Audio Damage Axon 3 (released)

yellow_eyez

@Gavinski you did a great job with the tutorial and walk through

Gavinski

@yellow_eyez said:
@Gavinski you did a great job with the tutorial and walk through

Glad it was helpful!

NoncompliantBryant

@Gavinski said:

@NoncompliantBryant said:

@Gavinski said:
Surprised more people are not complaining about how difficult it is to dial in accurate values on these knobs. For melodic hits it is very important that the pitch is right, but I sometimes find myself having to endlessly fiddle to get things in tune. This is an absolute joy killer, imo. I never understand how devs let apps out the gate with problems like this. It either needs a complete rework—at least on important knobs like Freq—of how the knobs can be fine tuned quickly and accurately, or it needs a way to enter an exact frequency value via numerical input. Preferably the former. Price is great, concept is cool, but ability to dial things in quickly and accurately are essential, and when apps lack them it contributes to the wider perception that iOS is not a serious music-makers’ platform. I do know of course that the keyboard icon quantises to note, but the fact remains that it does have fine tune options, and that fast fine tuning by ear should be possible.

Yeah, this is an issue, and is similar to what I experience when I try to use the Noises pitch knob to dial in precise semitones since there are no notches. @Gavinski has raised this issue of knob precision/behavior being a real obstacle in the past and I hope more devs think about it. In this case, I've been throwing a scale quantize in between the app and instrument to just avoid dealing with the challenge.

Another example of challenging knob behavior that comes to mind for me is the Fmqt synth... It has some great ideas like the automation recording but it's so hard to dial in precise (or small) changes. On an FM synth, where tiny parameter changes can make huge sound differences, I precise knobs can really dampen the party.

Hmm, but Axon3 has its own built in scale quantizer. Maybe I'm misunderstanding. The issue I'm describing is related to when the quantizer is turned off and you're tuning the knobs freely by ear. I can't see how using a scale quantizer like Rozeta would help this? The problem is simply that the knobs are not capable of fast fine tuning. An example of an app that is good for that would be Combustor, where horizontal movements allow for very fine changes and vertical is for coarser changes.

Sorry, I wasn’t reading carefully.

ejacul337

I consider myself an avid iOS drum enthusiasts and own all of the top shelf drum apps and have to say that AXON 3 is by far the best drum app on iOS in my personal opinion. everyone should add it to their collection, especially when it’s on sale. It has the best presets in the game too, even eclipsing one shot, again just an opinion- maybe you’ll agree

rs2000

@ejacul337 I only have it since a few months and indeed, it's a lot more fun than I thought it would be!

yellow_eyez

@ejacul337 said:
I consider myself an avid iOS drum enthusiasts and own all of the top shelf drum apps and have to say that AXON 3 is by far the best drum app on iOS in my personal opinion. everyone should add it to their collection, especially when it’s on sale. It has the best presets in the game too, even eclipsing one shot, again just an opinion- maybe you’ll agree

Totally underrated - people also don’t give the sequencer the credit it deserves - it’s a real awesome app and worth $8 on SALE let alone $5…..

Hey @rs2000 ; you try my autofills ‘trick’ to “set” loops ?

Gavinski

Yeah, Axon is super interesting, at this price worth it for the brilliant presets alone. The sequencer is really different but can be quite an enjoyable mental workout to learn to use!

craftycurate

@Gavinski said:
Yeah, Axon is super interesting, at this price worth it for the brilliant presets alone. The sequencer is really different but can be quite an enjoyable mental workout to learn to use!

+1 It's definitely worth picking up. I tend to use it as one of my rhythm elements, to add a bit of grit or dirt or a top line percussive layer on top of more standard sounds. Excellent and flexible randomiser. Yeah the sequencer is miles from the usual grid concept but it's definitely worth getting a grasp on how it works as it can generate surprising results.

jonmoore

It's one of my favourite Audio Damage plugins. You can use it for very controlled stochastic pattern modulations or you can go wild with it, hoping for happy accidents. For my money, only K-Devices consistently create generative tools of this nature that have a similar ability for both subtle modulations and lock up your daughters and run for the hills mayhem; so it's great to see Audio Damage improve on what was already a great plugin in it's v2 guise!

reasOne

I grabbed this one a week ago and haven’t really had much time on iOS for music since grabbing a minifreak and Roland p6, but i was messing with it the other day and really dig it.
Is it possible to have more than one pattern per patch?? I couldn’t find a way to add parts to really build up a track.
I understand most the rest of the app since i used a2 a bunch back in the day

Cambler

For anyone using Axon in a DAW, how are you using it in a larger composition eg. changing to a new pattern for a chorus/verse?