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ReACTable: Words of advice?
I generally buy all apps with LINK or AB-REMOTE.
So, I bought Reactable.
What is this best for?
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Huh, didn't know Reactable had Link support, that's pretty cool! I remember when this first came out but lost the thread in the intervening years. Can you import your own samples/loops? What are the other live remix type apps out there?
Somehow I have -amazing- managed to avoid buying this down the years. Are you pleased you did? Getting things out of it you don't easily elsewhere?
This is one app that I don't use that often, but can't seem to delete it off my devices. It really is different from other instruments. It is really great for doing remixes with loops. You can record your process and play it back as well as displaying via airplay for other people to watch while you perform. You can import your own loops. It has a sequencer and synth, but they are a little strange to work with.
It is great for situations where you have a bunch of loops and are trying to figure the best way to arrange them. You can put them in Reactable and perform them in a different way then just turning a loop on or off. It make me think differently about the song then I might normally, if that makes sense.
Thanks for your input @Telengard. Will wait until I feel the urgent need. Probably won't be too long now....
@JohnnyGoodyear I never really got on with it. I bought it the second it was released because I'd had a crush on the 'real' version for years. Part of what made the videos I saw of the 3d version so compelling was the almost play-like physical interactions with an electronic instrument. iPads beat mice for most of us here but it's still not that physical. The scale/size of the original seems as though it's an intrinsic part of its design.
I haven't played with the app for a few years so take this with a grain of salt: I think its sweet spot might be bringing in a motif or two and then riffing on them/remixing them as a performance vs approaching it as an app within which to write new songs. That, of course, is only me.
Thank you. I think I've gathered the idea by now. As I'm in the middle of that part of the trip where I feel in need of some choruses (read; structure) to go along with the endless verses, I'm not sure this will help me so much right now...
Thanks @Telengard and @syrupcore for the input. Ironically, I'm not looking for a writing tool so much as a live performance instrument. That is, a tool that allows improvisation using loops, fx, etc. Looks like this might fit the bill? Anything else I should be looking at?
I think you can only import wav files. I've played with it but it seems it would take a lot of prep to come up with a performance. It's really fun to put a drum track into and just check out all the different ways you can filter and distort the sound. Add a loop of the same tempo or use the tempo control in reactable. You can control playback with AB and AB remote but no other triggers.
I don't know yet
I am not sure if it is "gimmick" orientated or a serious app.
First impressions---------Not done making them
Abandon hope all ye who enter here
This guy has some good videos and a couple tutorial videos to give you an idea of what you can do with it:
https://youtube.com/user/tommyzeta/search?query=reactable
The Reactable YouTube channel itself has some useful stuff, and goodies
Here's Robert Moog playing with a prototype
Here's a table from the community
Getting started with this one is a bit like getting started with a deep synth, where one loads a preset and backwards engineers it. When I was first approaching this one on release I downloaded a table from the inapp community (which is now huge and 6 yrs old), choosing one that has been downloaded by others a lot (these days 50,000-80,000 times, some of them). Many of these are recorded performances, which is ideal for learning as this is a performance app like no other. If the table you've chosen includes a realtime performance you will see all the objects load, move, tweak in real time, and can open the objects to see their settings, and see these internal settings also tweak in real time. Very educational, as the app potential-wise is more Sunvox than cliplaunch, and has a learning curve. @JohnnyGoodyear There are no barriers here song structuring wise, except in the # of objects available, that you've set up for deployment live, if that makes sense.
Gosh. The grail. Getting Bobby M on film playing your app must be like getting Oprah to tell her viewers how much she likes your new slenderizering widget.
Bugger. The rest of this got cut off by a crash. Essentially what I added was 'oh alright I'll buy it, but I'm putting your name down next to it in my blame assignment log.'
This was the post I was looking for with my original post of this thread.
Factually poignant commentary on one of the most relative topics known to man, creativity.
Well done.
Are the addition IAP useful in helping me learn and comprehend the concept?
The only issue I think I see is that it doesn't have import features?
I cannot find them.
So, if it is just ITunes file share I am probably looking at $10 down the ITunes drain.
@RustiK
Import is via old school audio paste and a bit hard to find first time:
Tap the arrow on upper left of table page, flips screen where you'll see on upper right a "gear" icon gets you to a settings page, select "Manage Sounds", bottom left of that page there's an Audio Paste selection. There got to be something placed in there already, via Audioshare, BM2 Twisted Wave etc...
The downloaded community tables come with lots of cool sample sh#t, Primeloops put some table demos in the community with their loops, and a lot the artists stuff is also sweet.
You can get quite a ways without the IAPs...
The things universal, and zoom able GUI is workable on 5s...though 6, 6+ is easier
@JohnnyGoodyear as ex-movie people, husband, public school teacher, and software addict, taking the blame's my game
Good man
@Littlewoodg So, you mentioned the IAP....significant benefit? Aids ease of use?....
I went ahead and pulled the trigger on this today. The IAPs just give you more of the "blocks" that you get as a default. It's actually pretty smart because you can get a sense for what you might need more of before buying. I am still early in my exploration but the Community is a brilliant way to check out other people's ideas.
Glad you pointed this out. Would NEVER have found it
Initial impressions: Holy shit, I'm going to need two weeks to make sense of this. Not a manual guy but I have a feeling that tute vids will save me a lot of time and anguish. Also: There's no getting round it, smells like s[][]v[][]...
I know, fair warning and all...
Yep it's a bit like having a Sunvox with Link. @lukesleepwalker says it, the IAPs are just more of the given blocks, there if/when you reach the N+1 limit in your tables.
I've never used Sunvox but I find the blocks interface here quite intuitive and fun and musical. Thanks for the info.
@lukesleepwalker Reactables interface makes a lot of sense to me, in terms as you said fun intuitive and musical,
bouncing between this and Sunvox has helped me figure out both a little better. Sunvox is highly recommended, and a ridiculous bargain at $6.
Tip for Reactable: I had seen single control objects (lfo, wave shaper, filter, delay, sequencers) connected to and controlling multiple WAV players and oscillators at the same time, in some community tables. Red streams of controller data flowing from a delay or lfo to 2 and more adjacent objects which can be quite useful/interesting. I had no idea how to make those multiple connections, I don't see it anywhere in the manual. One of the videos showed a user moving the control object (lfo, filter whatever) on the table, and touching one source with it, then sliding it and touching another adjacent source object in turn. Zing: Red waves of control info flowing from an lfo, sequencer or filter, to 2 (or more) oscillators, WAV players, etc.
Thanks for the tip! I saw this in a table I downloaded and thought "man, that is wild" but I couldn't figure out how to get the red beams going two ways. Now I do and I have to figure out how to tame that potentially wild beast...
Tons of fun to be had. Link, AB in (input object, also susceptible to all the controller objects), AB out, performance recording and playback with live play...hi AUM...
I will buy SunVox already.
I used the PC version a couple times and that seemed like it clicked for me.
How about Pulse Code Modular?
What are your thoughts?
@RustiK
Pulse code modular is cool enough, free is good and you can get away with not getting into the iap for a while. Good tutorials are available on YouTube. Discchord has some good ones.
Pulse code Modular, Audulus, ZMors Modular and KQ Minisynth are all worth looking at and all are much more modular than Reactable and Sunvox, which is to say they start from the very bottom up with very basic building blocks, unlike Reactable and Sunvox which do much of the basic work for you. Lots more to look at in terms of modulars...separate thread?
Yup.
whoa, i just knocked out an absolutely SICK clip in Reactable through AUM to AudioShare. hellz yeah.
Yep, big fun. Link, AB, AUM, makes it all go 'round...Reactable has become a real resource for the device-as-DAW, clip launch, sequencers, synths, AB host and source.