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Loopy Pro has floating windows for AUs. Multiple AU windows can be open at once.
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Great.. So Loopy Pro and Drambo does have ‘Floating Windows’… Thanks..
I completely understand that, but the main app and concept seem to have stabilized am I right?
Concepts like collapsing and nesting mix busses, or just having multiple mix bus lanes scrolling in the vertical, or saving them off as instruments to be used in top level audio slots and other ideas - will aum ever change so drastically?
For midi recording or audio editing, we need to use plugins which becomes hacky really fast. Not just hacky, seriously painful and a waste of time and money on midi recorders, sequencers and gizmos.
The midi apis, while listed nicely for each plugin, are difficult to use correctly and impossible to see what has or has not been connected unless digging back into the panel again. The midi matrix becomes useless after too many instruments are added (like those which also expose 8 or more midi outputs each).
Nodes can be copied, but not an entire channel. Im sure many users have their own ideas what they would like to see.
The fantastic thing about aum is it does everything right workflow-wise at the start which is, add instruments and effect and start making sounds quickly. Immediate satisfaction.
But after that, it is too simple to use outside of experimental music or straight to audio recording.
And I am a fan of your work, have all your apps. Use your fx plugins often also, very well designed, very usable.
To sum up, aum is great for quick exploration, but not song composition or instrument building and reuse. Then again, are there any apps on ios that do all that? Not yet.
People will say ‘he says its just a mixer’, i know i know i already heard you.
Is it lazyness or greed that i would prefer to learn one very capable interface well rather than struggle with 8 half baked mixer/daw/grooveboxes? Or literally 400 plugins that do it all differently? Haha just kidding a little . Id much prefer to be here than hardware synth hell or modular or groovebox hell though
Live on YouTube intro of EG Nodes:
I copy full channels all the time, what do you mean?
Largely depends on what you’re doing. I’ve made tons of tracks in AUM. Maybe it’s just not the workflow for you.
👆 This.
I like AUM because it’s not a full DAW, and has such a modular approach. If it doesn’t suit your particular way of working, you have alternative options. Or start things off in AUM and finish them in something else. Whatever works for you.
AUM is the gold standard.
I still like apeMatrix for many experimental effects-driven flows.
BAM is super fun to get complete grooves going, as well as experiments... and can also function within AUM
NODES is a new approach that's somewhat new ground, but doesn't negate the other great tools we have available.
I don't I'd want any of them to "eat each other's lunch" - why does it have to be a competition? I'm a photographer as my core competency, and I wouldn't choose one camera for everything. I've got a few that are great at specific flows, and I choose accordingly.
Some of you are really gonna dig Nodes work flow though. Guaranteed!
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Or maybe you just haven't explored enough iOS options yet.
In Drambo you can make instrument racks and save them for instant reuse. It has a sequencer suitable for many (but not all) people's taste in composition.
In AUM you can save a project, then import any channel or channels from it to another project. For instrument building and reuse, you can do this in a "master" project or projects, then recall those instruments for instant reuse. Yes, song composition requires additional tools. Compositional tools are contemplated for AUM, but reality is, not in the timeframe you want, if at all. That's just the way it is. Maybe it's just not for you.
Zenbeats lets you save entire track setups for instrument reuse, and has both clip launching and timeline composition tools.
Logic Pro has it all (I've been told).
The list goes on. I'm only going off the top of my head.
Seems like EG Node may solve some of AUM’s short comings.. Automation, Snapshots, Scenes…
Why do we have to wait until the 8th. How about a Pre Release, Release..😎
32:15 in the Video..
Edit.. and this is only Ver. 1.. Nice..
It's neither laziness or greed. It's just your preference, and that preference is fine. 😎
But music making on iOS is a world of compromises. All you can do is find some tradeoffs that work well enough. The sooner you can accept that the more fun you can have. 😉
(I'm definitely not discouraging pushing for improvements. I think it's great when done respectfully. But recognizing the limitations of the platform and the developer pool due to low return on investment, can help in setting expectations.)
Oh nice. Thanks! I should have read the manual
I have almost everything but Im not a master at any of it because Im hoping around trying to find my all in one box ticker.
I would love drambo if my fingers were the size of a 2 year old.
I never suggested a time frame. And I remember seeing something about this in a video, recalling instruments. And this is great, but since there is no ability to classify the channel set and group it or fold it, seems like my projects just keep expanding to the right without a way to compact the view. I guess i can use the bookmarks, seems a little hacky though
Are you inferring my only two options are either shut up or stop using the app?
What do you exactly mean?
Yeah, been looking at that again recently. I don’t know too much about it yet.
Certainly not to shut up. I took care to detail that farther along in the post.
Nope. Just saying that if AUM isn't making you happy you may want to move on. It isn't going to change any time soon, so the choice is between accepting it as it is for the indefinite future, continuing to use it while unhappy with it, or exploring other options.
My apologies if that advice was unwelcome. I was trying to be helpful by offering context. I know how to leave off when such information is unwanted. I wish you nothing but the best in trying to find solutions that satisfy you.
Basically what @Gdub said.
I don’t want to be negative about nodes cause it looks cool, but that is definitely a tall order.
Oh, I hadnt seen this post. Yeah, life and software is like that.
Many people see a lot of latent potential in these apps, many times because they already do so much, you want it to complete the circle.
In this auv game, gluing things together becomes a double edged sword, and one of the primary gluers is aum. I certainly don’t want anyone to waste their life slaving away on a computer for my petty preferences. But its also not a limitation of this platform, at least not what Im thinking about.
Thanks for your replies.
I feel the same way. I dislike having to dig into different apps (that are so deep) to try to achieve what I want. Or figure out my workflow. It can be frustrating. But I’m grateful that there are so many powerful apps. It used to be real slim pickins back in the day.
Just watched the video and very happy I preordered (i had no doubts it would be great).
That said, i wish piano roll did not have a #bars limit (4).
I wish there were a central place to view and edit midi routing and cc control mappings ( this is going to get very confusing for me). Also a separate surface to place all the controls instead of hidden inside each node.
Long pressing to delete a control… I wonder how often im going to accidentally delete?
Long pressing to duplicate a sequence.. how often will I accidentally overwrite one that i just meant to play? Doesnt seem like there is any visual feedback to that operation. And is there an undo?
Regardless, this app has a ton of cool features! Thank you so much!
Its like what people said about unix programs - do one thing and do it well.. then just pipe output to input of the next command.. and next you get bash scripts a thousand lines long.
Then again, before I noticed this ipad scene I was seriously looking at workstation synths! So glad I didnt wind up in that hole.. but Id probably be a 2 year veteran expert of a tiny lcd screen universe for sure
Slim pickings back in the day for sure! I'm always looking for workflow refinements and the perfect setup and I find we're only just getting to that level of app development, user interest, and mobile processing power to make it possible to "have it all" now.
I find it really helpful in my frustrated moments to remember that the roots of having a full composition environment for music on ios was basically modular with IAA and AB.
There are LOTS of great environments now, full daws, loopers, mixers, multitrack, modular, and lots in between. I'm pumped for Nodes. Gonna be a good one! 💕
The long press timing is about right IMO. I don’t think anyone will have any problems accidentally deleting anything.
First thing to change after Nodes launches, is turn on auto-save in the settings. I have my beta set to autosave every minute. Might not need to autosave that frequently, but I’d at least set it to autosave. Autosave is not the default.
Wait…a 4-bar limit? 😬
I’m REALLY excited about EG Nodes, but I learned from experience with Flip Sampler that 4 just isn’t enough for me. Andrew Huang ended up lifting that limit to 16 by popular demand. I might have to hold off and see if that happens with EG Nodes, just to keep from pulling my hair out while using it. 😅
I would have guessed a common workflow would be to play along to the other nodes for a few minutes, and then grab good sections to drop into other nodes. But if it cant record for 2 minutes, Ill need to pull in xequence somehow. But even then, 4 bars is groovebox territory. No songs.
Yeah, if the piano roll is limited to 4 bars, I think that’s me out.
@5k3105 thanks for preordering the app.
Longpress is actually used just to delete a control and an AU from its slot. You have visual feedback and a confirmation popup, so there's no chance to accidentally remove them
To duplicate bars or notes you need to drag from the bars timeline (and you can undo).
About the 4 bars thing, no testers complain about that...remember that this is not conceived as a full MIDI piano roll au3 app (there are already some on iOS to do that), but as an environment built on scenes and different nodes type that must coexist in a coherent way and 4 bars seems to be enugh for the sceneraio
Anyway I can increase the bar lenght if there will be a popular request, I'm publishin a dashboard to ask for feature and a roadmap.
256 bars pls and different speed for each clip, different beat divide, different quantisation and no quantised recording also
Plus 16 scenes
This! I also preordered nodes, but didn’t know it was so limited for composing
It probably won’t eat AUM’s lunch here. I already have a bunch of generative midi apps and sequencers, so I’m not sure what to use Nodes for. It seems a bit like mini-AUM with some midi capabilities. If AUM and other apps didn’t exist, I’d be all over it, but unless it offers substantial improvements over other workflows, such as extensive modulation options and a plethora of generative algorithms and methods, what really is the benefit aside from being new and shiny?