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What apps did you not care for getting, only to find out later that is far exceeded your expectation
There’s a lot of apps that I slept on or assumed it wouldn’t be nothing special. The top one for me is Ableton Note. I’m testing the beta and I’m dumb, I should have gotten earlier. The sample import and the note reminder are something to behold. It’s better than Reason and Auxy. Other ones I slept on are Decent Sampler, Blocs Wave, Octane, Caustic, RavenScroft, TB Voice Pitch, Sample Tank, rymdigare, Pure Acid, ObXd, KQ Dixie, KQ Sampei, KQ Voice, SunVox, NuRack, LaunchPad, broohahaizer, AUM, LK, those are some that I didn’t care for before but ended up exceeding my expectations of what I thought and now I love them. Tho I think I might be sleeping on Surface Builder right now
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I can’t imagine sleeping on AUM 😂 KQ Dixie is one of mine too for sure. I didn’t buy it until a few months ago and now it’s my favorite FM on iOS (maybe, there’s a lot lol). House Mark 1 from AudioKit is another. Lastly I’d add the other effects from Kymatica. Didn’t buy them for the longest now Peak and Push are some of my go-to apps for mastering.
Also o agree with you, Note is fantastic and surprisingly good for experimental stuff. And the amount of included factory content is very generous.
I bought FSLM with zero hopes as it doesn’t have AUv3 and I really not like FL workflow on desktop.
I just wanted a program that handled audio files on a timeline solidly enough.
Got that and much more.
I’m full in now if I want an auv3 sound I just connect a midi track to aum and record whatever I want.
Final Cut Pro. All I could focus on initially was all the things that weren’t there from the desktop version. But the more I used it, the more I realized I liked the workflow on the iPad way better than the desktop.
I guess I’ve been sleeping on those Kymatica effects. But I didn’t like the House Mark 1 too much. House Mark has a nice sound but it comes with around 11-15 presets and each one sounds the same. The House Mark was one of the first apps I purchased and that might be one I didn’t care too much for. A lot of ppl do love it. I like Grand Piano Auv3 2 more than House Mark.
I prefer the workflow in GarageBand iOS rather than GB for desktop
AUM believe it or not. I bought AUM upon launch, played with it a little bit, but never really understood it. (I think AUM was initially released pre-AUv3). Last year when looking for ways to minimalistically craft live Ambient, I started in Koala but eventually evolved over to AUM, and then that's when everything clicked.
Speaking of Koala, that's another app I slept on. Bought it upon launch and didn't really click with it until last year when I started producing live Ambient.
miRack - Tried it and disliked it at first. However, this year I tried it again and it clicked. Amazing app!
Whenever I just want to play around with sound, miRack is my goto.
I got MiRack recently and I’m real confused by it. And it looks like it only does looping or soundscapes types of patches or ‘Em I wrong. I cant find a keyboard either. Can you control the sounds with a keyboard or do they all just play off away. I want to connect it like a normal Modular like Model 15 or KQminisynth.
Not sure about an internal keyboard as I've only used it as a Soundscape tool as well as an AUv3 effects unit. (It's like Mixbox CS on steroids, but it's also capable of synthesis.)
A lot of things are improved when direct interaction is needed... but there are other times when precision matters and then you wish you had a full desktop and not just the iPad.
There is a kind of internal keyboard controller module in MiRack, in the Impromptu collection, but it’s a bit rubbish for most purposes.
However, MiRack has perfectly good MIDI input and output modules, so it’s entirely possible to create keyboard-playable patches and use an external keyboard, hardware or software (eg AUM’s keyboard, KB-1, whatever).
I bought Drambo upon release, and I did not click with it at all. Only now is it starting to make sense to me 😆
To be fair the original only has 1 preset 😂 I like it more for the sound. I’m not much of a preset player and prefer to make my own anyway. But does an electric piano really need that many presets?
I do like the grand piano app but it’s a totally different beast. Piano vs electric piano. And the GP2 app is made for more experimental sounds with all the parameters available.
I’ve been meaning to dive more into MiRack. I can move around on a semi modular synth like the MS20, Ripplemaker, etc just fine, but fully modular like MiRack and Audulus is still a little above my pay grade 😂 but I’ll learn eventually
You can send midi into MiRack from any external source:
Lol! Well as I said above, using miRack as an AUv3 effects unit is well worth learning. You can simply start with an audio in and audio out and choose a reverb and mixer (in order to get stereo). This is how I restarted my journey into miRack and seems a great way to get started in a virtual eurorack-styled environment in general.
Then you can start to expand your knowledge of various effects modules via experimentation and such. Eventually you'll graduate to the synthesis side of things. All one step at a time.
As I said above, it's like MixboxCS on steroids when used as an AUv3 effect! And you can also use miRack on your iPhone (if you have perfect 20/20 vision and a powerful enough processor on your phone 😂🤣).
I have a good phone but faaar from perfect vision 😂 koala is all I really ever use on my iPhone tbh.
I’ve been wanting to get into full modular synthesis for a long time but never had the money for hardware, and definitely don’t have the space now either lol. So MiRack is an amazing alternative. I have electronisounds videos bookmarked on YouTube. I plan on watching them sometime this week and then diving in myself. I know some of the effect patches I’ve seen for it are crazy. Wonder if there’s any on patch storage I could use a jumping off point? Time to investigate 🤔
Wait till you try Lo-Fi Piano. That only has two presets and is 5$. But the two sounds are great, but the other app Lo-Fi Tape is 3$ and you get a lot of presets that are like Lo-Fi Piano. You could probably make those two Lo-Fi Piano presets in Lo-Fi Tape. I do like more presets in app,. And the thing is you don’t have a lot of options to make presets with House Mark, whatever you make sounds similar. Look at Neo Soul it has many different electric piano sounds you can use. I don’t think House Mark is worth 4$, it’s worth something but not 4$. Grand Piano AUV3 2 is free and it’s a high quality piano sound in my opinion. Its not much but feels like you have more options with Grand Piano AUV3 2
I’m glad that you mention this.
I also bought it on release but it didn’t “click” with me.
But now drambo is THAT ONE app that i would bring to a island.
i like this thread. good to reflect.
because I’m a completist in the broadest possible sense: i buy everything that looks cool or might be cool, whether I can actually afford it or not, this happens a lot.
the latest has to be VividTracker. something i re-accessed after @sfm did his tutorial on it.
going back into VivedTracker, something clicked and it became a very fast composition tool.
And it exports with its samples to the fantastic and beloved (for me) SunVox.
This export takes VividTracker well beyond its initial 8 track limit. Drop more than 8 samples across tracks (as usual w/trackers).
When the project opens in SunVox the app splits out the sources, new sources can be added and the sourced can all be exported as stems. VividTracker ultra fast, I love SunVox, and stems to export into the various conventional midi/audio timeline DAW, if i feel it.
@Littlewoodg
That's awesome. Gotta give a try on this workflow.
Already love both Pixitracker apps to sketch and send to Sunvox. I already knew that vivid could export with compatible format, but silly me never thought about doing it
i like both Pixitrackers a lot. and that workflow is also tons of fun. SunVox for the win once again
I’m the same I buy everything that looks cool 😂 SunVox was another app that I slept on for so long, by its 90s design had me not wanting to buy his apps. I couldn’t be more wrong.
Thanks for this, now I know MiRack does midi
To be fair Grand Piano 2 wasn’t always free I don’t think. The dev did a sale where everything was free and then just kinda left it that way lol
I have both Lo-Fi Tape and Piano and love them both lol. I even bought the expansion for the Tape one. It sounds really good.
I can see your point but I don’t think Mark 1 was going for versatility. It’s supposed to be a great sounding electric piano, and it excels there (imo). For $4 it’s a steal for what you get I think.
Sinusoid, Minimic, and the 1/2 bit PixiTrackers from the SunVox dev are the only trackers I have. Would you say VividTracker is the best on iOS? I would like to eventually get a one of the realistic tracker emulations for iOS and based on what I’ve read, Vivid is in the top spot.
Beatmaker 3, for me. Didn't enjoy it when I first got it. Seemed like a really unintuitive click-fest. So I refunded it.
Spent some time futzin' around in Zenbeats and Cubasis 3. ZB seemed fun, but I found the environment much less cluttered in CB3. Unfortunately, had to ditch that due to various stability issues. But during this time, I kept watching BM3 videos...and kept lusing after it
...So I re-bought it.
Second time 'round and things started to click. Interestingly, it took a month's demoing of Logic to make me appreciate that actually the BM3 workflow isn't so 'clicky' after all. Still haven't put enough time into it. but I'm really enjoying the sampler-centric workflow. Makes experimentation easy and fun.
Am currently toying with the idea of using it for the sound-design process and completely relegating the recording part to Loopy Pro, so that I can commit very quickly to audio. But even if that doesn't happen, BM3 could easily be my only DAW on iPad.
I wanted to get those two pixttrackers back when they were on a recent sale. But I was too late. I totally slept on them, then when they were on sale recently, I looked them up and afterwards I wanted them, but like I said I was too late.
Yea, I’ve been missing with Obsedian Synth lately. It’s a fun synth. I also been missing with Caustic too. And I really like there setup of different synths. I’ve been using the Caustic PCM Synth sampler and I wish it was something more than only in Caustic. As for BM3 it’s only iPad so I haven’t tried it yet.
this thread made me buy pixitracker, i have tried it years ago on desktop and liked it