Do you want more sounds in your iPad synths and beat machines?

Will

Thumbjam and Drum Perfect also use xml+samples format. http://thumbjam.com/sampleset_format

Shazamm

@syrupcore said:

@Shazamm said:
Maybe my developer needs to try a browser based option to open in from the website. I dont know if thats possible but I would love that as an option based on everyones feedback. This would be a killer way to import sounds from the web.

Is this possible with iOS rules? Specifically, buying from the web and installing on the device? I guess it'd be like doing any sort of paypal->zip reveal. Hmm, even if so, a web site based version can't use the saved app store payment info and can't use alerts ("new free pack today!").

Your so right

Shazamm

@syrupcore said:

@Shazamm said:

@Littlewoodg said:

@Shazamm said:

@syrupcore said:
There have been others (namely Sunsine) but the jump from desktop download and credit card out to import onto iOS is a lot to ask of us incredibly spoiled brats.

I actually spent a while considering something like this and have one idea you might pursue (since I'm never going to!). Make a presets app. Sell preset packs for various iOS synths as IAPs from within the app and make use of iOS's 'Open In' to butter up the user experience. Give a few free presets (and/or samples) away every week to make sure people open your app semi-regularly (which means the free stuff can't suck). Lots of apps support this concept (opening their preset types via open in) but not all do. You can test this out via Audioshare or Dropbox.

Thats what I was thinking was the best approach thanks for your input

There's an app like this called Audio Elements (likely abandoned, last update as you'll see from link was 2014 Audio Elements by WAVEFORMS
https://appsto.re/us/jk0EH.i)

It was mostly sample and loop banks, but I did purchase a bank of Sunrizer synth presets through it as well. Easy peasey

I have this app. I thought it was a great ideal but they dropped the ball. It could have been so much more.

Maybe they'll sell/license you the source code.

I did the same but it was only like two packs and I want a ton of options from kits and presets made for specific apps like BM3's instruments, 16 pad kits and 64 pad kits. Loading up a kits with an ascetic layout. Kicks will all ways be a color hi hats will all ways be a color making it easier to use newly loaded kits and generally placed in the same location each kit.

Love this kind of talk.

You might already know this but a lot of drum apps use a very simple "folder of samples + a text file" format for their kits. Nanostudio and Beatmaker, for instance, are xml+samples and are so similar that it's pretty trivial to convert one to another with a few simple find and replace operations in a text editor. Hopefully, you can make 16 sample kits and have your developer write a script to generate various formats automagically. They might take a little hand tweaking to make them as nice as it sounds like you're aiming to but would still save you a bunch of time (and expand the formats available to customers).

100 years ago I made a web app that helped to make Nanostudio TRG kits. http://luktown.org/random/trg/ If you drop some samples onto the screen, choose 'text only' on export, you can get a glimpse of the xml format without bothering with the full download. You can grab some BM2 kits here to check the similarity. http://www.ibeatmaker.com/bmk/display.php

Glad you're going for this.

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LinearLineman

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RajahP

@Shazamm said:
Myself and a few other sound designers and composers have started a new company were we make custom user presets for IOS synthesizers and beat machines. We are going through the countless hours of figuring out how to accomplish some of the more intricate synth and Apples limitations on the OS. Each kit or preset pack will come with a video on how to install your new sounds and samples. We would like to know while we are in development what apps or beat machines you guys would like custom kits and presets for. We are still in the early stages as I am working on the website as we speak. On launch day we are trying to have over 30 custom kits ad patches and presets for apps like

iMini
iProphet
iSem
Beatmaker 3
Lyra (Auria Pro)
Model 15
Addictive Synth
bs-i16
Cube Synth
FM4
Laplace
Lorentz
Magellan
Mersenne
EHX mini Synth
Nanolog
Phazemaker
Poseidon
TF7 Synth
Thor
Xenon
and more to be announced...........
Please let us know what you think and is you have any suggestions here thanks

Just posted in the Soft Drummer thread... Will love iBassist, Future Drummer Content... That will be great.
Edit... Don't know how no-one did this before... Flava...

echoopera

While i think it’s awesome that you want to tackle the list you indicated, it might be overly ambitious for an initial foray into Sound Design. I’d focus on 2-3 synths from the get go to insure Quality is there. For a gauge of what users would expect, I’d look no further than what SpiderIce, RichardYot and Brice Beasley have offered to us a great examples of iOS synth sound design.

Quality over Quantity should always be ones mantra when it comes to designing patches for Synths.

Good luck though. If the patches are stellar they will sell themselves.

Those 2-3 synths would be:
Moog Model 15 and Model D
Factory
Dixie

ecou

This is a zombie thread back from the dead. It was started back in 2017. It would be interesting to see what happened to the plan. @Shazamm