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iOS SWAM Trumpet, LaunchPad Pro MK III and Digitakt Freestyle Jam - a "PRIMER" Love-Story
After @Gavinski did not let me win the SWAM Trumpet i bought it myself and fiddled with it to "fit it onto my LaunchPad". 
While doing that and searching for some additional sounds i found a long installed but never used synth on my iPad - PRIMER.
I instantly loved the sounds from the presets i had and sampled it into the Digitakt to create several rhythmic variations.
All sounds the Digitakt is playing are mangled samples from PRIMER and the only additional noises come from SpaceCraft and the SWAM Trumpet.
Have a listen and tell me what you think, ok?
Thanks in advance and kind regards!
Comments
Love that trumpet patch. What delay are you using on it?
Thanks @Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr - it is the BLEASS Delay.
Cool jam!
I’d get a poster or something for that wall.
Thanks @Intrepolicious ! Really appreciated.
Regarding the poster - i have colored lights everywhere i i like the fading brightness-levels the lights reflect on the white wall.
I often thought about some imagery for that spot but never found something appropriate ... maybe one day
Very cool! What is the touch pad you’re using?
Hi Mike - i hoped you‘d drop in. Thanks for that, appreciated.
That is the Novation LaunchPad Pro MK III - works very well with the iPad and it‘s Aftertouch-Mode. Great sensitivity and nice feel to the fingers.
Very interesting. How do you know what the plot pads represent as notes, and how do you load it into the touchpad?
Nice. Cool.
@LinearLineman
Well, you actually do not load something into it - it is a (silent) MIDI Controller. Actually it is not just a (play-)controller - it has inbuilt sequencers and other stuff. It’s main purpose is to use it for Ableton on a desktop machine to trigger scenes and all that Ableton stuff - that is not really supported on iOS. There are apps like Imaginando‘s LK or the upcoming Atom2 that support this stuff in an iOS environment. I also wrote a Mozaic script to enable these features inside AUM - but that is just me testing things.
The Pads are colored, lit and unlit.
The root notes of every octave is lit in red, the notes between are lit in white. The unlit Pads don’t belong to the scale you play in. You can play them also but they don’t belong to the set scale. There are modes where notes that don’t belong to the scale are hidden so there are no unlit Pads visible (and for that are unplayable) - that’s all highly configurable on the device itself.
The pressure sensitivity can be adjusted inside the device and is transmitted via 1-channel or multi-channel Aftertouch values that use, as far as i know, the CC number of the breath-controller. I think it is CC3 - but that CC3 might be wrong from my remembering. It is based on Note and CC data submitting.
As it sends notes and CC values you can map it inside your apps/DAW/AUM like any other MIDI controller.
Sometimes it is a bit fiddly to get an instrument to reckognize it the way you want it to act but that is the same with every external device. I found it more „compatible“ than the MPE solutions which rely on multichannel data as far as i am informed. What i love is that i can record everything with, for example, Xequence2. Every expression and note as it is „only“ channel based note and CC data. So you could record your playing and play it back exactly the way you played it. From my learnings here that is widely impossible with MPE.
I was skeptical at first if it is a device for me but i wanted a simple external step-sequencer for the iPad - which was the reason i bought it as i knew i could play pressure sensitive stuff with it also. I wont exchange it with something else - i am steadily growing into it and really like its expressiveness with the right soft-synth/instrument. It took me some time to make a (for me) perfect trumpet setup inside the SWAM app. I never played a real trumpet - well i did, but that was just some fiddling with a trumpet when i was in a band as a kid. I am working towards some expressive Molvaer/Aarset Jazz-Style music. One day i will do this with that controller and this trumpet - i am sure
As you are a very expressive player i think you could have a lot of fun and pleasant feeling (music related that is) with it if you aim to play something that has no „natural expressive“ keyboard like your piano(s). I personally would like to sit down with you at an iPad and watch you play something with this controller for a while - i think it would be amazing
Hope that helps.
@MrBlaschke
Great sounding performance very well put together. I also own the LP Mk3 it's becoming a great companion to my ipad. It's great to see apos like LK and Atom2 once it's here having the midi baked in. Works we with Logic Pro X aswell. I'm hoping that trend going to continue in 2021 and beyond with apps binding to hardware. Looks like you taken it to the next level with your Mozaic script.
Great performance! One question: How did you get the Trumpet to recognize the aftertouch? I'm trying to get this to work with my LP PRO MK3 but I can't figure it out. I can see in the midi monitor that the aftertouch messages go out, but how do I map it inside the Trumpet?
@Pxlhg and @Jumpercollins
Thank you so much guys, really. It means a lot in my learning process!
@FloRi89
Well - i agree. The menu/Config-screen managing is somewhat „experimental“. But one can easily get used to it.
First off i started with the inbuild preset „Keyboards ModWheel + AT Default“ preset in the standalone-app. But that was just for testing purposes.
After some experimentation i loaded it up as an auV3 for the first time.
If you click on the „MIDI“ button in the top right corner you get to a basic mapping screen.
Purple boxes are „somewhat“ mapped, green ones are not actually mapped.
In the big black box on the top center where it says „Midi Mapping (List)“ you have to click on that.
After doing that you get to the custom assignments screen
Here you can „attach“ your CCs and, of course, the Aftertouch to whatever you like that is available.
On the right side of that screen you see the curves mapping where you can fine-tune your settings and values.
These, of course, depend on the settings of you sensitivity you set up on your LP itself - the actual hardware has several levels of sensitivity you can select - what you might already know if you own one.
On the previous screen with the purple and green boxes you can also click on an assigned parameter and then you can access the velocity curve via a button in the top left corner labeled „Curves“
That should bring up the curve of your pressure sensitivity and you can adjust it freely as you want
When you are done remember to save your preset
That should be about it.
Hope that helped!?
Bro, thank you that was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much, I just couldn't find it on my own.