What sort of essential apps are missing from the market?

brice

@Zen210507 said:
Something that can take any .wav file, and turn it into Midi components. So, if a standard song is input, what comes out is separate bass, lead, drums and vocal, as a minimum.

Yes, there are apps that claim to change .wav to Midi, but they are at present limited and often fail unless what goes in fits what they need like a key in a lock.

Is that even possible on any platform? I’ve seen Logic convert a relatively simple bassline into MIDI but it required a lot of user intervention to clean up the MIDI. I can’t imagine what would happen if you fed an entire song into it!

[Deleted User]

@brice said:
Is that even possible on any platform? I’ve seen Logic convert a relatively simple bassline into MIDI but it required a lot of user intervention to clean up the MIDI. I can’t imagine what would happen if you fed an entire song into it!

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Not as far as I know.

But with computing power growing as it is, the brilliance of developers, and the fact that such an app would sell like hot cakes....maybe one day soon.

brice

@Zen210507 said:

@brice said:
Is that even possible on any platform? I’ve seen Logic convert a relatively simple bassline into MIDI but it required a lot of user intervention to clean up the MIDI. I can’t imagine what would happen if you fed an entire song into it!

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Not as far as I know.

But with computing power growing as it is, the brilliance of developers, and the fact that such an app would sell like hot cakes....maybe one day soon.

Very true. Regroover by Accusonus more or less performs the beginning part of your equation. At least it claims to....I can’t say whether or not it’s successful. But it’s an interesting idea.

Ribbon

1. An iOS app version of the SP-404SX, maybe as a Korg Gadget.
2. A proper (and audio or core/virtual MIDI-controlled) projection mapping app, similar to the Modul8-MadMapper combo.

Also, AUv3 working on older iPads too, separate tracks export in Group The Loop, and MIDI control in iMaschine.

RUST( i )K

App that increases the size of my penis while making me wealthy beyond my wildest dreams.

In the meantime, I have Viagra and SSRI.

Keenan

A whistling emulation app.. for those of us who suck at whistling whooo

stormbeats

@yowza said:
First world problems.

I'm waiting for the ultimate app to be released which doesn't immediately have people asking for AU, Link, panning, Apple's Files app access, kitchen sink etc etc to be added.

Make music with what you already have!!

true - but then soundwise we run the risk of sounding alike- no trademark sound -

stormbeats

bit reduction/lo fi Auv3 plugins

[Deleted User]

Something like Realivox Blue.

realitone.com/blue/

Processaurus

EXS24 or NNXT

Recycle-like loop chopping that preserves the original groove. It is the superior way to change length/pitch without artifacts. GB does this somewhat, the Apple Loop format is a knockoff of the .rex format, but you can't make your own loops.

LemurFlight

Imagine this in a AU form inside AUM as an FX insert

https://www.gprmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/FIGURA3.jpg

Samu

@Processaurus said:
EXS24 or NNXT

Recycle-like loop chopping that preserves the original groove. It is the superior way to change length/pitch without artifacts. GB does this somewhat, the Apple Loop format is a knockoff of the .rex format, but you can't make your own loops.

BM3 can save a sliced sample as an 'Apple Loop' that works perfectly in GarageBand

Will

@Fruitbat1919 said:
An auto sampler.

One of these used to be available for that keyboard that was basically a computer in a synth shell (can’t remember its name).

Basically you set up which notes you wanted to sample at how many octaves, hooked up a midi cable to the device and audio cables back from the device - wallah! It auto sampled your sound. You could set it up to create settings suitable for particular sounds and it literally did everything automatically after set up!

I would like one of those for iOS with the ability to sample internally too!

I'd love to see this too. For me, the features could basically end here. The additional 'killer' feature for me would be the ability to export to various iOS friendly instrument formats. SF2, SFZ (auria, I think), BM2/3 instrument, NanoStudio 2 instrument...

Will

@midiSequencer said:

@brambos said:

@midiSequencer said:

@gusgranite said:
A MIDI Randomizer that learns every parameter of any app and randomizes it with the ability to freeze or reset by parameter and save as preset.

a sort of swarm2 independent app? So how do you get that app to communicate with all the other apps if they don't expose the control/patch info other than by slow midi ccs? We have yet to see many apps adopt nrpn or sysex we have in hardware devices.

And even then, truly random patch generation is rarely useful. So the plugin would have to "know" the synth and the depencies between different parameters. For example: in Phasemaker (FM synth) the parameter sweetspot for usable sounds is really narrow because in FM a tiny parameter change or two can quickly lead to complete earpiercing chaos. So I had to build a smart randomizer with lots of dependencies and conditional modifiers to be able to come up with usable results.

A generic patch randomizer could not be expected to figure that out on its own.

I more interesting (but virtually impossible on iOS) approach would be a machine learning algorithm. You could feed it a ton of presets and make it learn patterns that work well together and then let it experiment with those.

I agree - its not just getting the start/end points of data values and applying a die roll - a lot of parameters have a non-linear effect.
Guess you had your ears-pierced in the past!

Machine learning version would be brilliant. Another, not as amazing (or CPU intense) way might be:

1. AU host
2. User can select which parameters to randomize
3. User can set the range of randomization on any selected param
4. Maybe: User can set the likelihood a given param will be randomized?
5. Maybe: User can set a "lean" on a given param? "Range is 0-100 but lean towards 100". In the form of curves.
6. User can save and share algorithms specific to the currently hosted AU

If the sharing bit is in place, the 'user' could be the synth developer themselves who, as BB noted, really knows best.

I'm imagining something where the AU is the upper 50% of the screen and the lower half is each parameter in a rectangular grid (maybe 5 params across, each "one finger" high, stacked). Tap on to turn it on/off. Slide from the left or right to set the range. Not sure how to integrate likeliness/probability other than a separate view but...

Tab to switch the lower 50% from the params view to a built in keyboard for testing.

Buttons to generate, revert (important!), save, share and browse shared 'algorithm' presets. Simple web service would 'tag' saved presets with each AUs machine name (or some other lower level key I'm not aware of). Not sure of a simple way to make sure good ones (or AU developer created ones) rise to the top other than the dev manually including them as presets within the app or complicating the web service with ratings, etc. Perhaps the dev can simply flag 'good' and those would appear at the top of the sharing stream.

I don't understand enough about the AU preset portability madness to know if this would actually be useful (if these generated presets could be used in another AU host).

If anyone wants to do something like this, I'm down to help with the web service part of it!

u0421793

@RUST( i )K said:
App that increases the size of my penis while making me wealthy beyond my wildest dreams.
…

It’d probably have a serious bug that simply makes you a penis beyond your wildest dreams.

Will

I still yearn for an iOS version of http://polymer-app.com/. Split/rotate incoming MIDI notes out to N channels. Play chords with Ripplemaker! Or Viking! Or split chords across Ripplemaker, Viking and Zeeon at the same time. Or rotate each note from a mono bass line across 3 different synths or...

You can, of course, manually do all of the above with the magic that is Quantum but the difference is it requires you to set it up that way vs working on any incoming MIDI stream.

u0421793

I think there should be a comparison app (optionally based around meerkats, not essential though) which takes a sound you’re about to save on a running synth, and suggests “oh, that’s very much like xxx sound on aaaa synth, and a bit like yyy sound on bbbb synth, and with a bit of tweaking of blah blah parameter, it’ll be a lot like zzz patch on cccc synth.“

Will

@u0421793 said:
I think there should be a comparison app (optionally based around meerkats, not essential though) which takes a sound you’re about to save on a running synth, and suggests “oh, that’s very much like xxx sound on aaaa synth, and a bit like yyy sound on bbbb synth, and with a bit of tweaking of blah blah parameter, it’ll be a lot like zzz patch on cccc synth.“

Sounds like an IAP for the Autosampler app.

zhoe

I still miss one super accurate frequency analyser and a proper Waves plugins bundle (20+) across the board.
I would love if Native Instruments update their iMaschine 2 so one can use their controllers along with iPads. Dunno why I said it, but it just crossed my mind.

zhoe

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I would love to see this on iOS

LOVE
+1

Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr

Some of the more Eururack-style modules would be great. For example, the open source Mutalbel Instruments modules that have been ported to VCVrack like Clouds and Rings. We also need a Spectral Multiband Resonator:

YZJustDatGuy

@stormbeats said:
bit reduction/lo fi Auv3 plugins

Something like this?
Lo-Fly Dirt by MSXII Sound Design
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lo-fly-dirt/id1292776927?mt=8

Ribbon

@LemurFlight said:
Imagine this in a AU form inside AUM as an FX insert

https://www.gprmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/FIGURA3.jpg

Oh yes please. Both as AU and IAA Fx.

zhoe

@LemurFlight said:
Imagine this in a AU form inside AUM as an FX insert

https://www.gprmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/FIGURA3.jpg

Nice!

[Deleted User]

Something like voxengo span......while we’re wishing.

rs2000

Desktop-quality FX, not only inside Auria.
Something like iZotope Ozone, even the older V4 or V5 would really fill a gap.
A modular FX environment like Audulus or zMors Modular that works properly as IAA and AU. MobMuPlat does it, but creating patches is no fun.
And iOS8+ support.

gusgranite

@YZJustDatGuy said:

@stormbeats said:
bit reduction/lo fi Auv3 plugins

Something like this?
Lo-Fly Dirt by MSXII Sound Design
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lo-fly-dirt/id1292776927?mt=8

Blamsoft Resampler as well. Very capable little app.

oat_phipps

@Keenan said:
A whistling emulation app.. for those of us who suck at whistling whooo

Dude(/dudette), I’ve been trying to learn to whistle for the last 10 years now and I still can’t do it. I guess some things a certain humans don’t have a capacity for.

oat_phipps

@YZJustDatGuy said:

@stormbeats said:
bit reduction/lo fi Auv3 plugins

Something like this?
Lo-Fly Dirt by MSXII Sound Design
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lo-fly-dirt/id1292776927?mt=8

There’s also Shaper, which just got an update with a new effect type

Panthemusicalgoat

Proper sounding pitch shift AU