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Happily guilty. I don't even keep it for the whole thing, mostly just the 'Actopia' patch
I also still have iOS Alchemy that runs on an older iPad. Like in GarageBand, the Camel Audio mobile version of Alchemy is basically just a player app---sounds great, but Alchemy in Logic is another thing, the full programmable powerhouse upgraded by Apple.
check out Magic Voxel to create some cool pixel pics
https://ephtracy.github.io
somethin retro?
Do any of you use BM3 as your main DAW? Could it take the place of GB for example?
If so having Link would be an amazing plus. Anybody?
I would love to use it as my main daw and that was always the plan but the automation is not quite there yet so hoping it will get sorted.
It is certainly my main app on iOS. Until it gets better audio tracks, audio clip editing and AU automation in clips is working better I consider it more of an advanced groovebox than a DAW though. A GrooveDAW perhaps. Anyway, the BM3 slicer/sampler is the main meal deal for me and I dont see it as a GB replacement as it is simply fullfilling very different needs in a different way to me. I eagerly await Nanostudio2 or BM3.1. Would love it if 3.1 came out before NS2 as I don’t want to neccessarily get sucked into another app before, but eh, why not? Fun to try a variety.
@gusgranite. I see the term automation used a lot here but I have to admit that I’m not sure what it’s referring to.
My iOS DAW is Xequence > BM3 > AUM > AEMS...
In my simple understanding it's 'I twiddle these knobs/this filter and the app remembers my actions and plays them back etc'.
Yep.
https://crossfadr.com/2011/10/26/automation-what-it-is-and-what-it-can-do-for-you/
https://www.izotope.com/en/blog/music-production/get-the-most-from-daw-automation-3-creative-approaches.html
Got it. So why then would automation be an issue if you’re inputting say Model D (or any number of sound generating apps) into BM3 as your DAW in AB output slot?
And thanks for the straight answer to what seems to be common knowledge.
I’m just learning this stuff too. There’s no silly questions.
You might want to tweak FX in a track. So maybe you want to record tweaking the filter cutoff as well as a delay etc. With automation you can either draw that tweaking on the track or record yourself twiddling the knobs in real-time and then go back and tweak the delay.
You would load Model D straight in BM3 and then enable automation in BM3.
Automation is drawing/playing parameters realtime and being recorded (paradise for dubbers) so you can edit/tweak the line/curve until you get the desired effect (or mix)
It’s also useful to with physical controllers which can recieve midi and represent it in some way. As example bcr2000 for faders or bcr2000 for endless and led ringed encoders. In this video it’s used to draw ledbars (cosmetic like the people using launchpads for lightshows) but it’s useful for work with grouping channels and busses. You can bus all the drum channels (kick, snare, hats...) each one with its own volume and automation into subgroup channel and then with just one fader control the entire submix. You will be all the automations affected to the new values (if you had hit record of course) ad how dinamics work realtime. Hard to see in the screen with too much channels and line/curves at the same time. Also you can feel it if you put your hands over the mixing board faders...
This makes edition less painful than draw things with mouse.
Think also in pitchbend/modulation wheels for funky bass licks ability to being corrected if your soul gets too Jamesbrownized
My quick personal pros and cons of BM3:
Pros:
1. Once learnt, it’s a wonderful work flow
2. Each pad kit has its own mixer
3. Fx can be put on seperate parts of a kit
4. You can save sounds with the fx you use on them
5. I find it is mostly stable and has few bugs for my use scenario
6. There are often quick from most screens to where you want to go
7. Some of the IAP sound good to go out of the box, or with little tinkering
8. It’s easy to import files into it and the file system is not too shabby
9. It does not auto load one project, it gives you a choice on boot up
10. The sampler is one of the best on iOS
11. Decent linear and pattern approach
12. Very useful low resource fx included
Cons:
1. No track freeze
2. Some may find it a steep initial learning curve
3. Rozeta is currently broken in it
4. The midi implementation can make you scratch your head
5. No simple midi stem export
6. Some features are actually hard to find unless you read the manual
Others may have other points, but these are my main thoughts on BM3
Thanks for the input everyone. My apologies to the OP for the tangent.
BM3 crashes too much for me other than that I love it
Mixer MIDI CONTROL
Easier Modulation methods / sync
Better user sample folder file management
More IAP packs
Better user sample file folder management ?
It is already the best on IOS by many many miles, it has full browser with sub foldering akin to the desktop, what exactly are you needing on top of this ?
Not sure what easier modulation methods means either, or sync, the only modulator that needs an extra sync option is the step modulator that doesn't have a song position sync, which it needs, other than that i would like to see the modulators in the sampler be global and available to every parameter, be it sampler or AU, that would be excellent.
Mixer MIDI control is desperately needed though, couldn't agree more on that.
BM3 File system is a dream.
This app doesn't need track freeze either. You process the same way as OTB...
Off the boat?
Exactly.
I get why people want track freeze for using AU/IAA instruments but it's not too hard to imitate freeze if you really wanted that. I'm a big fan of committing to audio!
That is my big trip this weekend. Embracing BM3 as a groovebox and just committing to audio right away, using automation just to compliment the 'performance' and overdubbing editing / mixing audio in a daw as I go. Crazy efficient really and I dig the improvy vibe. The fact that Bm3 begins playing when triggered by midi clock works great for this.
OTB?> @AudioGus said:
OTB? Off track betting, surely? Must be a New York thing....
Look forward to your Monday morning report as regards Groovebox success etc.
H> @JohnnyGoodyear said:
I was thinking maybe on the bus...
Anywho, will report in on Tuesday as Monday is Canadian Turkey Day, so bonus! Thinking I will try and go olde school weekend style and only use online as a virtual VCR and just play some cartoons in the background. The 90s Aeon Flux series was a great backdrop for tunes. I may start there and then queue up some weirder anime. Redline is a cool one to put on too.
I’m with cowboy bebop. The soundtrack is from outta planet
Just started watching it. Only took me twenty years.
I’ve seen some episodes back in the day at tv but lost the track of it (like farscape) so now is in netflix and my chance to revive it. Makes me feel old but almost Spike is JKD practicioner and some dialogues are in my wave
Josh Hodge (The Audio Programmer), Aure Prochazka (Founder of AudioKit), and Mathieu Garcia (BM3) last night in San Francisco. Get to work, slackers!
Can you ask Mat, When/If there will be an update to BM3?