' along with the serial-MIDI box, ailing Akais and floppy disk(!) with Performer as a sort of bomb-shelter fantasy setup. Knowing there's even a possibility of parallel workflow on the majestically convenient iPad is tempting enough to keep me pursuing the iOS dream.
I own Nanostudio but have used it little enough to not know that Eden was a sampler at all. I'll absolutely check it.
What I find I miss the most is doing step-entry note values via numbers: velocity, pitch, filtering. iDS-10 and PixiTracker are theoretically right but Pixi is limited to 16 samples and iDS is synthesis.
Love this idea and thought Beathawk or SampleTank might be "my Akai" in the setup paired with a MIDI Sequencer. If I took that route and used Eden as my sampler which iOS sequencer is closest to The Dragon in your mind? (Having a peek at Voyetra screenshots and it's definitely the ilk of MOTU's initial Performer)
have you looked into Sunvox app? Don't know about it much myself - but it's supposed to be "tracker -like" I believe...
And it has a sampler instrument that can be loaded with WAV, CAF, AIFF, along with players for XI instruments, and OGG files. Interface is tracker, instruments and fx, modular...
@Halftone @Littlewoodg Thanks gents - definitely adding a delve into the sleeper Sunvox
Awesome. Did you get it running at all?
If you scroll to the OSC page, you can tap the source button until you get to sample. Load away. It'll be mono but you can do all sorts of synthy stuff on top. If you really need stereo+synthesis, make two eden instances. Otherwise, load the sample into a TRG.
Yep. +1 @ Sunvox. It's probably as close as you'll get. I still don't know how to use it properly but I can't really think of anything else that allows data input for music values in a similar way.
Voyetra has some of that data-entry action for sure but for the most part it's just the grandfather of the piano roll and it doesn't require using a mouse (bonus for me). So yeah, for data driven sequencing, Sunvox. For closed environment piano roll sequencing + sampler, NS. Gadget is a close second depending on the kind of sound sources you want.
Yep. And sometimes I don't realize it until I've played around with pattern shift.
I have a theory: Talk long enough on any Audiobus thread and eventually you end up talking about SunVox.