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SessionBand EDM (?) + (...making of Jazz app.)
Geoff Gascoyne details the efforts that went into recording and producing the Jazz edition of SessionBand app.
It's amazing to think all that hard work was available to us for $1/£0.69.
Article here... http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/06/geoff-gascoyne-writes-about-new-jazz.html
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sessionband-jazz-volume-1/id656630704?mt=8
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@SpookyZoo - nice one mate. It just shows that sometimes we should just buy these kinds of educational apps at full price. Top class musicians doing their thing for free it seems. I hope some of us acknowledge theses guys some day.
I thought it was about time there was a NEW SessionBand. Searching for news is how I came across this article.
No news.
Now a day later, an Audiobus newsletter reveals SessionBand EDM.
The link doesn't work for me however. Anybody else see that?
I wonder what "EDM" means...Interesting.
Electronic Dance Music
Link doesn't work for me either.
Yeah, should be interesting to see SessionBands take on EDM.
The only page Google locates with it mentioned is the Audiobus blog. It's probably released today at some point.
It's out now here in Switzerland.
Sorry to be so generalist, but what do 'we' think of Session Band?
I had a quick look at it upon its original arrival and decided (how snooty) that it 'wasn't for me'. Too simplistic to the point of cheating which is pretty pathetic (and dumb) on my part. A thing's a thing's a thing after all.
Anyone find it useful for writing?
As a sketching and prototyping tool I think it has its plus points.
Sessionband Rock
Sessionband Jazz
I love SessionBand for my guitar improvisation practice. I will create a new chord progression and try different styles. The Ui is a bit clunky for this, but no worries. The resulting sound is great for my purposes.
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@JohnnyGoddyear I use the SessionBand apps in a few ways. More often than not I use it to audition different styles for songs I've already written. I enter in the chord changes and then with the touch of a button, you can skip through 20+ styles. This in itself can inspire new life/ideas into your songs. You might hear something in a certain style that sparks your creative mojo into directions you might not have considered otherwise.
Also, like @joegrant413 mentioned, it's a great tool to use as a jam backing track.
The sounds are high quality and are a great way to quickly get down an idea of chord changes for quick song demos.
The interface can seem a bit clunky at first, but there's really only 5 or 6 gestures to learn, and once learnt they allow speedy song building..(copy,move,paste etc..).
The SessionBand apps are limited to 10 chord types. Whilst this is a bit limiting, you're never really short of a chord type that will work. Also if you've read the article above you'll understand why that limit probably exists.
They do take up a lot of space, 300-700mb for the different versions.
Price..I think I own all the SessionBand versions. I've paid full price for a couple of them, but the majority at a crazy small price. In the past they have often had flash sales on them for £0.69/$1. I've seen people ponder if it's worth that one buck. Seriously, if they ever flash-sale again. Grab em. But even at full price, you're gonna get a useful tool that had a lot of hardwork behind the scenes.
I just got the EDM version so a demo soon, I like Session Band its easy and fun and helps a lot with ideas, sounds great too, the EDM version is very good for making great dance loops to then build on elsewhere, the only problem I have with these apps is the size, EDM weighs in at a hefty 700+ meg so if you have em all its huge, so I tend to send them off to the cloud and use them when I need them, a bit like Drum Loops HD, I've just put Alchemy back on too for a Artificial Intelligence demo, I downloaded the whole thing again and thats 2.1 gb now, same as Sampletank.
Thanks guys. Good insight.
I took a stab at EDM and def see how your ideas of using it for sketching out or really hearing or refining possible chord changes is a useful plus here.
Easy enough GUI (once you understand the gestures required). Immediately want more options/tools, but super quick to copy up a progression and add it into Auria etc, sprinkle in some goodness and away you go.
Can see how it would be a good song-writing tool, allowing for style/feel without getting too bogged down in the immediate mix or technique of playing. Thanks for assuaging my inherent guilt
It's a bit like working with session musicians and arranging stuff as you go.
Had a blast using the acoustic version for backing tracks last night!
Price for Session Band EDM now is $3.99. I believe other SessionBand apps also on sale.
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@paulb that jazz one sounds completely fantastic. Makes me want to eat dinner.
@syrupcore Lol. Thanks, most of the effort was spent arranging and remixing the Garageband strings that I added...
@PaulB Liked the jazz sound too, made me want to eat dinner while take my blind dog for a long walk in the rain. What sort of BPM is/was that?
I don't remember changing the BPM from the default for the style, so I suspect it was 60 BPM.
Thanks Mister.
Just listened again. They should make that their demo.
EDM and chord changes?
Aha, lol
this is so wrong
I do think it's funny to have an EDM version when the unique strength of Sessionband is that it's samples of real instruments played by real musicians. This could easily have been done using MIDI templates and separate instruments, it would take up less room, and could have included more variations.
@PaulB said:
I agree. People have asked in the past for SessionBand to do midi stuff. While that's not their strength, this version would have been a great first step in that direction.
Since we're on the subject: Whenever I play the demos on any of the SessionBand apps, the audio downbeat does not occur when the cursor hits the tick mark at the beginning of every measure... more like halfways through the first beat. Anyone else get this? Will this cause extra fiddling to line up the downbeat when used in another app?
Not had any problems with it so far. Seems to paste on the money into Auria. (EDM/Jazz/Piano).
@Brain Yes, visually the cursor seems a half beat ahead in quite a few of the SB versions. When that audio is played or exported though, it's all in time. Just looks off.