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How did I never use _______________?
Space Lab
I have no idea how I missed this app.
Only issue is that it won't correct and go right side up with IPad.
So, it stays upside down.
This app is just amazing and such a strong synth with meat on the bones!
What about you? What did you recently find and surprise yourself in the app store for music?
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Jam Synth. It is a lot of fun. Cool sounds and easy to use. I'll be figuring how to use it in some songs for sure.
Yes SpaceLab is very odd with its upside down orientation but it does have a fix. If the app is upside down when you open it, turn your iPad so things are upright, tap the button circled in yellow and then turn your iPad so it is upright again the way you originally wanted it to be. When you exit SpaceLab by double tapping the home button, other open apps will be upside down and will right themselves once you tap on them although if your iPad is flat, you will need to flip it up so the app you tapped on will auto-rotate to the upright orientation.
Two apps from Plastaq:
Scythe is a very nasty sounding synth (in a good way) and MidiMe. The dev will be updating both soon.
MidiMe doesn't work in the background but he said that will be fixed. You can draw modulation curves or use bounce function. It's pretty cool.
Borderlands Granular. I love the whole wind em up and let em go aspect of apps like this. I found it worked great for random percussion fx recorded in auria pro, running the transient quantization to clean up a big chunk of it. Plus the ambient washes are great of course.
+1 Jam Synth!!!
Sector. It took me forever to get the guts/mental energy to actually dive into this beast
Forgot about Sector, but give it Link and I will put in more effort
Still waiting to dive into Sector...
o yeh. me too. thanks for the reminder.
Learning Sector is like homework but Im sure theres some magic in there the be harnessed, think ill try it again as well.
Thinking about the comments above:
Can confirm that Sector is amazing and (once you get the hang of it) super fun to program loops and pads on.
Can confirm that Scythe is one of the best sounding synths and I prefer it to Poseidon in every way. Fun to tweak. Having a random button is so nice it should be mandatory.
Borderlands is (at this point) an essential sound manipulation instrument. Page 1, top row status.
So I'm adding Werkbench to this discussion. The icon is ugly. The interface is bizarre looking. And it is completely fun and interesting and intuitive and SOUNDS great. Super pliable on-the-fly music app. Love the way filters/effects are added. Live changing the length of sequences and arrangement live with no hiccups. Plus it's fun just to record and arrange random live snippets into a song wherever there's noise.
To me it has to be Sliver. I was getting the best most interesting musicalness out of it, then forgot about it. iDensity as well.
Woah, werkbench looks super interesting... So you can change the length of sequences? Can they be 12 or 14 steps? Hmmm, if it worked as an IAA instrument in Modstep I would get it instantly.
Jam Synth led me MIDI Guitar, which is also free to try. So far I have used my guitar as a controller on Synthmaster, Nanostudio, Synth Book, Magellan, Animoog, NLog, iM1, SampleTank, Music Studio, and many others. What I'm discovering as I cycle through the presets, is a whole new way to think about my iOS synths. It's like I've got a set of brand new ones. Certain patches were good using a keyboard, but are amazing using a guitar. I'm jamming in ways I never have before. I also found myself playing synths I haven't been in the habit of using, like SoundCanvas, because the simplicity of the sounds make them track really quickly and accurately.
Yup, and you can change from the beginning and the end of the 16 steps. Nuts, right?
+1 each. Midi Me was my first controller ever, still in use.
Tim Webb did a Lets Play (before it was called that) for Scythe before it was called that...it ships with some of his presets...
http://discchord.com/blog/2014/8/13/grainbender-demo-tutorial.html
The VST version is free...
MidiMe got updated for iOS 9 but it still doesn't work in background. I emailed dev that it really needs to. We'll see what he says.
Cool- I got it for wifi control of desktop stuff before all the new usb direct stuff went live...so simple and clean
Here's the devs answer regarding MidiMe getting background capability:
"Not yet. That was just a quick update to compile with the latest APIs
that took less than an hour. I want to do the background stuff but
that's a bigger chunk of work."
I guess he's on it.
Sunvox.
I'll be a broken record about it soon enough (if not already) but SO much of what I was looking for has literally been installed on all my devices for over a year and I too distracted / neglectful to dive in and realize it.
Total joy.
Show off (he mutters while reaching for the big conical cap again...)
@JohnnyGoodyear my enthusiasm is in no way a boast (you would know this is if you saw my pace learning the app).
Getting reacquainted with the familiar-which-I've-forgotten Tracker factor is on the dreamier end of the nostalgia spectrum.
For me entering step values numerically is (I'm realizing) a passion worthy of a tattoo or some sort of binding legal document while the utterly modular-module premise guarantees unique output. And it's a sampler . . and . . (really Trying to shut up about it now).
Some other rules of Sunvox Fight Club
There will be times when you say "Holy Sh_t, I had no idea..."
(Then) there will be giddiness.
I suspect that never having used a tracker (and thus lacking in experience AND nostalgia) hamstrings me here...
I came at Sunvox with zero tracker background...no experience with entering hexadecimal values via qwerty keys...(after goofing around with Sunvox I actually went back and checked that whole thing out on laptop)
In my innocence I thought touch screen interface was a great thing for trackers, and posted accordingly in my gush about Sunvox on the AppStore (Littlewoodg Gush, No Rights Reserved, In Fact No Reserve On View At All)
Took a tracker veteran or 20 to set me straight, without qwerty you aren't really tracking etc, and watching tracking done that way is impressive, so freaking fast etc.
However, I still think touch is IT for Sunvox. I Never use anything but my pointer finger and onboard keys, or midi sequencer via virtual midi, or a midi keyboard, to enter note data. I understand that that leaves off one way to quickly enter note effects, (not audio FX) but Zolotov provides other ways to get at these, (and keeps adding ways) along with the onboard alphanumeric keyboard...if one cares to pursue the xxyy's...
Don't get me wrong note effects are just silly cool, Sample Offset by percentage, Retrigger, what could be sexier, seriously. Trackers (the people) all have their favorites..,
The blocks of tracks to me are just vertical timelines, which then can sequenced very openly and fluidly in the horizontal timeline in the GUI below. Touch rules down there (as always, vicar)
In the blocks above one can simply play, on keys of your choice including his sizable onboard virtual one, in realtime with Rec mode, creating blocks of any arbitrary length, and Sunvox will interpolate the xxyy's if your playing produces such detail, or not.
Notably The timeline and numbers in the blocks are very useful for sequencing beats, again with pointer finger, the # comes in handy when you tell Sunvox to how far apart you want the hits to be and you tap once for each hit and the track is full.. But if you a human beat you use the Rec instead and the odd timings etc are recorded with all them xxyy's...
Someday maybe a video "how to use Sunvox as if it weren't a Tracker (cause it's way more)"
'Someday' indeed. And often and soon and yes please. From your description (and certain enthusiasm) it somehow puts me in mind of a Tardis of vast nightclubs with a gateway that to the unelect suggests an impossibly small potting shed.
I think you pretty much provided the perfect description of SunVox there Mr. GY.
+1 on this one, MidiMe was my first controller ever. Scythe, in VST version is free!
Not that Virsyn needs any help selling Poseidon, but if you haven't seen Tim Webbs Lets Play in Poseidon, you might see something you'd like
http://discchord.com/blog/2016/1/8/lets-play-with-poseidon.html
Tim did a Lets Play (before he called it that) on Scythe (before it was called that)
http://discchord.com/blog/2014/8/13/grainbender-demo-tutorial.html
+1 on both...MidiMe was my first controller ever, still prefer it...Tim Webb did a Lets Play (before it was called that) on Scythe (before it was called that) http://discchord.com/blog/2014/8/13/grainbender-demo-tutorial.html
+1 on this one, MidiMe was my first controller ever. Scythe, in VST version is free!
Not that Virsyn needs any help selling Poseidon, but if you haven't seen Tim Webbs Lets Play in Poseidon, you might see something you'd like
http://discchord.com/blog/2016/1/8/lets-play-with-poseidon.html
Tim did a Lets Play (before he called it that) on Scythe (before it was called that)
http://discchord.com/blog/2014/8/13/grainbender-demo-tutorial.html