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I don’t think you can do that. You can move the slice points though. If you zoom in on an area of your sample using the mini waveform above the slices you can do it fairly accurately.
Yeah, that's what I thought. I was suspicious of the claims, but was ready to be proven wrong.
So, if I want to use and slice the entirety of a sample, but only in, say, six places, I won't necessrily be able to do it. I suppose I could manually swipe 10 of the slice markers on top of each other... I think that would work for most purposes. But that is unecessarily fiddly, esp if you are trying a lot of variations.
Thanks for clearing that up.
OK, well pretty much all the updates in the last four years have been bug fixes. I should have been clear that I wasn't talking about fixes.
As for the slicing thing, I think it is not possible to take a sample and arbtrarily place, say, three and only three slices in it if the app doesn't want to do that.
Can you actually do that, or are you taking the unwanted slice markers and trying to scoot them out of the way? If you can -- hero.
Well I mean I don’t see why it matters because you have to explicitly call out the slice numbers in the sequencer so don’t use the higher numbers you don’t want. If it’s really important you can turn the sensitivity waaay down (to like the 0%) and it will only auto-slice a couple of points in the sample. Even on a full Amen Break the auto slice at 0% threshold did like 7 slices…then you can move those around as you want.
OK. But that's not true either, namely that turning the sensitivity way down will get you any intermediate number. I have had lots of tracks where you can simply cannot choose any intermediate number using the sensitivity, because it's too "sensitive."
Does it matter? It's inconvenient. You're moving the goal posts a little, but that's OK. I think it's a pain to have to move ten markers together all on top of each other, when there could be an implementation where you can just double tap and add one, and I don't even think IAA inconvenience is a dealbreaker.
Plus, the fact that you can't delete dozens off audio presets. Don't you think that's kind of arbitrarily limiting? For such an old and relatively pricey app, the've done very little to improve it over the years, while most developers try to add a little something every so often to keep their stuff fresh. That's doesn't seem to be SugarBytes way at all from what I can tell.
I’ve been eyeing SB DrumComputer for a couple of years now but haven’t jumped on it yet. Any specific “cons” I should know about before I purchase it?
Well there's no live input, no tapping in a beat - it's a very powerful step sequencer. Some folks on this forum have criticized the kick as sounding crap but I don't agree, you can get some great sounding bass drums IMO + just load in any sample you want. I love it.
I can't really think of many, to be honest. My one true complaint is I like to be able to set a particular default that I can jump to right away, without unnecessary menu diving all the time, that's a minor annoyance I guess Some people find the 8 outs limiting. It's pretty brilliant overall, I think, but note it is a CPU glutton..
That's not so. Using the randomizer means you don't have to call out particular slices. So, if you use the sensitivity control, and you get either sixteen slices or four, and you want only five, it will play those unwanted slices, unless one-by-one you slide the unwanted slice perfectly on top of each other outside of the range you want to play.
The sensitivity control doesn't a;ways let you pick an exact number of slices, (and I would say that it rarely does) because on many tracks with a narrow dynamic range, it's like a radio dial that zips between three channels when you barely budge it.
(That's another thing. If I have a waveform with visible peaks, often Egoist can't seem to find them by itself. So, again, it might jump from three slices to 16 when you use it. I can see them clearly with my own bad eyes, so why can't the app find them? Maybe that's a more challenging technical hurdle than it seems it should be, but I wonder if they have made any improvements to that algorithm in the last 9 years. No mention of it in the release notes.)
You aren't bothered by any of these things, and that's great. I'm not trying to covince you that those things aren't annoying to you. I'm just reporting my experiences, which vary from yours.
It won’t ever play unwanted slices if you don’t have those slice explicitly called out in your sequence. I concede the point that it doesn’t function precisely as you wish, but it is not limited in function with its current implementation. It’s just a different workflow. Use segments and an external sequencer then.
Your post on previous page, that we were responding to, said ‘you can’t put a slices exactly where you want them when trying to slice a beat’. That is incorrect. You can absolutely do that. That is what I and @Darkstring were replying about.
it's only step record so no playing live into the sequencer. The effects are very basic but sound nice. I too have been waiting along long time for this sale and at the price it is now I would say get it. The sonic palette is immense!
@mtenk DrumComputer always manages to make some cool sets through randomization. The sequencer is good too. I agree that the point some people make about weak sound is simply user error or lack of experience with the app.
@GUB the unused slices don't bother me at all. I think Egoist is extremely capable and actually fun to use. Also, in my experience many sugarbytes apps are more comfortable and inviting to use with a touch screen than using a mouse, especially Egoist.
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Anyone tried his channel strip? It’s the only app I don’t have from him. Love the rest but I’m interested in that one too.
It's good that they don't bother you. Everyone is annoyed by different things. To me it's just fiddly and annoying.
Would it be so hard for SB to implement some way of just setting using one slider to set six or 8 or 9 slices? Instead you might have to set twice as many slices as you want, and then get rid of the excess ones with finger swipes. These are tiny sliders too, closer in size to the smaller controls in Fundamental than the controls in AUM. No thanks, that's not fun for me.
Plus it's normally a 30 dollar app! Give us more than bug fixes, Bytes, fer freak's sake.
Also, I think the iPad Guis for some of their apps are not so fun to use, because the controls and labels are so small. Thesys without an Apple pencil? I have a 12.9 inch ipad and I can't imagine having to use thesys on anything smaller for any length of time in one sitting.
On another SB annoyance, that may be user ignorance -- turnado: is there a way to zero out all the dials on a panel at once, withoutfirst switching the view over to the pads view? I haven't found it. Again, do you have to turn eight dials down individually to accomplish that? If so... why?
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So I’m looking into Effectrix and Turnado. They both seem great but also seems like I kinda have that covered with Bleass Motion FX and Popsicle from Kai. Would it be too redundant to get those? I know you can have more effects at once in the SB apps, but you can also run multiple instances to make up for it with the Bleass and Kai apps. Opinions?
You tell me man. You’re the app guy, I’m an amateur . I also want Bleass but I’m waiting because I bight Turnado
I say BUY Turnado first, if you think you need more, maybe looperator and call it a Win
I’ve actually had Looperator since it came out and now I’m realizing I kinda have the Effectrix thing covered. So if any, it’ll probably be Turnado. I have most other SB except Unique but I really don’t need another synth. Guess it’s not “unique” enough 😂
I love Bleass’s apps. DrumComputer and Egoist are 2 of my all time favorites but as a dev I prefer Bleass overall.
If you want the effects for live use, Turnado is really hard to beat for that with the ease of performance and with how much you can customize it. If it’s not for live use then it could be a bit redundant. I don’t use it to perform live cos I’m a hermit who never leaves the house but I do like to use it while recording tracks for the live mixing
Haha I don’t play live anymore either but most of my tracks are performed and recorded live so it could be useful to me. Popsicle mostly does this but it only has 2 effects per instance and less parameters to tweak. Decisions decisions.
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These are still not AUv3 compatible, right?
Damn. If Mono/Poly and iElectribe were AU I’d jump on this in a heartbeat. But as of now I have the Mono/Poly as an AU with Syntronik so it’ll have to wait. Very tempted be the Electribe though.