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My (incorrect) perception of how the scene mode worked, along with the locked-down nature (no midi out etc) was what kept me from actually using Gadget. With the advent of the announcement of audio coming to Gadget I decided to pick it up to see how viable, if at all, an option it would be to my normal, time-line based, output, where I normally record quite long passages.
I have to say I was happily surprised to learn that I indeed could record one instrument for long passages, it just kept jumping down to the next scene whilst recording, meaning I could record pretty much the melody of an entire song in one go, which was built over 15+ scenes. I had no idea. Now I do, and I really like Gadget, from my first foray into it.
Pretty sure that is how the audio recording will be working too, and I'm definitely looking forward to audio in, and also to get Gladstone/Madrid IAP's.
Oh, and this was the song I made the other day btw, when learning the above, if someone is interested.
Some great sounds in that track, and I like the overall feel too!
Good stuff
100 times with extra certainly. It seems so wantonly silly, almost stubborn, that there isn't a quiet little toggle for this...
Thanks, ditto for your video! Now I also have music gadget envy!
And thanks @PhilW, really liked your song too, and you planted a seed with the "adjustment of effect during recording" (happy accident) which I have to explore
This has a great groove. I think you did an especially good job making use of the stereo field and taking moments throughout the tune to let things breathe. Many Gadget tunes sound more like idea snippets; this comes off as a fully-formed tune. Thanks for sharing it!
Every time I see this thread I want to start one that says "Caustic for Mac and Windows Already Here, Free"
Or "Sunvox for Mac, and Windows Already Here, Free"
I know, I know...
We should have a Caustic vs. Gadget battle where two people write songs 3:00 in length, one person in Caustic and the other in Gadget.
Hehe, thanks! Yeah, it is a full song alright. In fact, I have "draft" in the name currently as I was thinking I should cut it down with a 1-2 minutes somehow. And yes, space is something I worked on for this one. I normally do, but this one in particular, so nice it was appreciated, thanks again!
this is really really good! thanks for sharing.
I absolutely love the sequencer in Gadget. I can virtually make a full track in an hour.
I think it will depend on the workflow one is used to but also the type of music. All dancey type of stuff rolls off gadget like off of a printing press.
Good music... really liked the feel and mix!
They should have it on the desktop at least, it'll come across as a very basic thing otherwise.
I love mucking about with Gadget, but the reason I've never completed a whole track in it is solely down to the clunky scene editor.
Thanks for this!
But let me ask you your method.
You started playing a keyboard line, and at 16 bars...it just continued? How have I never encountered this? Maybe the loop scene option is on by default when you hit record, but this is intriguing....
I'm sure it will be equal parts unfettered joy and equal parts massive disappointment !
For the record, I've always been positive about Gadget, when it has been described as a 'toy' and the like in the past. I made my point regarding the scene based approach as I've used the App a lot and was finding it difficult working with quite involved tracks with lots of scenes. For sure, for simple stuff, it currently does the job.
It would totally rock if we would see all Gadgets as AUv3 on iOS as well.
The AU/VST plug-ins are my main 'draw' towards the macOS version of Gadget 3.0 for now.
If u jump into the sequencer view the loop
Function goes on automatically and you have to manually shut if off. Then you can record notes and or automation throughout the song.
You're absolutely right about the how unwieldy Gadget become as the number of scenes increases. The Ableton integration makes me hopeful that 3.0 includes some kind of innovation in Song Mode. Maybe not on iOS, who knows? I do know that this pending update has drawn me back into Gadget, and I'm coming up with cool stuff, though i see how I'm employing the same tricks over and over....
In the Korg Gardget for iOS web Korg said "new technologies have been sucessively included to further expand the functionality and enjoyability" I wonder what is this about: AU/IAA support?
What are you guys talking about? I thought the whole thing is based on looping patterns
My 'vote' on that line goes to introduction of iCloudDrive/iOS-DocumentPicker for all things related to import & export.(And it's about time too...).
Thanks @MusicMan4Christ, @Halftone and @ExAsperis99 !!
Yeah, it is exactly as @vpich says: if you go out from instrument view and viewing the entire collection of scenes when you record, it will "just continue" with the next one. I learnt this by accident, which in my case was a REALLY happy accident, as I normally record long passages (in Auria/Cubasis et al).
In my case I started off with marking up scenes named "intro", "verse", "chorus" and "bridge", working in 4 bars/pattern, setting the bass line (in Miami), which was the originator of the song. After adding crude drums (actually on Tokyo at first, but later changed to London) I put down the electric piano (Montreal) when I noticed, after having backed out to sequencer mode, that I could do the entire piano for the different parts. This is obviously where I start adding/duplicating scenes too, as I hate when it becomes too repetetive in this style of music, so more patterns give room for wider variation.
When I had a piano I was quite pleased with (I'm originally a guitarist, so piano is only my second instrument) I realised I needed singers. As I can't sing if my life depended on it, I figured I'd add leadsounds instead, but treating them as singers, one mainly for "chorus" and a main singer for the verses. By this point the chorus was 4 scenes long. As it was only for chorus (which is also played directly after the intro) I then added the other "singer" for verses (the synth lead that sounds like a flute). I basically did 3 takes from start to finish until I had a take, split over 15 scenes, where I only had minor manual adjustment to do. As I have breathing breaks in the "singing" I could actually navigate Gadget so it jumped to the correct scene for those events when the next scene wasn't immediately below the current one.
I am pretty sure this is also how it will work when recording audio in 3.0.
The "automatically on loop" functionality that happens when you go in to an instrument is quite annoying, but as I played it all via my midi keyboard I only had to go into the actual instrument/pattern view when I needed to tweak the sounds, for which the automatic loop is handy I guess, but I would prefer it being my option, not automatic.
Awesome description of your workflow!
Will this happen if your using another apps keyboard to send midi to the recording track?
Well done, in any event. It has a cohesion that much scene-based music lacks.
This is where I 'hope' Gadget 3.0 improve.
I hope the 'pattern view' gets a 'seamless flow' thru the scenes when scrolling around.
(This would bring it closer to 'time-line behaviour' without being a 'time-line').
Less than 2 weeks to go
This is how I do it on iPhone: i set up everything to be four bars for all instruments. In portrait mode with the on screen keyboard I place my index finger on "hold to erase" so I can just keep playing until I get something I like, and my thumb on the keyboard which is set to a 4 octave range. I press record, close my eyes, and pray. Then when I'm done with the first scene, I just duplicate it to save it and dive right back into the instruments for more recording. You end up with your first scenes at the bottom of the page and everything flows together.
what i really hope for is individual track global quantization edit, where you turn off the grid or change it per track. right now you have to go into each individual scene and change it, before going to the beginning of the song to record automation throughout. on a lot of stuff i will set up 16 bars, even if just copying and pasting a 2 bar loop over and over again, so that i can record evolving automation. but the current way i have to spend a while setting up each scene for each track, gets tiring.
Loop mode in the pattern editor. At the moment Gadgets plays through the whole pattern, which is a pain if it's long and you want to work on a particular section.
It's pretty standard functionality, bizarrely missing in Gadget.