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Effects, effects, effects... IAA and AB2 are both so useful for employing effects in the chain, and there's really a relative lack of dedicated quality effects apps. No great tremolo or vibrato apps that can do what say a Lovetone Wobulator or a Z Vex Seek Trem or something that utilizes the touch screen (like draw the trem steps volumes, etc), not enough fuzz pedals, and on and on. Those of us obsessed with stomp boxes know how personal these things are and there just aren't enough choices.
I get all warm inside when I imagine Line6 making apps of all the rack/stomp emulations they do so well
I also think dedicated mic pre and mic emulations akin to what UAD and others do.
Also in that vein, interesting tape machine/ manufacturers/'model'/speed apps would be great to have.
I'd also like someone to take on making Mugician a modern app; I've yet to get geo synth to sound even close to as great.
I hope the iVCS starts a trend and that the current bunch get even more complete and adventurous (I have yet to put Audulus to any real attention, so...)
Does an app exist that I can put into the output slot of Audiobus and thereby send any app's sound through Bluetooth? Seems like an easy utility, but I don't know poop about it, really.
That's all for now...
@syrupcore said:
I want mic models and positioning, too; doing things like blumlein configurations or the Glyn Johns drum setup and those sorts of things, too.
WOW! thanks everyone. These are great. Most of them are beyond the scope of a first project but they inspire other ideas so I hope this thread stays alive. I'll let you know when or if we actually take on something suggested here... Amazing community we have here...
A distortion-overdrive-crunch-fuzz-saturation app designed specifically for guitar and bass, something between WOW and Saturn with full MIDI.Saturn as an app could be great. Maybe a good warm vintage phaser app, like the Mutron bi-phase. More Rhodes and Piano apps... And first of all: a Midi and Stereo update for BIAS, and maybe more tube, eq and speakers selection.
@Digitalresonance said:
at this point i would settle for a simple MIDI sequencer that is stable, easy to use, responds to transport and sync, and has decent timing. i'm in the same boat as @digitalresonance and it makes using iOS for music far more difficult than it needs to be. MIDI Pattern Sequencer, Phaedra, Nord Beat, Genome MIDI Sequencer, Koushion, Cubasis -- I've tried them all. . .
StepPolyArp would be great if it had a simple MIDI recording function...
I bet Kymatica would do a great job on a MIDI sequencer...
Dm1 would be great if it synced well via midi and had better sample rate
Magellan would be better if it had richer waveforms
Impaktor would be better if it had midi sync
Gadget would be better it it had midi sync and internal audio/better sampler and landscape mode
Audiobus would be better if it had multi routing
Beatmaker 2 would be better if it wasn't bloated
Imini would be better if it had selectable midi channel
Beat machine would be better if it had 'midi sync stop' instead of just 'start'
Sunrizer would be better if it had a grid/matrix phrase sequencer
Impc would be better if it had a sample editor
Auria would be better if it didn't tell me about my ram and CPU even with just 1 track running.
Ivcs3 would be better if it was easier to learn
Tabletop would be better if it wasn't for retronyms.
Loopy would be better if....mmmm couldn't think of anything. lol
@supadom lol. yup.
Effects are probably a pretty good place to start; they tend to be pretty simple circuits and do @supadom said:
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I wonder if they've thought about doing a v2 of Audiobus to address that. : )
Whoops; two comments blended... To finish the first thought...@gkillmaster effects might be a good place to start; they were simple circuits and probably (relatively) simple to code compared to a full synth.
A midi recorder that has looping. Like a Loopy HD for midi with assignable midi outs and ins. And edit, quantize and humanize.
Set up some synths as inputs in AB2 set up the midi looper somewhere. Attach a physical or virtual controller. Record and loop the sequences switching between loops and synths. Go in and edit/adjust them.
A midi editor that made it easier to do polyrhythm. 4:3 or 7:5 not time sig. Carnatic rhythm. Or even clave beats.
A VA synth drum machine with all parameters automation, beat subdivisions, a separate tape delay effect with LFO modulation for each of the 9 voices with send fx, velocity and pitch sliders for each of the sounds in the grid and on top of that a saturator/overdrive a filter a compressor and a stutter/reverser effect.
@benkelman - I'd love to see you add a loop and overdub facility like the fiddlestix pro app that's recently been released. I want to be able to develop chord progressions, record them into a loop so that i can then midi out to other synth apps to audition sounds against the chord progression. A quanitize facility would also be great.
@TedBPhx said:
About every other time I use loopy I wish it recorded the MIDI information with each loop. Would be so rad to export and/or fix a flub.
Kinda cool that some of the items from @supadom's list have actually come to pass.
@firejan82 I want that drum machine NOW.
@firejan82 maybe request multi out from the stroke machine dev? You can add the effects you want via AB or live in something like Auria. I think 9 voices of VA plus 9 tape delays + all of those effects might make you iPad catch on fire though.
@syrupcore 9 delays running at the same time would also maybe sound too overwhelming. I'll settle for 5. Now that you mention it, Stroke Machine is pretty close. I've been experimenting with multiple differently timed delays set to different sounds in Auria, Gadget and Tabletop with some cool results, a synth drum machine app with a UI designed in favour of these kind of experiments would be fun.
Something to directly compete with the Beat Buddy guitar pedal so I can forget about possibly buying another stomp box.
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A app that has various classic compressor/limiters like the Fairchild 670, Urei 1176, Neve 2254, Teletronix LA2A and DBX 160 would be great.
A can-opener style app for any MIDI controller plugged into an iDevice. Essentially it would be able to read the configurable controls on whatever is plugged in to the iDevice, and let the user configure those controls.
That way you wouldn't have to plug a QuNeo into a laptop to reconfigure it, for instance.
SFZ player/editor with AB/IAA and the ability to do round robin.
A rock drum app with samples that sound as good as PC VSTi's... EZDrummer/Superior/Steven Slate/Battery, etc.
Somebody to remake Figure as a nice single purpose midi controller.
Thumbjam kind of does it with it's big configurable touch keyboard and it's ability to drive midi cc's off the y axis of the keys (after much fiddling to configure). But it doesn't have the rhythm settings that Figure has (plus it's not designed for this purpose really).
Even better if you could record/undo/redo loops of midi (in the same way as you can with Figure) over 1,2,4,8,16,32 bars.
And 6 tracks or something would be nice.
So a bit like Fiddlewax Pro crossed with Figure's pick up and use ease of use and quick rhythm settings (in fact a more flexible rhythm tool would be great).
I'd like a good solution to mimic the effects loop of a guitar amp, so the time-based effects and distortion effects can sit where they are best in relationship tp pre-amps and post-amps.
Also, I think this might be a good candidate to use the +1/-1 so that any devs that are looking in can see where the interests are focused.
I'm thinking of a proper MultiFX unit something like an FX-Only version of Magellan.
If anyone remembers the Ensoniq DP4 and Yamaha SPX900.
iOS version of those FX-boxes would be nice too.
And while we're at it i really hope Korg someday ports both the M1 and WaveStation to iOS for some truly classic sounds, same goes for Roland and their D-50
Stand alone audio processors like compressors, noise gates and de-essers.
For compressors I would love a dbx 160 VU emulation app. Maybe I'm just old school, but I love em.
Noise gates is something I wish for all the time.
I work a lot with vocals and shockingly, many apps meant for vocal processing doesn't include this small very useful tool. Like Vocalive, why wouldn't you put a noise gate in there?
What I'd like to see is a pad based guitar player where you could assign a chord to each pad (a la chord polypad or capo+) coupled with a strum/pick designer (a la echo guitar or guitar chord pro platinum) and have each pad capable of being triggered by screen presses or midi input.
@Coloobar said:
I could go for this as well.
@jakoB_haQ thats what I'd like to see. Like Aurias FabFilters but standalone. Best would be compressor and noise gate.
Time for my annual loop editor request. A sound editor with open from Audioshare/open in Anything - that cuts loops and offers everything from short ms anti-click crossfades to long multi-second crossfades when possible (that take sound from outside the defined loop so as to not shorten the loop length.)
I know about BM2 and Hokusai... not the solutions. I also do it manually in Loopy with fade ins over fade outs. Got to be a better way.