Attention Developers: Free App Ideas From This Community of Musicians

NeuM

If you have ideas for apps (and they don't have to be limited to existing apps), post them here if you'd like to see ANY developer commit their own time and resources toward making them real.

NOTE: ALL IDEAS POSTED HERE ARE FREE TO BE IMPLEMENTED WITHOUT RESTRICTION OR CREDIT GIVEN TO THE IDEA ORIGINATOR. THESE ARE IDEAS WITH NO COPYRIGHT OR TRADEMARK RESTRICTIONS.

Idea #1: A "ToneControl" knob app which could be applied to any track as an AU/AUv3. Instead of screwing around with compressors and EQ's to achieve a specific tone to make a track fit in a mix, why not throw ToneControl on that guitar track, or that drum track or that vocal track and you'll have exactly what you're looking for in less than 30 seconds? Developers... please run with this idea immediately. And I'd like it to have gain leveling and compression already built in.

The only thing I can think of that comes close to this might be IK Multimedia's "One" plugin for T-RackS 5.

tyslothrop1

Nice Idea this thread.

I'd like a midi AUv3, that lets me inject mpe-data into already recorded or generated chords.

Maybe a couple of xy-pads (5 or 6), that can produce timbre/cc74 on one axis and polyphonic Aftertouch on the other.

Ideally one pad would light up for any note present.

I like the xy-pads, that anzbert used in beat pads.

I tried to accomplish most of this using gsdsp 's MMM using Drambo's xy-pads, but couldn't figure it out.

On top of that it wouldn't harm, if you could use some jittery LFOs, envelopes or random sources besides the manual modulation, or maybe even some kinetic controls like in brambos Fluss.

This would be so cool to have

NeuM

@tyslothrop1 said:
Nice Idea this thread.

I'd like a midi AUv3, that lets me inject mpe-data into already recorded or generated chords.

Maybe a couple of xy-pads (5 or 6), that can produce timbre/cc74 on one axis and polyphonic Aftertouch on the other.

Ideally one pad would light up for any note present.

I like the xy-pads, that anzbert used in beat pads.

I tried to accomplish most of this using gsdsp 's MMM using Drambo's xy-pads, but couldn't figure it out.

On top of that it wouldn't harm, if you could use some jittery LFOs, envelopes or random sources besides the manual modulation, or maybe even some kinetic controls like in brambos Fluss.

This would be so cool to have

That is a great idea. I can't tell you how many times I've recorded a GeoShred performance in iPadOS which won't translate when I bring it to GarageBand or Logic Pro on desktop. All of the subtlety of the performance is mysteriously lost in translation.

tyslothrop1

@NeuM thanks.

What your idea made me think of would be the sonible smart stuff. I only tried the eq, but they do have a compressor, too and the eq comes with profiles for different instruments, that take the input into account (I suspect the same goes for the compressor). I think those are rather taxing for the CPU, though...

NeuM

@tyslothrop1 said:
@NeuM thanks.

What your idea made me think of would be the sonible smart stuff. I only tried the eq, but they do have a compressor, too and the eq comes with profiles for different instruments, that take the input into account (I suspect the same goes for the compressor). I think those are rather taxing for the CPU, though...

Yeah, I don't know exactly what form this ToneControl app would take, but ideally it would be as simple as a tone control knob on a guitar. That was my inspiration and how I'd like to see it usable on any kind of track.

tyslothrop1

@NeuM said:

@tyslothrop1 said:
@NeuM thanks.

What your idea made me think of would be the sonible smart stuff. I only tried the eq, but they do have a compressor, too and the eq comes with profiles for different instruments, that take the input into account (I suspect the same goes for the compressor). I think those are rather taxing for the CPU, though...

Yeah, I don't know exactly what form my ToneControl app would take, but ideally it would be as simple as a tone control knob on a guitar. That was my inspiration and how I'd like to see it usable on any kind of track.

Do you mean only a subset of T-Racks One's controls? If you want compression in there, too, maybe at least another knob for the intensity of the compression might make sense.

NeuM

@tyslothrop1 said:

@NeuM said:

@tyslothrop1 said:
@NeuM thanks.

What your idea made me think of would be the sonible smart stuff. I only tried the eq, but they do have a compressor, too and the eq comes with profiles for different instruments, that take the input into account (I suspect the same goes for the compressor). I think those are rather taxing for the CPU, though...

Yeah, I don't know exactly what form my ToneControl app would take, but ideally it would be as simple as a tone control knob on a guitar. That was my inspiration and how I'd like to see it usable on any kind of track.

Do you mean only a subset of T-Racks One's controls? If you want compression in there, too, maybe at least another knob for the intensity of the compression might make sense.

That's right. And I'm hoping some enterprising app developer runs with this. I'm in no position to determine exactly what would make such an app successful, I'm only expressing what I'd like to see. Simplicity and speed of operation for the user.

RedSkyLullaby

I have an idea for a synth app for non sound designers (and those that find sound design hard) sketched out if any dev interested can DM me

RedSkyLullaby

@tyslothrop1 said:
Nice Idea this thread.

I'd like a midi AUv3, that lets me inject mpe-data into already recorded or generated chords.

Maybe a couple of xy-pads (5 or 6), that can produce timbre/cc74 on one axis and polyphonic Aftertouch on the other.

Ideally one pad would light up for any note present.

I like the xy-pads, that anzbert used in beat pads.

I tried to accomplish most of this using gsdsp 's MMM using Drambo's xy-pads, but couldn't figure it out.

On top of that it wouldn't harm, if you could use some jittery LFOs, envelopes or random sources besides the manual modulation, or maybe even some kinetic controls like in brambos Fluss.

This would be so cool to have

Nice idea

NeuM

@RedSkyLullaby said:
I have an idea for a synth app for non sound designers (and those that find sound design hard) sketched out if any dev interested can DM me

I'm not going to tell anyone what they can and can't do here, but I'd much rather all suggestions be offered as "free ideas" for developers to run with. The point of the thread is to improve what apps are available by giving away what we'd like most to see made. Just my idea of how to get what we want from developers instead of them making things which no one really wants.

If you're comfortable with it, please post your specific idea here. I do so without expectation to be credited or compensated. I just want what I want and I'd love to see a dozen completely different implementations instead of just one.

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NeuM

@tja said:
Nearly all Apps miss a sensible way to dial in exact values for their knobs or other control elements.

Some ways around this:

1) Directly entering the value over keyboard (ideal as additional method)

2) Pressing a second finger down while dialing, which reduces sensitivity

3) Reducing sensitivity by the distance from the knob

Such things are required, really !

Completely agree. Multiple ways to input data for the sake of precision is not always considered.

NeuM

Another idea I had in a different thread would be a literal "Tap Delay". A delay which allows one to tap in as complex or simple a pattern as they want onto a 'pattern input pad'. That tap pattern would then be editable by the user (possibly on a grid or some other format which would allow curves or levels to be set).

Developers who already have a delay app, please consider adding this functionality.

Poppadocrock

@NeuM I see your point about sharing the free ideas, but if two/three/etc. people decide to partner on something and create based off an idea discussed here, that will also be really cool.

Poppadocrock

@tja said:
Nearly all Apps miss a sensible way to dial in exact values for their knobs or other control elements.

Some ways around this:

1) Directly entering the value over keyboard (ideal as additional method)

2) Pressing a second finger down while dialing, which reduces sensitivity

3) Reducing sensitivity by the distance from the knob

Such things are required, really !

Yea, at least half the time I want to be pretty specific, but not necessarily stop to type it in.

tyslothrop1

Another idea I have would be a synth or sampler with mpe, that has sends to delay or reverb for every individual note, so I can send single notes or hits there while playing. (Or is there something like that already?). I imagine a chord from a pad sound with the reverb send of each note changing over time might sound great:)

Would be nice for dubby drums, too. If it were a Drumsampler, it would be cool, to be able to pick a different effect per pad (a bit like koala's performance effects), changing parameters by dragging (a bit like dawnbeat handles note repeats by dragging). Maybe it could only trigger the effect, if the top third of the pad is hit. I guess with drums, it wouldn't have to be mpe.

NeuM

@Poppadocrock said:
@NeuM I see your point about sharing the free ideas, but if two/three/etc. people decide to partner on something and create based off an idea discussed here, that will also be really cool.

Absolutely. This is the idea thread. People should submit ideas which are free for the taking here. Partner up however you want. Let's see some ideas turned into apps or fold these ideas into existing apps.

McD

I would love an app that creates an ADSR control for incoming audio. We have some good products for the Delayed Attack phase like FAC Transient and Attack Softner.

What I’d like is an additional focus on:

1. Delay to help add more “pop” after a crisp attack.
2. Sustain to take the oscillations of the attack phase and repeat that pattern until Note off. Turning plucked sounds into something more organ like. This may make sound artificial and synth-y but I’d like that.
3. Release to make a sound ring similar to when a heavy reverb is added.

If there’s an FX app that provides these types of control, please slip me a clue. Velvet Machine comes close for very slow time scales. I’d like something that operates at much faster scales like the ADSR controls built into a synth.

My main driver for this request is the lack of an ADSR in PianoTeq which kills me because it’s a physical model. The results would be decidedly non-piano like so they tend to focus on other aspects of the model like soundboard and sympathetic resonance. But hacking it to make strings and drums and horns and “synths” is also more fun than hang gliding in a tornado.
I keep making PainoTeq Presets intended to push the envelope of using it for other non-pianistic sounds but I’m craving an ADSR. They have “Attack Envelope” so they are close to getting the idea. They use it to “bow” the strings to great effect. But without Delay there’s no way to make the attack “Pop” but they have a Resonator section with Impedance, Cutoff, Q which seem to manage the “pop” but Sustain is missing. It can be hacked a bit with the Delay FX set to very high rates and heavy feedback to make more organ like sounds. Release can be added with sympathetic resonance and the usual Reverb options. Layering “Pop” instruments over Organ instruments can get closer to ADSR like controls.

I guess I want a physical modeling app that just lets me create instruments the do not exist… OK… “Drambo do it”.

NeuM

@McD said:
I would love an app that creates an ADSR control for incoming audio. We have some good products for the Delayed Attack phase like FAC Transient and Attack Softner.

What I’d like is an additional focus on:

1. Delay to help add more “pop” after a crisp attack.
2. Sustain to take the oscillations of the attack phase and repeat that pattern until Note off. Turning plucked sounds into something more organ like. This may make sound artificial and synth-y but I’d like that.
3. Release to make a sound ring similar to when a heavy reverb is added.

If there’s an FX app that provides these types of control, please slip me a clue. Velvet Machine comes close for very slow time scales. I’d like something that operates at much faster scales like the ADSR controls built into a synth.

My main driver for this request is the lack of an ADSR in PianoTeq which kills me because it’s a physical model. The results would be decidedly non-piano like so they tend to focus on other aspects of the model like soundboard and sympathetic resonance. But hacking it to make strings and drums and horns and “synths” is also more fun than hang gliding in a tornado.
I keep making PainoTeq Presets intended to push the envelope of using it for other non-pianistic sounds but I’m craving an ADSR. They have “Attack Envelope” so they are close to getting the idea. They use it to “bow” the strings to great effect. But without Delay there’s no way to make the attack “Pop” but they have a Resonator section with Impedance, Cutoff, Q which seem to manage the “pop” but Sustain is missing. It can be hacked a bit with the Delay FX set to very high rates and heavy feedback to make more organ like sounds. Release can be added with sympathetic resonance and the usual Reverb options. Layering “Pop” instruments over Organ instruments can get closer to ADSR like controls.

I guess I want a physical modeling app that just lets me create instruments the do not exist… OK… “Drambo do it”.

This is a very interesting idea.

pbrian

My idea is a very simple midi AUv3 sequencer that emulates the roland sh01a or ju06a trigger input. If not familiar with this feature inherited from old roland synths like the SH-101 or the JX-3P, with this midifx you would, as a first step, record a number of notes or chords, then you would select, for example, in a 16 steps sequencer called "second seq" a certain number of steps, and finally the sequence of notes or chords you recorded would advance one step per the selected step in the "second seq", and the icing on the cake would be that the resulting sequence, I mean, the recorded notes/chord advancing on the step enabled in the "second seq" could be transposed using a keyboard...

Somehow I have been able to emulate this using drambo (with the support of rs2000) but the transposing thingy which seems impossible

Anyway, I would love to have a simple midifx that could achieve this without having to use drambo just for it.

If any dev or someone likes the idea and want to collaborate and partner or something I'm very serious about this, the only thing is that I'm no developer so in the coding department I could not help, but in the vision and design... anyway it would be pretty straightforward app.. I think

McD

@NeuM said:

@McD said:
I would love an app that creates an ADSR control for incoming audio. We have some good products for the Delayed Attack phase like FAC Transient and Attack Softner.

What I’d like is an additional focus on:

1. Delay to help add more “pop” after a crisp attack.
2. Sustain to take the oscillations of the attack phase and repeat that pattern until Note off. Turning plucked sounds into something more organ like. This may make sound artificial and synth-y but I’d like that.
3. Release to make a sound ring similar to when a heavy reverb is added.

If there’s an FX app that provides these types of control, please slip me a clue. Velvet Machine comes close for very slow time scales. I’d like something that operates at much faster scales like the ADSR controls built into a synth.

My main driver for this request is the lack of an ADSR in PianoTeq which kills me because it’s a physical model. The results would be decidedly non-piano like so they tend to focus on other aspects of the model like soundboard and sympathetic resonance. But hacking it to make strings and drums and horns and “synths” is also more fun than hang gliding in a tornado.
I keep making PainoTeq Presets intended to push the envelope of using it for other non-pianistic sounds but I’m craving an ADSR. They have “Attack Envelope” so they are close to getting the idea. They use it to “bow” the strings to great effect. But without Delay there’s no way to make the attack “Pop” but they have a Resonator section with Impedance, Cutoff, Q which seem to manage the “pop” but Sustain is missing. It can be hacked a bit with the Delay FX set to very high rates and heavy feedback to make more organ like sounds. Release can be added with sympathetic resonance and the usual Reverb options. Layering “Pop” instruments over Organ instruments can get closer to ADSR like controls.

I guess I want a physical modeling app that just lets me create instruments the do not exist… OK… “Drambo do it”.

This is a very interesting idea.

FOR THE RECORD: ALL MY IDEAS HERE AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA ARE FREE TO IMPLEMENT WITHOUT RESTRICTION OR CREDIT REQUESTED. I just want the results.

If anyone can do this well it would be @FredAntonCorvest. He writes really efficient and smart FX products. But I do wish he would create “FAC Envolver 2” that follows pitch with MIDI Note. It could be crude pitch detection… I just want it to turn tapping sounds into a basic drum kit: snare, bass drum, optional hi-hat. The input could be dual or triple pitched physical surfaces.
I used FAC Envolver with a Streambyter script to convert threshold events into nice crisp snare drum notes and his code could play rudimental drum solos like “drum corps” snare line parts. With stereo inputs I could probably hack the snare/bass drum solution using cheap mono guitar pick-ups into a FAC Envolvers in AUM. I just want to have less hardware.

NeuM

@pbrian said:
My idea is a very simple midi AUv3 sequencer that emulates the roland sh01a or ju06a trigger input. If not familiar with this feature inherited from old roland synths like the SH-101 or the JX-3P, with this midifx you would, as a first step, record a number of notes or chords, then you would select, for example, in a 16 steps sequencer called "second seq" a certain number of steps, and finally the sequence of notes or chords you recorded would advance one step per the selected step in the "second seq", and the icing on the cake would be that the resulting sequence, I mean, the recorded notes/chord advancing on the step enabled in the "second seq" could be transposed using a keyboard...

Somehow I have been able to emulate this using drambo (with the support of rs2000) but the transposing thingy which seems impossible

Anyway, I would love to have a simple midifx that could achieve this without having to use drambo just for it.

If any dev or someone likes the idea and want to collaborate and partner or something I'm very serious about this, the only thing is that I'm no developer so in the coding department I could not help, but in the vision and design... anyway it would be pretty straightforward app.. I think

This is another cool idea.

NeuM

@McD said:

@NeuM said:

@McD said:
I would love an app that creates an ADSR control for incoming audio. We have some good products for the Delayed Attack phase like FAC Transient and Attack Softner.

What I’d like is an additional focus on:

1. Delay to help add more “pop” after a crisp attack.
2. Sustain to take the oscillations of the attack phase and repeat that pattern until Note off. Turning plucked sounds into something more organ like. This may make sound artificial and synth-y but I’d like that.
3. Release to make a sound ring similar to when a heavy reverb is added.

If there’s an FX app that provides these types of control, please slip me a clue. Velvet Machine comes close for very slow time scales. I’d like something that operates at much faster scales like the ADSR controls built into a synth.

My main driver for this request is the lack of an ADSR in PianoTeq which kills me because it’s a physical model. The results would be decidedly non-piano like so they tend to focus on other aspects of the model like soundboard and sympathetic resonance. But hacking it to make strings and drums and horns and “synths” is also more fun than hang gliding in a tornado.
I keep making PainoTeq Presets intended to push the envelope of using it for other non-pianistic sounds but I’m craving an ADSR. They have “Attack Envelope” so they are close to getting the idea. They use it to “bow” the strings to great effect. But without Delay there’s no way to make the attack “Pop” but they have a Resonator section with Impedance, Cutoff, Q which seem to manage the “pop” but Sustain is missing. It can be hacked a bit with the Delay FX set to very high rates and heavy feedback to make more organ like sounds. Release can be added with sympathetic resonance and the usual Reverb options. Layering “Pop” instruments over Organ instruments can get closer to ADSR like controls.

I guess I want a physical modeling app that just lets me create instruments the do not exist… OK… “Drambo do it”.

This is a very interesting idea.

If anyone can do this well it would be @FredAntonCorvest. He writes really efficient and smart FX products. But I do wish he would create “FAC Envolver 2” that follows pitch with MIDI Note. It could be crude pitch detection… I just want it to turn tapping sounds into a basic drum kit: snare, bass drum, optional hi-hat. The input could be dual or triple pitched physical surfaces.
I used FAC Envolver with a Streambyter script to convert threshold events into nice crisp snare drum notes and his code could play rudimental drum solos like “drum corps” snare line parts. With stereo inputs I could probably hack the snare/bass drum solution using cheap mono guitar pick-ups into a FAC Envolvers in AUM. I just want to have less hardware.

That reminds me a bit of the Objeq app from AAS, but your idea is different.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aas-objeq/id1160030374

NeuM

@McD said:

@NeuM said:

@McD said:
I would love an app that creates an ADSR control for incoming audio. We have some good products for the Delayed Attack phase like FAC Transient and Attack Softner.

What I’d like is an additional focus on:

1. Delay to help add more “pop” after a crisp attack.
2. Sustain to take the oscillations of the attack phase and repeat that pattern until Note off. Turning plucked sounds into something more organ like. This may make sound artificial and synth-y but I’d like that.
3. Release to make a sound ring similar to when a heavy reverb is added.

If there’s an FX app that provides these types of control, please slip me a clue. Velvet Machine comes close for very slow time scales. I’d like something that operates at much faster scales like the ADSR controls built into a synth.

My main driver for this request is the lack of an ADSR in PianoTeq which kills me because it’s a physical model. The results would be decidedly non-piano like so they tend to focus on other aspects of the model like soundboard and sympathetic resonance. But hacking it to make strings and drums and horns and “synths” is also more fun than hang gliding in a tornado.
I keep making PainoTeq Presets intended to push the envelope of using it for other non-pianistic sounds but I’m craving an ADSR. They have “Attack Envelope” so they are close to getting the idea. They use it to “bow” the strings to great effect. But without Delay there’s no way to make the attack “Pop” but they have a Resonator section with Impedance, Cutoff, Q which seem to manage the “pop” but Sustain is missing. It can be hacked a bit with the Delay FX set to very high rates and heavy feedback to make more organ like sounds. Release can be added with sympathetic resonance and the usual Reverb options. Layering “Pop” instruments over Organ instruments can get closer to ADSR like controls.

I guess I want a physical modeling app that just lets me create instruments the do not exist… OK… “Drambo do it”.

This is a very interesting idea.

FOR THE RECORD: ALL MY IDEAS HERE AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA ARE FREE TO IMPLEMENT WITHOUT RESTRICTION OR CREDIT REQUESTED. I just want the results.

If anyone can do this well it would be @FredAntonCorvest. He writes really efficient and smart FX products. But I do wish he would create “FAC Envolver 2” that follows pitch with MIDI Note. It could be crude pitch detection… I just want it to turn tapping sounds into a basic drum kit: snare, bass drum, optional hi-hat. The input could be dual or triple pitched physical surfaces.
I used FAC Envolver with a Streambyter script to convert threshold events into nice crisp snare drum notes and his code could play rudimental drum solos like “drum corps” snare line parts. With stereo inputs I could probably hack the snare/bass drum solution using cheap mono guitar pick-ups into a FAC Envolvers in AUM. I just want to have less hardware.

That disclaimer is a perfectly reasonable thing. Do you mind if I add it to the thread header so it applies to all ideas posted here? (Just let me know if you'd rather I sourced some other legal disclaimer if you're not OK with it.)

NeuM

@tyslothrop1 said:
Another idea I have would be a synth or sampler with mpe, that has sends to delay or reverb for every individual note, so I can send single notes or hits there while playing. (Or is there something like that already?). I imagine a chord from a pad sound with the reverb send of each note changing over time might sound great:)

Would be nice for dubby drums, too. If it were a Drumsampler, it would be cool, to be able to pick a different effect per pad (a bit like koala's performance effects), changing parameters by dragging (a bit like dawnbeat handles note repeats by dragging). Maybe it could only trigger the effect, if the top third of the pad is hit. I guess with drums, it wouldn't have to be mpe.

So you could either randomly or at specified intervals, or even with specific notes/chords trigger effects? That is also an interesting idea.

JanKun

We have Brusfri on iOS which is nice to get rid of hum and hiss. But to my knowledge we don't have any Click and pop remover like Izotope or Adobe Audition yet. Definitely needed !

NeuM

@JanKun said:
We have Brusfri on iOS which is nice to get rid of hum and hiss. But to my knowledge we don't have any Click and pop remover like Izotope or Adobe Audition yet. Definitely needed !

Agree. That is something I've needed many times myself and it has been a challenge to edit out of GarageBand's audio tracks cleanly. A general purpose clicks and pops plugin could be just what the doctor ordered.

McD

@NeuM said:

@McD said:

@NeuM said:

@McD said:
I would love an app that creates an ADSR control for incoming audio. We have some good products for the Delayed Attack phase like FAC Transient and Attack Softner.

What I’d like is an additional focus on:

1. Delay to help add more “pop” after a crisp attack.
2. Sustain to take the oscillations of the attack phase and repeat that pattern until Note off. Turning plucked sounds into something more organ like. This may make sound artificial and synth-y but I’d like that.
3. Release to make a sound ring similar to when a heavy reverb is added.

If there’s an FX app that provides these types of control, please slip me a clue. Velvet Machine comes close for very slow time scales. I’d like something that operates at much faster scales like the ADSR controls built into a synth.

My main driver for this request is the lack of an ADSR in PianoTeq which kills me because it’s a physical model. The results would be decidedly non-piano like so they tend to focus on other aspects of the model like soundboard and sympathetic resonance. But hacking it to make strings and drums and horns and “synths” is also more fun than hang gliding in a tornado.
I keep making PainoTeq Presets intended to push the envelope of using it for other non-pianistic sounds but I’m craving an ADSR. They have “Attack Envelope” so they are close to getting the idea. They use it to “bow” the strings to great effect. But without Delay there’s no way to make the attack “Pop” but they have a Resonator section with Impedance, Cutoff, Q which seem to manage the “pop” but Sustain is missing. It can be hacked a bit with the Delay FX set to very high rates and heavy feedback to make more organ like sounds. Release can be added with sympathetic resonance and the usual Reverb options. Layering “Pop” instruments over Organ instruments can get closer to ADSR like controls.

I guess I want a physical modeling app that just lets me create instruments the do not exist… OK… “Drambo do it”.

This is a very interesting idea.

FOR THE RECORD: ALL MY IDEAS HERE AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA ARE FREE TO IMPLEMENT WITHOUT RESTRICTION OR CREDIT REQUESTED. I just want the results.

If anyone can do this well it would be @FredAntonCorvest. He writes really efficient and smart FX products. But I do wish he would create “FAC Envolver 2” that follows pitch with MIDI Note. It could be crude pitch detection… I just want it to turn tapping sounds into a basic drum kit: snare, bass drum, optional hi-hat. The input could be dual or triple pitched physical surfaces.
I used FAC Envolver with a Streambyter script to convert threshold events into nice crisp snare drum notes and his code could play rudimental drum solos like “drum corps” snare line parts. With stereo inputs I could probably hack the snare/bass drum solution using cheap mono guitar pick-ups into a FAC Envolvers in AUM. I just want to have less hardware.

That disclaimer is a perfectly reasonable thing. Do you mind if I add it to the thread header so it applies to all ideas posted here? (Just let me know if you'd rather I sourced some other legal disclaimer if you're not OK with it.)

Legallly each commenter would need to post it or acknowledge it. That’s why a developer would be cautious to even admit to reading here because too many people think their ideas have value and yet they don’t do anything to protect the idea because… wait for it… it’s really expensive to protect Intellectual Property.

One solution is to add text like this to the thread and also ask posters if their idea is free to implement without credit and if not they have 1 month to delete the text or loose their rights.

The recent legal suits over similar chord progressions drive me crazy. Art always imitates art and these people think they own the image of a rose.

Of course, the root of all legal strategies are “deep pockets”. Suing an IOS developer would be like holding up a homeless alcoholic. There’s not much profit in it. Now suing Adobe only means that everytime I visited someone there I had to sign a legal
Document that gave up all my rights to my ideas so they could safely have discussions with non-employees. I was there to sell them hardware. I remember thinking, the HP Lawyers would NOT be happy to see me signing legal documents that impact HP’s rights in anyway. Still… I signed and sold the computers. After all, I got paid to sell computers. When I quit they asked me to sign a Non-compete document and I just said I’d her my lawyer look it over. I don’t have a lawyer… don’t sue me.

The Krazy Wabbit

Skip back feature. Like the sp404 mk2

The Krazy Wabbit

Ability to chop a sample and assign to a pad similar to the mpc workflow

NeuM

@McD said:

@NeuM said:

@McD said:

@NeuM said:

@McD said:
I would love an app that creates an ADSR control for incoming audio. We have some good products for the Delayed Attack phase like FAC Transient and Attack Softner.

What I’d like is an additional focus on:

1. Delay to help add more “pop” after a crisp attack.
2. Sustain to take the oscillations of the attack phase and repeat that pattern until Note off. Turning plucked sounds into something more organ like. This may make sound artificial and synth-y but I’d like that.
3. Release to make a sound ring similar to when a heavy reverb is added.

If there’s an FX app that provides these types of control, please slip me a clue. Velvet Machine comes close for very slow time scales. I’d like something that operates at much faster scales like the ADSR controls built into a synth.

My main driver for this request is the lack of an ADSR in PianoTeq which kills me because it’s a physical model. The results would be decidedly non-piano like so they tend to focus on other aspects of the model like soundboard and sympathetic resonance. But hacking it to make strings and drums and horns and “synths” is also more fun than hang gliding in a tornado.
I keep making PainoTeq Presets intended to push the envelope of using it for other non-pianistic sounds but I’m craving an ADSR. They have “Attack Envelope” so they are close to getting the idea. They use it to “bow” the strings to great effect. But without Delay there’s no way to make the attack “Pop” but they have a Resonator section with Impedance, Cutoff, Q which seem to manage the “pop” but Sustain is missing. It can be hacked a bit with the Delay FX set to very high rates and heavy feedback to make more organ like sounds. Release can be added with sympathetic resonance and the usual Reverb options. Layering “Pop” instruments over Organ instruments can get closer to ADSR like controls.

I guess I want a physical modeling app that just lets me create instruments the do not exist… OK… “Drambo do it”.

This is a very interesting idea.

FOR THE RECORD: ALL MY IDEAS HERE AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA ARE FREE TO IMPLEMENT WITHOUT RESTRICTION OR CREDIT REQUESTED. I just want the results.

If anyone can do this well it would be @FredAntonCorvest. He writes really efficient and smart FX products. But I do wish he would create “FAC Envolver 2” that follows pitch with MIDI Note. It could be crude pitch detection… I just want it to turn tapping sounds into a basic drum kit: snare, bass drum, optional hi-hat. The input could be dual or triple pitched physical surfaces.
I used FAC Envolver with a Streambyter script to convert threshold events into nice crisp snare drum notes and his code could play rudimental drum solos like “drum corps” snare line parts. With stereo inputs I could probably hack the snare/bass drum solution using cheap mono guitar pick-ups into a FAC Envolvers in AUM. I just want to have less hardware.

That disclaimer is a perfectly reasonable thing. Do you mind if I add it to the thread header so it applies to all ideas posted here? (Just let me know if you'd rather I sourced some other legal disclaimer if you're not OK with it.)

Legallly each commenter would need to post it or acknowledge it. That’s why a developer would be cautious to even admit to reading here because too many people think their ideas have value and yet they don’t do anything to protect the idea because… wait for it… it’s really expensive to protect Intellectual Property.

One solution is to add text like this to the thread and also ask posters if their idea is free to implement without credit and if not they have 1 month to delete the text or loose their rights.

The recent legal suits over similar chord progressions drive me crazy. Art always imitates art and these people think they own the image of a rose.

Of course, the root of all legal strategies are “deep pockets”. Suing an IOS developer would be like holding up a homeless alcoholic. There’s not much profit in it. Now suing Adobe only means that everytime I visited someone there I had to sign a legal
Document that gave up all my rights to my ideas so they could safely have discussions with non-employees. I was there to sell them hardware. I remember thinking, the HP Lawyers would NOT be happy to see me signing legal documents that impact HP’s rights in anyway. Still… I signed and sold the computers. After all, I got paid to sell computers. When I quit they asked me to sign a Non-compete document and I just said I’d her my lawyer look it over. I don’t have a lawyer… don’t sue me.

I've posted a general purpose disclaimer to the top of the thread similar to your own post. If anyone does not want to divulge their ideas, they should not post here. But seriously, if you are not a developer and just want to see your suggestions see the light of day, post away and don't worry about who gets the credit. Life is too short.