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Sounds excellent! What’s doing the light show under there? A speaker?
It’s a cheapo led light thingie from temu.com in China….. don’t usually buy from these sites but I saw this dude on YouTube using these and….well… I figured it was a cheap way of making videos look a bit more fun! Below is an example, mine is button controlled only.
/DMfan🇸🇪
Thanks definitely adds a nice visual flair
Recording and editing for midi from ALL cc's. Although maybe you have it already? I just can't figure out how to PINCH ZOOM in to see. 😉
It's available a bank of my 222 ZEN-Core tones perfectly compatible with iOS Roland ZenBeats (ZC1 player) and all Roland Software and Synths, Pianos, Groovebox compatible with the ZEN-Core standard.
The collection includes, among the various sounds:
You can find the specifications and the list of sounds on my site page,
https://benis.it/cm/ZC_Editor/ben67_zeneditor.htm where is also avaible an editor for AX-Edge, JupiterX and Fantom).
Here is a video demonstrating some of the 222 sounds
Compatibility
Software: Zenology - Zenology Pro - ZenBeat (with ZC1 player)
Pianos: FP-E50, RD-88
Synth: AX-Edge, Fantom-06/07/08, Fantom-6/7/8, Juno-X, Jupiter-X/Xm
Groovebox: MC-101, MC-707, VERSELAB MV-1
Wind Instruments: Aerophone AE-20, Aerophone Pro AE-30
Guitar Synth: GM-800
PS. Video trailer:
ZenBeats iPad version with my tones at 2:39 ....on Enterprise :-)
Is there any manual how to install it on ipad?
Yess.
https://www.benis.it/cm/ZC_Editor/Manuali/Readme_How_to_Import_ZEN_Core_Tones.pdf
Pinch is and zoom is in the backlog😉.
/DMfan🇸🇪
Nice cover! : )
I wish Zenbeat could be hosted as Auv3. I like the drum sequencer and I'd love to use it in AUM.
Thanks!
Glad you like the TR-style sequencer! Considering Roland Zenbeats is a DAW and host in itself, I don’t see that is going to happen anytime soon, there are more important things asked for, but maybe in the future. Only Roland knows the full roadmap😎.
You can still use Roland Zenbeats to make drumloops and use them via sampling or import into Koala for example.
/DMfan🇸🇪
Today's little science experiment:
Et Voilà! ZR-1 track in AUM.
Good point. I've already done something similar for midi, but with Loopback I could do that for audio.
Thanks!!!
(but not as convenient and stable as an Auv3 app)
Nice workaround!
👍
/DMfan🇸🇪
Indeed very nice workaround!
I'm trying to "love" Zenbeats because it has so much to offer that interests me. I've started a new project in it yesterday evening and there is ONE (two) thing(s) that I would like to see changed :
Thanks for the feedback! Great to have you onboard!
Would scrolling by holding on one the grey lines inside of the the plugin field, just like in the mixer view, be an alternative? Tapping outside it to close it, noted.
Could you explain what the gain would be to change the present way of doing it? And are these two “want” or “need” for you? Are they showstoppers?
No offence meant here, promise. Reason for me asking is that I believe the backlog is pretty long, and the developer can’t do everything right away, @MatthewAtZenbeats and his team needs to prioritize. There is also the fact that Roland Zenbeats needs to work basically the same on different platforms, and what is best for us on iOS is not necessarily best on Android or desktop.
/DMfan🇸🇪
No, these 2 points are not real showstoppers for me, but they're so unituitive for me on the iPad!
I (too) often select a plugin when I just want to scroll the list… it's really annoying and, sometimes (quite often sadly), makes me simply close ZB and keep on my session in CB, AUM, or LP.
I didn't understand this choice, but now that you point the need to make ZB work as the same as possible on desktop and on mobile devices, it makes sense. 🤷🏼♂️
You can just scroll the list with your finger. Not need to aim fir the slider.
One tap outside or one tap one the X is still just one tap.
It doesn't work smoothly as in any other apps. I (very) often select a plug-in unintentionaly when I try to scroll the list… that's why I use the white bar on the right and I don't find this to be practical.
Indeed, but I have to aim the X which, with my problems to see correctly, isn't practical either 🤷🏼♂️
Hi @Gratouilli
Try scrolling from the center of the plugin list and see if that is any easier.
Ok, I have to stop using it. I went all in and bought the max package, but have to accept that it's simply too fiddly and unintuitive to work with. Why must it be so hard to edit simple loops without having the playhead run off ahead? Why are some things SO responsive, while others - especially the piano roll - feel like wrestling with a bear covered in molasses?
Maybe it's really easy, but then I missed it completely.
I needed space for something else, so now Gadget, Cubasis, FL Mobile, MiRack, Drambo and BAM are the main DAW like actors on my ipad, with AUM and APE for support. NanoStudio 2 is also hiding somewhere. They're mostly intuitive and there's minimal fiddling.
I wish it could have been different, because I really wanted to try a more preset/loop based workflow to make less important background music, but alas.. Guess I'll just use Garageband for that.
Maybe the kinks will be ironed out for Zenbeats 4.
Works better, but scrolling in the plug-in list is way more difficult than scrolling the preset list of ZC1 for example. The same behavior in all lists would be preferable.
/DMfan🇸🇪
Showstoppers are not good, share your findings.
Where do you find loops hard to edit, in timeline view? Please get back on this in more detail. What can be changed in order to make it easier?
Improvements to the piano roll is noted since before. It is fiddly, and we’ve asked for handles for MIDI editing to make it easier. Pinch to zoom as well. What else as you say “others”, do you find you have to wrestle with? Let us know so the developer can take action if necessary.
Regards,
/DMfan🇸🇪
This 👍🏻
I’ll see to that these things mentioned gets to the developer.
/DMfan🇸🇪
As I live and breathe in the piano roll, that alone is a major issue. BAM, FL Mobile and Gadget each has their own way, but they all work to easily get notes in and out and adjusting them.
Then there's the building of a patch, which means I have to edit certain parts over and over again. Exactly, in the timeline view, which is a major reason I got Zenbeats, since it hosts AUv3 and can sustain notes for much longer than for example Gadget.
Gadget has the loop function, which constrains playing to the present loop. BAM's looks almost identical, which makes sense since they operate similarly. FL Mobile, which uses an actual timeline, has the Preview button, which constrains the play head to the present part/pattern and also mutes other parts. It's still fairly easy to constrain the timeline though, to get a fuller picture - just like in the desktop version.
I found this to be incredibly tedious/unintuitive in Zenbeats. Maybe I did something wrong, but it wasn't easy editing small parts while iterating over them, without the play head having a life of its own.
As for other parts. I found the startup time on my iPad to be a bit long in the tooth. Gadget starts almost immediately, also FL Mobile. BAM too. Zenbeats apparently has to do some kind of syncing in the background that slows down everything. Maybe it's faster on newer iPads. This is a 2nd gen iPad pro.
The interface, while pretty, simply didn't please whatever UX hamster lives in my head. I think I never really comfortable with the split timeline/loop possibilities and it wasn't immediately obvious what editing in one would do to the other.
Zenbeats has some smart functions and I truly like the vision of what it can do. It just isn't for me in its current iteration. It does me no good that certain things are on a roadmap, when I need those functions now.
There were other niggles, but as I've uninstalled it now, I don't want to install it again just to dig them out. I think it had something to do with automation though.
Great feedback, thank you. Hopefully Roland Zenbeats can evolve into something more to your liking in the future.
Hope you get a lot of music done with one or more of the other great DAWs on iOS. In the end, it’s all about making music and finding an environment that suits you.
🙌
All the best,
/DMfan🇸🇪
Hard to pick one.
Maybe to be able to save edits of loops. Pretty easy to trim in koala.
Or maybe be able to mute a individual loop while its playing instead of muting the track.
Or fix that loops go out of time if i leave them running for a while, even when snap is on the start/end markers.
I still love the software, not really had time to immerse myself in it and do some complete songs. Its all there waiting but these issues keep nagging at me.
I use it on desktop as well and love swapping songs from different platforms.
Patiently waiting for a firmware update on my TR-8S that will magically connect to my iPad via USB and work flawlessly with Zenbeats, along with a TR Editor that works for iOS
Lol I realize this is more of a feature request for my TR-8S instead of Zenbeats, but they really would be the perfect combo for me
Does Zenbeats have true Sidechaining / multi-out yet? It’s been a while since I used it and haven’t checked any updates in a long time