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My speculation only:
It's not just an iOS app, it's universal and any sound packs, etc you buy in-app are available cross-platform. With an iOS only app, developers don't have to worry about establishing a business presence in every country because customers are really doing business with Apple, not them.
For a larger corporation, doing direct business in a country can have a big impact on taxes, reporting requirements, regulations, etc. I've been through the drill of this kind of stuff and it's pretty complex. Most companies that sell into most countries in the world aren't selling direct, but through distributors who are legally established in that country. But with software direct sales, there's no middle man, so the full administrative burden falls on the company.
Another side of it is distributor agreements. Roland is a hardware company. They have agreements with distributors in different countries to sell products there. Distributors can get pissy when companies sell direct, essentially competing wit them.
So, while it's technically feasible to sell into every country, it may not be practical for Roland to do so. Or, it can also be that it's such a tiny blip on Roland's balance sheet, that they just can't be bothered to look at it.
That sucks for the people who paid for Stagelight and lost access to it when sold to Zenbeats. But it's not likely to change just because of that - it's just to far off the radar most likely.
Again - just speculation - but based on many years of experience working in international companies.
I suspect it's the legacy hardware agreements that must have been hammered out ages ago. I can't recall this problem cropping up with any other software.
@wim Thanks, yes a bit vague today. Ive added the lovely SampleVerse instrument and would like to make lfo1 control the filter frequency. Or the mod envelope control the amount of filter. Something like that.
I dont like it that you have to make a clip first, and then copy it to the timeline, like BM3. The first effect i loaded (Dubstation 2) got only sound on the left channel. So far my first moments in this app...after dropping out several times with plugin scanning (got about 190), lol. Also, no icons in the plugin-list.
The workflow is counterproductive, and the visuals are not coherent and distracting. No logic in symbolism.
The most pleasing DAW so far, for me, is BitWig. Coherent and logical.
I find this app horribly ugly, and not user friendly at all...even the pushing notes to repeat mode is way wonky...there are just too many iOS daws around that are easier to use than this one...I keep trying it out, and I keep thinking no thanks. I need a daw for my iPhone since GarageBand mobile doesn’t do .tempo ie 82.2 etc... and bm3 isn’t on iPhone still, and nanostudio2 has no audio tracks still...and cubasis 3 is too expensive for me to consider. Seems like every single daw on iPhone is missing one basic piece to get er did. Hmmmm.
Ahh ... OK
Go to Edit, then expand the oscillator you want to filter, or the master. You'll laugh when you see how obtuse it is interface-wise!
Open up the master or the oscillator, depending on which filter you want to modulate. Then open the filter and tap just below, not on the knob you want to modulate. You'll get a popup with the modulation sources.
Now that's an odd design choice. And since there's no manual or any videos any more, thankfully there's still the Audiobus forum! Here's where I found the answer after racking my brain to try to remember how I did it in the past. https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/comment/576604/#Comment_576604
Pardon my ignorance, but what's the purpose of 82.2bpm vs 82bpm?
Also, this is a free DAW. Check out Audio Evolution Workstation. It might be suited to your needs.
I feel many projects that I am involved in came from being able to tap tempo...and sometimes 82.2 will sound a bit different, but also I use dot tempo a lot to push a break, or relax a drop....building tension can be as easy as slowing the tempo .2 .4 or whatever. The human brain will conceive the change even if the user does not. Breaking patterns can achieve longer less boring Music. It wasn’t free for me, I IAP’ Ed the platform update. I will check out audio evolution studio, I appreciate your suggestion! Maybe it will be better for me?!
@wim Thanks. One of those imposible to see until you see it things.
I actually really like this so far. Ive only spent an hour but Ive enjoyed the interface. Its very clean and I like that. Im going to persevere.
I like Zenbeats a lot.
One of my favorite uses is as a guitar practice and general jamming tool. It's so quick to set up a beat, then record a rhythm part to jam over, then mess with looping parts over it. And the nice thing is is all there to start throwing into a timeline if anything comes out that's worthy of developing further. So many of the jams I come up with in in Audiobus and AUM never go anywhere because I then need to take them over to a DAW to do anything with.
Also, freezing stuff is getting to be more and more important for me as my poor ol' Air 2 is getting more and more left in the dust performance wise.
Great little tip right here!
Just picked it up. Can anyone give me a brief overview of where this one is lacking? Sounds fairly stable, has midi, has audio, works with AU’s...is there anything that this lacks that CB3 or NS2 have?
Possibly stand alone only could be a problem for some.
What do you mean?
Doesn’t record AUv3 automation (have to draw it in manually), or record the output from midi fx and plugins like geoshred.
Apart from that it seems pretty good.
It doesn’t run inside Audiobus or AUM, etc.
imo this is the best ios daw. the clip launching and workflow alone make it a pleasure to use to creative and play with.
great deal for those that didn’t already have it!
its only crashed on me y during plug in scanning, other than that i’ve had minor issues.
one of the best pros is that the app isn’t abandoned, and theres a team of people working to keep it stable and look into feature requests. they are talking about midi fx recording being possible soon, once that happens i can’t see any reason to ever leave it and AUM
it has audio tracks, clip launching , linear sequencing and you can use that keyboard from any screen, those are features that make this have the best workflow imo.. you cannot record midi fx at this time, unless there is a work around, but i know they want to bring it to the app so just a matter of time.
also the automation is super easy to draw in
Drambo
Drambo is the COVID-19 of this forum...
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Neither do the others to my knowledge. I know you can output AUM into CB3, but don’t know what you mean by running them inside.
Just a joke
I have nothing against Drambo.
I know 🙂
i mean if it was available 🤣
@wim
I understand what he's trying to say.
Quite a few DAW's except Garageband can
be loaded up into AUM as an output node.
Exactly what you've shown in your screenshots.
Both AUM and AB2 don't see Zenbeats.
A question?
Have you managed to successfully get midi clock into or out of Zenbeats?
I’ve been watching some videos, Zenbeats is quite a bit deep than I’d thought it would be.
This is turning into my favourite DAW. The workflow just clicks with me.
I need to give it a more solid try. The fact that it can’t record MIDI from AU’s is a bummer as I really like EG Pulse and Ruismaker Noir, and this really limits how I can use them. Curious what I’m going to find other than that. Other than Obsidian, I’m not seeing a benefit of NS2 over Zenbeats, but Cubasis 3 is still winning as far as functionality. Stability is another matter.