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Apps for playing with field recordings
I like to record random and interesting sounds that I find by the street and manipulate them later in Ableton to create beats, drones, etc...
The thing is that I've been looking for so long for an iPhone app based on this idea. Some kind of a field recorder where I can keep track of the recordings but also manipulate them, play chromatically, maybe layer them. All in a simple and intuitive way so I can use it on the subway, bus, etc.. Kind of the "figure" of sampling.
I've tried Fieldscaper and , while it is so powerful , i find it too complicated for spontaneous creativity on the go.
Maybe the ideal way could be a combination of Audioshare for storing the recordings and other simple apps for manipulating them , but I haven't found a workflow that satisfies me yet.
What do you think? Do you use any apps for this purpose? In case you do, what is your workflow? Thanks!
Comments
I don't know about chromatic playing, but what about BlocsWave?
An Audioshare and Moebius combo if you want to leave Fieldscaper out of the equation?
Mitosynth! You can combine 32 sound sources in one patch and go wild to combine these inside a kind of vector synthesis on drugs. You can also live record (but limited to 30 seconds) samples within the app. But the editing is very limited.
Otherwise i think BeatMaker 3 could be interesting.....when it will be released
Good point!
After getting the hint about recording Gadget through Blocs Wave, started doing all my recording there. Really easy to control from another app and it works well with AudioShare.
Also not sure about pitch shift but maybe by sending to Launchpad? Otherwise, you could probably route the audio through a harmonizer effect. That could be fun as well.
Agreed that FieldScaper is quite complicated.
Even for synth apps, we need a good recorder as AB3 output. Maybe Loopy MPC will be that recorder, whenever it comes out (which might not be soon)?
Yeah, Mitosynth would be a good one as well. I use that quite a bit for messing with samples, and you'd be able to play them chromatically too if you wanted.
Look at the ApeSoft/Amazing Sounds apps. If they're designed for working on sound files, they're great.
@Enkerli said:
Aum and MultiTrack Daw are both good options.
Meant something simpler, but you got a point.
Well AudioShare is dead simple I guess.
AudioShare for recording.
Effectrix for sequencing fx.
Caustic for playing chromatically or vocoding them .
ElasticDrums for small samples.
Mitosynth seems nice, have you found a useful video tutorial? Never mastered it.
Also iDensity , Field/SoundScaper are a bit complicated....
For minimal spend you could check out Elsa or Nils from the Humbletune collection
Caustic. You can record and just keep adding fx and cutting on and on and on in a very easy sample editing jnterface Then you can load it into the pcm sampler and play it with the keyboard or whatever. I think it's really smooth and I'm not really the sampling and recording type usually.
Another suggestion. Buy a cheap ass ($100) Windows tablet with 4GB of RAM. Put the free version of Ableton on it (you get at with several cheap audio apps in the App). And go for the most bizarre (free) VST apps.
Do you have Samplr? It's the best touch screen sample manipulator.
It isn't good as a library, but works hand in hand with Audioshare quite well. Audioshare is what I use for recording all little bits (either internally on the ipad, or real instruments, or a mic), and organizing them. You can name the files, trim the audio (and it's easy to audition loops), normalize, organize it in folders, and export to other apps. It is widely accepted in other ios apps at this point, so it is a good hub for a sample library.
@javiguer This is a rather simple but streamlined setup. It might suit your workflow too. Record and trim with AudioShare > Load the recordings directly in separate AUM channels (you don't need to import / duplicate the files, AUM can read the AudioShare recordings folder) > Loop, change pitch, normalize, add FX, pan, route... whatever in AUM.
Some example soundscapes (looped, layered and processed field recordings) I recorded recently with that setup.
For more advanced manipulation and tweaking you could load some ReSlice instances in AUM http://www.virsyn.net/mobileapp/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=8 or maybe latest BeatHawk (don't own this one).