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Oh I had no idea you can slide side to side to slowly adjust the pitch this helps a lot!
Btw, the modern time-stretching mode compares favorably with BeatMaker 3.
See: https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/comment/928845/#Comment_928845
Crazy workarounds are fun though. It reminds me of working with hardware samplers. Shouts to Senz for using the double the tempo to increase the resolution hack. An MPC favourite. Not used that one since I sold my PO33KO
@elf_audio I’ve made some longer things with the step editor recently, and its pretty solid! There is one small issue though: when modifying the length of a note, or moving it, sometimes the note is deleted when lifting the pen or finger from the screen. Maybe a buglet? Its more a slower-downer than a showstopper, but its still a bit of friction.
Many of us hope that @elf_audio steps forward with some kind of AU companion to Koala.
@elf_audio Would it be possible in a future update to have an option where you can change the pitch in tones, as well as by cent? Or if that's not possible, a simple sine wave tone we can tune to?
If I understand your request, I think the feature in in the settings/options.
Look in SETTINGS -> GENERAL
There's a option for "Pitch knob snap to semitone"
But maybe you want to fine tune the whole app above or below A=440. I don't see that
option... you have to tune by cents for every sample.
@McD Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou.......
Has anyone had any luck triggering koala from ns2 via midi? I've tried using AUM as an intermediary but it doesn't seem to work...
How do you know what note you are playing in the keyboard mode?
Ignore me - worked it out. For some reason ns2 starts it's mapping at c1 where xequence started at c3
Remember that octave numbering is not standardized in MIDI. MIDI uses numbers from 0-127 and since MIDI began different manufacturers have used different octave numbering. Middle C is always note 60, but some apps and hardware call note 0, C-2. Some call if C-1 and some C0.
My 6 year old asked if a song was the beach boys, I said no, it's using a sample of someone else who sounds like them.
"What's sampling?" he asked?
5 mins later I had him in koala, me doing minimal prompting, he's just feeling his way around the interface.
1 hour later he was still at it, making nightmare loops from his voice, the dog, his brother, FX everywhere; he's having a ball.
I think he understands sampling now. Great app, thanks!
That is awesome. Thanks for sharing!
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A master tuning parameter is a great idea actually — I use the one in Egoist all the time.
The “PITCH” effect is actually the master tune - that’s exactly what it does - it’s not a pitch shifter. The pitch in koala fx is a pitch shifter
Good to know... but there's no numeric value associated so we could dial in a precise pitch
for A=xxx cycles. You have to tune by ear with a rather finicky control slider. I hope I missed some detail regarding FX controls.
I'm having a good time import backing tracks from my iTunes into Koala samples and playing along. I'd also love to be able to shift the tempo of these 3-4 minute files to allow me to start slow and speed up over time. I think shifting is tied to "bars" and again I hope I'm missing something for this use case. I'm hoping for a virtual "slow downer" and "speed upper" type of control. Your stretching algorhythm is so good but it seems to assume a 4 bar with BPM consideration which is ideal for a groovebox but for me this is a swiss army knife.
Edit: see comment below!
Oh I was meaning a global tuning parameter that acts on all samples and combines with their pitch.
I’ve never actually needed that in my Koala flow so this isn’t request or anything, more of an observation that master tuning in Egoists settings menu is really well implemented — for example my wife’s khomus instruments are all tuned arbitrarily, so if we swap out an instrument then I can get back in tune with just one dial adjustment rather than retuning each sample.
I’ve actually never run into this need in Koala yet though as I do use it different to Egoist.
Understood just now while thinking about something else that I interpreted your comment wrong — I’ve actually noticed how the master effect pitch shift shifts in the same way as the pitch dials, so it’s literally a master pitch parameter. I just didn’t think of it as such as I’d been using it in different ways, but it could absolutely be used for fine tuning!
Create a midi track in CB3. Open Koala as an IAA instrument. Then, create an audio track and under “Routing” set its input as Koala Sampler. You can then record your Koala creations into Cubasis on the audio track.
Perhaps you can post a video of how you have everything setup and what happens. If there is an issue, it is likely on the Cubasis 3 side as I've not encountered problems with Koala on any of the hosts I have tried. And it seems fine with Cubasis 2.
Are you playing the sample pads or sending MIDI?
Is the problem that the audio output isn't recorded successfully or that you don't hear the audio you are triggering?
Have you sent Steinberg support video documentation?
If you haven’t yet, make a video that shows all setup and what happens. Post it to YouTube and send a link to Steinberg and the Koala developer. And post it to the AB Forum, too and tag the devs. Also,you will probably get more traction if you create a thread like “Need help getting Koala to work in Cubasis 3”
Weird. Worked for me first try. Unfortunately, I’m not sure how do to it the way your describing. Still new to the the iOS ecosystem.