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@sonosaurus I actually thought about doing it with the "keep existing" way as well. That would probably be the simplest way. It would just be the drag/glide, controls and fx found in the edit menu. If they don't want it, a sample "reset" to default in the edit menu
Hmmm. Interesting/useful notions here...
In other interesting TJ news: I just realized I can activate "pitch tracking" with a midi command. Can't wait to play with this.
ThumbJam pitch tracking is great fun with a guitar interface. Don't hear much talk about that feature but it works really well.
Do you think I should separate out each of those (drag/glide, controls, and fx) with individual toggles, or just one Keep Performance Settings toggle which will preserve all of them. I do like the idea of a Reset to Default command for a preset.
id go one keep performance settings toggle. I think the other route would confuse people and introduce redundancies between making a tweak on the edit menu vs spending time deciding which parameters to keep. But I think a reset default performance settings for the instrument would be essential in this scenario.
+1 for keep settings and +1 for keep it simple.
Finally had a good play with both the arp and continuum mode. Both are amazing! It's almost 'of course' Jesse would be the one to completely nail the Arp ease:options ratio.
I couldn't get 'snap initial' to work (or it doesn't do what I expected). I'd like to have scale snapping off but cheat a bit by snapping each initial touch to scale with the ability to float off afterward. Is that what it's supposed to do?
Also, a request. I just noticed today that Samplr's ARP mode has a very cool feature I've not noticed elsewhere and is really only the sort of thing you can do with a touch screen: you can tap a note (slice in Samplr) with more than one finger and it will play each touch instance. So if you have it in 'as played' mode and tap
C2, G2, C2, F2, the pattern plays the same back almost like a step sequencer. Or in up mode it would play the C2 twice. Might not be explaining it well but it's super cool.Thanks for Thumbjam!
Got it.
The Snap Initial does just that. It's the rounding that will drift it back into the scale when you stop (or slow enough) after dragging it off. Sounds like you just need to turn the round rate down or off to get the behavior you want.
That is cool, and so I just verified that ThumbJam's arp already does that too, so how come you didn't notice?
Thumbjam never ceases to amaze and impress!
I know. It's like we're out in the bar hoping to meet girls when Miss World is in the kitchen all the while...
I agree with the sense of amazement and analogy. Now, I mean no offense to Miss World's beauty but she's dressed for kitchen work.
What I mean is TJ's "looks" are somehow very utilitarian. I would never buy it just based on the screenshots in the AppStore.
And this is not at all a complaint, we are talking about Miss World afterall.
You made my day!
I take it this is what the "as played" setting is ? I kinda figured that's what it did. I love it
and YES, that "as played" feature in the ARP is smooth as could be, it even replicates the x-axis velocity changes.
Ah, thanks. Messed with those setting a bunch (so great!). Probably put myself someplace silly.
Ha! I tried several times and at one point I thought it was doing it but couldn't repeat it. Just pulled it out and tried it again. Once I made the notes bigger and eased back all of my wacky ARP settings (90% velocity spread, 40% drop), lo and behold... works! Nice one and thank you.
Ok, well, I still wanna ask for stuff because, 'merican! I'd like to be able to save/recall arp setups. If we could switch between them while the ARP continues to run we could get into DrumJam style rhythmic changes.
Another, more fanciful wish: "Add To" mode for the ARP. That'd be basically taking the last step to turn this bad boy into an SH-101 style step sequencer. You could then tap in a sequence of notes without the need to play Twister with your fingers.
If there was also a way to transpose it (ARP is locked, new note presses set the root of the ARP), zomg Berlin school awesomeness right inside of TJ.
Yeah, this is something where the UI design becomes the real challenge, especially if you want to quickly switch between arp setups in a performance. Ideas?
Not so fanciful! You can do this by holding the Latch button down with one finger and toggling on/off the notes. You can do this when Latch is enabled or not, fear not about disabling an already enabled Latch mode, it won't if you hold the button longer than a second. But I can see the value of making it a mode too, to avoid the extra finger. Also, there may be a bug (which I will fix now, the means you have to press a note twice to toggle it off).
Good idea, what if it was done by changing the key instead (since we're all scale mode, that probably makes the most sense regarding what the "root" of the arp even means)?
I agree on keeping it one extra switch in the load window. However, adding a dedicated reset seems a bit unnecessary, because to get it back to normal just means going into the preset chooser, flipping the switch off and loading the preset again. Incidentally I just implemented it and it will be in the quick update I will likely get out early next week
Oh, and just a heads up, since AB3 is coming out soon and seems to be a nice fit for TJ's feature set, I am planning on supporting it. The downside is that AB3 will only support iOS8 (possibly only iOS9) and above. So I'm trying to get this iteration of TJ which still supports iOS7 in as good shape as possible before making a new version where I need to up the minimum to iOS8. That way folks who still like iOS7 will be able to download a fairly good final version. So iOS7 people, speak up now about issues or possibly forever hold your peace!
This is the game that Apple makes us play, and it isn't great for people with older hardware that just works better on the older OS versions.
Sounds good!
I've had hours and hours of fun and jams with ThumbJam
yes to all this. Every time I open Thumbjam I am happier after the experience than before. That is saying something.
My latest joy is to send arps to Animoog.
I hear you. 10 ideas but not sure any of them are good, particularly when considering the small screen version's constraints. Adding a preset button below the on/latch buttons that would flip the whole dialog to a preset list is about all I got. As you envision it, would presets store the ARP settings alone or also include the notes pressed?
One UI tweak I think I'd be glad to see is the ARP menu going either horizontal or flush left when the iPad is in landscape mode. It (and the multitimbral switcher) are a little awkward in the middle of the screen.
That 'adding to latch' feature is frigging great! Handy as it is, it doesn't actually work for my fanciful SH style sequencer due to the note presses toggling on/off you mentioned. Seems to me that's not a bug though; that's exactly what you want in an advanced latch mode. Otherwise, you'd have no way to unlatch a note unless I'm missing something.
I'd definitely make use of that (you mean the normal TJ key menu would adjust the ARP's root note when the ARP is engaged, yes?) but there are some things that would make that tricky for doing Berlin school stuff. One would be changing the root note of more than one arpeggiating part (1-8) at once. Another would be if you started the arp in C, you couldn't transpose down if I'm understanding the idea correctly. Not a huge deal—TJ's covered use case list is plenty long enough; Berlin School sequencer need not be added!
Yeah, I've considered this, but I think I would probably also want to then have it not cover anything up either, and I might consider shrinking the play area width so that it starts to the right of the popups.
I don't really know what the SH style sequencer is, can you explain? Also, if you want to just tap your notes in, turn on latch, then press and hold the first note, then you can tap the others in. As long as one finger is down (or the latch button itself) it won't replace the whole held note set.
Yes, I've implemented it here and that is a limitation, if you are in C you can't get it to transpose down. I could also have it transpose when the Oct +/- buttons are pressed, but I feel like that wouldn't always be appropriate, since you might just want to get access to more range and not change existing arp notes. As for changing the root of more than one ARP part at once, if you have Match Scale enabled in the split popup the transpose would apply to all.
First, thanks for all of the replies.
Wouldn't definitely be nice if it worked like that. Think having a contiguous span of notes is the most important thing though.
I'm not sure I was doing it that way. I'll give it another shot, thanks.
MIDISteps is based on the SH-101 sequencer if you're familiar with that app. Basically you go into 'record' tap notes in and when you hit play they come back out in the same order you entered them, locked to the machine's clock (like an arp). So, no matter what speed play them into the recorder or how long you hold them down when entering, they come back out as clock pulses. Again, I dunno, feel like this all might just be a distraction for TJ.
Fu'wsome on both accounts! Agreed on the octave button. We'll just have to remember to start everything in F.
Can't wait to try this.
Gave the latch-as-sequencer another shot, trying both holding the first note and holding latch. Works perfectly for doing normal arpeggios. For doing the sequencer thing, it works differently than the non-latched "as played". In that version, as you learned me, you can hit the same note twice to do something like
C2, G2, C2, F2. You can't make that pattern when latch is on (or toggle latch while that pattern is going)—it converts it toC2, G2, F2. Related, I think, it seems as though latch doesn't respect 'as played'. If you're in that mode, it converts the pattern to Up.You are right, latch isn't respecting either of those things.
Amazing app... But I am having issues with the export midi feature.. Did the 'Save midi loop' option but no luck...
I guess a video demonstrating this feature will help..
Thanks..
You first need to make sure you enable Save MIDI Loops in Prefs->MIDI Setup. Only after that is enabled is midi stored when you record loops (it isn't retroactive).
I did, I guess I will figure it out sooner or later...
Thanks..
OK folks, another bug fix update just released, v2.5.2, it should show up shortly.