H I L D A - FIRST UPDATE OUT!

Gavinski

Understandable - it is a bit confusing in fairness! Also wish that if a key and scale has been chosen, apart from custom scales, it would be somehow highlighted. Maybe there’s a technical reason why that might be tricky, not sure.

DMfan

@brambos said:

@BerlinFx said:
I love Hilda like it is and I am very surprised that few days release after people want to add so more new features like an Hilda Pro 2, if you want so many things at least accept to pay the new Hilda you dream a fair price to support the dev as many don’t know how is it difficult to change things without an idea how many hours of work it is.

I don’t write about real bugs fixes it ok as a apps is just released but dreams.

Like me for sure there are many people that don’t want more features on Hilda only few bugs fixes, less is more for me as I am highly creative.

I suggest to Bram to keep a version of Hilda with technical updates and improvements and if it s willing to add many more features to do a pre order for people who needs what they dream and make a high price for that. After all so many people on this forum want to pay 400 usd to have PianoTeq8 and no more than 20 usd to @brambos work, I think there are a problem ??

Please guy don’t make all nice and good devs be fedup and leave ios because everyone want more and more and not paying a fair price. If I was iOS music dev , with my bad mood , I will tell you are able to pay 200 usd for your dream ? If not go to the hell and I will leave you alone with your dreams.

Appreciate the sentiment, but it's ok: I know the drill. Most of the times when people make feature requests, it's because they're truly enthusiastic about the app. And I prefer that over indifference any day of the week

And I guess people on this forum know by now that I'm very good at saying "NO".

And if you never ask the answer will always be a ”NO”…😁. Thanks for a very fun app!

/DMfan🇸🇪

[Deleted User]

@RockySmalls said:

@monz0id said:

@RockySmalls said:

@monz0id said:
I like this app, I really do, but I’d like more weirdness. More different. I’ve got a hundred disco basses already.

Being able to hold, or latch the touchplates would really add an extra dimension of performability for me. A perfect UI, but better than perfect with more control over the brass rubbings.

the ‘Brass Frottage Zones’ modulate pretty well using the au param LFOs in Apematrix ,, i think they only have one parameter each(?? @brambos ) .. you can do a ‘switch on & off’ with the squarewave lfo .. and if you just want it on at a certain amount you just use the sliders to restrict the lfo to negligible mod amount at that level.. slidey random is, of course, most fun ... the plates still respond to touchy feely messing about so more weird can be had.. it’s a bit like the strega actually , i often have to use breadboard wires with a bit of blutack ( other brands are available ) to permanently patch those touchy mothers ON if it’s a sound i like.
( that’s not to say i wouldn’t like some more control for use in other environs )

I’ve got, but don’t use the Matrix, but I guess something similar could be achieved with AUM.

But, it’s a performance thing for me - if I’m going to be using it for live bending, I want all the switches in one place. Expressive squelches for the electro-jazz headz with no distractions. Just a double-tap to hold the touchplates would do the trick.

Though the lfo nudges could provide the Strega-like surprises you mentioned, for less energetic performance.

yes, double tap and on second tap move to level of effect-u-like and it hilds ... er ... holds!
+1 to that idea.
though it would have to be a sprightly double tap or it’ll get in the way of this here ‘performative squelching’ you’re on about.
all hail the Apematrix ( and apesoft in general , oops, bad form, rival dev thread :] ) .. if i use Aum it’s so that i don’t have to copy audio out of audioshare and can loop/layer them at different speeds , but i always end up piping the channels into ApeMatrix for the Lfos, quick & controllable feedback routing etc. if its synths n fx then ape is the Fast & Bulbous start sir..
definitely had a VERY Strega thing going this morn by fixing that ‘slow down effect’ with an ape lfo , sort of emulating the very noisy point on Strega where the delay chip is down at it’s slowest .. but it’s definitely a looped effect so you have to touch that pad intermittently to let new Hilda grunts through.. quite staplebummish in parts..

Ok, I’ll give that Matrix you like a spin later.

[Deleted User]

Hilda sequencer is more far advanced that I was thinking 🤔 I create in 2 hours what make days to create : a master patch or preset , using pentatonic Maj scale , minimal effect , 35 % wet only .

A master patch ? This a word that one of my friend tell an patch that can be use to create on the same scale 10 or 20 very different patches from deep house to cinematic. You can change the tempo and add FX as you want for each patch created from this patch according you don’t change the pentatonic scale , going to pentatonic Maj to Minor is ok.

I use Hilda in standalone to do that not in AU host.

It make Hilda a true Pro synth comparable to Model 15 or ici ic modular harware. If it’s possible to do that thanks to @brambos again for this top quality osc and the versatile sequencer. I spend hours on the sequencer and scale set.

Hilda is built like an electronic hardware you feel the osc . Tremendous experience.

As with even a DT 770 headphone I was tired and uncomfortable I used a BT speaker from Bose quite good for bass switching between iBoss speaker and my headphones. It sound really deeper if you push it than any other synth I tried on iOS quite amazing.

dendy

Hilda is built like an electronic hardware you feel the osc . Tremendous experience.

THIS. My experience is same. It feels like using actual HW synth

Krupa

@RockySmalls said:

@Krupa said:

@RockySmalls said:

@monz0id said:
I like this app, I really do, but I’d like more weirdness. More different. I’ve got a hundred disco basses already.

Being able to hold, or latch the touchplates would really add an extra dimension of performability for me. A perfect UI, but better than perfect with more control over the brass rubbings.

the ‘Brass Frottage Zones’ modulate pretty well using the au param LFOs in Apematrix ,, i think they only have one parameter each(?? @brambos ) .. you can do a ‘switch on & off’ with the squarewave lfo .. and if you just want it on at a certain amount you just use the sliders to restrict the lfo to negligible mod amount at that level.. slidey random is, of course, most fun ... the plates still respond to touchy feely messing about so more weird can be had.. it’s a bit like the strega actually , i often have to use breadboard wires with a bit of blutack ( other brands are available ) to permanently patch those touchy mothers ON if it’s a sound i like.
( that’s not to say i wouldn’t like some more control for use in other environs )

That blutac idea is boss, I’ll be trying it out 🙌

you is MOST welcome , a stretched out bit of Brillo pad can make a nice ‘vague’ connection too, which you can press on to make stronger momentarily... i’m trying to find some really tiny flat magnets that i bought , the sort used to hold an envelope shut , will be a better solution than the blutack in the long run i think.

Heh, even better! A box of random stuff that was left for me in my workshop has some plastic discs with little circular magnets attached, I think it was for some sort of motor the guy who left me the stuff had half built (probably an infinite energy source or something) but they’ll be perfect for this!

andowrites

@brambos said:

@pedro said:

@andowrites said:

@brambos said:
Just opening the zip with Hilda (and hitting refresh in the presets window) should be enough to install a zip full of presets.

Thanks, it didn't work for me.

Doesn't work for me either. A single .hilda patch works perfectly, but for a zip it means I have to unzip it somewhere first and then open a file in .hilda.

The endless joys of file handling on iOS. I’ll look into it

Thanks for looking into it. It seems there were issues for DMT Cymatics too. All is well now, that's good. It just didn't quite flow as smoothly as hoped, but that's my experience with a lot of preset loading, on many apps. Thanks for checking in on it though.

I tried unzipping the preset bank into Hilda's Backup folder on On My iPhone. Refreshed in app. Nothing. In the end, the only method that worked was to unzip the Zip file of the bank into Backup, then one by one, open them in Hilda, and hit refresh. So long as I did that, for each preset, then it worked. Try and do more than one, no deal.

andowrites

@dendy said:

Hilda is built like an electronic hardware you feel the osc . Tremendous experience.

THIS. My experience is same. It feels like using actual HW synth

The same here. It reminds me of Arturia MicroFreak.

brambos

@andowrites said:

@brambos said:

@pedro said:

@andowrites said:

@brambos said:
Just opening the zip with Hilda (and hitting refresh in the presets window) should be enough to install a zip full of presets.

Thanks, it didn't work for me.

Doesn't work for me either. A single .hilda patch works perfectly, but for a zip it means I have to unzip it somewhere first and then open a file in .hilda.

The endless joys of file handling on iOS. I’ll look into it

Thanks for looking into it. It seems there were issues for DMT Cymatics too. All is well now, that's good. It just didn't quite flow as smoothly as hoped, but that's my experience with a lot of preset loading, on many apps. Thanks for checking in on it though.

I tried unzipping the preset bank into Hilda's Backup folder on On My iPhone. Refreshed in app. Nothing. In the end, the only method that worked was to unzip the Zip file of the bank into Backup, then one by one, open them in Hilda, and hit refresh. So long as I did that, for each preset, then it worked. Try and do more than one, no deal.

Right, the backup folder is one way, it just contains a backup of your presets, but adding things in the folder is not going to put them in the plugin. That’s technically impossible, because you can’t access the plugin’s folder on iOS.

You need to “Open in” the zip-file with Hilda. That should work. You can ignore the backup folder unless you accidentally delete a preset and want to restore it

brambos

@dendy said:

Hilda is built like an electronic hardware you feel the osc . Tremendous experience.

THIS. My experience is same. It feels like using actual HW synth

That’s about the biggest compliment possible for me as that’s what I’ve been striving for

espiegel123

@brambos said:

@andowrites said:

@brambos said:

@pedro said:

@andowrites said:

@brambos said:
Just opening the zip with Hilda (and hitting refresh in the presets window) should be enough to install a zip full of presets.

Thanks, it didn't work for me.

Doesn't work for me either. A single .hilda patch works perfectly, but for a zip it means I have to unzip it somewhere first and then open a file in .hilda.

The endless joys of file handling on iOS. I’ll look into it

Thanks for looking into it. It seems there were issues for DMT Cymatics too. All is well now, that's good. It just didn't quite flow as smoothly as hoped, but that's my experience with a lot of preset loading, on many apps. Thanks for checking in on it though.

I tried unzipping the preset bank into Hilda's Backup folder on On My iPhone. Refreshed in app. Nothing. In the end, the only method that worked was to unzip the Zip file of the bank into Backup, then one by one, open them in Hilda, and hit refresh. So long as I did that, for each preset, then it worked. Try and do more than one, no deal.

Right, the backup folder is one way, it just contains a backup of your presets, but adding things in the folder is not going to put them in the plugin. That’s technically impossible, because you can’t access the plugin’s folder on iOS.

You need to “Open in” the zip-file with Hilda. That should work. You can ignore the backup folder unless you accidentally delete a preset and want to restore it

I think the issue for some people is that there is an iOS bug that results in all possible target apps not being listed as Open-In targets (even on the more page) if one has a lot of apps that can open zip files. Even the clumsy iOS drag and drop doesn’t work when this is the case sometimes.

HotStrange

@dendy said:

Hilda is built like an electronic hardware you feel the osc . Tremendous experience.

THIS. My experience is same. It feels like using actual HW synth

Seconded. This may be the first iOS synth that’s actually brought me the exact same joy as tweaking a HW synth.

pedro

I don’t know if anyone reported yet, but YES you can fi..-use all five fingers at once and it works and it’s freaking awesome

Edit: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/075yKsoneBn0gEl7DrxHL0e-w#RPReplay_Final1683507978

pedro

Also has anyone noticed how when you change patches it doesn’t jump but morphs? Or am I tripping?

pedro

This is a thing of beauty, here’s my user bank so far, now show me yours

Lots of krell whale noises, and with the other two, play with the base octave to see what I mean

HotStrange

@pedro said:
Also has anyone noticed how when you change patches it doesn’t jump but morphs? Or am I tripping?

Yeah it does like Tera Pro where it “finishes” the sound before the next one plays. It’s great for performance but I do wonder if there’s a way to change that behavior because sometimes I want it the other way.

brambos

iPad Air 1 / iPhone 6 not running Hilda:
I think I have a solution. Is anyone with such a device willing to try a Testflight build to see if it now works on their end?

Shoot me a message please!

pedro

@HotStrange said:

@pedro said:
Also has anyone noticed how when you change patches it doesn’t jump but morphs? Or am I tripping?

Yeah it does like Tera Pro where it “finishes” the sound before the next one plays. It’s great for performance but I do wonder if there’s a way to change that behavior because sometimes I want it the other way.

There’s no pleasing you guys 😂

HotStrange

@pedro said:

@HotStrange said:

@pedro said:
Also has anyone noticed how when you change patches it doesn’t jump but morphs? Or am I tripping?

Yeah it does like Tera Pro where it “finishes” the sound before the next one plays. It’s great for performance but I do wonder if there’s a way to change that behavior because sometimes I want it the other way.

There’s no pleasing you guys 😂

You’re not lying 😂

ik2000

@Slush said:
To be playing in the background at a romantic dinner with some candlelights and shit.

Nice! This synth really is deep. Great demo and great use of ApeMatrix too.

[Deleted User]

@ik2000 said:

@Slush said:
To be playing in the background at a romantic dinner with some candlelights and shit.

Nice! This synth really is deep. Great demo and great use of ApeMatrix too.

Great demo indeed

Slush

@ik2000 @BerlinFx Thanks! Just a quick doodle, but a super fun synth. Like others have said, it sounds very analog, like real hardware.

Slush

Ok, this is strange and groundbreaking. Headphones and volume up. I have no idea how I did it, but I picked up an extraterrestrial radio signal using Hilda.

Gavinski

@Slush said:
Ok, this is strange and groundbreaking. Headphones and volume up. I have no idea how I did it, but I picked up an extraterrestrial radio signal using Hilda.

This sounds great!

Anyone wishing this had sync for the delay? I like slightly off sync delays but a sync option is always useful. Perhaps even with an offset knob like there is in that new asrodot delay so you can quickly find exactly the synced time you're looking for, then throw it off by a few milliseconds.

[Deleted User]

@Gavinski said:
Anyone wishing this had sync for the delay?

+1

[Deleted User]

@ik2000 said:

@Slush said:
To be playing in the background at a romantic dinner with some candlelights and shit.

Nice! This synth really is deep. Great demo and great use of ApeMatrix too.

Great demo indeed > @Slush said:

Ok, this is strange and groundbreaking. Headphones and volume up. I have no idea how I did it, but I picked up an extraterrestrial radio signal using Hilda.

Bram have made a synth that have a life by itself , you can do sounds that even Bram doesn’t khow it was possible to make in Hilda 🥹

lazyass

@Gavinski said:
Anyone wishing this had sync for the delay?

Yes, and option for fixed FM ratio would be great

ik2000

@Slush said:
Ok, this is strange and groundbreaking. Headphones and volume up. I have no idea how I did it, but I picked up an extraterrestrial radio signal using Hilda.

It’s like a day at the beach… sure I can hear seagulls amongst a ship broadcast! Lol. Brilliant.

brambos

@monz0id said:

@Gavinski said:
Anyone wishing this had sync for the delay?

+1

The delay is synced. Change the tempo and you'll hear the delay time change accordingly.

It's just not quantized to fixed steps.

Kashi

@Gavinski said:
Oh by the way, the UI is now opening full screen for me in AUM on 12.9 inch where it wasn’t before. Wonder why, but I’m glad regardless!

Do you mean without the sequencer section? Or including it?