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Yes, thanks Paul for all the extra features you have added since I bought the app.
Hi, I’m just trying to slice to MIDI in Neon. When in slice mode, if I hit the MIDI button at the bottom of Neon it says copied to clipboard.
What apps can I then paste it in to?
I’ve only got Atom 2 and can’t quite figure out how to paste it.
Or is it only possible to copy the midi from the clipboard in to Helium?
(In which case I better buy Helium)
Any tips from other users with a similar workflow would be great. (Similar to chopping breaks in Recycle in the old days, or using BM3 and creating a pattern after slicing)
Thanks
Extracting the groove from a break is different from the Slice to Midi function in Neon (and Propellerheads Recycle). Most modern DAWs have an equivalent, but this is the extract and apply swing workflow in Ableton.
Can confirm I am able to copy midi into Helium. It remembers the length of each slice and places them at the cursor in a manner that when triggering Neon fires the slices in order they were created.
Tried with Atom but I believe both only remember their own clipboards
To reiterate seeing as @no1normal asked his question by quoting my suggestion. Extracting the groove, looks at the position of the markers used to create slices in the source clip and uses those positions to quantise secondary midi clips. When recording the groove of live funk drummer its results are far more organic than algorithmic swing can ever be because the groove both pushes and pulls. Whereas swing delays or pushes against a 16th or 8th grid in a regimented fashion.
There is a subtle difference between the playing back slices of a Slice to MIDI clip in their true positions (whilst maintaining slice lengths) and having a piano roll reflect this information, and using the slice position markers to create a bespoke ‘groove quantise’ template for use with other MIDI clips. But in simple terms, the first create’s off-grid note positions, whilst the second applies off-grid positions to what is most often displayed on a fully on-grid quantised grid.
In a DAW like Ableton, swing or groove quantised clips display back as fully on-grid quantised by default but you can freeze said MIDI clips to display their true off-grid nature. Other DAW piano rolls always display swung/groove quantised notes off-grid (e.g like in Cubasis 3 on iOS).
Thanks to both. I’ll be picking Helium for midi triggering of sliced samples, but agree it would be cool to extract grooves to apply to multiple clips like in Ableton.
Really enjoying Neon with all the work Paul has put in to it already.
Cheers
I bought Neon a little over a week ago and watched Paul's tutorials. I opened it up (standalone and AUv3) on my iPad Air 1, and hit an immediate roadblock. When I open the media bay, the "Files" and "Audioshare" buttons do nothing. I can see, from the button's color change, that the app is registering my finger press, but there's no dialogue box to choose a file for import.
I'm running an iPad Air 1, so I'm stuck on iOS 12. Is this fixable?
In the videos, Paul recommends dragging samples in from the Files app, but the iPad Air 1 can't do split screen apps. I can export samples from the File app into Neon if I long-press on a file and select "Share." That lets me select Neon as a share destination and the file shows up in Neon's "exported" bay.
@dokwok2 Since Air 1 doesn't support Split Screen, have you tried the Files App in Slide Over?
Some apps support drag n drop using Files App in Slide Over on the Air 1/Mini 2 (e.g. Beatmaker 3 and the Erik Sigth AUv3 plugins).
Thank you for suggesting this. I did try Files App in Slide Over. It works: the Files app is there. But the two apps can't interact: drag and drop doesn't function.
@dokwok2 While dragging the file, did you also use another finger to tap Neon's window first? iirc, this is required for some iPad models. Though maybe Neon just doesn't support drag n drop from Slide Over? I don't have Neon yet, so cannot test.
No joy, I'm afraid. Thank you again for trying to help.
Neon limits recording time to try to avoid crashes. AU's have limited amount of RAM that they can use before they crash, but there are no ways to detect when that threshold will be reached or to avoid crashing when that happens. The limits are a guess at a balance between risk and what typical users might need.
As Neon is a clip editor and launcher (and not a DAW) I think it is a deliberate limitation.
I suspect that 4Pockets' "Multi Track Recorder" might record for a longer duration, but I haven't tried it.
It is not a general AU limitation. Some AUs allow less time and some more. Some AUs do clever disk streaming that doesn't limit the recording time -- but most don't and won't even record 15 minutes. Loopy, on the other hand, has pretty much no limitation in terms of recording length -- even as an AU. I just recorded a 25 minute track while it was loaded in AUM.
If I remember correctly, it has an even shorter limit due to the possibility of there being multiple tracks.
Loopy Pro streams to disk, so it might be able to manage much longer recordings. I think @tja's looking for a one-stop-shop approach though, so that might not be an effective option.
You should be able to drag/drop from SampleCrate into a loopy in Loopy (au or standalone). Does that not work for you?
It's pretty quick to copy and paste from a Loopy clip out to Neon (standalone for this use case), then back in. Never tried it for big files though.
Version 1.15 is out:
Added a Low Pass filter to the Delay effect.
Added a new Spectrum Analyser module to the Metering Options menu.
Added a fade option to the Clipboard -> Merge opertation.
Added an experimental Granular based Mutli-Part Vocal Harmonizer.
Other minor bug fixes.
This app is insane ! I was struggling if I should buy Loopy Pro and I finally choose Neon. So glad I did. This app is deep, clever and also super creative ! So glad I bought it ! Makes me want to check the other 4pockets apps.
4Pockets has some great apps.
Well worth checking out the videos on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/PaultheMusicMan/videos
Quick question : do you know if it is possible to set the input gain while recording ?
Thank you.
Press and hold Play to display Input level, Output level and Pan.
Oh yes, the hidden menu. Great, thank you !
I may have asked this but don’t recall the answer. Do Neon not record audio? For real?
Does Neon record audio? Yes, it records audio. And does about a million other useful things.