Bit Shape TC-11 Tutorial: Getting Started

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McD

I must watch this... TC-11 just an hint of what TC-Data can do.

Gestures are the way to get someone with no music knowledge into IOS music making.

I give my wife a Gesture based app (Gestrument Pro, TC-*, Shoom, etc) and she just gets lost in the sounds that come following out. Almost anything with an "X-Y field" user interface will do. I usually set up a Loop to jam over and lock her options into the right scale. She's usually gone for 3-5 minutes.

Michael_R_Grant

Nice to see some tutorial love for TC-11… Jakob Haq started a series a long time ago, but stopped just as he was getting to the interesting stuff!

Obo

@McD said:
I must watch this... TC-11 just an hint of what TC-Data can do.

Gestures are the way to get someone with no music knowledge into IOS music making.

So true! TC-11 and Playground were the first two apps I purchased on iOS I believe (I had Bebot from a long time ago but kind of not counting that as it didn’t really push me to check out more or dive in any deeper). No prior musical background for me (I do have family members who are very musically gifted but never thought it was for me). But those two apps really caused me to realize how much I love it.

skiphunt

I freakin' forgot about this incredible app! Might need to watch this as a refresher.

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oat_phipps

I still have never seen anyone actually do anything complex with this or TC-Data. Just the developer patches.

Still the coolest looking synth out there, and the idea of it is awesome. But the sound engine is lacking and, ultimately, it’s faster to MIDI CC some knobs and, of course, play actual keys. You may only be able to turn two knobs at once, but there’s much more precise control. Decent noise generator though, when run through effects.

ervin

@oat_phipps said:
I still have never seen anyone actually do anything complex with this or TC-Data. Just the developer patches.

Still the coolest looking synth out there, and the idea of it is awesome. But the sound engine is lacking and, ultimately, it’s faster to MIDI CC some knobs and, of course, play actual keys. You may only be able to turn two knobs at once, but there’s much more precise control. Decent noise generator though, when run through effects.

I like your reality-check comments and tend to look out for them when reading about an app. I don't always agree with them, but they do help avoid hype-itis.

u0421793

I wish it would also respond to gestures I’m doing that aren’t limited to only the ones intercepting the plane represented by the glass of the screen. There’s a whole third dimension above the glass where I’m rudely gesturing at it.

oat_phipps

@ervin said:

@oat_phipps said:
I still have never seen anyone actually do anything complex with this or TC-Data. Just the developer patches.

Still the coolest looking synth out there, and the idea of it is awesome. But the sound engine is lacking and, ultimately, it’s faster to MIDI CC some knobs and, of course, play actual keys. You may only be able to turn two knobs at once, but there’s much more precise control. Decent noise generator though, when run through effects.

I like your reality-check comments and tend to look out for them when reading about an app. I don't always agree with them, but they do help avoid hype-itis.

Right on. I wouldn’t call it a gimmick, but I also wouldn’t call it very useful. There’s nothing hard about programming it if you know the basics, it’s just…do I want to learn this independent computer program bad enough (including remembering all the gestures you program) to use, even though its knowledge will not transfer to any other program? It doesn’t sound that great, and you’re basically guessing at playing and melodies or chords.

Yes, it does make you feel like you’re in Minority Report. But just like me, everyone always talks about how cool it is and never shares anything they’ve done with it. Just like that “tutorial” video at the top of the thread: it isn’t a bit of help; it’s just how to navigate around the app menus. Most people know how to do that crap.

sevenape

It's a really amazing app for expressive drones, good for sampling and running through effects and whatnot.

Michael_R_Grant

I assume that you can't do delay and reverb at the same time, that you have to just choose one of those effects? At least, that's how it seems from what you can do with the signal path.

Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr

@oat_phipps said:> But just like me, everyone always talks about how cool it is and never shares anything they’ve done with it. Just like that “tutorial” video at the top of the thread: it isn’t a bit of help; it’s just how to navigate around the app menus. Most people know how to do that crap.

Here’s one I made using only TC:

espiegel123

@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr said:

@oat_phipps said:> But just like me, everyone always talks about how cool it is and never shares anything they’ve done with it. Just like that “tutorial” video at the top of the thread: it isn’t a bit of help; it’s just how to navigate around the app menus. Most people know how to do that crap.

Here’s one I made using only TC:

NIce!