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BeatMaker is too good to pass up. I didn't exactly know how or why I needed it (never been too deeply into sampling) but I could see that it was light years ahead of anything else on the platform and represented a huge leap forward in possibilities, so picked it up at sale price.
I'm bloody glad that I did!! I read the manual and watched a few hours worth of videos on general sampling and beatmaking, as you can watch just about any Ableton Live (or other) video on sampling and almost all practical use cases are transferred to BM3 (I'm sure there's lots of niche and/or convenience stuff extra on Live, but 99.9% of practical functionality is transferable)
Just starting to get the vibe of it properly and I'm really feeling the rewards. This is our fiddling around last night:
Everything on the track aside from drums and the splash of vox was created by the instrument 'khomus' that you see Saydyy holding in the photo.
Just a bunch of random shite, but by far the most fun and creative that I've felt with iOS in a loooong time. The 'better' kind of creative too, where the tools aren't being creative for you, just removing any creative barriers between the sound you want to create and creating it.
By the way, I LOADED that previous project up with effects on pretty much every track and bus (we were making in real time, her jamming on mic and me tracking what I wanted here and there, throwing stuff on the tracks left and right for instant gratification). It didn't even show a hint of struggling on my Mini4.
I need to get a lot better at it! If I'd been quicker I could have easily had a full track there. Missed so many great vocals and things because I'm still getting to grips with it and there are definitely some bugs to be fixed and refinements to be there, but the workflow is already here.
I'd say get onboard to any one who's skeptical. It's certainly not restricted to any genre by its workflow and it's easily the most direct access to creative intention that I've found on the platform yet. Also very practical for using live. It can pretty much play AUM's role as a live instrument host (and will become more functional in this way as time goes on). AUM with a timeline anyone? That's just 0.1% of it..
Very nice, look forward to hearing the full track.
I think that's the main difference between a 'traditional' DAW such as Auria, and BM3 - it's more fun (once you've sussed out the workflow) to use because of the pad jamming element. Once they tidy up the clip launching functionality this will be my go-to recording app.
I doubt we'll make this idea into a track (very rough and more of a jam) but we'll defo use a lot of the ideas for sample processing that we came up with in the process. I particularly like the creativity of the automation/modulation workflow. Very quick but also deeply tweakable.
And yeah, it's just plain fun and immediately rewarding, without 'shepherding' your creativity in any way!
Very nice stuff there. Interesting that this tiny ethnic instrument sounds very much like an intricately synthesized electronic sound when blended in this mix
Cheers! Yeah it's amazing, we love it. Really a magic instrument (we have an album out called 'Aptaakh Khomus' - The Magic Khomus'). We consider it to be 'organic synthesis' as most of the traditional sound production techniques can be directly related to synthesis techniques (we find IceGear's 'resonator' synthesis modules expecially interresting). You can make full sound design with this instrument alone (add in pitching and sampling in BM3.. whoa!! All textural sounds on that track came from that instrument) and that's not even considering the MANY unique textural vocal sounds available (the complexity of Sakha Culture's overtone techniques would be 'FM' to 'organic synthesis', where more commonly known Tuvan/Mongolian overtone singing would be 'Subtractive'). Thing I like a lot about Sakha music too is that it's really rhythmical, trance inducing, shamanic and very full on. Very fun to work with!
We've worked with synth experts 'Analog On' from the Trinity College music technology department a bit, and they've even brought in the Moog System 55 on one occasion. I have literally HOURS of improv between us (organic synthesis with live digital processing) and them (half a room full of modular synthesizers) at various academic summits and things.
None of it is released yet, but I'm going to put the full recordings up for Patrons. There will be a cut back version for general consumption too, probably edited down to 10 mins out of 4+ hours.
The Patreon is here if anyone is interested: https://www.patreon.com/UDAGANuniverse, although it's just being a placeholder right now as we've not launched all our new stuff yet, let alone put some content up there. I'll let you all know when we get it all up and running. It's probably the most amount of geeky shit that you can (technically) buy for one euro!
But, as you earlier said about Affinity Photo for iPad, it's nice to see the developing of this two "Pro"apps, and what they will bring into the app...
For me I kinda like the opportunity to dive in although there are some strange bugs, but, the joy Beatmaker 3 gives me conpensate for the anger of bugs :-)
I think you might have misunderstood the question, etc. To clarify, I like the app. I'm keeping the app. I like the app's approach.
However, It's kinda buggy. It's frustrating to use when you're trying to learn the app but often it fails to even let you do something as simple as dragging a sample onto a pad. The app crashes for me often as well.
So, I'm only asking if someone knows an update is about to go live. I've beta tested many apps and you can get a good idea when the dev is close to a fresh public update. If that's coming very soon, I'd rather learn on a more stabile version of the app, rather than struggle with so many bugs. A malfunctioning version of the app significantly slows down the learning process.
Yup. I shelved it as soon as i couldn't get into my app. Will revisit once it's corrected.
Was just going to use "magic" as part of my awnser as well. Although in my case it truly is magic because i have no idea how it really works. It just does. Brambos knows the inner spells and tricks and STILL says it's magic.
Very cool track, I love the atmosphere!
OK I caved in and got BM3
I'm really enjoying using it - seems like it can pretty much do most things I need.
I've had this weird glitch with AU plugin (think it was Ripplemaker) where when I reloaded a session back into BM3 the track payed back a semitone sharp. Weird. Not sure how to correct it either. I'll try rebooting.
I had the same problem with the Enkl AU instrument used in AB3.. but Ripplemaker didn't do that in AB3.
Ho Hum.
I've noticed that the automation recording of AU parameters seems to work in some AUs and others not. Is this a matter of some AU apps not being compatible? Or this feature in BM3 doesn't quite work right yet?
Always love an essential app list
What's yours, and how do you use them together?
Does it record the automation, but just not show the knob changes on play back? Or does it not record them at all?
Doesn't record automation of parameter changes at all. Not just the dials not moving.
I was using frekvens AU. Didn't work. Tried audio damage rough rider and it did work. So, I don't think it was user error or ignorance... But, that's always a possibility
Just checkin' is Automation Recording turned on?
Yes. It worked as expected with a couple other AU apps, but not with others. Same settings.
I'm at the very beginning of learning this, so its possible I'm doing something wrong. It's just I don't know if this is a bug or user error, or the other apps aren't compatible somehow.
Just tried again. Looks like it's just a few that don't seem to record AU parameter changes. I tried rough rider, RP-1 RF-1, mani, Svep, SquashIt, amazing noises apps, etc. all record auotomation for me. The only ones so far that don't are frekvens, and virsyn's AudioEffx & Bandshift
frekvens was a very early AU adopter. Have you contacted Erik Sigth/humbletunes?
No. It's not that important to me at the moment. Was just trying to see while learning the app, if it was a BM3 bug, or user error, or 3rd party app issue.
By chance, of the first 3 AUs I tried, i.e. Frekvens & 2 Virsyn AUs, none worked. Looks like several others do.
@skiphunt, You probably already know this but, if it's just knob tweaks you should be able to record the parameters directly using the "Show AU Knobs" button.
I hadn't seen this, but by chance... I just figured that out this morning.
However, when I'm recording knob tweaks in the AUs I've cited as not working, ie. Frekvens and Virsyn's Bandshift and AudioEffx... although the knob tweak changes/automation ARE recorded... there doesn't sound like there's any effect at all from the effects. ONLY for these 3 apps though. ALL of my other AU effects record automation fine.
@wim I'm assuming out of Frekvens, AudioEffx and Bandshift... you at least have Frekvens? If so, can you tell me if recorded automation works for you?
No go on Frekvens automation recording.
Not sure if the dev is on here and we can just ping them... or if it is an Intua thing?
I'll test it if I get a chance. Shame if it doesn't, it's one of my favourite fx.
The dev is @humbletune
Yeh, got Frekvens, just no time...
I see others beat me to it though, so question answered. The best thing is to report it over on the BM3 forums under the Bug Reports section. I might if no-one else does over the weekend. But as I only have Frekvens it would be less thorough than if someone else did.
done!
Cool. I'll throw up a confirmation once I get a few minutes to test.
Hey @boone51 thanks for asking. I'm being a builder on my self build double extension project which is eating most of my free time. The good news is that I have a little detached studio now which I'll be using loads once the building stops which shouldn't be too long now. All good, just rather dusty around here!
Just thought I'd chime back in - yep, I eventually bought BM3. And it's pretty killer as a sound module if you've got a decent controller.