2014 – The peak year for iOS music apps

AudioGus

Made some of my favourite tracks with Gadget, mixed on desktop, in 2015. Never really appreciated how good the sound design on these presets were at the time. They just sit very well in their respective slots in a mix. Guess it helps that they are not drowning in fx too. I should give it another run to see how it goes.

Gavinski

That’s a mighty impressive list actually!

HotStrange

@dendy said:
I like this year. A lot of amazing apps. At least for me.

Was gonna say, the last year or 2 have been at least close to the top. A lot of really really great apps.

HotStrange

@NoiseHorse said:
The 10 Best New Mobile Music Apps Of 2014

Korg Gadget
Audiobus 2
Z3TA+ For iPad
PPG WaveMapper 2.0
Sector Stochastic Sample Slice Sequencer
iVCS3 Virtual EMS VCS3 Synthesizer
Crystalline ‘Shimmer’ Effects Processor
Caustic for Android & iOS
Arturia iProphet Virtual Sequential Circuits Prophet VS
FM4 FM Synthesizer
Effectrix Multi-Effects Sequencer
GrooveMaker 2 For iPad
VirSyn microTera Waveshaping Synth
Lemur 5
Sliver
Final Touch Mastering System
Audulus For iPhone
PhonoPaper
B-Step Sequencer
Wooji Juice Mitosynth Additive/Wavetable Synth
PreSonus Capture 32-Track Audio Recorder
Laplace Synth
…..it was was the Peak because the top 10 had 23 apps in it!

Wow forgot all about a few of these.

abf

Animoog was 2011, Animoog Z was released in 2021, I think. Patterning was 2015, Spacecraft came out in 2018. And GeoShred, that was 2016 maybe? Those are excellent apps, all created specifically for touch screens, and none released in 2014. I don't think anything released in 2014 really tops them.

I think right now is a golden time for apps, the list of amazing iOS music apps released in the last five years is pretty stunning.

NoiseHorse

What a warm & fuzzy thread we have going here!

GUB

So AI is producing radically original works in some areas of art? I wasn't aware of that. What examples best demonstrate that? I'm curious to see them.

@AudioGus said:

@NeuM said:

@GUB said:
2014 may have been the last year that developers weren’t offering applications heavily influenced by “design by committee.”

Also, as far as I can tell, AI generated visual art is highly derivative. So there’s no reason to believe AI-developed music apps won’t also be. It’s much more likely to produce an improved Buttersynth, then something as astonishingly new as Borderlands. IMO

Machine learning generated art is only as derivative as people want it to be. Input influences output. Give it something different to process and it'll look different.

Yah human/machine hybrids are doing amazing things now. Much of the world of digital creation will look very different in just a couple years.

GUB

I'm not sure I understand the claim. Give it something different than what? Than the entire sum of human-produced intellectual content that it can process and analyze? What else is there?

@NeuM said:

@GUB said:
2014 may have been the last year that developers weren’t offering applications heavily influenced by “design by committee.”

Also, as far as I can tell, AI generated visual art is highly derivative. So there’s no reason to believe AI-developed music apps won’t also be. It’s much more likely to produce an improved Buttersynth, then something as astonishingly new as Borderlands. IMO

Machine learning generated art is only as derivative as people want it to be. Input influences output. Give it something different to process and it'll look different.

Luxthor

@u0421793 said:
Looking through my old app list, I think the top of the wave of new exciting innovative stuff coming out every week from all directions was 2014

You should wait for 2024, when you will celebrate your 10th year as a forum member. 🤩 Gratz anyway!

u0421793

@Luxthor said:

@u0421793 said:
Looking through my old app list, I think the top of the wave of new exciting innovative stuff coming out every week from all directions was 2014

You should wait for 2024, when you will celebrate your 10th year as a forum member. 🤩 Gratz anyway!

I spent a few years prior, not signing up, but reading the forum anyway – by 2014 I’d already amassed a mountain of apps

HotStrange

@u0421793 said:

@Luxthor said:

@u0421793 said:
Looking through my old app list, I think the top of the wave of new exciting innovative stuff coming out every week from all directions was 2014

You should wait for 2024, when you will celebrate your 10th year as a forum member. 🤩 Gratz anyway!

I spent a few years prior, not signing up, but reading the forum anyway – by 2014 I’d already amassed a mountain of apps

Same here. I don’t think I properly joined until 6-7 years ago.

AudioGus

@GUB said:
So AI is producing radically original works in some areas of art? I wasn't aware of that. What examples best demonstrate that? I'm curious to see them.

AI by itself? Nah.