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Joined The LAYR club!
Looking forward to using it at the gym a little later and tonight in the studio.
Welcome to any suggestions prior to digging in.
TGIF yall.
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I would be interested in learning how well LAYR performs on an iPad Air 1. If anyone has any feedback, it would be greatly appreciated.
@Seangarland well it is super-duper on Air 2
I will test on Air and Air2 in an hour or so and let you know.
Thanks! This synth looks great, but my Air 1 is starting to feel like an old dog, so I have to be selective with these new apps.
Of course, the answer is to buy an iPad Pro, but that will come later.
Good to go homie.
I gotta run but wanted to let you know.
This may be the best app since Model15 or Animoog
Dude needs new vids, this thing is chunky and sweet at the same time.
Thanks, will be buying shortly.
Its a chubby chaser of an app. Many layers of fat to slice thru.
Oh. Now I have no idea if I should be thrilled or repugnated...
Lol
oi Layr club. tell me something. does Layr have link ? or accept midi clock input ? can't seem to confrim if it has either anywhere online.
I do have a copy of LayR installed on my iPad but as long as the 'FM Envelope Amount'' behaves like a regular 'Pitch Envelope' and doesnt control the 'Modilation Depth' I have a hard time to take it seriously.
I have reached out to the developer using the contact form on their site but so far no reply at all...
LayR syncs with midi. If your IAA host has a tempo, it is the tempo LayR will use (unless you specifically tick a box saying "Ignore midi clock"). It is prepared for Link and waiting for "go ahead" from Ableton, who apparently has to approve implementation of Link.
@Samu, I think your mail has gone missing, I did a big clean out of the mailbox on Saturday thinking I'd replied to everyone who had valid questions. I can't find anything here now with your handle on it.
Anyway...
Understand that I hear what you're saying but LayR is not an FM synth. At the moment the FM provided works as is and provides some good functionality.
As has already pointed out, the synth engine in LayR has to be kept simple for many reasons, one of which is efficient DSP which is required to keep it compatible with the lower end devices. During development I made decisions to omit several functions that would be great to include based on whether or not myself and my testers thought they were really needed.
However! I have added your request to a growing list of features for a future upgrade.
Meanwhile if you really need FM depth, a workaround ( not ideal ) could be to attach MIDI to the depth dial.
@Samu, actually I think the words FM Amount, in the help overlay ARE misleading, that is an oversight, I'll change it to Env Pitch Amount or something similar.
As @hellquist mentioned, Link is in the roadmap for a near future upgrade.
LayR syncs tempo to IAA sync by default.
If you turn off "Ignore MIDI Clock" in the settings then it uses MIDI clock instead.
It varies from device to device by as much as 5 to 10% peak, probably due to background processes which often can be cleared by restarting the device.
On average our Air 1 here runs about 50-55% CPU @128 voices and between 35% & 45% @64 voices.
All voices are processed in parallel so with LayR it doesn't matter how many voices are playing the CPU load remains constant. ( Similar to Moog Model 15 in that respect )
Thanks!
The reason I 'reacted' to this was that the engine in LayR is very capable and it felt like a 'missed opportunity' to not be able to use an envelope to control the depth of the modulations (for fading in/out vibrato or to create many different types of sounds). Both depth and pitch are very useable as modulation destinations for sure.
In the 'mail' that apparently got deleted (I sent it via the form on the web-site) I also mentioned being able to adjust the pitch of A & B (For detuned sounds without need for additional layers) and adjust their relative volumes as well as additional 'mix modes' (multiplication for ring-mod) and also optional oscillator sync.
Other suggestions were custom LFO-Waveform that could be used as a 'step-sequencers' at lower speeds.
And additional envelopes and LFOs. (A LFO modulating another LFO is a source for loads of evolving sounds).
For the 'synth geeks' I asked for a full modulation matrix that could optionally be kept 'hidden'.
Knowing how capable the 'foundation/engine' of LayR is spins my head around and the requests start flowing
I do like the design of the oscillators and inclusion of ramp up / ramp down for creating a pulse-waves.
I also like the 'insane' speeds of the LFOs which made me wish for 'proper' 2OP FM-Synthesis since they have optional keyboard tracking already implemented.
For future reference additional wave-shapes (with inverted versions) would be a real bonus as well.
I du understand that CPU can get taxed more with added features but there's always the option to reduce the polyphony.
Sorry for the harsh tone but It's all well meant as constructive criticism and I do like what I've seen so far!
So I am looking forward to future updates to LayR!
Thanks for your time.
/Samuel
No problem, always up for constructive criticism , thanks for the input! I'll be more careful with the delete button too