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Surprise rediscoveries of this weekend (6th March 2016)
Quick post:
Going back over some of my apps, to get to know them better, I’ve made a couple of interesting discoveries that I hadn’t realised before.
1] Kirnu Cream is as incomprehensible as ever, but the synth is actually quite an interesting synth in and of itself. I was wondering why each patch sounded the same, like some honking buzzing paper/comb combination. The Cream synth is surprisingly complex and capable (for something that needn’t even have a synth at all to do its job). I now quite like it as a synth. High points: interesting choices of oscillator waveforms. They all seem to be static wavetables, i.e., the sine and saw would each be a table of values simply read-out at the frequency of the oscillator, so the manufacturer can in theory put whatever wave shapes they like in there, and consequently there are some interesting starting points as a result. The other good feature is the filter — some good capabilities and choices in there. It’s not the worlds most patchable and flexible synth overall, but better than I expected — a nice surprise.
2] TC-11. The synth in there is really deep and interesting. Again, very capable, yet with fixed patching of signal flow, but there’s a lot going on if you use it purely as a synth (which is as far as I’ve got). Couple that with the complexity of the control surfaces and parameters (which is not as far as I’ve got yet) and it looks to be a superbly unparalleled synthesiser. The sequencer component of the synth is what’s interesting me now, so that’s next on the slab.
What have you dredged back up and dug deeper into, this weekend, giving you a new pleasing perspective?
Comments
Since upgrading my Auria to Pro been having fun with the new instruments.
Scary that I've been getting the CPU meter to 85 % though. Think I may need an iPad Pro soon...maybe the new small one out this month
I've noticed lately that my battery-time has goes down drastically after using some of the more CPU hungry apps.
Hopefully iOS9.3 will include some serious power-optimisations because it doesn't feel good having to charge the iPad Air 2 twice per day. I wish there would be a way to throttle down the CPU to gain battery-time
I posted about my battery life being much lower recently. I've managed to get the time back now though.
I found that I have to restart my iPad before each long session of use as many IAA apps seem to be hanging about in the background. AUM made me realise this was happening.
So now if I switch from one host app to another I restart my iPad. If I change over apps in AUM I restart. If I change what I am using in Auria Pro, I restart often.
I've recently upgraded to an Air2 (why didn't I wait for the Air3?) from the iPad3 and I'm noticing significantly less battery time. I always do as Mr. Fruitbat says and shutdown/ restart before a session. Yet same thing. Still on 9.2.
How much less time are you getting?
I've also noticed that I am using a lot of old FX since getting AUM. Maybe it will settle down again, but for now I'm trying anything through everything mixed and layered with everything else
I never bought a lot of effects apps in the past but have recently bought a couple because they work so well in AUM!
@u0421793 I like Cream. Don't understand it much still, but you are an inspiration to me (sorta
). I have a page on my iPad with Cream, Cyclop, Rytmik, Attack and Zillidrone on it, all apps I should be making more with than I have so far. Perhaps today's the day.
@Fruitbat1919: Difficult to monitor because I use it away from the audio interface -which also charges-quite a bit as well. OT quickly. I believe it was your suggestion to plug headphones in and out of the iPad headphone jack to remove the pops and crackles we're getting with audio interfaces. Spot on!
Beat my method of cancelling all apps, shutting everything down and starting again. Thanks for that nugget.
Throttle down = less power, can't make a race horse from an old donkey
@Ben
I think that originally came from someone else on here.
Yep I think there are many things happening with changes in iOS and how we use IAA, AU, Link and even our music setups.
Feels to me like the brink of major changes in iOS music making are all coming together
I now can see my future need of more iPad power.
I've not done any precise measurements. I just reflected that one day the the battery had fallen to bellow 50% when it's normally around 80% after a few hours of usage from full charge so some apps must have been eating CPU in the background like crazy.
Turned out that some of the Games I have on the iPad do not properly shut down when closed and swiped up.
The game in question was 'Party Monsters' and it was eating ~31% of the total battery during the last 7 days
Guess I should do the 2 finger salute more often to really reboot the iPad and avoid such incidents.
Even though it's against Apples 'iOS Philosophy' I do wish they would port an official 'Activity Monitor' and other CleanUp tools (to clear app caches) to iOS allowing us to see 'zombie-nodes' and terminate stuff that is not needed and delete temporary files from other apps. (Instagram, FB, Twitter etc).
I really can't understand why developers do not add 'housekeeping' features to their apps like deleting temporary files. Anyone who's ever played Angry Birds Epic will know it swells to well over 3GB after a few months of usage and only way to 'clean up' is to delete and re-install, same with FaceBook, YouTube etc.
iOS does a lousy job of deleting caches. I hope iOS10 will improve upon this situation.
wasnt this a thread about surprise app rediscoveries?
Surrrrrprise
Macbeth
I don’t know, it’s just another generic thread, could be about anything. You watch and wait — someone will mention Hitler or Sunvox soon, and it’ll all be over.
It's unfortunate that Jacob Haq abandoned his TC-11 tutorials before really getting into the meat of the app! I was waiting for that!
Double post
Nathan, I’m intrigued as to why your quoting is mostly buggered up (I think that’s the technical term). What browser are you using? Lynx, or Emacs, or something weird like that?
I miss @Kaikoo.
I believe you are thinking of the Video Toaster.
I got a lot of utility out of midisteps/midilfos by art kerns. Sometimes it is a relief by buying so many apps to realize in a pinch that you have just the solution already on hand.
This weekend (3/13/2016) I discovered (I think) that if you have an umlaut in the title of an Auria Pro song (Entwürdigung) you may struggle to copy something from AS and paste it into a track without getting an error message saying the clipboard is empty, but if you then change the title (remove the umlaut) the clipboard is magically OK and pasting can proceed.
How on earth would a dev typically test for this?
Umlauts, umlauts,
Like teeny tiny moonshots,
Just two dots,
Those, f-in' umlauts.
Like two little eyes,
I have to despise,
They just have to go,
In Auria Pro.
You can use that!
Very funny. There's something that reminds me of the very model of a modern major general in that
You can’t break a few eggs without making an umlaut.
The date of the topic has moved on (now week beginning 25th April 2016), but the topic of the topic (?) remains…
What did I find myself firing up briefly this morning that I didn’t expect to?
Sliver
I don't know if this qualifies as a surprise rediscovery, but I feel ya on TC-11. I used it in a real project for the first (and only) time on my most recently completed piece, "Visions of the Future".
TC-11 falls into that category of apps that blow you away at first with an approach that is so different, making it a must have, but then you find yourself saying "How do I actually USE this thing in actual music?"
I find myself in a similar place with apps like Fugue Machine or Xynthesizr (which I just grabbed on sale last week). I like that apps can lead me into new sonic directions, but I am at the same time generally inclined to be wary of these sequence-driven beasts that seem to have mind of their own. They can tend to really take over a track.
They work well when you use them as a starting point and build the whole tune around them. But in the case of Visions of the Future, I already had my foundation, and was just looking for some synth to give me that "futuristic" edge.
I found it in TC-11 -- I even got to use the accelerometer feature to modulate parameters by waiving the iPad around in the air. But I'll be darned if I could figure out how to get it to the right tempo and pitch that I needed for my pre-existing song. (There might be a way to set tempo and key in TC-11, but it wasn't obvious, and I didn't want to waste time, so I ended up "cheating," as it were -- i.e., using the computer to adjust to my bpm and pitch. There I go, giving away my secrets …
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The latest synth I bought then found too deep to spend proper learning-curve-time on is UVI Falcon! I bought it early in the year and just fired it up for a rediscovery session last week, and man, so much potential! I'll almost certainly be using it in my next project, but I already want to make it do things that are going to require more study. Yes, I know, it's not iOS. What can I say, I'll probably always be bi-platform.
Cheers!
Lady-App
If curious, you can listen to "Visions of the Future" and other Lady App-titude emanations here:
https://soundcloud.com/lady-app-titude
You did it again. Some of your one-liners just make my day.