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@SmushMilo - Welcome from a fellow forum member. I hope you find lots of helpful information here - I certainly have over the last couple of years.
Welcome @SmushMilo to the wonderful world of iOS music creation! Welcome to our community.
Man, I'd love to mess around with an MPC one of these days, but honestly I'm happy that one Reddit user pointed you to Groove Rider 2. Honestly, there is nothing else quite like it on iOS. I mean the app has the ability to mix between projects like how a DJ would mix between two records. I've yet to see any other app do that.
And I know exactly what you mean by "choice paralysis". I often suffer the same issue. Some days, I'm fine working in Cubasis, and then other days, I'm stuck in the "what the hell should I make today" mentality. 😂
I absolutely love GR-II's built in synth! It can do anything, including some drum synthesis. In fact, you can load a drum rack and, instead of samples, can load a synthesizer and synthesize a drum sound. Super versatile!
Yeah, if I recall correctly (I have ADHD, so I may not even recall something correctly from a few hours ago 😆), Mr. Pavloff said stem export should be coming soon! But as of right now, I love what GR-II can do currently. It's mindblowing.
And lastly, yes, I'm also grateful to @thesoundtestroom and @sfm for their amazing tutorials in lieu of a proper manual for GR-II (which I honestly with Jim would hurry up and release to his website already). "Rtfm" doesn't stand for "read the f-cking manual" in this case but rather "release the f-cking manual". 😂
All that being said, if I could recommend you one more app, it would be "Pure Acid". It integrates nicely into GR-II in two ways - its synth (which is a 303 clone), and its drum synth which features drums from the 606, 808, and 909! 15 quid ain't bad for it.
I also like Poison-202, but its integration into GR-II is a little lackluster for me personally (it doesn't allow full editing but rather just simple preset browsing). Then again, Poison-202 can be loaded as an external AUv3, so grain of salt from me.
Again, welcome aboard the forum mate.
Pleasure to have you here.
Genius… always wondered why sequencer developers do not put Groove Quantize on their apps.. This solved it.. Midi Import please.. Nice..
Hi, is it possible to import all factory samples from GR1 to GR2..? For example all the GR1 factory kicks/snares/sounds etc...available in GR1 to be usable also in GR2...I was surprised to see especially for drums that not too much choice in GR2..Of course I could make it manually one by one, but I'm lazy..Or perhaps I missed something also, that's possible..Thanks
Look in the Factory Bank A > Samples > ROM Samples folder. I think they’re mostly all there aren’t they?
Cool, that seems to be working, thanks.
@arakatak
No reason to be embarrassed. There’re not obvious at all. I was thrown off at first too.
I haven’t checked thoroughly to see if they really are all there. I seem to Romberg there being at least one GR-16 IAP pack too. I didn’t check for those.
@Michael_R_Grant
Thank you
I saw that if you click on a clip there's an option to to add to song. I saw it on the Sound For More Song mode tutorial. I don't know how I missed it.
You're right about patience though, mine was tested as the first time I tried to do it, half way through, the app crashed and I lost all the work I had done. The only crash I've had so far by the way.
Thanks!! I definitely will.
Thanks!!
One thing that didn’t get mentioned in that video is how to get clips back into the state where they duplicate when you extend them in timeline. There are a couple of places where the clips just lengthen, adding blank space. Editing the clip and turning looping back on restores the clip to the earlier state.
Thanks my man!!
The mpc has been great for me. I'm not really a beatmaker, or haven't been in all the years I've been doing music. I'm singer songwriter/guitarist and naturally just gravitated to working directly in DAWS. However I found that the music I had been making had become stale and was finding it more and more difficult to write stuff. The mpc allowed me to approach songwriting and music making in a differnt way. I don't make hip hop aor EDM, I'm an alt r&b guy, with some synthwave elements thrown in, but the MPC doesn't put you in a box, it gives you certain tools and limitations and says go and make what you make within the constraints and maybe the MPC-ness of it all might also add a little sauce to your style. That's been great for me. And if this first project I made in GR2 is anything to go by, it seems to have the same ethos.
I was able to load in the same drum/instrument samples I have on the mpc, it gave me a synth, even though I bought the Tal Juno synth - which I love and kept my workflow similar enough to where I didn't feel I was starting from scratch.
I had a few recommendations for Pure Acid but wasn't sure if it was for me but I am a bit of Roaland fan boy so I'll check it out. My fanboyism almost had me opting for Zenbeats luckily I did my research, I don't think that would have been for me. So shout out to that one person on Reddit who told me about GR2!! Lol.
Last thing I'll say about making music. Creating songs using tools not traditionally used in my genre, apart from the synthwave stuff, has been amazing and so inspiring and I now encourage as many people as I can to do the same if they're in a creative rut. I mean I sample now, I never would have dreamed of doing something like that 10 years ago.
have a good day fella.
Yep love that, very MPC like, just adds a bit of sauce doesn't it.
That's good to know. I had that issue a couple of times. Thanks
RemixLive does that and much more complex as you load the two projects side by side
It does? I'll look into that.
Edit: Nvm, it's a subscription. At least GR-II, while a hefty price initially, isn't a sub. 😅
I think it has a full lifetime unlock price, not sure
Agreed! Great idea asking ChatGPT!
We should be pretty close to having an official manual huh?
Cant wait to give it a good read once it’s available!
Correct but RemixLive is not a production app or a groovebox. It’s a clips based DJ app for slinging loops. Similar to Ampify’s Launchpad app. And there’s no AUs to load in those so it’s much simpler.
Yet to see any other app that handles a seamless transition between 2 projects with a bunch of AUs hosted in them.
The clips can be midi tho... but yeah, it's a performance app, without auv3 support
For a performance app with future MIDI support, kind of tough to top Loopy Pro to be honest. But afaik Loopy Pro doesn't mix between projects.
But yeah, as far as I go, I'll be sticking with Groove Rider 2 for the foreseeable future. It reminds me of using NS2, but more streamlined, and with DJ capabilities. Perfect for my needs. 🙏
Same here. I never spent enough time with NS2 to click with it…because nothing beat Drambo for me. Until now. GR-2 is now my first choice, Drambo second. Feels like I’m cheating on Drambo
Drambo can always be used in GR-II. 😉
True! Somewhat kidding about Drambo. It’s gonna depend on the mood. As of right now I’m much more proficient with Drambo and can sketch things really fast. And I don’t really have a specific workflow as most of what I enjoy is trying different things in different ways.
But as GR-2 matures and I play around with it more it’ll become another center piece for production and performing live. I’m patiently awaiting the direct LaunchPad Pro integration.
Drambo is still better to program hats, I think I'll start giving hats it's own part on GR2
A small piano roll suggestion from me (to add to @cokomairena's already excellent list).
Lasso mode is always my default editing mode for the piano roll, as it's the only one that currently supports pan and zoom.
So when I'm editing my midi patterns in lasso mode, I would love there to be a visible [DELETE] button on the toolbar. Currently, I select a bunch of notes then go to the hamburger menu to find the delete command. And I find myself doing this so many times in a session that the extra steps start to become a little tedious.
...unless there is already a trick/shortcut I am unaware of?
They both have their strengths right now.
IMO GR2 is a fantastic app that leans heavily on being a “groovebox”, and it does have a few features that admittedly do have an edge on Drambo in that regard right now, like the song mode, and the ability to blend from one project (pattern?) to another seamlessly. And a lot of small, but important features like being able to record pitch and mod wheel articulations.
There’s no doubt that Jim got a lot of things right with GR2!
Drambo however, is a fully modular synthesizer capable of a much wider array of synthesis and sound design (for example, there’s no FM operators or physical modeling synthesis in GR2) in addition to the upcoming bi-directional midi feedback and controller support, as well as a few other features that are still in beta that I probably shouldn’t be mentioning.
DRambo also doesn’t have a lot of the limitations that GR2 has in terms of “you can only use insert effects here”, or “you only have 3 slots there”. There’s also a lot more freedom with internal midi and audio routing in Drambo.
I really do love both apps, but for me, Drambo will always be King! And if the silence from @giku_beepstreet over the last couple weeks is any indication, I have a feeling the next beta versions, and the subsequent AppStore version updates are really going to be something great.
The amazing thing for us, is that we have choices! As pointed out above by @jwmmakerofmusic, we can of course always use the Drambo AU inside GR2. Personally, I kinda wanted to do it the other way around, and have Drambo be the host, but either way is workable by me.