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Fieldscaper 2 update
Never bothered with this before (and it's been updated today to v2), but on paper, it looks like something I might enjoy.
Any and all opinions welcome (both positive and negative). 
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Highly recommend this, especially when out and about. I have an iPhone 5c 8gb version and this has a permanent place.
Igor makes the best plugins I just hope they all go Auv3 soon. Master Record etc
Absolutely love FieldScaper. While it's typically used to manipulate samples to generate sounds, I use it almost exclusively as a "realtime" effect in Looper mode.
It's fantastic to recontextualize other sounds. It's not as obvious as pitch-shifting delay / reverb, not as chaotic as granular synthesis, it's just right.
I wonder. I think he may have found that too much of a challenge for SynthScaper so ended up creating the AU player? I was really hoping that app would go fully AU personally. I know it is a lot of work though so purchased the new one to support the developer. I find it a bit of a workflow killer having to go between the IAA and the AU though.
This app is so intriguing and totally baffling. No earthly idea how to control it. Any good videos?
Long, but informative. Watch it in stages.
@gusgranite Indeed also Holderness Media - that Caramel bitcrusher is seriously excellent.
I love FieldScaper, but the UI is a bit of a nightmare: controls typically have abbreviated labels (often only 3 letters, sometimes only 2!); some controls with similar functionality are called different things in different places; buttons that have wildly different functions are grouped together; functions that work closely together are often spread over the interface; seemingly simple functions often require multiple steps; etc.
The manual can be a bit hard to understand and doesn't have any diagrams, but is absolutely essential reading to really grasp what's going on and for tips on usage.
The basic idea is that you have audio in a buffer (either recorded into the app; loaded into the app; or, my favorite, playing live and constantly cycling through the buffer). You have a bunch of controls over the recording process and automatic gain control (it's recommended to record hot). If using recorded or loaded samples, you have a variety of editing tools available: destructive (cut, trim, split etc.) and non-destructive (loop ranges with fades, etc.)
You play back the audio in a variety of interesting ways:
-audio can be slowed down or sped up (up to 20x)
-audio can be reversed
-most interestingly, you can "short out" the sample readout address lines. This is the unique feature of FieldScaper. Essentially, it's virtual circuit bending, where you're manipulating the readout of the sample. The sonic quality is akin to sample and bit reduction, but often with rhythmic / chaotic interruptions or micro-loops of the sample playback.
There are a variety of logical operations that are applied to the address by a variety of masks that selects which of the 20 bits of the address are affected. You can control the mask type as well as move the mask selected to affect different bits.
Additionally, there's the Area setting. Here, instead of affecting the sample readout addressing, the mask sets where in the sample the playhead will playback. This doesn't affect the sonic quality, it just cuts the sample up based on the masks.
This audio is then run through distortion (sample/bit reduction, noise, ring mod, flanger, phaser), resonant multimode filter, delay and a "spacial mixer" (i.e. control over left-to-right pan and front-to-back depth with reverb).
Every parameter that has a variable range (i.e. sliders, not buttons) can be controlled by built-in LFOs that can free run down to a 90 second cycle or be tempo controlled.
These variable parameters can also be assigned to a "Main effect" slider that can adjust multiple parameters at once. Each parameter can be scaled, so adjusting the Main effect slider will cause different amounts of change in each parameter.
Pretty much every control (including buttons) can be MIDI controlled.
All of that is repeated three times with the three oscillators (each having its own sample).
Quick tip if you're exploring without reading the manual: buttons labeled "Ena" or "Enabl" mean "Enable" i.e. "On"; the other parameters in that related group (e.g. all the Address controls) won't do anything unless you turn "Ena" on!
Thanks all. Lots to chew on here.
Any FieldScaper experts out there know how to, if you even can, set (or better yet turn off) the quantization for the time between letting go of the Out marker and when the loop restarts? I’d like the loop to restart instantly when I let go of the Out marker, but instead it waits for a beat or measure or something, I’m not sure what?
Just got the app, can someone please verify whether it is pre-loaded with some samples? On mine, it says no files...
From the help menu in the upper right ? mark:
It’s not. The sister apps SoundScaper and SynthScaper come with tons of preloaded samples, this one is strictly for your own sound manipulation.
Got it, thanks!
Is there a way to affect voice or audio, without pressing manual which then records to a selected loop length. Bonus with a looper is you build layers.
But can it be used in realtime of adding the effects?
Ah it can I believe. Overdub.
No. Its effect.
I got this app yesterday - won it in a Gav giveaway
- I played around with it a bit, it's the usual impenetrable Igor Vasiliev app, but I managed to have some fun with it and got some cool sounds.
Just come back to it today, and the record button has vanished, as has the window where the waveform appears (?!)
I've obviously changed something, but I'm stumped if I can figure out what and I've done. Help!
If you’re on an iPhone 📱 the controls change depending on if you’re holding it in portrait or landscape mode
You did perhaps press the “Looper’ button. Pressing ‘Scaper’ should bring you back to the original window.
Yes! That's it. Cheers!
Oh yes! I forgot about that. I just remembered when I first got Fieldscaper, the different controls based of orientation was both confusing 🫤 and genius!