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iWavestation in Gadget - first test jam
I'm blown away by iWavestation after my first 45mins with it. Here's a sample jam I put together with it.
- One instance (just 1!) of iWavestation in Gadget
- One instance of Tokyo that comes in at 52secs and then comes out again (everything before that, including all those perc sounds, is the one instance of iWavestation!!)
That's it!
And to be honest my 'programming' pretty much amounted hitting the random button until I got a sequence I could tweak - then tweaking it a bit and then playing with the filter a bit during the performance.
This is a dream come true for me in Gadget (I think) because it gives me all the weird granular, organic sounding (and rhythmic) stuff that Gadget was previously missing.
Workflow wise it's unbelievably good! All this sound richness in just one instance. Unbelievable.
I've seen people on the main thread saying 'what's the big deal with all these cheesy retro sounds' and I would have some sympathy with that (I barely use iM1/Darwin and many of the presets I've quickly browsed in iWavestation do sound cheesy to me). But man, if you get creative with this thing I think you can make it sound unbelievably modern since it seems like it can really, really mash some audio in very weird ways...
It's also got to be the most complex synth in Gadget so far...
For me, this one is definitely a 'buy'.
Let me know what you think of my sample...
Comments
Two listens. Love it.
I can't listen to the track yet but your testimonial makes me quite curious...
Very nice..the random seems to give an instant new feel to those still signature WS sequences /samples...I like the track , found it soothing and could definitely hear a didj droning along with it in my minds eye ...
Thank you. I'm flattered.
It's all about the random so far... So powerful.
Thanks, that i can use
I'm loving it 3-4 secs in!
Have you purchased? Would love to know what you think.
I know this gets said a lot about new apps - but for me this is just so, so good...
I spent today listening to Radiohead TKOL RMX album (various avantguarde, synthy, granular, beaty remixes) thinking 'this is exactly the sort of music I want to make'. (But my goodness, do I have time to chop up and mangle all that audio outside of Gadget?).
Then as if by magic, this comes along as a kind of answer to my secular first world prayers.
Maybe the shine will come off as it all starts to sound the same after a while? But right now it feels like each Milpatas instance is its own little audio manipulation studio in its own right. Right inside Gadget.
For example it's so cool you can mix the four tracks of audio with their respective volumes - which is how performed the demo in this thread. It's like a mini Gadget, within Gadget.
God dammit, Matt!
I was counting on not caring about this. After all that insane spending, I was happy to sit back knowing the new drum app was not for me, FL3 wasn't needed, and this was another cheesy 80s Korg synth.
And then you go and do this wonderfulness. Sigh.
Do it
Ha, ha... Good. It's a single 4 bar note in Milpatas. Repeated throughout.
It's almost like the piano roll is irrelevant with Milpatas.
And I see it more like a drum machine than a synth.
I was really worried initially that the Gadget version wouldn't have the sequencer and you'd just get the sounds/patches. And then so pleased when I opened it and saw that it's a really full implementation in Gadget.
Ooops. Sorry.
Love that album. Especially the first half
I only discovered it a few days ago. It's beautiful isn't it? I'm loving the sound design on a lot of the tracks and Tom Y's voice just really goes so well with that bass/tech/electro thing - such a great contrast.
Can confirm. IWavestation is very capable. The random does not disappoint. I expect people will be putting together whole tracks that consist of nothing but drums and a few choice wave station performances one after the other. After reading this topic, I went in, hit random, came up with a plucky funk guitar sounding thing that could easily carry an entire verse. Slapped on some chord mode, made small adjustments, boom.
Cool Matt! Make/post more! Completely obliterate the cheesy aftersmell of the demo video!
I forgive you.
Yes, purchased but haven't had time to even open it! Hopefully tomorrow.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 that might have sold me. Thanks!
A few obvious limitations in Gadget (after the initial euphoria).
Essentially you can automate the X and Y values of the joystick. The function of the joystick. And a mod wheel (although Gadget has no on screen mod wheel).
The joystick seems to not be anything to do with 'vector' or A, B, C, D but instead appears to just be an x/y pad. You can assign it to a few things. Many seem to do nothing at all (although that might be me). The cutoff / resonance seem to be for some hidden global filter?
You can go into the (incredibly extensive) effects and then assign certain parameters of these effects to either the X/Y pad or a mod wheel. This is pretty great if you want to modulate effects.
The shame is that you can't seem to automate:
the relative volumes of the different wave sequence tracks
which steps the sequencer plays (this is such as shame - because messing with the wave sequencer live on perc tracks sounds brilliant and I really wish you could record this into your track as midi).
But you know, on balance its still utterly amazing. And such a playground of sound.
And in Gadget, on an iPhone!!!
Just do not listen to the demo track in Gadget!
I'd say the way im using this it has more in common with Egoist than a synth...
Cool, post more!
yes please post more
Milpitas. Wow, who in the heck chose that city I wonder. I worked there and now drive through it every day. Boring. And the smell from the landfill on a warm day is like ... a landfill on a warm day. Eck.
Korg us r&d is located in milpitas, ca.
I feel for them. Prolly buy it out of sympathy.
It's funny colour.
But seriously, I'm enjoying the sounds here. I haven't had chance to play with the app much, not yet, but initial fiddling confirms the general consensus; the functionality and random feature has much to offer, but the presets leave a lot to be desired.
Now I really need to stop buying apps until someone gives me iTunes vouchers at crimble.
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A better name would've been Pompatus. As in 'the pompatus of love.'
OK. You got me.
That and the Thom thing. And the thought of some real robot soul friskiness in Gadget. Can't quite buy the idea that we can't save patches in Gadget itself. Seems odd. Strategy or oversight?
Anyway, in.
Yes, sorry... "Thom".
And I think they just forgot to add the 'write' button. Maybe it will come in an update. Hope so.