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Recommend me an app
I have a £25 gift card recommend me an app please looking for something groovebox / sampling orientated, been out of the loop?
Latest app I have is beatly pro, not bought anything after for about a year before (May 2021)
PS dont want Drambo, but as always never say never.
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What are you looking for in a groovebox?
Do you know Groove Rider?
Drambo is your best bet, IMO.
Otherwise, I don’t know what might even come close. Loopy Pro perhaps? It’s popular..
Have it thanks, got most of the Groovebox / samplers from pre 2021
Re Drambo, I dont want to have to spend a lot of time noodling till I get it right, is there a library of stuff out there?
Have LoopyHD, never really clicked with my workflow
Oh yes there is!
https://patchstorage.com/platform/drambo/
Oh this has me nearly sold https://patchstorage.com/r2d2/
Drambo is worth it even if you only ever use AU instruments and effects in it. The modular depth is terrific, but unnecessary to deep dive into to get exceptional music out of it , like it would be for something like Mirack. It’s just an extra layer that I often avoid when I’m using it as a straight groovebox , save for basics like LFOs/Mixers.
I think it’s the best, most innovative groovebox out there, HW or software.
Hammerhead rhythm station is lots of fun.
Drambo is for a specific crowd. Too much head ache for me.
2 underrated and overlooked grooveboxes are Hypertron and Pepp. Love them both, and they have free versions with a lot of features if you wanna try before you buy.
@Jose_Bee Koala
Yea Koala. was that pre May 2021. If not it’s also had a few in app IAPs to make it even better.
Easy, E. If you want the most powerful groovebox functionality (without getting into Drambo conversations) I'd suggest going for a modular approach, using something like Polybeat to sequence instances of Koala and Koala FX. You can get all the functionality of Elektron units (probability-based hits, parameter locks) as well as polyrhythms and a load more. As well as that I'd go with Mozaic scripts to extend the functionality to round robin etc.
That's my approach these days and I've never had anything as powerful and convenient
ok, so i have had Drambo for like literally 2 years now and literally finally yesterday i opened it up and actually spent more then 2 minutes before going "I think I will enroll in a organic chemistry 4 week Doctorate Degree bootcamp instead, less brain power trying to figure this out"
so i went through part of the manual, and stopped after learning how to set up a simple DIY synth (that was the best part was i didnt realize just HOW customizable it is. Youre not choosing different synths (unless youre adding Auv3s), you are literally BUILDING your own. You add a oscillator, then add an envelope, then put a LFO in and drag it to the back of the oscillator (this is just what i did, its whatever you want), it automatically connects the right things for you in the right ways, and it works like a book, left to right, top to bottom as far as whatever is on the left is input for whats on the right and then the farthest right module is continuing this flow back to the left on the next row down.
So i started opening some preset synth configurations, and messing with them, changing and adding my own modules, LFOs, etc.
then i had to stop because I had to get out of the vehicle i was in. But in the past when I had opened it to try it (but never understood until I read like the first 4 pages of the manual) I was able to get some Drum sounds in there either by Koala or assigning drum samples to each track and I was able to get a nice drum beat going. SO, i know this is totally possible for me, and the thing is, like someone else mentioned, YOU CAN JUST USE IT as an AUV3 host and its STILL the most innovative, coolest, creativity sparking, just-want-to-keep-going-even-though-you-are-late-to-an-appointment type of groovebox I have EVER used. In fact, the ONLY modulation environment ive ever used is propellerheads reason 5 and now I use reason 11. But unless Im doing something totally insane, it just hooks it all up for you pretty much 99% of the way. so it didnt really feel modular.. 5 felt more modular.. ALSO, i dont even have any experience with a groovebox until I used ampify groovebox and i was like ok kinda fun, then i remember i tried like a korg electribe or something and it was NOT was i was used to.. no it was grooverider 16 or something like that.... point is, I dont know drambo OR grooveriders, but I spent 10 minutes reading the first 4 or so pages of the manual and playing with preset racks and WOW. i cannot recommend enough
Yeahs that was on my list from a while back thanks
I like koala but for some reason couldn’t get serious with it
Cheers Pete sounds right up my street, what’s the mozaic scripts?
Have GR and cracked it open again to check it out, need to dig in and just watched Dougs awesome video too
Wow sold (almost)! Cheers for the write up really shone a positive light on it for me
You are describing exactly why i have zero interest in Drambo. I wanna create music with the little free time I have, not read some manual.
You dont need to read manual. Its easier to work out than most synths. Easier than a daw. You would need to read manual. Or watch youtube. For building synths etc. I will read manual/watch youtube. When I start using Drambo ( officially )
https://patchstorage.com/nexxxt/
https://patchstorage.com/eucalyptus/
https://patchstorage.com/flip-master-1-0/
These are my favourites. The first 2 are round robin scripts; the last one is a utility to basically toggle groups of channels in AUM (the videos in each link explain them best).
Shouts to the Hammerhead recommendation. I did some fun things with that using the loop start points and one of my preset banks is based on that but I don't think most people using it like that
Excellent will dig in
wow thank you i did not even know about these!
and same to you, thanks for that!
im curious as to what you make music with now, as far as sequencers, tracks, mixers, synths, samplers, modulators, etc? And im also curious, did you look up any youtube tutorials for the product(s) you are using? did you experience a learning curve where before you could make what was in your head you had to learn how to use the tools, especially DAWs with all the buttons and bells and whistles. unless youre still on fruity loops 12 which was fairly straight forward for me, any other tool i have used to create my best tracks, the tools and DAWs and sequencers and mixers I use and am able to jump right in without giving it a second thought, i get inspiration and then boom i go and make music on these preferred tools of mine, but every single one of them, required me first to either watch a youtube video (or several) and follow along, or read up in a manual, or ask questions on a forum, so that I understood properly what I was using and how to use it.
So to say this puts you off about drambo is kinda silly imo and im not trying to be rude. the only tool i never had to look at a manual for (asked the occasional question on a certain familiar forum though) was koala sampler. it truly is so straightforward and simple and elegant,... i love it.
but my point is, I literally took 10-15 minutes, (MINUTES, not hours or days) and read the first 4 or so pages of the drambo manual. i figured i could watch a tutorial online but those are often drawn out and focuses on one thing at a time and im a little experienced enough to know what im doing, i just wanted to get the general IDEA of the app and the ways it does what you want it to do to make (in the case of drambo) LITERALLY ANYTHING. like, after the part in the manual where you create your first simple synth, i stopped reading and made one, then i played with the presets. I started off with a preset that sounded like a piece of cardboard was dragging across rough concrete, and after tweaking the envelopes with the filters, re-arranging the modulators and adding a few of my own and putting a few notes into the sequencer (which i hadnt even read about yet i just kinda intuitively picked up on it after a few seconds of thinking through it, it went from that sound to a Skrillex style wobble, to a datsik style wobble, to a hip hop pad, to an EDM impact or effect, by me playing with where the modulators are coming and going and where they are in the continuous left to right flow of the sound (ALL stuff i literally learned how to do from reading 4 or 5 quick and informative pages about what the app does, and im not talking about reading about what a modulator does and how to put it on this paramater to make a certain type of "wop" sound,, no no no. LITERALLY just learning "these are the different modulations and effects, and here is how you add them to the synth you are building), I know what an LFO does and a filter and an ASDR envelope and what waveforms are and granular wave synthesis and what pitch bending does, and I decided to add a chorus module before the envelope after the filter to add some shimmer to the stereo field, and was making a very simple synth with one oscillator, a filter, and envelope, a chorus, putting LFO on the filter cutoff and the oscillator pitch, and passing it all through a heavy limiter/gain reducer (drambo warned me several times that modular environments can cause sudden audio spikes that can be dangerous. my ipad volume level was like 2 notches above off and it was LOUD!) then changing out different types of osillators and playing with the parameters and the flow of the sound, I was able to get the range of noise above and let me tell you, if i was not late already for an appt and HAD to leave, I was getting INSPIRED you know where that bubbling comes up in you where your'e like "omg i'm on to something BIG here guys"... I mean it was just instant inspiration and SUCH DIVERSITY and in 15 minutes i learned more about how drambo works and how to use it than in the past 2 years that I have owned it.
to make a long story longer, we all have a learning curve with new equipment, software or hardware. we (usually) all either watch a tutorial or read a manual, or tinker forever and ever until it finally makes sense (which I dont recommend with ANYTHING except Koala. Tinkering without any direction or aim in Drambo is what kept me away from it for these two years. 15 minutes of actual concentrated effort to LEARN a tool so that i CAN make music with it has paid off in such a HUGE way, and with my new focusrite interface coming with a copy of ableton live lite, (which just to annoy you, i will sit down and read the manual for) Drambo is about to become such a huge part of my productions i can already tell. this IS the gem that i have been missing. This is that spark I felt was lacking whether using reason 11 on my pc, or using just my ipad alone, or using both, either way Im so glad i did this, and kinda mad at myself for not doing it earlier. People say "aum killer" or "koala is the SP404 killer" or whatever... but really with drambo being an audio unit host, an audio unit itself (as an effect for a different instrument OR as an instrument, or sampler, or both, sequencer, midi clip launcher, not just uses synths BUT CREATE YOUR OWN FROM SCRATCH, and runs so smoothly cpu wise... I think this is, most certainly, without question the "groovebox killer and feels the desire to kill again by encroaching on what AUM and audiobus and every other DAW does, it has potential to be a repeat offender and may one day be the "music production killer".
it depends on the developer and how far he wants to take it. I think it so very clearly can be used in literally ANY form of music of ANY genre, I predict that with ipads getting more and more powerful, iOS updating with more complex code that sometimes drops apps by the wayside, if the drambo devs can keep it up, i think it will be one of the top 3 music production tools for iOS for, well, ever. cubasis, drambo, and AUM are my predictions for the top 3 most used and helpful, streamlining production tools for years and years to come. ill never stop using koala, bm3, BLEASS efx, and bleass alpha synth, FF pro Q 3, etc.
But learning that little bit of drambo yesterday made me finally be able to fully actualize what i knew all along, and that i knew that i knew it, that I dont need any more apps. That the reason i dont make as much music as I know I should, is not because i am missing certain tools to make certain sounds or effects. I have everything I need and WAY MORE. Drambo made that knowledge fully actualize in my brain to the point where I am satisfied with what I own and suddenly dont even feel the need to keep buying apps. I still have like 12$ in my apple account and usually that would BURN a hole in my appstore until i bought something new that i would never use. now I dont even feel the need to buy anything, or even look for anything.
ill keep checking sales for like FF, TB, and other brand sales, but im finally ready to turn the app store off for a while and make some music (if i ever finish this reply)
sorry guys, i have REALLY bad ADHD and I have not taken my meds today yet so i tend to talk and ramble and really try to make my point clear ( and boring im sure) so forgive the monologues.
but to the OP, i really really really would look 3 or 4 times into buying Drambo. people always told me "it can make any type of music" and id be like in my head "yeah well idk my modern boom bap + gritty soul rock beats, yeah i dont see me doing that in drambo." not anymore. now i feel like drambo is JUST AS GOOD as beatmaker3 my current goto iOS daw. or when i want to make wubs and dubstep/riddim, for MONTHs ive been trying to figure out the best most streamlined tool for making liquid, deep dubs on my ipad alone and keeping reason 11 out of it. Now its a no-brainer.
my advice, buy it. spend a day learning the left to right flow of sound it uses. you know (most likely) how a synth works in its basic form, and drambo will automatically connect the right sources to the right inputs so there is no time wondering if you missed a wire or connected something wrong. (reason studios anyone?)
learn it, it has every type of sampler, effect, modulation you need and some you didnt even know you needed. I thought it was going to take like HOURS or DAYS to learn my way around Drambo. Nope. took 15 minutes. Now i can at least incorporate it into my current workflow as its own BEAST of a audio unit, and im thinking soon ill be making the switch from BM3 to Drambo and then eventually ableton live and reason 11, using drambo as a vst input.
And pr4y lived and produced happily ever after,
The End.
(this novel was based on a true story)
I wanted to let know the OP know that Drambo may not be for everybody. I had Drambo recommended a dozen time and it would have been a waste of my 28$CAD. I am not a fan of anything modular. Modular synth or Dawless setup. If you like it more power to you.
I like traditional DAW like Cubasis and Auria. Traditional subtractive or additive synth. Real instrument samples.
I am old and I am grumpy.
You've made a purchase?
idk if you read all of my post, but I hate modular too. espeically synths when they randomly just freak out and suddenly youre pretty sure your ears are bleeding. I learned with Fruity loops 12, then switched to reason 5, then finally bought reason 11 about 2 years ago. Reason studios is the most modular ive ever gotten, when you press 'tab' it shows you whats behind your instruments and you can literally drag wires from a traditional subtractive synth, into one effect and out to another all the way up to the mixer. but now its all automatic in reason 11, with the option to change it up if preferred.
also said i didnt even have any experience with a groovebox until I used ampify groovebox. but i literally thought that was their app name and didnt know that a groovebox was a traditional type of instrument/sound/beat making environment. so i was like ok kinda fun, then i remember i tried grooverider 16 or something like that... which was apparently a "groovebox" with raving reviews (now obvious to me written by people who grew up with hardware grooveboxes instead of me, who grew up with a software program named after cereal with a tucan on it... point is, I dont know modular OR grooveboxes, I am 100% linear, tracks, sequencer, pattern/clip arrangement, mixer, piano roll edit for individual sounds or tracks in a clip, start and finish loop points, a visual representation of the entire track so i can see where i need to add automation, i can quickly check my arrangement, etc.
..... but I spent 10 minutes reading the first 4 or so pages of the manual and playing with preset racks and WOW. i cannot recommend enough, and its versatility,.. just using it as a single instrument in cubasis3, or beatmaker 3, or porting it to ableton live lite, or even recording and sampling everything over to reason 11.... but in cubasis3 or BM3 alone, + Drambo... lol the sounds you can get are just absolutely wild, the effects are great quality and completely customizable, you could add a parallel sampler ocsilator to an instance of moog Model D and and granulize it as a send EFx and then add an LFO to the volume faders of the model D and the Granular effect and do what they call in the riddim community and do some propper chopz, or wobble back and forth from the granulated sound to the true synth sound... I would do this while probably haveing a duplicate playing a with the lows and highs dipped at a lower volume in mono, to keep some of the integrity of a single, polyphonic synth with wildly different oscilator sounds in quick succession, while keeping a duplicate low volume band pass filtered perfect 50/50 mix of both osc. in mono to keep the subtle integrity of a single poly synth. then it gets really fun when you add some saturations and bit crushing, filter lfo, delay and LFO to the filter lfo all into a macro and then apply the LFO that is modulating the filter LFO to the Macro amount.....
So imagine ordering a big Mac with LettuceFriesOnion's while passing on the lower bun (to filter those freq-y carbs), then you get it a Bit Crushed into the bag, Saturated with waves of sauce and 2 or 3 drinks in succession, with a slight pause between them, each one a smaller size than the previous refill. if im playing ping pong i would be refilling them at the two different drink stations, going back and forth at the frequencey rate of the incoming orders, which would effect the output cus the employees have to recieve each order before outputting the response of my own order signal (made through a kiosk, so, a modular mcdonalds environment) and then if my internal system's miralax buffer rate is set to the correct levels, eventually i will output the response into the sewege mixer (to eventually be purifed or "mastered" if you will, so that the general population can consume it) through one of the toilet tracks, or, urinal buses depending on the type of track it is, (an audio urine sample that everyone can usually hear, or a couple of lines of midi i feel like dropping) and those are both usually provided. lately with covid they are locked under this weird setting where you have to get a key, but its not an In-Store Purchase its just an option in the settings, you can always add your own mixer and tracks later.
hope that helps
Yes I did read all your post. The Big Mac exemple, I read 6 times. I still have no idea what you are trying to tell me but I am hungry. 😂😂
Last week I just figured out why synths have 2 set of ADSR. 😳😳 So all this stuff might be a mile above my head for the time being.
I have absolutely no desire in creating my own synth. Making my own patches would be a accomplishment enough for me.
I do not own AUM, I do have Audiobus 3. I bought it to support the forum. But I don’t get it. No time line, no where to sequence. I bought a couple app like Fugue machine and ChordBud. But it just so inconvenient to make music that way. I don’t get it at all.