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What apps do you use daily, that we don't really talk about any more?
Which apps feature in your daily/weekly/regular workflow, that don't get talked about too much these days? The three for me that fit most easily into that box are probably:
Viking Synth
RP-1
Zero Reverb
Viking Synth is just a bread and butter monster of a monosynth. I couldn't ask for more and I can't imagine myself wanting more from it. Rock solid too.
RP-1 is the most immediately accessible and musical delay that I've used on iOS. I also love AUFX:Dub (which is very different) but RP-1 is just much more usable and presents more performance options at the minute, due to being an AU effect. I also absolutely love the 'panning' modulation in RP-1 which offers a lot of interesting pre/post interaction with the main circuit. I frequently rout signals through RP-1's channel even when the main delay circuit is deactivated. Very responsive developer too who has fixed bugs on the fly on numourous occasions. As a result of this, very reliable when hosted in AUM these days.
Zero Reverb is just an immediate and amazingly musical sounding Reverb. Number of times I've spent ages trying to get a more complex Reverb just right, then unloaded it and thrown in Zero Reverb and it immediately sounded 'right' is too many to count.
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All of the above. Also iSem for old school analog bass. Klevgrand Pads for, well, pads. iVCS3, ZMors modular and Midisequencer for madness. StepPolyArp for arpeggios.
I think all of the others I rely on are pretty well known (ModStep, AUM, AudioShare, Phasemaker, Poison, Reipplemaker). What unites the synths is that they're AU and I can get roughly the sound I need quickly (either through presets, or just manipulating the controls). Often none of them make it to the final track and that's fine. This is just what I use to quickly demo and explore a musical idea before the creativity departs. Anything that slows me down (setting up tracks, MIDI, crashes, etc) is a problem.
I'm still looking for good, simple effects for demos though. I just want to be able to drop an AU compressor on an instrument and get it close enough before moving on - knowing that I will probably use a more sophisticated effect later. So I'm curious what people are using here.
A good and timely thread. I have such a cluster of FX especially that being nudged to go back into the weeds and try, say, RP-1 and Zero Reverb again, help get me past (essentially) using the same two or three 'defaults' (when not using the Fabs).
Aside from our mate Jakob's threads, Gadget isn't really widely discussed at current. I remember when it was the buzz much earlier this year when it was ported over to the Mac and finally added audio recording. Oddly enough, I still use Gadget for music idea sketching/loop creation rather than for fully fledged tracks with audio. The vast amounts of sound design choices in it are staggering to say the least, and now with Beatmaker 3 (beta), I've gotten used to a pretty productive workflow between the two apps.
Now I wonder what Korg's been up to since then (besides a few bug fixes and adding support to import Gadget LE projects). I for one am looking forward to what's next. Maybe an "iTriton" with a corresponding gadget? (Triton being the sound of late 90s/early 2000s pop.) One can only dream. :P
Maybe not daily but at least once a week I bust out ikaossilator
Whenever i'm sketching ideas Enkl always seems to find it's way onto at least one track
It seems like Klevgrand have got a little forgotten. I got Korvpressor out this morning in my search for a simple compressor and realized that it may be the one. SquashIt was another one that for whatever reason I had forgotten about. Both have pleasingly simple interfaces for when I need to get a result fast.
iPulsaret and Samvada
Three apps/effects/plug-ins I use quite literally every single day are:
I bring up Pro-Q 2 specifically because of its incredible EQ matching algorithm, which may be a niche feature but I find indispensable when trying to emulate particular guitar tones.
Safari.
I think I may save up some money and get the rest of the synths I don't have (i.e. the synth bundle and Baervaag and Syndt). Fantastic company with fantastic products. (Hopefully Kuvert will be updated with AUv3 functionality lol.)
Midi Link Sync
MidiBridge
Use these both all the time for midi business, great for hookimg up the iPad to Ableton + all my other gear. Both look like they might be on the way out with iOS 11, which will definitely keep me from upgrading for as long as I can.
Plus ThumbJam, it's amazing, can do so much.
Magellan [Jr.]
SquashIt
Caustic
MidiFlow Adapter.
I've really gravitated to AB3 for ease of saving setups and app-switching and transport buttons, but there are still so few apps that are adapted to it for MIDI. The adapter (usually) bridges that gap. I'm very thankful for it.
I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned …
Korvpressor has been the goto to for that for me, but I've recently even better luck with RoughRider2. I feel like it fits nicely between the "I don't know what the heck this is doing but it's easy enough to fiddle with to get the sound I want ... I think" of Korvpressor, and the "Jeeze, all these knobs ... I'm sure I must be doing _something _wrong" of something like AUFX Push.
Apps that I didn't mention myself in the original post but have been subsequently brought up:
Samvada - Totally unique and mesmerising
MIDI Link Sync - necessary for Samplr and note repeat on my MPD controller
Thumbjam - it's Thumbjam.
Loopy. Group the Loop. Anytune Pro.
All of the FabFilters, including the synths. I use them daily, but nobody really talk about them here, specially the synths.
Loopy, Enkl, Sir Sampleton, Nanostudio
Jam with Sir Sampleton and Enkl (etc) and capture into Loopy. Copy anything good from Loopy into NS. Expand from there.
Fun fact 1: Sir Sampleton 1) can sample from audiobus and 2) is 12 part multi-timbral (midi channels 1-12).
Fun fact 2: You can set the midi channel per step in midiSequencer.
All the fun combined: You can see where this is going already, no?
YES! A total marvel. Any word from the dev about updates? Do not want to lose this app on my newer devices.
@syrupcore. I've had sir sampleton from the beginning but have never been able to functionally fit it into my workflow. Any videos that you know about?
I'm always last to the party.
@Ben I don't know of any good videos, sorry. It's not really a part of my normal workflow either. More of a thing I turn to when I don't know what I want to do. Its weird 12-bit sample transposition crunch tends to inspire things.
Just typing that it occurs to me that Sir Sampleton would make an awfully friendly target for my BeatStep Pro. Create a preset with 8 drum sounds and overwrite the synth sounds as needed.
Sampletank
Sector
ThumbJam
ReSLice has MADE HUGE impact on my music
Pixitracker/SunVox. (There it is, @u0421793...)
Nanoloop
Electrify NXT
iSequencer
Genome
Yes. ReSlice is amazing. Deserves a medal. A big, shiny one.
MidiMux - only app that reliably shows all my Midi connections - and updates instantly when anything changes. I keep it open in the background, quick to tap ports on/off, see what's connected, persistent user-created virtual Midi ports, and Osc connections.
It has changed my entire music quality