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What's old is new again - Revisiting apps neglected, overlooked, or not yet gotten to
It's crazy the abundance of music making apps there are, and good ones too, at good prices no less. Every now and then I'll go through all the ones I've accumulated and revisit them, ones I haven't used enough, simply overlooked, or just haven't gotten around to exploring thoroughly.
Thought I'd say a few words about one I felt worth talking about, feel free to talk about any you might want to share as well (with links to AppStore).
PressIt - A multi-band compressor made by Klevgränd
Just spent some time using this in AU format in Cubasis, wondering why I haven't been using it more. What makes it cool beyond the multi-band compression are the "Bypass" and "Mute" buttons for each band, which turns it into a filter sort of effect as well. You can adjust the range of the bands by sliding the two slots between each band, to get some sweeping action going, especially with the bypass and mute buttons. No automation for the band range adjustment unfortunately, so you have to operate by hand, but still a nice little feature set for this app!
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Cool nudge. Thank you.
Yeh, picked it up recently during the Borderlands talk, so easy to get something interesting going with minimal input. I was routing Ström through it.
My nomination is Moebius Lab, which is mad professor bonkers.
If you REALLY want bonkers - try chaining together some of the apeSoft/Amazing Noises stuff. iVCS3 and iPulsaret running into Moebius Lab with Sugar Bytes' Turnado as an insert effect. Pure space-noise madness!
With the Launch of Samplebot and Werkbench this week I rediscovered Beatbeat again thanks to Mannix tip
Note this app is from 2011 but still kickin'ass
File this in the "neglected" category for me, because I've always liked it but just got around to using it more:
ARP ODYSSEi by Korg
A synth with a relatively simple 2 oscillator set up, each with just a saw or pulse option, given character by the different modulation options including: yes, an arp, as well as sample and hold among other things. Add in a voice unison and detune/spread section and this synth really starts to shine. Downside? Patches do not transfer to Gadget, which is a curious omission.
Don't forget about the text to speech synthesis this app has!
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(for those that don't watch the whole video
It's always a good time to "rediscover" iKaossilator
Tera Synth
You're obsessed. I like that in a man
Rediscover ZILLIDRONE!!!
Could have been a contender...
Yes this app was far ahead of it's time and still worthy to use
This current assessment by me has resulted in more deletion of unused apps than appreciation of them. Not such a bad thing though, shedding some of the fat.
iVCS3. Each control knob has it's own lfo, that alone increases the power of the original design. Putting lfos on the sequencer controls provides lost hours of fun.
Good call.
Pressit is a great little app.
This one, neglected by me:
Patterning by Olympia Noise Co.
I bring up this well known and well regarded app up for it's potential to be used unconventionally: With non-drum samples and as a compositional tool. Throw 8 different samples in there, make use of the old school pitch shifting, combine that with the ability to tweak each sequencer track individually, and you get much more than a drum machine. I have neglected this app for too long.
that's for what I use Patterning 90% of the time
another goodie is (quick) live switching of kits while a groove is playing
Elastic Drums has a similiar feature treating imported samples:
no need to precisely cut them in advance as you can set all envelope/loop points in it's sample editor.
I’m wish this app Pro and non Pro was given some love and discount. Could of been so much more. Was massive when it first dropped.
Peter Vogel CMI Pro by Peter Vogel Instruments Pty Ltd
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/peter-vogel-cmi-pro/id427747876?mt=8
M3000 Ultimate:
I dunno what is about this one, how they did that but independently at which notes you play it sounds gorgeous. Even if you fist-play a keyboard.
A mellotron has 1 tone generator (endless tape of about 10 seconds) for each key.
If you hold a key for more than that time the tone stops, you have to release the key to make the tape rewind (spring driven in hardware)
The M3000 key samples do exactly the same (if set to unlooped mode).
That instrument is a classic and doesn't need any updates.
It's the most affordable 'true' virtual Mellotron out there, an old iPad2 on an ioDock makes it independent
Any videos or Soundclouds of this approach in action?