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Anyone using Stroke Machine?
I was having a look at this- but the reviews on the app store- the last being April this year are saying it is busted and all but abandoned. There was an update a few days after the review- but l'm not sure if it fixed all the issues. It's a hefty £15 to buy- so it's not cheap. Anyone using it? Is it working?
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Great app in concept, yet is too broken to bother with.
I still use it some, but wouldn't recommend it to anyone but drum synth aficionados. There's a lot to it, including the learning curve, but it can still come crashing down with the wrong move.
This is what the dev has been working on, if anyone is curious. Spoiler: It's not on iOS.
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/tag/wolfram-franke
For me it was missing the "fun" factor. More effort than it was worth.
that's correct - strange coincidence in my case: I downloaded Stroke Machine while a Kawai XD-5 was on it's way. Both cover more or less the same domain...
In fact the XD-5 hasn't had much use because it's a hell to tweak without a dedicated controller.
At it's original release it was primarily intended as a regular drum module, and only later gained some fame for it's synth percussion of the strange kind, but it's not very known.
It would have been nice if SM had a zoom feature for the active patch, some errors might be related to the ultra tiny graphics dilemma. But soundwise it's a very good drum synth and the fx bus feature is cool.
I tried it on iPhone and couldn't get it to make a single sound or find anything resembling an interface
Youre thinking of something else, Stroke Machine is iPad only...
It's a huge favorite of mine, and still in use. The bug that remains hasn't given me too much grief, given the upside: I love the sounds it makes, and for whatever reason I find it an easy environment to make new patches in. It's possible to create very detailed rich sounds, with a quickness.
Because - unlike all but one iOS drumsynth see below - you can assign up to 16 synth voices their own midi channel, I use it as a sound module (drum synth as well as lead and bass) via Modstep, tracking into DAWs indevice (and lately outboard DAW). Very easy to set up and record several seperate sounds.
(synth nerd digression folllows, beware) Interesting to consider Stroke Machine alongside the iOS version of Waldorf Attack: the Vst Attack was developed by Wolfram Franke, who later developed Stroke Machine, which is in many ways a next gen Attack (flat GUI, more synth parameters, more mod, automation)... and then the iOS Attack appeared, ported from the vst by a another coder. Attack vst was a classic and the iOS iteration s very cool too, and has a couple features I wish were in Stroke Machine: the vocoder, and it's midi scheme..the two together are tons of fun, and can more than cover all sounds needed for a complete track. This can be done with either one seperately, but given their commonalities it's a bit like having 2 instances, building up tracks 2 at a time with a choice of 24 possible voices each, or full drum kits of up to 12 (SM) or 24 (Attack) sounds. And Attack allows u 2 discrete midi ins, so tracks can be worked on and frozen in groups of 3...(like I said, synth nerd digression.)
@Littlewoodg ha you're right. I was thinking of this app called just Stroke.
I like Stroke! If it had link I would definitely use it more!
I can't program sounds in Stroke for long without it crashing to background with the known bug. That's what gets me. It's a known bug and has been there since purchase.
I would have got a refund, but was waiting patiently for a bug fix.
Demo from TheSoundTestRoom.
Another big fan of Stroke Machine here. I find the crashing bug pretty easy to avoid so it never really bothers me but I hope it does get the fix. Coincidentally I had a brief Facebook exchange with Wolfram Franke a few days ago about the app. So might be worth contacting him via Facebook about the bug. He seemed open to suggestions on the app so pretty sure it's not been abandoned, just he's probably been busy on other stuff.
I mainly use it as a sound module via midi.
STROKE was name of first band proper.
We were practicing in this garage in an alley and some old man came in and said........"you delinquents need to stop, my wife just had a stroke"......................
I growled SSSSSTTTTRRRROOOOOOKKKKKKEEEEEEE into the mic and we smashed right into a cover of Just One Fix were just about to play.
Meanwhile the old man stood there staring for a moment and then through his hands up and walked out.
STROKE
Funny.
WTF
I suppose I could give it another go now that I have a Pro 12.9", and the primary issue was just how badly it chugged and glitched on older hardware.
http://appshopper.com/music/stroke-machine
But we're about 18 months removed from the last update so that doesn't instill a lot of confidence in me. I do recall some crashing too.
Your point about using it as a sound module is well-taken however, assuming the MIDI implementation is decent. I just got a 4x4 pad controller so it might be interesting to try out (I think it can have at least 12 different instruments open at one time).
recently pulled out StrokeMachine and got some good FM sounds.
An update to Stroke Machine just 'popped up' in the AppStore!
It's good to know it's up'n'alive and still 'stroking'?!
It will be the last version to support iOS 6
This is great news...Stroke Machine lives!
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Yepp, and I've not been able to make the new version crash yet!
I've been rediscovering the app now since I now have an iPad Air 2 to run it on...
My previous experience with the app was on the 1st Gen Mini that is really 'too slow' to fully use Stroke Machine.
Even though the similarities to Waldorf Attack are there(minus the cheesy vocoder) the modulation options in Stroke Machine are miles ahead of Attack!
I will be spending more time with Stroke Machine for sure (I was very close to typing '"Stroking the App"
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same here... afaik there's no other drum oscillator with that flexibility.
The modulation assignment adds the final touch, tweaking is amazingly straight - with a mini-2 a cheapo stylus is really useful.
Solved my own 'crashes on the gui' riddle: that's obviously related to unintended double taps when trying to hit a tiny target area.
YES! So happy. At last I can make use of its great sound
Yepp! This (Stroke Machine) is definitely is a hidden gem once you get past the UI-Quirks.
I have a feeling that Link support is coming together with synced recording to make perfect loops inside the app.
The synth-engine is pretty capable too!
(Love the flexible modulation routings almost everything can be a destination).
And the sequencer is not so bad after all!
it really deserves a second 'fingering' haha
Is this thread the reason for this update ?
I think it's just a happy coincidence. I doubt he could squash all these bugs in a couple of days, but he is pretty badass.
**What's New in Version 2.0.4
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• Equalizer bands now react better to touches. When no handle has been touched exactly, the nearest band is used for setting its frequency and gain. This implies that you must touch the bandwidth handles exactly to change them, as it was in all previous versions.
• Fixed crash when double-tapping into an empty area of the oscillator or equalizer displays.
• Fixed rarely occuring wrong Automation behaviour.
• Fixed possible crash when removing steps.
• Fixed possible crash when playing the melodic keyboard.
• Fixed possible envelope misbehaviour.
• Improved reception of non-timestamped MIDI Clock from some apps.
• Fixed 24 bit sample playback in 64 bit version.
• Fixed incorrect LFO rates.
• Lots of little improvements and fixes.
• AudioBus V2.2.2.
• Note that this is the last version supporting iOS 6. All future versions are going to require a newer iOS version.
By the way, if anyone is considering Stroke Machine and put off by the bright colors, there is another skin option.
I prefer the candy color look instead of cemetary
(something I didn't expect myself originally...)
There has to be a happy medium here. That's dreadful. Could be so much Kuler.
Dammit. There I go again.
DO NOT DOUBT THE SHARK TIDE OF THE FORUM.
SM is a very capable app and gives a lot of control to the user which most probably is its biggest shortcoming. The UI is not hugely confusing but I definitely find it tiring. I don't know whether it is fair to comprare this to elastic drums but with the latter I can be so much quicker and even the lfo and envelop options that ED doesn't have can be emulated with automation.
I did redownload it prompted by this thread but it is now safely back in the cloud.
Great News !