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Ripplemaker is my surprise fave app this year

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    edited August 2017

    @RustiK said:
    RippleMaker is a time vampire.

    RippleMaker with ELastic and Layr was a fun filled 2 hours on Saturday night.

    Fun filled 2 hours you say. I hope you used protection. ;)
    Seriously though that sounds like a great music app demo video for someone to make

  • brambosbrambos

    I still intend to make a video, but other projects keep eating up my time. The manual (pdf on ruismaker.com) already contains some advanced Ripplemaker programming tricks to show you a few unusual techniques.

  • erosseross

    @RustiK said:

    @aplourde said:

    @AndyPlankton said:
    Thanks peeps...you gave me the pointers I needed to understand what East/West coast synthesis means. )

    In the way that Troublemaker is not a Roland TB-303, Ripplemaker is not a Make Noise 0-Coast.

    The 0-Coast is so named because it's supposed to be a mix of West and East coast paradigms. That said, the 0-Coast is probably more in the the synthesis "Rocky Mountains" than the synthesis "Kansas" (i.e. it skews more to the West Coast than a pure blend).

    Ripplemaker actually incorporates more East Coast elements to firmly put it in the synthesis "Midwest":

    • direct control of Lowpass Gate cutoff frequency and ability to shift the balance between straight gating and straight filtering (0-Coast has a regular, West Coast, LPG design where cutoff is tied to level and filtering is subtle; although the circuit is not designed with vactrols, so it has a faster, East Coast, response)
    • individual control of ADSR rates (0-Coast has one knob for both Decay and Release)
    • independent VCA/Gain (0-Coast only has the LPG for dynamics)

    Additionally, Ripplemaker has some features not found on the 0-Coast that are common in both East and West coast:

    • S&H / Noise generator
    • LFO

    And one major advantage: It's an AU that you can run multiple instances of and you can automate all the knob twiddling!

    That said, there are a couple of design decisions on Ripplemaker that I think are better handled on the 0-Coast:

    • a major one for me is the lack of attenuverters, or even simple attenuators, on inputs. With Ripplemaker all input "CVs" are scaled from 0 to wherever the knob is. On the 0-Coast inputs for Overtone, Multiply (essentially Fold and Push in Ripplemaker) and the Utility section are scaled and/or inverted with an attenuator or attenuverter and the resulting signal is applied from wherever the main knob is set. This allows you to, for example, modulate a control from 50% to 100%.
    • the 0-Coast has direct output of the triangle and square waves and has a balance control right before the LPG, so you can go crazy with the wave shaping, but still mix back in some of the fundamental to better root the tonality (or you can feed an external input...)
    • speaking of the wave shaper, the 0-Coast can get a lot more wacky than Ripplemaker. Ripplemaker sounds great, but the 0-Coast can sound insane.
    • 0-Coast has a Tap Tempo button which is very useful for making rates jump quickly to different values. Your only direct, instantaneous control in Ripplemaker is the adjust the incoming MIDI clock/Link value
    • the 0-Coast can go to a logarithmic slope on the Slope and has exponential control for the Contour / Envelope

    All of this is to say that I absolutely love Ripplemaker... but it's probably solidified my intention to get an actual 0-Coast.

    BTW, for anyone who wants to get more out of Ripplemaker, check out the numerous videos of the 0-Coast on YouTube.
    The ones from Make Noise are great (especially the Patch of the Week clips):

    But a great place to start is the wonderful Mylarmelodies' demo:

    Que mas?

    cool, i didn't know that was possible with ios. how do you automate Au instruments? does it have to be within a specific daw? I will look at cubasis on my ipad, but how can i automate Au instruments and effects on my iphone???

  • JohnnyGoodyearJohnnyGoodyear

    @brambos said:
    I still intend to make a video, but other projects keep eating up my time. The manual (pdf on ruismaker.com) already contains some advanced Ripplemaker programming tricks to show you a few unusual techniques.

    Less eating, more videoing please Captain.

  • AndyPlanktonAndyPlankton

    @lukesleepwalker said:
    Ha, good one @wim! I like the Marshall amp hiding in the back of the photo.

    :D

  • AndyPlanktonAndyPlankton

    @brambos said:
    I still intend to make a video, but other projects keep eating up my time. The manual (pdf on ruismaker.com) already contains some advanced Ripplemaker programming tricks to show you a few unusual techniques.

    The manual is excellent, I've read through once, and plan to re-read regularly until I can pretty much recite it :)

  • JohnnyGoodyearJohnnyGoodyear

    @AndyPlankton said:

    @brambos said:
    I still intend to make a video, but other projects keep eating up my time. The manual (pdf on ruismaker.com) already contains some advanced Ripplemaker programming tricks to show you a few unusual techniques.

    The manual is excellent, I've read through once, and plan to re-read regularly until I can pretty much recite it :)

    Excellent. Can you then make a video :)

  • ToMessToMess

    @eross said:

    @RustiK said:

    @aplourde said:

    @AndyPlankton said:
    Thanks peeps...you gave me the pointers I needed to understand what East/West coast synthesis means. )

    In the way that Troublemaker is not a Roland TB-303, Ripplemaker is not a Make Noise 0-Coast.

    The 0-Coast is so named because it's supposed to be a mix of West and East coast paradigms. That said, the 0-Coast is probably more in the the synthesis "Rocky Mountains" than the synthesis "Kansas" (i.e. it skews more to the West Coast than a pure blend).

    Ripplemaker actually incorporates more East Coast elements to firmly put it in the synthesis "Midwest":

    • direct control of Lowpass Gate cutoff frequency and ability to shift the balance between straight gating and straight filtering (0-Coast has a regular, West Coast, LPG design where cutoff is tied to level and filtering is subtle; although the circuit is not designed with vactrols, so it has a faster, East Coast, response)
    • individual control of ADSR rates (0-Coast has one knob for both Decay and Release)
    • independent VCA/Gain (0-Coast only has the LPG for dynamics)

    Additionally, Ripplemaker has some features not found on the 0-Coast that are common in both East and West coast:

    • S&H / Noise generator
    • LFO

    And one major advantage: It's an AU that you can run multiple instances of and you can automate all the knob twiddling!

    That said, there are a couple of design decisions on Ripplemaker that I think are better handled on the 0-Coast:

    • a major one for me is the lack of attenuverters, or even simple attenuators, on inputs. With Ripplemaker all input "CVs" are scaled from 0 to wherever the knob is. On the 0-Coast inputs for Overtone, Multiply (essentially Fold and Push in Ripplemaker) and the Utility section are scaled and/or inverted with an attenuator or attenuverter and the resulting signal is applied from wherever the main knob is set. This allows you to, for example, modulate a control from 50% to 100%.
    • the 0-Coast has direct output of the triangle and square waves and has a balance control right before the LPG, so you can go crazy with the wave shaping, but still mix back in some of the fundamental to better root the tonality (or you can feed an external input...)
    • speaking of the wave shaper, the 0-Coast can get a lot more wacky than Ripplemaker. Ripplemaker sounds great, but the 0-Coast can sound insane.
    • 0-Coast has a Tap Tempo button which is very useful for making rates jump quickly to different values. Your only direct, instantaneous control in Ripplemaker is the adjust the incoming MIDI clock/Link value
    • the 0-Coast can go to a logarithmic slope on the Slope and has exponential control for the Contour / Envelope

    All of this is to say that I absolutely love Ripplemaker... but it's probably solidified my intention to get an actual 0-Coast.

    BTW, for anyone who wants to get more out of Ripplemaker, check out the numerous videos of the 0-Coast on YouTube.
    The ones from Make Noise are great (especially the Patch of the Week clips):

    But a great place to start is the wonderful Mylarmelodies' demo:

    Que mas?

    cool, i didn't know that was possible with ios. how do you automate Au instruments? does it have to be within a specific daw? I will look at cubasis on my ipad, but how can i automate Au instruments and effects on my iphone???

    Bm3 is the only daw capable of au automations from the plugin ui afaik. But if the au has midi controllable parameters, you could send that midi on other daws to it as well

  • kobamotokobamoto

    are there any other sequencers on iOS similar to this one, that are sequencer only?

  • oat_phippsoat_phipps
    edited August 2017

    @kobamoto said:
    are there any other sequencers on iOS similar to this one, that are sequencer only?

    None that I'm aware of, especially not with the beautiful random functions. I think that's why so many people are trying to coerce the dev into doing one. I don't see how he takes the constant pounding.

    Edit: In case you didn't know, you CAN use the Trouble/Ripple sequencers in Audiobus 3 MIDI to feed into other apps.

  • kobamotokobamoto

    @oat_phipps said:

    @kobamoto said:
    are there any other sequencers on iOS similar to this one, that are sequencer only?

    None that I'm aware of, especially not with the beautiful random functions. I think that's why so many people are trying to coerce the dev into doing one. I don't see how he takes the constant pounding.

    Edit: In case you didn't know, you CAN use the Trouble/Ripple sequencers in Audiobus 3 MIDI to feed into other apps.

    can they be used to feed other apps without using audiobus?

  • Blipsford_BaubieBlipsford_Baubie

    Will the behavior of the sound remain the same if I ditch the sequencer and trigger it with something else? (Assuming i don't play it polyphonically of course) Or is it all dependant?

  • wimwim
    edited August 2017

    @Blipsford_Baubie said:
    Will the behavior of the sound remain the same if I ditch the sequencer and trigger it with something else? (Assuming i don't play it polyphonically of course) Or is it all dependant?

    It will behave the same. The built-in sequencer has nice morphing features. These of course won't be in play.

  • kobamotokobamoto

    @kobamoto said:

    @oat_phipps said:

    @kobamoto said:
    are there any other sequencers on iOS similar to this one, that are sequencer only?

    None that I'm aware of, especially not with the beautiful random functions. I think that's why so many people are trying to coerce the dev into doing one. I don't see how he takes the constant pounding.

    Edit: In case you didn't know, you CAN use the Trouble/Ripple sequencers in Audiobus 3 MIDI to feed into other apps.

    can they be used to feed other apps without using audiobus?

  • oat_phippsoat_phipps
    edited August 2017

    @kobamoto said:

    @kobamoto said:

    @oat_phipps said:

    @kobamoto said:
    are there any other sequencers on iOS similar to this one, that are sequencer only?

    None that I'm aware of, especially not with the beautiful random functions. I think that's why so many people are trying to coerce the dev into doing one. I don't see how he takes the constant pounding.

    Edit: In case you didn't know, you CAN use the Trouble/Ripple sequencers in Audiobus 3 MIDI to feed into other apps.

    can they be used to feed other apps without using audiobus?

    No, unfortunately. One of the few reasons I keep Audiobus 3 around

  • wimwim

    @kobamoto said:

    @kobamoto said:

    @oat_phipps said:

    @kobamoto said:
    are there any other sequencers on iOS similar to this one, that are sequencer only?

    None that I'm aware of, especially not with the beautiful random functions. I think that's why so many people are trying to coerce the dev into doing one. I don't see how he takes the constant pounding.

    Edit: In case you didn't know, you CAN use the Trouble/Ripple sequencers in Audiobus 3 MIDI to feed into other apps.

    can they be used to feed other apps without using audiobus?

    I don't think so.

  • kobamotokobamoto

    :( I thought it had a stand alone mode.... sorry to hear this

  • oat_phippsoat_phipps

    @kobamoto said:
    :( I thought it had a stand alone mode.... sorry to hear this

    It has a standalone mode, just no midi out. The standalone mode has the sequencer, AU does not.

  • kobamotokobamoto

    thanks Oaty

  • AndyPlanktonAndyPlankton

    @oat_phipps said:

    @kobamoto said:
    :( I thought it had a stand alone mode.... sorry to hear this

    It has a standalone mode, just no midi out. The standalone mode has the sequencer, AU does not.

    Not quite the same, but you can export the midi

  • knewspeakknewspeak

    Thanks @brambos I'm really enjoying your app, both synth and sequencer.

  • JeffChasteenJeffChasteen

    @oat_phipps said:

    @kobamoto said:

    @kobamoto said:

    @oat_phipps said:

    @kobamoto said:
    are there any other sequencers on iOS similar to this one, that are sequencer only?

    None that I'm aware of, especially not with the beautiful random functions. I think that's why so many people are trying to coerce the dev into doing one. I don't see how he takes the constant pounding.

    Edit: In case you didn't know, you CAN use the Trouble/Ripple sequencers in Audiobus 3 MIDI to feed into other apps.

    can they be used to feed other apps without using audiobus?

    No, unfortunately. One of the few reasons I keep Audiobus 3 around

    THAT is the only reason I made the jump from AB2 to AB3.
    I think maybe our gracious hosts should owe a little sugar to Brambos :)

  • CalverhallCalverhall

    @branbos your creations are superb! I crumbled and grabbed Troublemaker and its excellent, the feel of the touch UI is impeccible, its like a toy its so easy to use. What a pair with Ripplemaker this will make!

  • erosseross

    having trouble with ripplemaker. if i send it midi from a another midi app, it won't trigger anything shorter than an eighth note. am i missing something? if i send the exact same thing to troublemaker, it works perfectly. any ideas??

  • Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredrWrlds2ndBstGeoshredr

    I am bonding with Ripplemaker. Such a nice unique set of sounds from the West Coast approach. I plug in cables and twist knobs at random, no idea what I'm doing but nice sounds emerge. My only regret is that it seems to be stuck in ET. This means that I will never finish a track with it, since I only work in just.

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