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Waiting on midi out (file export or live)
Dev says it's problematic given pitchbend issues of midi protocol, the app allows user to draw wiggly pitch lines, thought cc pitch deals with this (?). Says he's got plans to implement, I guess the way some devs approach the development process s go live with basic function, finance development process with proceeds of intro version
thanks @Littlewoodg for reply! good to know.
I sent him an email and from his response I got the impression that he just wasn't sure how to implement it. The current price is an intro price, so I imagine he'll raise it when he has a good MIDI story.
I also suggested that implemented OSC control might be good, and that I'd really like MusicXML output. We'll see. He seems interested in ideas.
The gui is pretty, and pretty smart, full screen with all tracks visible as overlays isn't something I've seen on iOS...inspired by the advent of Maxipad, but iPad would be fine it seems. I'm sure there's a solve for pitchbend, one can draw pitchbend info in DAWs conventionally, but I don't write code so can't help with that.
Question is, invest the 3 bucks with the hope it will become something I can use, or wait and pay more when it does. Wouldn't be the first time...(Auria, sans midi, when I still had iPad 1 comes to mind, but that wasn't 3 bucks.)
I got it. Feels very snappy and solid. I probably won't use it til it has MIDI though. Worth the chance in the meantime for me. I love the idea of it. Makes for some nice crazy wobbly melodies. Could be very useful!
AB support and Link would be cool.
@gkillmaster
I got it too (of course...can't or won't resist a really good idea...he said the release was a "pledge", towards more features, and with the plan of releasing the code to open source. My 3 bucks is a pledge right back I guess)
I wrote him and referred him to a favorite developer - with screen shot showing wiggly drawn pitch info in midi control editor - maybe they can chat it up...
Oh alright then....
@Littlewoodg Very interesting in many ways, half-built in others. But I think your/his description of a pledge is about right.
Good to see someone doing a few things a little different and I can see -with a few obvious tweaks/additions- that this might be a UI that one could very quickly concoct melodies/themes with. I like it and have (in my grand munificence) decided to be optimistic.
@JohnnyGoodyear
The UI is about as direct as it gets, makes piano roll UI feel very "data entry" now. I like how the screen looks like a sheet of paper, and we get to doodle. Long walk from here to the likes of Genome, Modstep but it is the same road if dev wants that. Another "we'll see" in this glitchy floating world we find ourselves in. (It occurs to me that "we'll see" is that timeworn temporizer I use on my children...me now saying it to me?)
Haven't heard the internal sounds yet, but just looking at it, it would probably be great mated with WIVI
wivi?
and what are the sounds like, the demo I saw didn't play enough to tell?
I know right? Had to look it up (keen amateur, me). http://www.wallanderinstruments.com/?mode=news&lang=en
Thanks for this - found out new things! Wallender has an app that's a freemium
which loads their libraries for IAPs. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wi-orchestra/id434371426?mt=8
Hasn't been touched since iOS 4, EDIT: after reboot, sounds very nice...
Turns out the onboard sounds in Composer Sketchbook are really extensive, 40+ percussion, 7 basses, etc etc, from what I can tell it's the same full set of (GM?) instruments inside MTS...
I'm an ask your mother man myself, but I hear you...as for the sketchpad, and simply, I do wish there were a way (hit the piano roll on the left) to audition/hear the sounds before you draw; not having perfect pitch and all...
The desktop WIVI is pretty cool; haven't really messed with the apps. Anyway, it just popped to mind when I watched the sketchpad demo.
@JohnnyGoodyear
Yep. Glad of the snap to pitch and undo, godawful pitch-bent accordion chords avoided, or at least quickly removed and forgotten. The erase swipe gesture is really direct and light, something about that paper background and 21st century touch-to-erase feels modern-refined but homey (notice how I can say the most about ways to get rid of what I've sketched...)
I only use "ask yer mother" when it's a yes. I do the no's.
Hi folks, it's me the dev.
To clarify, the "pledge" listed on my site is to open source Composer's Sketchpad after I hit my sales benchmark (or after enough time passes). However, I would definitely like to make the app a more useful part of your audio toolchain. MIDI-out is a problem because each note in my app can be individually pitch-bent, while my understanding is that the MIDI pitch-bend CC bends the entire channel. (Polyphonic aftertouch or the MIDI tuning standard might be viable solutions, but it doesn't seem that they're very widely supported.) I guess it's really a matter of which compromises are best to make in service of MIDI out/export. Would you guys be happy with plain old MIDI file export (where the pitch bends are signaled via aftertouch/MTS packets, or possibly omitted altogether as an option), or is MIDI-out (for app interop) more important? The former should be pretty easy, but I have no idea how long the latter would take to implement.
In terms of audio quality, the app uses an SF2 sampler under the hood. I could pretty easily add SF2 import for higher quality sounds, but I don't know how useful that would be. Thoughts?
Definitely going to be looking into AB support also.
Cheers!
@archagon
Cool that you've stopped by here!
Brilliant/accessible gui
My apologies for my various giddy misstatements. (I stand by that last one, making a compositional tool as deep as this work like child's play is no small thing)
I'll take a breather on adding any more of my 2¢!
(Aside from my usual nuttiness, all my overshare here and elsewhere is due to school winter break. Next week I'll be back in the classroom and I'll be my students headache, not y'alls!)
Haha, I promise I'm not stalking you! Just been Googling the name of my app a lot today...
The record button starts playback and lets you draw notes without having to hold down the canvas. This lets you create music in real time. I find it handy for creating rough drafts of expressive guitar/violin lines, creating long vibratos, and "jamming" along with outside music. As a bonus, you can hold down the play button and get controls to double or halve the playback speed.
Thanks for the kind words!
I figured you'd think I was stalking you...
The options you mentioned: you might be asking the wrong people, cause we here are known for wanting it all!
I personally would pay in-app-purchase prices for: midi file export, multitrack audio stem export (that, and a request for AB support will lead to requests for user access to onboard instruments, either via sample import or a request for on board synths), inter-app midi out too! If AB support (and support for user instruments/synths) then multi-audio out (audio out per instrument).
I know I promised no more 2¢...no one here that knows me really believed that. But I thought I'd get the list rolling. The quickest route into my use-case, again worth an IAP, would be midi file export. I'm betting there will be a few more ideas from comrades here.
Thanks for asking!
@archagon I can't help thinking that this looks like MPE or Note Expression functionality which is quite elaborate for an IOS sketchpad.
While such features might be the primary for some users, I would appraise the apparant quality of having a beautyfull, easy to use multipart MIDI editor first and foremost. I would there be more than happy to opt out the MPE like functionalities for MIDI export or even better live MIDI in and out.
As it is, I'm very impressed and I will certainly have high hopes for future development.
Midi out in its simplest form and AB would make me substantially pleased. Things to be able to use the things that this app can do.
And, as mentioned, note preview (left hand column or any other simple way it can be implemented) would, for me, make a large improvement in the writing/sketching facility.
Congrats on where you've got so far @archagon.
Midi Export in some form. And MusicXML export would also be really neat.
I'd love MidiOut, but I can live without it.
I don't know how to say this technically, but it sounds like there is no envelop driving the internal sounds. They sound clipped somehow.
I think this could become my black MIDI sequencer! Fun just strewing notes til there is just an amalgam of brown sound. Could get interesting.
Midi out and AB get my vote. This thing is cool. Will it own me, I hope not.
thanks to the dev for chiming in, ... I'd like to request midi in and midi out, also regarding the difficulty of the implementation would something like what's happening in ifretless bass work out?
Took me a minute to get this: the record button allows one to play the given instrument live, the gui becomes vertical keyboard. Duh.
But then you'd have to have talent. Double duh.