Impaktor - Beep Street

High5denied

Hey,

I have this app, have had it for a while. I want to start using it and use it to its full potential. Can -------> you <------- that use it, or that have used it give me some of your ideas/workflows/things..... on how you have used it.

And...... Some songs you have used it in? Maybe post your favorite youtube tutorial type vids?

Thanks a bunch!

gjcyrus

This was one of the very first apps I ever bought and loved jamming with it. Brilliant app. Sadly, I haven't used it in awhile and I think it's due to two reasons.

1) While it's fun to jam with, using it in an actual live music scenario, at least for me, seems near impossible unless you had a very stable table with shock absorbers or something fancy like that. I could be wrong but I just don't know any workaround.

2) Recording the sounds to actually sound great on a recording is also another challenge. I remember jamming on it awhile back and while it felt DAMN good rocking out on Impaktor, when I listened to what I played, sounded weak and lacked the energy I had felt while playing. Again, I probably could've done something better but this was my experience.

With all this being said, I think I wanna jam on it tonight as it's been awhile. Really brilliant app for jamming on ios

ecamburn

My main instrument is drums and I love just playing impaktor as an instrument. I'd encourage you to experiment placing the ipad on different surfaces and using different playing techniques. Try placing the ipad on tabletops, the floor, a counter, a chair. Try different striking methods - drumsticks, your hands/fingers, etc. Trying hitting a hard surface. Try playing on a mousepad. Experiment with different distances between the sound source and the ipad.

I'd also strongly recommend the step sequencer. It's actually one of the more brilliant things in ios music world IMO. The number of steps is adjustable. It quantizes nicely (others may not like this). It works in an overdub mode so you can layer multiple impaktor voices over each other. Once you've recorded a sequence it's easy to get the audio out of impaktor for further processing.

Can't remember any specific impaktor pieces I've put into songs, but here's something I knocked in 30 seconds sitting here on the couch (ipad resting on couch, tapping with fingers pretty close to ipad):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lagogxe4ism8gdu/100 bpm impaktor on couch.wav?dl=0

The app hasn't been updated since 2014, so this feature request is just howling at the moon. But if the impaktor dev ever reads this - please consider adding a mixer. That would expand the usefulness of this already really useful tool 100 fold IMO. Or now that we have the lovely AUM, just exposing a separate audio out per track would work.

gburks

LINK in this would be killer.

Kaikoo2

Link in Samplr is a real killer.

mschenkel.it

I would like to be implemented with Link my self: no more click tracks, no more sloppy timings: I would just need a wifi.

@High5denied
Beside trolling I think that @ecamburn said it all. I think it was @supadom who posted a jam of his with impaktor

pedro

I absolutely love impaktor, being a professional "finger drummer" myself.

Thing is:

I have no use for the sequencer, I mostly jam while recording into audioshare, and then edit the samples so they're perfect loops

I really would like to understand better how to separate two sounds. The patches I prefer are those that I can play a "bass" and a "snare", I mean, playing low pitched sounds on a surface brings the bass sound, and playing a treble sound brings up the snare (playing on a wooden table, for instance, you can get two distinct tones at least). But I don't know how to program two mutually exclusive sounds, I have to build them both into the same patch (if I make any sense) but would love to be able to trigger the sound engines separately depending on frequency.

Haven't tried piezzo mics but I think that's a must for any type of live work (I don't have an audio interface like iRig so I just use the mic)

It would be great if it outputted midi. Would really love to midify some of my recordings so I can try other sounds. Specially since I can capture swing perfectly with it.

On my ipad4 I recently upgraded (to an air2, couldn't justify the exorbitant pricing of the mini pro here in europe, the specs being mostly the same music-wise), it was giving me clicks with the attack, last time I tried. I haven't tried it with the new machine (shame) so I guess I have plans for later tonight.

studs1966

Everything with Link would be a killer

ecamburn

@mschenkel.it said:
Beside trolling I think that @ecamburn

trolling?

mschenkel.it

That I would like to have Link implanted into my brain with a little antenna for wifi

ecamburn

@mschenkel.it . Sign me up for the antenna too.

High5denied

Cool, thanks for the posts guys! And, @ecamburn and @supadom

Thanks for the detailed thoughts!

Hmtx

Here's Supadom's youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/projuicer1

if you look closely, many of his videos use Impaktor very effectively in "live" context with very musical, groovy results. very inspiring. very much very.

Hmtx

this one! (Impaktor debut at 2:46)

skiphunt

In case anyone missed it, and don't already have Impaktor... Beepstreet has it on sale 50% off to celebrate the release of the new Zeeon synth.

Impaktor also been recently updated to 64bit and it's universal.

Quite the gem this one! I don't know if it's still on sale or how long it'll last, but if it's still $1.99, I seriously doubt anyone would be disappointed. Very innovative app and extremely fun to play with as soon as you've got the sensitivity dialed in.

Impaktor - The drum synthesizer by BeepStreet
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/impaktor-the-drum-synthesizer/id557824278?mt=8