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Does it do more than just wobbly bass? How does it compare to Cyclop? Or are they totally different beasts?
I get a mono/poly vibe from the newish Yonac Trooper Synth:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trooper-synthesizer/id1644005057?platform=ipad
Hilda is probably what I'm going to use on my next track to be honest.
Not as an Ambient drone but something like EDM or Minimal Techno. @brambos is the man!
Huh, that's cool. And I do have Twin 3.
Now if only I can see it on my small Mini 6 screen. 😂
Right, after fiddling with Agonizer in standalone mode, it's definitely worth the money.
Neither will I hold my breath. 😂 But you never know if Korg will go the AUv3 route both with Gadget synths and the rest of their app catalogue outside of Module Pro and Electribe Wave. One can only dream.
I'd say different beasts if I'm being at all honest. Cyclop is definitely geared for those "Dubstepish" basses and I'm enjoying reintroducing myself to it, at least fiddling with it in AUM.
And lucky me I purchased Trooper sometime in the past and completely forgotten about it. 🤪 Well there it is mate.
Curious, are you planning on keeping both iPads? And what made you go with the mini? I’m upgrading this summer to a pro and probably gonna keep my Air 5 as a backup but am also considering selling for something else.
I'm definitely keeping both iPads - the M1 Pro as my workhorse, and the Mini 6 for lighter projects and laying back in bed and creating ideas. Don't want to sit at my desk all day just to make music. 🤪
Totally understand. I think my plan right now is to upgrade to the new iPad and then sell mine and use it to get myself a groovebox for standalone jams. My fiancé and I are doing the tiny house life starting in July so I won’t have much room for anything else besides iPad, midi controller, and an extra synth. I’m saving for the op-1 field but it’d be nice to have something else in the meantime. Man I miss my op-1 😂
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I really hope Logic for iOS finally gets Korg to port this frickin’ synth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably not….
LOL! Ah, sometimes I get GAS for that darned OP-1 Field from time to time, but honestly the main reasons for the GAS are...
-Portability
-Battery Life
-"Fun" factor with live tweaking stuff.
Hence why AUM and Koala live on my iPad Mini 6. I plan to once again play with Koala standalone to make something, whether Lofi or Ambient or maybe as an AUv3 and make a Justice-styled track in Logic Pro that I can't upload anywhere due to copyright reasons. 😆
OT - I've always wanted to live in a tiny house myself, but instead I live in a tiny studio efficiency flat, and I love it here!
I think I prefer it here since I don't have to plow snow, cut grass, or hire a maintenance crew. Rent is reasonable here, and my particular building has its own maid service I can hire for 25 quid an hour which is fun since María has a ripper sense of humour, lol. But yeah, I love tiny homes. I wish you and your fiancé best of luck mate. 
Stranger things have happened though. Just a month ago we heard rumours of rumours about Logic Pro possibly coming to iOS before the news dropped on 9 May. And two months ago we wondered if Apple would ever port it over at all. So when Apple announced on 9 May the then impending release of Logic Pro, it was a shock.
So I can imagine Korg better change their gameplan and release the Gadget AUv3s to iOS (yes, I'd pay for them again) and convert their existing synth apps to AUv3 as well.
@jwmmakerofmusic I hope you’re right! Although years ago on here I was saying ‘of course Korg will make Auv3’s of everything’. I think easily 3+ years ago. I feel foolish when I’m reminded of it 😂
The maid service thing is super cool! Nowhere stateside would do that for that price 😂 it’s been a dream of mine for a long while. Probably 10+ years so I’m glad it’s finally happening. It’s don’t be a big change but I think it’ll be an exciting one. We’re in the process of pairing stuff down and selling what we don’t need. It’s kinda freeing.
It’ll probably be some time before I can afford the Field and honestly most of it is possible with the iPad. I think in the meantime, just to have one or 2 little pieces of hardware to play with, I’m gonna get the new Roland Airs Compact synth. It’s super small which is necessary now 😂 and it’s deceptively powerful. I’m iOS only for the most part but everyone once in a while I like to jam on hardware, and it’ll be nice to carry to friends places to have a jam session.
It really is. I used to live in this condominium that was too large for me. Impossible for me to clean on my own with all my neurodiversities, and impossible to hire a maid service who'd clean the whole place for under 500. 😬 Once my parents passed on and I was living alone, I had to promptly get the heck out of there. (The one thing my parents left me in their will was the condo, including paying off the second mortgage dear old father set up for me.
I'm so glad I made the decision not to sign my name over to the deed, or I'd be financially ruined. My flat costs less per month than that bloody mortgage, and in my building utilities are included thankfully. When I moved, I downsized greatly. As you said, it's freeing to get rid of all that useless rubbish and keep that which I need.
That sounds like a good time mate.
I'd love to play with hardware too, but in reality I'd probably play with the hardware once or twice and then leave it to collect dust in its box. 😂
And to be real, I could've purchased an OP-1 Field last year with a decent down payment after my car was scratched by accident and I got a handsome payout from insurance. (Nothing a little "magic eraser" couldn't fix, thereby allowing me to keep the insurance money.) Right, instead I purchased my M1 Pro.
And this year I could've purchased the OP-1 Field via Affirm Loan, but honestly I couldn't be faffed. I purchased a ReMarkable 2 tablet to journal and notate and draw in. Purchased new 3rd Gen Airpods and my Mini 6 via Affirm Loan too.
In short, I can't be faffed with an OP-1 Field. I may consider a small USB-C control surface if I want that "live knob tweaking" feel, but then again I just want to open AUM, load some plugins, and away I go. Don't wish to feel beholden to setting up parameters and the control surface with each live Ambient experiment I do, lol.
It’s sad how expensive it is to merely just live somewhere these days. It’s kinda scary to think about in the future what will happen. Luckily we have decent credit so our payment wasn’t insane but putting the amount of space into perspective it’s still expensive. But rent is getting way too crazy around and just isn’t feasible anymore. At least right now. This way, we have our own space and can manage finances much better. And getting rid of unnecessary stuff and just having what you absolutely need/love is a great way to be. My iPad and cats are all I need (and the fiancé of course).
Also you bring up a good point and that’s what keeps me from getting hardware a lot of the time. Because I always end up spending 90% of my time on the iPad anyway. So anything really expensive is usually a nonstarter. And a lot of apps (like Elsa, strng, Gauss, etc) can do what the op-1 can, and often even better. So right now I’m kinda thinking one or 2 of those Roland units for ~$200 wouldn’t be a bad price for occasional use. Especially since it has usb-c.
Been trying for years now to interest the wife in living in a camper van. I thought I was meeting her halfway since my ideal lifestyle is a tent and a backpack. But she's having none of it. 😂
LOL! Keep it up, and your less-than-ideal living situation may be on the sofa. 🤣 Lol! (Kidding.)
Exactly.
Paring everything down to only that which you need and either donating or selling off what you don't need (or both donating and selling off).
I would definitely go the Roland route in that case if I were to look for hardware to play with.
Especially since, as you said, it has USB-C. Well so does the OP-1 Field, but in order to get files on and off of the OP-1 Field, you'd need either a Mac or a PC since Teenage Engineering still can't be faffed to create an iPad app with which to access the OP-1F's internal files. Pathetic really.