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Breakthroughs with Gadget
Just had some recent breakthroughs with a couple of Gadget synths taking them to some new levels sound wise.
Pheonix - amazing sounding synth. I've discovered this thing with an arp patch, but with a long release, combined with the vibrato at quite a high setting. You then bring the filter off and wow... You get all these wobbling boards of Canada style overtones singing out from your arp. Amazing.
Keiv - just finally worked out the way the vector mixing of the four samples exactly works. And have gone through combining a lot of the samples. Gives some great pad and bell sound possibilities. Very rich if you modulate the vector control pad.
Anyone else care to share any revelations?
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Wolfsburg is one of my favourites, with the mod matrix you can do some nice tricks. I currently have a voice-like patch which uses key track to control lfo rate, so the higher up the keyboard you play, the faster the vibrato on the voice. This even works in poly mode so each voice has its own vibrato speed. But yes, there is a lot of hidden depth in many of the gadgets!
Thanks for this Matt. Your recent piece kicked me up the arse as far as going back to the mountain...
Would love to see some videos of these revelations gents!
Gadget synths are my fave iOS synths mostly because of the environment. I can casually sculp sounds more successfully in a mix blending gadgets together.
+1!
Cool thread idea. I recently downloaded abu dhabi, after resisting for a bit because i generally only use samplers for drums and have 14 bilbao sets prepared for that, and it works great. I don't use loops so i felt abu dhabi would be a waste. Well, glad i tookthe plunge. Here is how i am using it. Create a simple 1 bar rising pattern, in key, on a 1/8th grid in your synth of choice, with bpm delay and whatever other goodness and export that track to audio copy, without tail. Import into abu on an existing preset (or init) and presto. Now play it as a wierd poly synth, with some steps reversed, etc. Or turn on arp and pres 3 notes at a time. I've mostly used the filter fx and then run it trhough a channel delay.
My focus recently has been more about using Gadget with hardware controllers. I don't have the nano series so I use Gadget with an Akai MiniMix, assigning the knobs out to various Gadget parameters like cutoff, envelope ect. I also map the volume knob on each gadget to the sliders (as you cannot map the sliders in the Gadget mixer unless you have the Korg controllers).
You asked
. This is Keiv:
Ghostly, in sound and execution. Do you record the out of that or just play...?
All within Gadget? That's awesome. Then easy enough to send stems to Auria and build from there?
Does Gadget ever go on sale? I've been watching for a while but haven't seen it go on sale. Maybe I just missed it, though.
I'm not a gibbery fanman, but there's no question it's a must...
For that jam I recorded the Gadget master into Audioshare. Then slapped it onto the video in Final Cut Pro.
Yep. Everything you hear in that video is all within Gadget.
Sadly you can't record multiple audio outs for different Gadget tracks. So if you wanted to take into Auria you'd either have to take the simple loops into Auria (but then you'd miss all the automation and the live playing) or you have to do the work and arrange the whole track into multiple scenes in Gadget and then export the stems.
But right now I'm happy just recording live stuff like this (un polished) and then moving onto the next idea. It's much quicker that way and I can always go back to the project later to make a 'proper' polished track if I decide with the benefit of hindsight that it was in fact 'the one' (which it never is
).
Nice, thank you Matt !!
One thing I'm playing with is exporting my Gadget project as ableton, opening the exported folder, and loading the loops into Launchpad to remix. Fun!
I don't make EDM style music--not even in the neighborhood. There videos I've seen all feature midi centered EDMish stuff. And the audio looping tools don't seem to be what I need... So not sure of the value at full price.
Can't say I'm an EDM-wallah either
It is a great writer however apart from the goddam-lack-of-audio that smart people can get around and I guess even I can BUT still.....I'm holding my grudge and I'm not giving it back. Despite that, a superbly realized bit of kit. A birthday present perhaps? Or, indeed, a sale....
I recently have been enjoying sequencing gadgets with some other app sequencer and linking the two. For example, Infinite looper for notes, and gadget for automation only, or vice-versa. Where things get interesting is having gadget sequences set to different lengths than the note sequences. That was my hack to shake my desire to buy addictive pro, for the 4 part programmable arp. But It's definitely more clumsy of a work flow this way if you intend on recording the tracks seperatly.
@lukesleepwalker
What sort of music do you make?
Check Gadget in Appshopper. It usually goes on sale around the same time each year
Usually whenever they add something new to the app it goes on sale.
My most recent A-HA erlebnis was when I realized that the Tokyo gadget is essentially a Korg ER-1 hidden behind an atrocious GUI. If you can get past the look of something coming out of a Kinder Surprise egg there's some nice synth drums to be had in there.
Ha ha. I don't really mind the way it looks. But there's a fair bit of pink in there - I'll give you that.
One thing to watch with Tokyo is that each of the 4 drums is monophonic (only has one voice).
So you can't, for example, trigger a long booming kick drum with a long decay twice quickly in succession - you will hear the click as the tail of the first hit gets cut when the second hit is triggered. (IElectribe doesn't have this problem).
However, as long as you're aware of it, you can make two instances of Tokyo and trigger between the two instances
(this will give you two kick drum voices) to get round this problem.
Nice production @Matt_Fletcher_2000! Thanks for sharing that.
Actually Thanksgiving alot of things go on sale if I remember.
Black Friday too.
Had to ask my friend Rim what erlebnis meant, but otherwise a funny and interesting post. I never open Tokyo, but will remedy that today...
It's German.
You are most welcome. Thanks for listening.
But it's one of those funny German expressions that made it into the Dutch language (probably because using German words lends a person a certain air of je ne sais quoi
).