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App Idea: A more intuitive way for storing music files using a Pad based system
I prefer file storage on my mac. I like keeping files categorized in folders. I like using the icon view for certain files because it makes certain files easier to find.
When I look at the existing types of iOS Apps that use grids of Pads for music creation. I think that type of system would make a great basis for a File storage App that uses a grid of pads for storing files. One file per Pad.
A pad could store a Midi file or an Audio file. Tap and hold a Pad to preview what's stored in it. The pad could be rectangular and that would allow room for file labels.
This would be a music file storage App that uses a GUI based on Pads.
It should be hierarchical like the Mac. The top level of pads are like folders, and a folder pad would have a different look than a file storage pad so you can tell the difference at a glance.
You can create new folder pads, and folder pads can open and contain both file pads, or 2nd level folders pads. All types of pads can be assigned with different colors, and rearranged by dragging or copy/pasting them.
The App would be both a standalone and an AU, and have files that could be stored into pads using all the standard ways that that's already done.
This file storage App should also contains its own basic MIDI and Audio recorders, and this allows you to create a new file by recording directly into a selected Pad.
The AU version of the App would be able to sync to the host clock. Lets say you came up with a midi pattern working with Apps in AUM. You create a new Midi file pad in you project folder, arm record, then tap play on the AUM transport, and your Midi Pattern writes to a file in that pad.
You can hand play stuff into a file pad. Audio record sounds into a file pad. Hopefully you would also be able to drag and drop files from other apps into file pads, and Drag and drop from a file pad into another App.
I think the most attractive aspect of a file storage app based on pads, is that files can be arranged in pad folders using any categorization method that works for the user. Because it's visually based, the Pad have the potential to be customized in unique ways that allow the user to recognize what the files are at a glance. Folder pads could also have customizable looks, and a folder could be set so every new file written into it automatically takes on a visual style set for that folder.
Ideally the recorder built into this file storage app could contain basic settings for metronome, count-in, and tempo. That way it could be used in Apps that host AU's as a way of quickly storing away musical ideas to a file for later use.
I look at it like an artists sketch pad for categorizing and storing musical ideas. Tap and hold any pad and it plays what it contains.
Organize ideas for projects into their own folders, further organize the project parts with color groupings in that folder. When you come back to work with the folder contents, taping of the pads lets you hear what file each contains.
Because in reality it's just a file organizer, all the files, or selected files in the "Sketch Pads App", can be exported to other storage devices, or transferred to a computer.
Comments
You’re definitely on to something...
Like it!. +1
+10000000 if the auv3 implementation served as a clip launcher/looper with basic midi control to record, play, stop, rewind...
I hate the file system on iOS and I hate that there’s no auv3 (multiple) audio clip loopers. So this would be a home run,.
Upcoming Loopy pro will probably fill that looper niche after it's updated to include Midi.
My feeling about the feasibility of this file management idea, is based on the functionality of existing apps. We currently have a few different apps available that allow direct recording into, and then playback from, a pad. So those pads in those apps are already acting as a type of file storage container.
The 4-Pockets Multitrack recorder can write files to a commonly shared file storage space accessible from either the AU or the standalone App. So that tells us file sharing between AU and Standalone is achievable.
If an AU drum App can have multiple drum kits stored as presets, that tells us that a hierarchical system for navigating those Pads that contain the files, should be feasible to create.
The last question is that of file storage. Could such an App store actual .mid and .wav files in it's file storage system. But I don't think it has to. It could use a proprietary file storage system for functionality purposes. All that maters is that the App has the ability to Export the stored files as .mid and .wav files.
So tentatively, I wouldn't imagine that the creation of such an App would require much other than reorganizing features available in existing Apps, and applying them to serve a new purpose... A very intuitive, easy to use, music storage file system, that works pretty much the same as the file system on a Mac.
The ultimate feature would be direct recording of Midi or Audio into a storage pad while being used in an AU host.
If drag and drop to and from other AU apps can be accomplished, imagine the possibilities!
Hopefully a developer will like the idea and make it so.