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what new apps are needed/wanted?
There are such a huge number of highly creative and useful apps that have been released over the last couple years. At this point, what apps have not been created that would be useful? I can't think of any at the moment and am seeking an app project of my own. I'm referring to small "non-DAWish" useful tools like sequenceApp, Chordion, AUFX series, Holderness Media, WorldScales etc...
Would love to get any ideas you all have had...
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I would like an app that would let you automate other apps but from those other apps interfaces. Maybe only possible with apps that have MIDI and IAA but probably not doable at all. I always wanted to automate Animoog but from its interface like when using iMini in Tabletop for example.
I think an app that focuses on music collaboration across multiple devices would fill a void. There are a few that offer this, but not as a primary focus.
A professional audio metering app, with all the EBU standards, to measure LUFS, like Izotope Insight, with IAA, audio copy & paste and Audiobus of course!
Now with Positive Grid's mastering app, If I have a good LUFS meter on my ipad, I can do the masters for broadcast without going to the studio!
An app that would allow recording of ipad output. Lol. I know, far fetched.
@firejan82 if the app sends midi you should be able to do that recording the loves into a midi sequencer. I never bought animoog's so I'm not sure which of its controls it sends but you might try it.
Standalone mpc style sampler with a.reasonable footprint, sample import, good internal chop lab and solid midi that has all the features like the one in BM2 but looks much sexier, which can't be hard.
I'd also love a launcher app that allows to launch multiple apps by one bottom press. This will probably never happen though, due to ios limitations.
Edit: button press, bottom press would be good too, keeps hands free to do other stuff!
A good performance instrument app that combines the chord playing ability of chordion or soundprism with the melodic expressability of thumbjam or TC-11.
I believe that touch as an instrument's possibilities haven't been fully explored yet.
Also, I'm talking about a midi controller, not another synth. We've really got enough synths
@schrodinger et al. -- I will probably be starting on Chordion v2.0 (a complete re-build from the ground up) sometime this year. Let me know what types of features you are looking for and I'll see what I can do! Definitely planning on upping the expression possibilities.
@syrupcore
I wish you was right but I'm afraid MIDI recording that Animoog glide or that poly-pressure is not possible. And also by automating I didn't mean just notes but also turning knobs and if that's possible to midi record(from the synth UI not from the MIDI sequencer) than I imagine it takes a lot of setting up of CC's for each synth individually. I might be wrong, I'm still learning all this midi stuff.
Maybe that automation thing I have in mind would make more sense as an Audiobus feature, makes it seem more doable in my mind but what do I know.
@funjunkie27 said:
That would be sweet, here is what I've done for that up till now, online jam session http://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack.php
I would like to see high quality low latency effect pedal apps, standalone, nothing else included or running in it for the reason of low overhead, this would work well with AB2, under $2 a piece preferably. Much more than that and I will stick with what I have in aufx, Holderness ect. ect.
I need an app that will let me make any app I need for music with it! If I need a certain sound or pattern of sounds this app would make an app to do it
Now that would be one helluva app!
A modeling synth, like Logic's Sculpture, that simulates a vibrant string or membrane of different materials, and objects that excite or dampen it, and then filters, a few simulations of resonant 'instrument acoustics', and of course, lots of lfo and filters! To modulate everything with anything
@benkamen
Chordion 2! Love this app. My favorite way to write music when I don't have a guitar around.
Some ideas for the melody aspect:
Ideas for the chord/accompiment aspect:
Hope this helps
I would love to see a Korg Karma type intelligent arpeggiator / arranger on IOS.Mabe Korg could add it to Gadget....now that would be an awesome combination!
@mgmg4871 said:
Depends what you mean because you can do this now with something like AudioShare.
(This started as one idea 30 minutes ago. COFFEE IS GOOD.)
AB mixer with a 2 track recorder. Especially as this AB2 magic is about to land, there's plenty of good use cases for a mixer at the end of the chain. Live performance is one, low overhead stereo capture is another. Mixer should be IAA compatible and have basic EQ per channel, 2-4 sends, at least 2 busses and AB state saving, natch. Would be good if you could set which channels were going to be recorded to the 2-mix but possibly superfluous.
Awesome two channel audio editor. There are a couple of contenders (hokusai, twisted wave and the DAWs) but nothing is nailing this yet. And by awesome, I'm talking about GoldWave circa 1997, not WaveLab 8. NanoStudio's under-featured editor is the place to start - the selection and zooming is the best in my mind. Make sure it has the Audioshare SDK.
Stand alone Recycle/Choplab type app. Beatmaker's is pretty good but it could be better and it would be great to not have to go through a big app to get to it. Killer feature: know how to export chops to existing drum app formats (beatmaker, nanostudio, drum perfect, dm1, funkbox...). Possibly an IAP for the audio editor?
Fill the void between LoopyHD and Abelton Live style loop recorder/clip launcher. Loopy's elegant capture, Live's ability to arrange clips into songs.
Dead simple, low memory/cpu footprint AB compatible 8 track recorder. I mean, no features other than undo, volume, clip delete, and clip trim and perhaps punch (or just random access for the record head). Killer feature: one click export to Auria. App updates are only about making it more efficient. Not even sure undo is required if you can delete clips.
There's still a lot of potential territory in old synth emulation. Careful here as Arturia could swoop in and eat your lunch at any moment. Simpler less famous ones (80s era rolands maybe?) could be good. Juno-106 or alpha-1 comes to mind. Plus, the internet is chock full of presets - you could ship with a 1000.
Single purpose memory efficient effects apps are going to be even more desirable in AB2 land. We don't have a really good tremolo yet. A traditional gate. Everyone likes overdrive/distortion. Pitch shifter? Spring reverb?
On that note, I love the boss tr-2 tremolo. Same as most tremolos (depth/speed) but it also allows you to vary the wave shape between sine and square.
Has anyone done the 'trance gate' thing yet? I imagine you can do this with the Sugar Bytes apps but that's a lot of overhead. Not by thing but I guess it would be popular.
In AB2 land, a sidechain/keyed compressor would be really popular so all the kids can be deadmau5. Easily in the top-5 most requested feature on the NanoStudio forums over the past few years.
Hardware I can't seem to find: Simple dual 1/8" mini mixer to a single headphone output. For mobile dueling iOS device nerdery. Nice industrial design + a cross fader == fetching price I imagine.
Ok, time for more coffee. Oh, and work.
@Schrodinger thanks for the feedback. I'm excited to re-design the app now that I've had some time to see how people use it. Let me know if you have other ideas!
Just thought of another one, maybe an app full of LFOs and Envelopes that you can send via virtual/core midi to other apps, or to a DAW.
Of course, it needs to run on the background, have midi clock sync, loopable envelopes, with multiple points, like Cube's Envelope, and waveshapable LFOs, I don't think that midi can work with audio range LFOs, but I guess that it would be too much....;)
@Trueyorky I was referring to recording a none AB/IAA app from output. That's why I said far fetched lol.
@benkamen pleasure.. Can't wait to see what you do in v2
@syrupcore, bring on the coffee!
-3 great idea. Would be great if AudioShare implemented this
-4 Love Loopy but really wish it could do this!
-5 another gem. Actually wish many apps had a 1 click export to Auria. Everything I do ends up there and it's always a painful process to get my raw tracks from Loopy, Beatmaker, Cubasis, drumjam or Gadget into Auria.
A straight forward IOS Daw with decent midi sequencing and a plug in standard similar to vst so we can have decent processing fx. Written with decent optimized code. Yes I know auria is getting midi. But optimized its definitely not.
Lots of great apps.. But when it comes to the daws it's a case of "this app does this but not this and that app does that but not this... Take beatmaker. Pretty useful for everything. Completely flawed for making anything sound great with such poor processing fx.
@mgmg4871 :-)
Loop slicer with the following features:
Thanks for that link @WMWM.
@Jomazz said:
Karma was not Korg Tech. Stephen Kay developed it and still sells the software for it as well. He licenced it to korg for several of their work stations, I have it for my M50 and you can discuss all things Karma related with him at karmalabforums.com. He checks his messenges in the forum frequently to answer questions. I know of no plans from him at the present for IOS though. You could suggest it his forum , I know I love what it can do for a hardware synth like my M50!
Got to say it - CS-80 and Jupiter 8.
An app that would convert Gadget project files to MIDI. Gadget is really good for working up ideas, but I want to record the final song with my own instruments.
Loopy with song mode (= Loopy morphing into Ableton, as suggested above).
I agree with MusicInclusive and Syrupcore: there is still LOTS of room for new synth apps, including vintage emulations. All of the ones mentioned so far would be instant buys for me: CS-80, Jupiter 8, any form of Juno (6 through Alpha), SH-101, any mark of the Prophet (including the ones still in production).
A better Phaedra. That MIDI sequencer seems to have been abandoned by its developer, but it does some things really well: 4 tracks on one screen, up to 32 steps each. Needs a better interface for entering notes, and Audiobus/IAA for recording. Bonus for displaying note values once entered.
Simple Guitar and bass IR cabs. Also midi clock sync
IR cabs are available in Auria's conv. reverb and Rooms.
But I bet a simple and good looking IR Cab app marketed at guitar players would sell a lot better then anything else mentioned. Plus, pretty limited scope... good first project! Add IAPs and you might be able to buy some food!
First release: 16 cabs, really well designed UI - one big dial, perhaps. AB input+effect and IAA. Nothing else.
Pro Tip: Make sure Fallon uses it.