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Voxkit 2.0 is out -- major reboot of a drum app
We took the old Voxkit off sale for a while, during a complete reboot. It's designed for drummers -- it listens to sound, and can trigger MIDI or samples, so you can play on a practice pad with sticks, tap on a desk, and so on. You can play the screen as well, of course. Audiobus 2.1 with preset sharing, four SoundFont engines, built in MIDI over Bluetooth, user loadable SoundFonts, MIDI in and out, pads can send MIDI notes, chords, program change, control change, and you can share presets with Twitter. The Twitter part is pretty slick, IMO -- I think people will really like that.
Anyway, it's a buck for the weekend! Here's the link, and a quickie YouTube demo
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voxkit!/id539347505?mt=8
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This app looks cool. Its a must for me.
buying
Holy BaJeepers that thing is Cool! We gotta fix that App Store, there is such a rush I guess to download this app that I can't get in to get it! Like Tone Stack was earlier this week. I'll keep trying, it's way too awesome - my app addiction just took over!
Great news! Thank you!
Super!
I was going to buy it a while back and went to the App Store only to find that it wasn't there. Found a post that SBD was doing a major overhaul on the App.
Well it's on my ipad now ;-)
Congrats on the release and thank you for the sale. Grabbed it!
Great reboot of this app. You can really pour some major midi into your apps with Voxkit.
This is just stunning. The feature I'm most excited about is audio triggering input. The response time is amazingly quick. And I love an app that exposes all it's settings to MIDI control. It looks like Voxkit won't disappoint me there.
I can't wait to see how it works with audio triggers from my acoustic guitar.
Glad people are digging it! Don't overlook the Twitter preset sharing feature (cough, viral marketing plan, cough). Let me know if you run into trouble or have questions....
I like the cut of your jib, Patrick. Plus, you're an educator, albeit a tenured one. =P
I'll be getting this one, as well as Double Decker.
Got the app looking forward to checking it out. I don't use twitter so I won't be using that feature. Sorry!
I'm pretty interested in the possibility of triggering program changes via audio, too. Absolutely brilliant.
This looks cool - I assume the sound detection is kind of like Impaktor, except triggering a soundfont instead of a synth engine? I'm a fan of these guys and 99 cents is sweet, so I'll probably check I out whether I know what to do with it!
It's a bit different from Impaktor (which is a great app -- highly recommend it!).
Voxkit looks at the incoming audio, watching for spikes in volume. When it sees a spike, it does a Fast Fourier Transform to get the component frequencies, and then uses that to try to match it with a sound that it's been trained on. The matching isn't going to be perfect (for fast response, it listens to about 6ms of incoming sound before triggering), but if the sounds are distinct enough, it can work pretty well.
The matching is "whatever is enabled and closest" -- so if you've only got one column turned on, any sound will match. Two columns on -- you'll need to worry about tone. I've been able to get it to work with up to four different sounds, but that's by being really careful.
Once a match has been detected, it triggers any enabled pad in the column -- so that goes to notes, chords, or MIDI control events. When I was playing with the thing during development, I liked to keep one row turned on for drum hits, and use the others for backing chords and bass lines. The sound that gets matched, and what it triggers--totally independent -- but when doing something like beat boxing, you'd probably want to pick sounds similar to what you're doing with your voice.
Note also that you can control apps like Loopy and Genome using MIDI -- so I frequently use one row to toggle on/off record, select a track, and so on. I need to put together a "how to use it" video (ok, I've got a lot of things I need to do... but that's one of the things on the list).
I've spent about the same total time with Impaktor and Voxkit. Both went on sale for .99, I gleefully downloaded and spent 5 minutes tinkering. After five minutes with Impaktor (last year some time), I lost interest because the audio triggers a synthesis engine, which is cool, but not what I was looking for. See @supadom's YouTube channel for some good examples of excellent use of Impaktor.
After five minutes with Voxkit, I'm much more excited. First, the audio response really is as fast as the touch screen, simply magic. Second: MIDI! I can't wait to dig into this.
Secret Base Design is the best name for a company ever. And your products rock. I dissected the .sf2 that comes with the app in Viena. Any chance we can mod it to our liking and then replace it, or it it locked?
Wonder if it would be possible to teach the app the kick and snare from some music, and then play the music and be able to correctly identify the pattern? If so we could 'record' it in a sequencer program like Jam Maestro.
@Coloobar -- you can add your own SoundFonts using iTunes file sharing, or the "open in" feature in things like DropBox. You might need to restart Voxkit (it scans for SoundFonts at startup), but then you can select the SoundFont and patch from the same dialog. Mix and match however you like. They have to be "sf2" files, not the compressed "sfz."
For audio triggering -- if there's background sound, it won't work well (the app watches for volume spikes, and then has a stupidly short amount of sound sample before triggering). It might work to extract a drum pattern, but you'd be pushing the limits.
"...albeit a tenured one"
I laughed.
This is great work Mr Secret Base. Thank you!
That's Professor Secret Base!
Really glad people are digging it (people seemed to hate the earlier incarnation with a passion!).
@SecretBaseDesign said:
You did a great job with this, especially the midi implementation and the ability to specify sending notes, chords, CC, or program changes. I think it's more accurate to call this an audio midi drum controller in the same way that we have midi keyboard controllers. Plus a built-in sound font player?! Thank you!