Vampires out of tune

[Deleted User]

Just for fun.

I've started to mentally equate certain apps to certain groups.

Sunvox is the app for Vampires, secret sects and strange potions being made in dusty laboratories.

Gadget is the app for Scifi Tech heads and people that are waiting to augment tech into their bodies.

Name some more......

hellquist

Mixtikl & Noatikl are for the lab professors in white coats wishing they were vampires.

u0421793

Soundscapes and Daedalus and Borderlands and Fields caper and iDensity and iPulsaret and Stria are for frogs and toads emerging out from their dark swamps to brave the wide open world of communication and mating — but not too bravely.

Samu

Audulus is for people who think they can create something that hasn't already been created and love an UIs filled with spaghetti cables and objects that move around if one is not careful where the finger touches the surface

AndyPlankton

Launchpad is for people who like to think they are in control
ModStep is for people who actually are in control

RUST( i )K

@AndyPlankton said:
Launchpad is for people who like to think they are in control
ModStep is for people who actually are in control

Meanwhile, people who play all actual synths and physically trigger self made loops and samples while juggling the effects and timing are always out of control -------------and free!

RUST( i )K

Can someone please explain to me what Sun Vox is for them?

What kind of music do you do? You have a sample of it?

Also, what other app can it most be compared to?

[Deleted User]

Has the Audiobus forum become a place for stereotyping each other based upon our app preferences?

Jocphone

@RustiK said:
Can someone please explain to me what Sun Vox is for them?

[Deleted User]

@Paul said:
Has the Audiobus forum become a place for stereotyping each other based upon our app preferences?

It's only a bit of humour

Cassetteur

@u0421793 said:
Soundscapes and Daedalus and Borderlands and Fields caper and iDensity and iPulsaret and Stria are for frogs and toads emerging out from their dark swamps to brave the wide open world of communication and mating — but not too bravely.

These are all my favorite...

I wanna be some kinda Eagle/Sloth though cause I can soar and observe and also clingling crawl and grow moss on my back...

Proppa

@RustiK said:
Can someone please explain to me what Sun Vox is for them?

My primary interest is that Sunvox is a true Tracker (sequencer) which connects to as many individual samplers as one pleases as well as incredible synths all of which can connect to FX within a completely configurable modular microcosm.

The Tracker part of it is most similar to SidTracker64 in that the UI is vertical columns of numeric data.
In Sunvox these columns have mindblowing potential for composing, automation and MIDI commands.

I'm making beats-based music and having started with Tracker software this is a full return to the Bliss that is columns, numbers, and samples. (Which is heaven or hell depending on ones disposition.)

@Jocphone said:

Perfect.

Jocphone

@Proppa said:

@RustiK said:
Can someone please explain to me what Sun Vox is for them?

My primary interest is that Sunvox is a true Tracker (sequencer) which connects to as many individual samplers as one pleases as well as incredible synths all of which can connect to FX within a completely configurable modular microcosm.

The Tracker part of it is most similar to SidTracker64 in that the UI is vertical columns of numeric data.
In Sunvox these columns have mindblowing potential for composing, automation and MIDI commands.

I'm making beats-based music and having started with Tracker software this is a full return to the Bliss that is columns, numbers, and samples. (Which is heaven or hell depending on ones disposition.)

See, I respect that the tracker is a great draw for many people, and the battleground for acceptance too, but I spend very little time in there at all. I will create a quick rhythm, melody or chord sequence but it soon gets closed and the majority of what i do is then stringing together noise makers and effects driven by these notes. Between the modules and the timeline I find it a near perfect environment for mapping out song structure and progression. I have started to use blank patterns as post-it notes for lyrics too so it turns the timeline into a notation tool as well.

@Jocphone said:

Perfect.

Nearly

Proppa

@Jocphone Some very kind members of this very forum reminded me that Sunvox might in fact be the Tracker DAW I was searching for and it was a fantastic nudge because the one friend I have who uses Sunvox does so by creating drum-less morphing bubbling undulating swirling glitching (etc etc) synth voices employing umpteen modules and effect modules - The sounds he generates are jaw dropping but in addition to all that magic there's the Tracker portion which he never mentioned and turns out to be so close to my heart (because of the software I started with.)

Feeling those "Tracker chops" come back (ever so slowly) has been keeping me smiling.

It must be said though: there's no Wrong way to use Sunvox.

[Deleted User]

I think I should have called this thread something else

Jocphone

@Proppa said:
@Jocphone Some very kind members of this very forum reminded me that Sunvox might in fact be the Tracker DAW I was searching for and it was a fantastic nudge because the one friend I have who uses Sunvox does so by creating drum-less morphing bubbling undulating swirling glitching (etc etc) synth voices employing umpteen modules and effect modules - The sounds he generates are jaw dropping but in addition to all that magic there's the Tracker portion which he never mentioned and turns out to be so close to my heart (because of the software I started with.)

Feeling those "Tracker chops" come back (ever so slowly) has been keeping me smiling.

It must be said though: there's no Wrong way to use Sunvox.

Yeah absolutely, I was rather clumsily trying to point out for @RustiK 's benefit (and other's who may be put off by the tracker portion of the interface) that there is so much more to SunVox. I have heard other people trigger it via MIDI from sequencer apps and some use SunVox as an FX via AudioBus too. There may be other modular synth apps on iOS but I don't know of any that are close in it's flexibility (Although as a disclaimer, I haven't tried Caustic yet)

Jocphone

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I think I should have called this thread something else

Yes. As a SunVox user I am deeply offended at being compared to vampires. I think Dr. Jekyll or Dr. Frankenstein would have been more appropriate.

[Deleted User]

@Jocphone said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I think I should have called this thread something else

Yes. As a SunVox user I am deeply offended at being compared to vampires. I think Dr. Jekyll or Dr. Frankenstein would have been more appropriate.

But but but.......everyone likes Vampires......right?

AndyPlankton

@RustiK said:

@AndyPlankton said:
Launchpad is for people who like to think they are in control
ModStep is for people who actually are in control

Meanwhile, people who play all actual synths and physically trigger self made loops and samples while juggling the effects and timing are always out of control -------------and free!

So very true And these people are known as Octopii

hellquist

This is a great way to use SunVox, for those who don't use the tracker part of it:

Jocphone

@Fruitbat1919 said:

@Jocphone said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I think I should have called this thread something else

Yes. As a SunVox user I am deeply offended at being compared to vampires. I think Dr. Jekyll or Dr. Frankenstein would have been more appropriate.

But but but.......everyone likes Vampires......right?

EVERYONE.. LIKES.. VAMPIRES..

hellquist

As the thread has been renamed I figured I could post this video showing how to use SunVox as a midi controller, made by Lefteris (who made the other video I also posted). Good stuff.

Jocphone

Thanks @hellquist, this is turning into a useful thread. Despite my contributions

[Deleted User]

@Jocphone said:
Thanks @hellquist, this is turning into a useful thread. Despite my contributions

Well it was meant for comedy value