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I think that when you get used to it, you could use it as a tool, knowing in advance were you going to. In that sense, is a new interface for the good old arpeggiator.
But at the same time it is very easy to change the note sequence, so it's possible to flow with freedom, generating unexpected phrases, exploring and having fun. In that sense, it is similar to a semi-generative tool. But it is not generative as a system that uses and statistical process to decide progressions or something alike. It's deterministic.
So, the way Aphelian behaves changes to a lot depending on what the user is willing to do within the jam
Difficult thing to predict. For me it’s already generated some potentially usable clips for new tracks. I say potentially, as they’re not as tight as I’d like, so the proof in the pudding is if they can be polished up in the app. If they can, then it’ll get a lot of use from me.
Then again it’s big sister Oscilab is a good thing too. But like Gadget, when I opened it recently I thought ‘this is great, why don’t I use it more?’ And then forgot about it again.
I think it’s all about workflow. If it’s good, stable, and easily adds into your own particular flow then it’ll get a decent amount of use.
Looking good for this one, but I thought the same about ApeMatrix a couple of months back...but in the meantime the fun element is certainly there.
I’ve found it works really well with Aparillo, and I had a cracking bass sound from Sunrizer.
What I like about it is you get nice long notes from it, my other sequencers can sound a tad ‘bitty’, tending to cut notes off too much. So I can do evolving slow stuff, as well as the plinkety plonk disco farge.
I confirm that it works much better if you disable the Link. I really enjoy this app now. I suspect hower a battery drain. Any comment on this?
Is there a way to move/adjust the white starting point in each shape?
Have you played real time with this screen where you can control the playhead movement for all four sequences? So much fun and very powerful to bring natural feel to your creation.
yeah but only briefly, that's a good feature. You can move the playheads with your finger there. But trying to find if you can set the start point for each playhead in the shape. Hope that's coming in the future if it's not already possible.
eg. Here it's the white point start position at the top of the triangle. maybe there's a way of selecting another of the points to start from. Rotating the shape doesn't always bring the result I'm looking for.
is that possible yet?
@JuanB
Thanks for lett8ng people know and responding,
Wow! So excited for this! Thanks! And thanks for the Secrets of Sythesis mention. Will check it out!
Definitely finding it a lot more stable when using in apeMatrix/AUM other than Audiobus though, Would love to see midi program change for sessions (maybe a separate folder in the browser). Until it gets an AU that would be useful for state saving outside AB.
My main use for the app would be midi out. So I'll be waiting for the thumbs up when the bugs are fixed.
+1 for this. I had a couple of hour long plays yesterday and I tried to figure out how to move that start point more than a few times...
@juanb congrats on the app. A worthy successor to oscilab. After a few hours here my observations
+1 for a way to modify the start point of the sequence mentioned by @Carnbot
Would it be easy to add a solo as well as mute?
My first play with the synth made me think that the filter envelope is ‘weak’ or not fast enough. I tried to make a bass sound by shutting the low pass filter and letting the envelope decay open it up and even with full env amount it doesnt let sound through. It might be me but Ive done this same task of 10s of synths and it works as expected.
I would like an blank project and and init patch for the synth. Although deconstructing the excellent demos teaches a lot about the app having a blank/ empty to build upon is a nice starting point also. For example I used the new project to start and it took me ages to find why the one tone would rise and fall in volume until I discovered there was a velocity automation enabled
I thought there was something wrong with the app!
Do I have to listen to Wendy’s lectures to understand the different opions for Note, Note Flow, Flow etc (joke) An explanation of the Note Sampling Modes and also the Orbit Align Options in the Orbit View and I think Ive understood everything
All in all, amazing work. Love the sequencer, a beautiful user interface, and a cool new synth. Good luck with the midi bugs
Another little demo of the synth engine mostly. Love the sound of it. The synth alone is good enough imho to be a stand-alone app, maybe with a few tiny additional features like sub oscillators, different waveforms selection, etc. There’s a wide range of sound possibilities.
Good to hear. I also tend to prefer my madness slower and more atmospheric....hope to find an hour for this today...
@JuanB update: I used again yesterday evening doing pretty much everything you can in the app, including midi out. Didn’t experience a single bug.
Then again late last night. The same. Even hosted in apeMatrix with Link turned on, then tried inter-app syncing too. No issues other than sometimes when hosted in AUM or apeMatrix the transport control at the top will cover up the tempo control so that you can’t change it. Other times it’s not covering the tempo control, but it won’t respond. Something off there, but otherwise pretty stable still.
I don’t know if it matters, but my initial install with problems was via the pre-ordered link.
Were you doing scene changes too with the midi out?
No, but I’ll try real quick and see if works ok. Will report back.
Edit: just tried midi out via one of the demo projects with scene changes. Tried stand-alone with midi out... crashed consistently. Tried Aphelian hosted in apeMatrix, playing demo with scene changes, then midi out... also crashes consistently.
Interested if those who are using Aphelian on iPad Air2s, who are claiming “extensive use” without issues at all, can see if they can run midi out with scene changes and no crashing. My install crashes consistently with this.
Yeah I can certainly confirm it's worse in Audiobus than in other hosts. Unfortunately I still get bugs rearing up and crashes, but much less often.
U> @Carnbot said:
Yeah, with scene changes and midi out, hosted or not... mine is a consistently repeatable crash fest... same as @Blipsford_Baubie
Yes, I can confirm the freezing issue with MIDI and scene changes - dev is aware. I have tried disabling link, using standalone, using in AB, in AUM and ApeMatrix. No improvement. Also tried creating several scenes first with internal engine and replaying those with MIDI - some success with this but still experienced the freezing issue.
No issues using internal sound engine or playing MIDI without creating new scenes.
@JuanB I got a few crashes in standalone here's the pertinent info from the last crash.
{"app_name":"Aphelian","timestamp":"2019-01-05 10:17:52.80 -0800","app_version":"1.0.2","slice_uuid":"0c708e0f-b28e-3996-87bb-a735e5cca6d9","adam_id":1435855056,"build_version":"1988","bundleID":"com.aphelianlabs.aphelian","share_with_app_devs":false,"is_first_party":false,"bug_type":"109","os_version":"iPhone OS 12.1.1 (16C50)","incident_id":"01B7F2E2-4285-4D43-AB34-1C0E025FF2C0","name":"Aphelian"}
Incident Identifier: 01B7F2E2-4285-4D43-AB34-1C0E025FF2C0
CrashReporter Key: 0e974c5a1f3d66062cdd4ab5b99b080bcd704ad8
Hardware Model: iPad5,3
Process: Aphelian [609]
Path: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/802D0645-92BA-4B8C-AA60-A7F1D0F69701/Aphelian.app/Aphelian
Identifier: com.aphelianlabs.aphelian
Version: 1988 (1.0.2)
AppStoreTools: 10B63
AppVariant: 1:iPad5,3:9
Code Type: ARM-64 (Native)
Role: Non UI
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Coalition: com.aphelianlabs.aphelian [557]
Date/Time: 2019-01-05 10:17:52.3101 -0800
Launch Time: 2019-01-05 10:12:43.2431 -0800
OS Version: iPhone OS 12.1.1 (16C50)
Baseband Version: n/a
Report Version: 104
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Subtype: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
VM Region Info: 0 is not in any region. Bytes before following region: 4295458816
REGION TYPE START - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD REGION DETAIL
UNUSED SPACE AT START
--->
__TEXT 0000000100078000-000000010007c000 [ 16K] r-x/r-x SM=COW ....app/Aphelian
Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [609]
Triggered by Thread: 0
Thread 0 name: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 Aphelian 0x000000010012409c 0x100078000 + 704668
1 Aphelian 0x0000000100124098 0x100078000 + 704664
2 Aphelian 0x0000000100081b68 0x100078000 + 39784
3 Aphelian 0x000000010016f838 0x100078000 + 1013816
4 Aphelian 0x000000010009ce94 0x100078000 + 151188
5 Aphelian 0x000000010028ace4 0x100078000 + 2174180
6 Aphelian 0x000000010028aa98 0x100078000 + 2173592
7 Aphelian 0x000000010028a89c 0x100078000 + 2173084
8 Aphelian 0x00000001003a7508 0x100078000 + 3339528
9 Aphelian 0x00000001003a7318 0x100078000 + 3339032
10 Aphelian 0x00000001003a3008 0x100078000 + 3321864
11 Aphelian 0x00000001003a31e8 0x100078000 + 3322344
12 Aphelian 0x00000001003a3744 0x100078000 + 3323716
13 Aphelian 0x00000001003a3418 0x100078000 + 3322904
14 Aphelian 0x00000001003c4bb4 0x100078000 + 3460020
15 Aphelian 0x00000001003b4694 0x100078000 + 3393172
16 UIKitCore 0x00000001fc546110 0x1fbc22000 + 9584912
17 UIKitCore 0x00000001fc547590 0x1fbc22000 + 9590160
18 UIKitCore 0x00000001fc52688c 0x1fbc22000 + 9455756
19 UIKitCore 0x00000001fc5f50f8 0x1fbc22000 + 10301688
20 UIKitCore 0x00000001fc5f7af0 0x1fbc22000 + 10312432
21 UIKitCore 0x00000001fc5f05e0 0x1fbc22000 + 10282464
22 CoreFoundation 0x00000001cf5c51f0 0x1cf519000 + 705008
23 CoreFoundation 0x00000001cf5c5170 0x1cf519000 + 704880
24 CoreFoundation 0x00000001cf5c4a54 0x1cf519000 + 703060
25 CoreFoundation 0x00000001cf5bf920 0x1cf519000 + 682272
26 CoreFoundation 0x00000001cf5bf1f0 0x1cf519000 + 680432
27 GraphicsServices 0x00000001d1838584 0x1d182d000 + 46468
28 UIKitCore 0x00000001fc50b4c0 0x1fbc22000 + 9344192
29 Aphelian 0x00000001001d40e0 0x100078000 + 1425632
30 libdyld.dylib 0x00000001cf07ebb4 0x1cf07e000 + 2996
After some hazardous starts, I have done something with Aphelian. It is a very inspiring app and I really hope it will be very successful and that the few remaining bugs will soon be solved
👌😊👍
Very nice! Thanks for sharing that. Swirling and upbeat, like the feeling when you get out of work or school on a nice spring day. What other apps or instruments if any did you use? Is that guitar sound near the end also from Aphelian?
Midi out + scenes causes a lockup on my Air2 as well.
But, standalone with internal sounds causing no crashes of lockups at all.
I suggest exploring the internal synth until the Midi out gets sorted. I find the internal synth to be quite good sounding, easy to tweak, and hooking up modulation is a snap.
Thanks. Other used apps are Aphelian, Quantichord, and a bit of Geoshred (using Reamp)...and the drums are from Future Drummer
It’s a really fun app. It’s like playing a cool video game, but for making interesting compositions.
Once you move on from the readymade sequences and start playing more with the automation, etc. you can get some nice sound design oriented stuff too.
Even with the launch bugs, it’s easy to recommend.
There are a couple of demo files that show off some different sounding stuff, as well.
Also, some of the drum samples are not-so-typical, like gongs ands bombs.
I don’t feel like this app is boxing me in, at all. There is plenty of control to guide it towards what you want. Once Midi gets the bugs worked out, then it will really be up to each person to utilize this app in their own way.
Hi!
I found the underlying problem of the LINK related crashes and I'm submitting an update in a few moments.
There are some reported bugs that I couldn't replicate, I'll keep working on that.
Thanks for your diligence and for the wonderful app. Muchos gracias! 😊