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The answer to that question is on page 11. or maybe 13? or was it 8?
@Zymos said:
I hate to say it again, but it does support AB via IAA. I have been using it through AudioShare since it dropped without any problems.
@syrupcore said:
Okay, I'll start reading through. If it's good enough I'll buy it, I just haven't seen anything that makes me pull the trigger yet. I thought that now that people have had a play through it might be a good time to ask.
I was just being silly. If BM2 is scratching all of your itches, why bother with this?
Okay I guess so. Still would like to know if there are functions in here that Beatmaker doesn't have for a more complete arsenal but I can read up. Thanks!
Just the fact so many people seem to be divided on this one means I'm probably going to wait a few updates for things to settle out. Sounds interesting, but it's not something I found myself NEEDING before all the hype started either. Hope it matures!
@DarbyA said:
I think it's more about if you want a traditional MPC workflow or not. BeatMaker is more like a traditional DAW with a timeline that happens to include a great drum sampler (and the best keyboard sampler on iOS). Some "in the iMPC column" stuff I can think of:
The list of "in the BM2 column" would be much much longer. BM2 is just a generally more robust/feature filled app. Unless there are specific iMPC Pro features someone was looking for I think it would be hard to recommend it as a single 'make all my music app' purchase over Beatmaker2. I'm loving it though.
An input connection for iMPC Pro isn't showing up in Tabletop. Even the original iMPC had an input, so that it could directly sample other Tabletop devices through virtual line-in sampling.
For me I wanted BM2's drum sampler without BM2 and this is the closest I have come so far.
@DarbyA said:
what does iMPCP do that can't be done with BM2?
In a broader sense, I asked the same thing on page 3. I only got an answer from @supadom, but that was before anyone had the app.
@DaveMagoo said:
Many of us our hoping to see better feedback on the tuning, both in the Timeline and in Parameters editing. There is no indication of semitones when you're editing. The 16 levels can only tune a sample down by three semitones. In using tuning dials, 32 increments/degrees is equal to an octave change.
You know, it's the fact that I got things going straight away, and I like the results . Everyone wants everything, but as long as I am getting music I am happy...sometimes the interface on some apps is a problem, but I really like this workflow, great for immediacy.
Thanks @syrupcore! I'm not coming from an MPC background and that might be part of my lack of enthusiasm/understanding. May have to give this one a whirl. Thanks for saving a lot of reading
BM2's interaction with Dropbox, where you can import/export folders, is a real winner ... as is the fact it has timestretch and snap to BPM functionality in the chop lab. iMPC Pro could use more musical measurements in its sample editor -- bars and beats instead of minutes and seconds. These would be almost necessary of it ever did get looping functionality.
@syrupcore Good stuff. Thanks for the break down.
It might help,to understand some folks' frustrations if you consider that this is already a second try at the iMPC, so it's not really just a brand new project dropped out of the sky. Also, the three-month lead-in videos, though helpful, we're designed to create exceedingly high expectations.
BM2 also does MIDI better at the moment. There are many users of these sorts of apps that use them more as MIDI control centers than as samplers.
@parallaxobject said:
Send email few days ago and they will add it to the feature request list. In the meantime only the buggy audiocopy seems as workaround which is silly for the modular (and awesome) approach of tabletop.
Interesting reading, there is a lot of bugs, has anyone compiled these into a list yet?
I was still open to buying this, but having read about all the things that are wrong with it, I'm cooling my jets for now and seeing how it is in 6 months or something.
One day, someone will realise what a huge opportunity they have and develop an app for iOS that does complete this style of workflow in a very beautiful way that is also stable and reliable. It is all there in bits in various apps. It all just needs bringing together. I'd be particularly impressed if someone implemented an iOctatrack - I think these machines are better than MPCs anyway, but each to their own ;-)
Until then, I am quite happy flitting around in the various apps that do the different parts of the process and bringing them all together in other ways. Loopy is still a favourite simply because it's a great way to make loops that are in time from many of the other sound generating apps there are.
Good luck to everyone and to Retronyms, really great to see they are actually engaging and working on sorting things out. If nothing else they have brought things back up to an even playing field by doing this, I sincerely hope they can get this app up to the standard of Cubasis for example (their update history makes impressive reading) - if Retronyms can do this I'll buy two copies at full price. That's a promise.
Would be nice if iMPC Pro implemented the 'Open In' feature, so that you could audition samples and loops in Dropbox or Audioshare and load them straight to iMPC. For this to really shine, compatibility with 24bit audio would also be needed in iMPC.
Anyone able to upload to Soundcloud?
I keep getting an error message "Oops, upload failed" HTTP Error: 422
I tried the Audiocopy route into Audioshare and the sound is clipping even though it doesn't when playing the track back in the impc pro app....odd.....
@parallaxobject said:
Yeah. It's very cool that you can edit the tuning/filter/blah per note in the timeline view but once set, it's hard to tell what it's set to. Plus, when you're setting it all you have is a somewhat ambiguous up/down interface. Though it's completely goofy having to go through 4 sidebar screens in BM2 to get to this stuff, the bars view as an overlay makes it much easier to see what's what.
@DaveMagoo said:
If possible, try logging out and back into soundcloud. Or are you perhaps full on your soundcloud account's storage?
If Samplr had IAA, could make powerful combo with iMPC Pro. Might be silly to wish to open one sampler within another, but Samplr fills in a lot of gaps, and vice versa, where iMPC Pro lacks. And employing two samplers is common in hardware world ... Especially with Roland SP line and such.
I know there are workarounds for these two apps to 'share' audio, just dreaming of more efficient workflow.
iMPC Pro certainly beats BM2 in some workflow areas (and performance ways), and the former would easily retain those benefits while adding the latter's more 'Pro' functionalities.
@syrupcore said:
yeah it was full.......off to delete some, cheers !
edit: got it to work, still some distortion though.....
@DaveMagoo I liked it, though I think it would benefit from less "woosh". Just one person's opinion, and I hope you take it in the constructive spirit it is intended.
@telecharge said:
Thanks, I'm just testing & figuring the app out....your right about the woosh though, just copied the sequences over and added to them.
I only used 1 track so there is lots to explore, really like most of the workflow so far....
Someone brought this idea up on this forum already (pointing out that even the iMaschine has it), but adding a pop-up keyboard could help with the accuracy of tuning and pitch on samples. Bonus points if it worked with Flux and/or some kind of arpeggiator and scale/chord options like many of the iOS virtual keys, and of course it's notes should have capacity to be recorded in Timeline. Many hardware MPC users accompany their kit with a keyboard, so no contradiction with tradition there.
Because of the IAA effects possibilities, I know effects are not as big a deal within the app, but anyone miss the Bitcrush effect from original iMPC? Don't recall how good it was, but Bitcrush in general is a big deal for sampler effects these days (and for emulating the old), and so could be nice to get back in the Pro.
Sticking with MPC legacy, I'd like to see a sort of lo-fi compression effect -- for sounds, programs or master -- that can add a flavor of the old vintage hardware's (subtle) mix of compression, filtering and bit reduction. Native Instruments, and I think the Renaissance, have emulators of MPC60 and SP1200.
A little off topic, but in the spirit of bit reduction, would love something like an app version of Sonic Charge's Permut8 ... with IAA and Audiobus of course.
Effectrix does have Bit Crush.
I gather Saint Louis Drive can handle some of the bit-crushing tasks.