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what if anything can you do to the individual slices of a sample in the slicer?
I dunno folks... I'm kinda really liking this one a lot. With midi in, and pumping external stuff in via audiobus, externally midi sequences from Genome and generative sequences from Dhalang MG, and sort of getting your own sample clips in via looped AudioShare as one of the audiobus inputs feeding into Rotor as output, then manipulating and controlling further fx and sequencers within the Rotor evirons... what's not to love?
I've been experimenting with it and various external input mixed with internal content and fx for about 3hrs. Not a single glitch, freeze, or crash. Seems solid and stable. I haven't even done any tutorials yet. There's a 3-4 min video in the app if you select manual that gives you a good walk-thru of most features. It's actually what they should be pushing instead of that vague slick puck-focused one.
The pucks look nifty and useful, but you get about the same control with a double-tap drag.
I'm glad they say they're quickly adding audiocopy to more easily bring your own samples in, but for me... this was $10 well spent.
Thank you for pointing me at the video on page 2 of this thread, @skiphunt , it helped me restrain my appaholism and I left the "buy" button strictly alone, go me!
@ExAsperis99 : Indeed, though whilst music may well be a subjective experience, I find that most people can agree on rhythm. And as much as I am aware that lacking talent is nobody's fault and mocking the talentally challenged is pointlessly and horribly unkind, on the other hand ...
OH EMM GEE THE NOISE IN THAT VIDEO, I HAD TO HIT THE STOP BUTTON WELL BEFORE THE END, THOSE MULTIPLE RHYTHMIC MOTIFS ALL STRAINING TO MATCH UP, YET DOOMED TO CLASH, UNRESOLVED, UNREQUIITED, FOR EHH VAHHHHH, OH EMM GEE AGAIN, YIKES.
And the dude entering those beats with such confidence! As if the poor chap could indeed rhythmically count higher than "one".
I do feel sincere sympathy for this guy. However, the chances of me letting my ears be anywhere near that video ever again are as never as those unresolved rhythms.
Just No M'kay thxbye.
On the up side, I still saved some cash, so yay me.
In the ROTOR specs, it says it supports SF2 files...did anyone tried opening or using some?
http://reactable.com/rotor-tech-specs/
There's no way to visualise a sample (yet) so you can't see which parts of the sample apply to which parts of the sequencer. but you can send midi or use the built in sequencer to slice the sample and also at the same time the sample can be transposed and other stuff.
Ships with many, and also I imported a bunch via iTunes. All good....
Have not figured out the SF2 use yet. Might have to crack the manual for that one. I selected the icon for soundfont files in one of the modules and didn't see anything. Is there something obvious I'm missing?
While I agree with you that what this fellow is putting together isn't an easily sipped cup-o-tea
it does give you an idea about the module controls. And, I've now learned that you can easily feed your AudioBus streams into Rotor as one mixed feed (I used MiMiX for this) and then mucked with them more there.
It's not for everyone, that's for sure, but as a useful tool and fun play thing... I'm diggin' it.
It's a shame that they aren't using the video that shows up inside the app as a demo. It gives you a much better idea. I can see it's hosted on YouTube also. If I can figure out the link, will post that here.
I'm selecting the red sound font icon, then the file folder icon in the tray right above it, which displays categories (guitar, bass etc) then the list icon (small stack of horizontal lines with dots down the side, that's next to the file folder icon)
Duh! Thanks. Not sure how I missed that. It was late and a few glasses of Jesus Juice later.
Here's the basic tutorial video that shows up within the app:
thanks Carnbot, appreciate it.
The in-app manual, with all the imbedded canvas examples and tutorial videos, is actually quite amazing.
@skiphunt thx for posting - looks interesting.
inevitablty there are some release bugs, mainly from using imported samples, a few crashes but for a v1.0 it's pretty tight.
Look forward to audiocopy. But due to lack of this I finally got around to working ifunbox over wifi and it works pretty well....
I'm not a musician like you are (at least I seem to recall you are) but even to my non-musician ears, that "Automatic Tonalizer" seems fairly sophisticated and accurate.
Why in the world wouldn't they use that tutorial video to market the app? Looks pretty cool...
I couldn't figure that out either. I wouldn't have deliberated all day trying to decide whether to buy if I'd seen that first. I would've bought out of the gate.
I don't know, but I actually like better the other video because it shows you more of what the app is capable of...if it only did what it does in this second video, I'm quite happy with blocks wave...
Wait until you start sending your stochastic midi feeds from Dhalang MG into it.
Sorry, which other video?
Agree completely. That does look pretty useful. Much more appealing than the nonmusical examples in the "teaser" vids.
Although the knobs look kind of maddening. Why would you introduce those finicky things onto such an elegant interface?
LOL...if I ever figure out HOW to do that...
...but I said that because I think the app (ROTOR) is capable of more sonic varieties then just feeding it loops, which BW does really good...
It's REALLY easy, just send your Dhalang MG sequences to "ext" select midi channel, select Rotor in Dhalang settings, then select the midi chan you want in your Rotor module. There's also a separate midi module too.
Not a "must-have" but I'm enjoying it. It's fun to play with and worth the $10 to me. Your mileage may vary though.
Like SunVox, the alt modes of composition, and modular approach to sound design (synth and sample) are very freeing.
I stripped a ton of .ogg files from the 2011 app metaDJ (Sound Trends LLC, RIP) and from my Stagelight library (Timbaland and Linkin Park stuff among other things...) like my imported sf2s, the .oggs worked a treat. Funny, all the loops and clips from meta.DJ have incomprehensible tags like 7EERD399-BD4A-TYU55-3233-AF, and there are hundreds, so it fits my arrangement style to a T: found objects, Exquisite Corpse, happy accident, etc.
It's definitely challenging my latest app obsession (Dhalang MG) for my time. I'd like to mess with my own imported files too, but they claim it's coming very soon, and since you can feed in stuff via AudioBus, I can hold off for the easier audiocopy that's coming.
Interesting that you said it took awhile for Rotor to process your itunes sharing files... that it had to analyze them all first. I was playing with the Automatic Tonalizer and noticing how remarkable it seemed to work. But it doesn't appear to have any impact on stuff fed in through audiobus. Guess it needs to properly analyze imports for tone/tempo etc. in order for the Automatic Tonalizer to work?
@skiphunt that's what I'm thinking, and depending on metadata the app can use the samples in the different categories available.
does rotor have a drum kit module?
Has a "Wave Based" sampler module, in which a sample can be assigned to each note (to be played on a keyboard interface, or sequenced on a piano roll). Possible to build a wav based drum kit, or multi sampled instrument.
The Soundfont erosion of the module can be loaded with drum kits SFs, several of ship with the app...
At least having watched that tutorial video, I now have some grasp of what this does!