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No worries at all. Nice to see a friendly virtual face who shares my intrigue for Zolotov's work
Probably because Korg ain't adding audio tracks to Gadget.
The steam's building up, you know.
We are quite a few on here. And yes, as you probably have noticed, he speaks (or types) good english. Also, he releases updates to his apps quite frequently (at least where it is needed) and the "what's new?" for each of the updates for SunVox usually takes 2 desktop screen page scrolls to read, so not IK Multimedia types of updates (trying to get away with as little as possible). Some of Alexanders apps are quite specific though, and as they work as they were intended they don't need that many updates.
Also, I think it is important to remember that SunVox is cross platform, and works on pretty much any/all devices and OS's out there, pretty much in an identical fashion. I don't know any other app/software that cover as many platforms/OS's. That also means adding features has to be done carefully and require quite some extensive testing, due to the differences between the platforms. What could be seen as a feature for one platform could possibly break functionality for another, unless done in a controlled fashion (and without adding massive amounts of bloat).
You might have seen it already, but Alexander and Igor Vasiliev (dev of Soundscaper, Fieldscaper, MasterFX, AltiSpace, Audio Mastering etc) released an album together last year too.
https://innerspacewelcome.bandcamp.com/album/new-space-project
I played with his apps in the the wee-hours this morning. Bought most of them. Solid, apps.. no glitches.. run great on my iphone and ipad. Seem to play well with all my other apps too.
Someone else hipped me to the project between Alexander and Igor a few weeks ago. Love that recording they did. Didn't click with me that he was the SunVox dude. I wonder if they've ever collaborated on an app or considered it? Two of my favs for sure.
Would love to see something these two concocted that was in the audio/visual/fx genre that Takete pretty much rules at the moment.
spectrumgen is indeed amazing, thanks!
Omg Igor DON'T CROSS THE STEAMS.
(read as irrelevant attempt at funniness pls)
I wasn't really expecting much, but it's fairly impressive. I went ahead and bought the one that looks almost identical called Pixilwave too since it's only a dollar and I dig all the rest of his stuff so much. It's worth having as well. It's close, but different enough to have I think. Not as redundant as I thought it'd be.
Thread got me to re-open Pixitracker, and found a cool little ditty someone had done in there (me, I never recognize my stuff when I open it later. Usually it's "who committed this travesty", this time thank jeezy it was pretty neat-o)
What an amazing little studio. Horizontal grid like that other secret tracker iSequence, and loaded with lovely wav. sample kits. No digits or hexadecimal, just boxes to fill in by tapping in your sample, and choosing your note from an 10 octave KB. Has wav trimming, and wav import/export via ACP or wifi. Make samples in Pixelwave, Spectrumgen (or someone else's app if your must) assign to a kit or build yer own and it's on...
The 1bit version is the same workflow and is pure ultra lofi chippy love. Universal, like all his stuff, and a blast on both devices, like all his stuff. All hail Comrade Z.
Cool. I was wondering about that one but I thought it might be redundant with the tracker in SunVox. Sounds like that's not the case?
I only got turned onto his stuff as a result of others on this site saying it shouldn't be mentioned for some insane reason. Now, I'm a huge fan and have about 6 of his installed now.
What I really like about them beyond the broad scope and sound, is that they're just a joy to sit and play with. I've found myself just opening them up and screwing around without any intention to save or make anything at all. It reminds me of why I became interested in iOS sound apps to begin with.
+1 with the hailing of comrade Z
@skiphunt
Pixitracker is a different deal not redundant at all as you say. Hours of silly fun with a ton of sophistication on tap when you want it.
While what I'm about to post has nothing to do with Mr Zolotov's apps or iOS music in general, I'll say it anyway: this is an awesome photo. Glad you posted in larger size, the avatar doesn't do justice to it.
As for Mr. Zolotov's apps, I have V-ANS and SunVox on board and I find the latter very complex for my skills. I don't use them too often but think they are both amazing and I know some day I'll bring myself to figure out SunVox.
Oh yes, while I remember: https://www.moomin.com/en/
Thanks for the compliment!
might be my favorite image from 2 months in Bolivia and some of Peru. It was a very peaceful moment with my unexpected wandering canine friend. I titled it "Amigo".
I don't pretend to know more than a fraction of what SunVox is capable of. And, it took me three nights to even learn what I do know. But even that little bit is fairly deep.
When I look at other's work who really know it well, I'm honestly in awe and can't fathom how deep it can REALLY go.
All this from an app that's universal, multi platform, not a very large file, vast in its capability, and inexpensive too. Not to mention, he's even included an identical desktop version downloadable for free. It's impressive.
Never thought I'd be a "fan" of a developer, but a handful of these cats are like the modern day rock stars.
i finished my first ios song with pixelwave [being sequenced by midi sketch], and i also have sunvox and pixitracker. all of zolotov's apps are wicked awesome!
Would like to hear it. Got a link? I'm going to check out PixiTracker to see if it's different enough from a couple other tracker's I have. Looks fairly intuitive and fun.
Alexander's album "WarmPlace", recorded as NightRadio is up there in my top 10 Electronica albums. Check it out:
https://nightradio.bandcamp.com/album/warmplace.
All recorded on a Palm PDA long before iOS. He's a legend frankly.
@ghostly606 that's impressive even without being from a Palm PDA and 11 years ago. I started listening to it casually just to skim since I've already checked out some of his stuff on soundcloud, and ended up listening to the whole thing. thx!
I'm surprised no-ones picked up that virtual ANS is an emulation of the machine used for the original 1972 Solaris film. It was the size of a large shed and arguably the first subtractive synth, as it they literally 'painted out' the frequencies they didn't want.
Here's a photo of the original disassembled before restoration, check out wiki for 'ANS synthesiser' for the back story.
AFAIK, ANS is an additive synth
It certainly is, (or alternatively you could think of it as a spectral re-synthesiser) but if you’re taking an existing image of spectra as your (visual) input, and painting chunks of it out so that those spectral “tracks” no longer register, you yourself are doing some amount of subtractive synthesis by definition (in fact you’d be doing the equivalent of an extremely tight notch filter).
He has his own forum:
http://www.warmplace.ru/forum/index.php?sid=b034b5dac42377db980d2c1394092ec9
And even keeps SunVox development progress up to date:
http://www.warmplace.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1361&sid=b034b5dac42377db980d2c1394092ec9
@1P18 Great. Been to that site but overlooked the forum. Off to register. Thx!
Took me awhile, but now I'm definitely converted.
i dont have a soundcloud account, but the song is not that good to be honest. its just a melody looping for a minute with me shaping the waveform and having drums go from simple to a more "busy" sound. if you are really, really curious i guess i can upload it to one drive, but it was more of a test for me to do something with "multiple" apps. ispark for drums, pixelwave for the main melody, recording into audioshare/auria and mixing/arragement on auria. and using emochorus to modulate the pixlwave melody as it went on and on. hehe.
i would love to go deep with sunvox. what i love about it is that i can just do stuff on pc, then send them to the ipad and keep working! but for months i have been so uninspired to do music, i cant get shit done
That's cool. I was mostly just interested in something that used the Pixelwave synth since I'd just picked up Pixelwave and SpectrumGen a couple days ago and curious how other's had used them. I've since been hipped to Comrade Z's forum and registered, so I'm sure I can find stuff over there.
At the moment, I'm playing with copy/pasting samples from Pixelwave and SpectrumGen into SunVox, then tracking and adding fx there.. but it's a little fidgety on the iPad. Kind of tempted to just grab PixiTracker since it looks easier for playing around with tracking cut/pasted samples.
You chose to use midi sketch over pixitracker. Is it easier and/or offer more control than pixitracker?
Also, I've noticed many here won't spell out SunVox or refer to it as that app that can't be named... same for the rest of Zolotov's apps. Why is that exactly? I've only been active here for about 3 months so I don't know much of the history in the forum.
No, it's only SunVox. It's okay in a thread such as this, where the subject is that to start with. The folklore as it came to pass stated that on this forum, there's a variant of Godwin's law — in our case, all threads will end in someone mentioning SunVox.
midi sketch is a piano roll sequencer. its very simple. it has no tracks, you create a single clip that can be 64 bars long. no other settings apart from some simple grid stuff [tripplets on/off] and tempo. for me, its a quick way to start things. because of how simple it is. the bad thing is that i has no way to receive midi clock, so when i used it to record melodies, i would have to zdoom in a lot on the waveform and trim like hell, but it works for me.
now i am using modstep a lot, since its a all-in-one sequencer [more or less] - so wickedness.
pixietracker doesnt send midi out, so i cant sequence pixelwave with it [though i could have used sunvox, since that one has midi out!]
anyway, uploaded the song. this is the "older" version. apparently i did not make a backup of the last one, so its not mixed at all, just arranged and it has isem playing in the background too. link
which one is the other app that cannot be named? what have i missed? hehehe
thx. was wondering about that... since I keep mentioning it lately and all.
Thanks. I like that! Has a weird space jazz quality to it.
Sounds like you could help me with something. I can use Pixelwave as a synth via midi out, but ONLY if I launch a wifi Network Session. I bought Apollo Bluetooth with lets you send midi between devices, which I can use, but not to another app on the same device.
I was looking at midiflow but I'm not too clear on how it works. Surely there's an easy way to (on an iPad) route Zolotov's synths like Pixelwave back into an input in Sunvox without having to have an external wifi Network Session enabled isn't there?
pixelwave is weird when it comes to midi. midi sketch wont talk to it unless i open it in a specific order [midi sketch first, then pixel wave, if i do it the other way arround, nothing happens] - and i could never get auria to speak to pixelwave either. either as a IAA or just midi out. nothing.
with modstep, i can add pixelwave as an IAA but i have to go to the IO option on the modstep traack and have modstep as a midi out. and go to pixelwave and on the settings, have it receive midi from modstep.
i hope someone with more experience can help, because i am not very savvy with midi in/out stuff. i have midiflow too, but i could not get my head around it.
even with sunvox i cant have pixelwave show up as a midi device. and pixelwave doesnt show me sunvox either. so strange, and its by the same developer! if you have an account at the warmplace forums, then you can ask about it.
i am useless when it comes to midi routing