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WOPR - an old app that some might have missed?
This has been around for a long time and never gets a mention. Polyphonic analog synth that can be used in the input slot and has MIDI in. It also has pasteboard copy and internal record to build up layered tracks.
What makes it unique is the use of Conway's Life automata as evolving modulation. This is programmable by the use of cells within the synth to control discrete parts of the output.
Hasn't been updated since it got AB back in April 2013 but it works on 7.1.1 and 64 bit units without a problem.
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Yep. On my wish list for a long time. But my wish list is very long (sadly).
Contacted the developer sometime age, there is an update in the making. This is a app i always use.
Update is good news indeed
On my wish list as well
Good to know about cellular automata modulation. I read the description a long time ago and I remember thinking it sounded cool but back then I didn't know what it meant.
Hey guys, I'm the WOPR developer. I'm glad to hear that you're using the synth. I've been in contact with djjuniorpops a fair bit and he's been giving me gentle pressure to release an update.
Here's why an update has been delayed: I got a new day job in April '13, something I desperately needed in order to support my now very pregnant wife and our first child. The job is great in that it means my wife doesn't have to work, but it places a heavy demand on my time. Basically between work and raising my daughter, I'm pretty wiped out at the end of most days. I can get an hour or two's programming done a week - not a lot when you think about the complexities of developing a realtime audio app.
Secondly, a couple of quite nasty and badly informed reviews on the App Store after the 04/13 AB update took the wind out of my sails. Hearing that you guys are enthusiastic about WOPR really helps to offset that, but if anyone feels like leaving a more balanced review please do go ahead.
The next update will definitely include a UI refresh to make it more consistent with iOS 7. WOPR had a 'flat' design before Apple had even thought of it, but the toolbar buttons and so on still look like iOS 6. Djjuniorpops is looking for Inter App Audio, which I'm looking at. Audiobus 2 should be good, but I need to do some formal testing against it. If anyone else has any requests, put them in the thread or email me ([email protected]) and I'll investigate.
Thanks for your interest - I really appreciate it.
Glad that you joined us here @scumper. I can understand how life gets in the way at times! Great app though and looking forward to updates!
Agree. Good luck, daddy! Welcome to the club
Hi @scrumper good to see you here. Just checked the reviews in the Australian store and I seem to be the only one there and that was back in July last year. So how about those who have the app dropping some reviews?
I'm very fond of WOPR, and have an especial love for any app that uses cellular automata. Have left a review on the UK app store (should have done that a long time ago)
Left a review on the USA store-
@scumper thanks for this synth, as I learn and grow in sound design I keep coming back to WOPR. And for checking in here w/your users-
+1 for adding IAA!
@scrumper welcome to the AudioBus forum and I could speak for all of us, we looking forward to the up coming update.
Definitely a usable app. I still don't quite understand the mod matrix, I actually thought it was a step sequencer! After about 10mins of playing I'm definitely liking the raw form pads like the 'stainless steelworkers'. It's good to see midi channel implementation. I slaved it to xynth and it run without a glitch but I'm yet to programm a usable bass. I guess even if it's only for the pads/clav sounds I think its money well spent. Thanks dev, as for having kids, things get a little easier after a while, it is the wives that freak out
Ah cool, just got the matrix working, lovely! Is there a hold function anywhere? It would definitely be useful to have it.
Thanks everyone - good words and good feedback.
@supadom, do you mean 'hold' as in a kind of note lock, so you can take your finger off the key and the note keeps sounding? An external MIDI controller should be able to do that, although the function isn't built in to WOPR yet.
Or, do you mean 'hold' as in 'stop the matrix changing'? You can use the Pause key for that, though note that Pause happens instantly rather than being locked to a clock beat (either external MIDI clock or internal tempo clock).
I meant the former.
I'm also encountering a lot of latency when app is within the audiobus. It's strange because when it's disengaged it's fine. Within the same session I put it in a separate pipeline and it was fine until I put mt in the out when the glitch fest began even at the highest buffer setting. Can't tell who's the culprit though.
Strange though as I've tried it again with 3 pipelines WOPR, Chordion, animoog into 3 separate tracks of mtdaw at 256 and it all worked almost perfectly with only some hung notes. Live fx stayed in the background (forgot to kill it).