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It’s not an audio track if you cant see the waveform on the timeline for me. I would love a daw that shows the waveform for everything including midi tracks.
You’re right man
(I meant I was hoping for a full daw audio track, but you are absolutely right - gotta see a waveform to edit to be a “DAW” proper)
By "including midi tracks" do you mean the clip shows a notes overview? If yes, Cubasis and Logic can do this. I prefer Cubasis, but it's only a fiver to test Logic out for a month. I encountered some bugs in Logic for iPad, but some users haven't.
Is there a way to stop the sound preview when adding or selecting notes in the piano roll?
Also I'm curious, do you guys use more the step sequencer or the piano roll? I find it slow to select the right note/drum while dragging the first pad up/down. Kinda wish it would change when clicking the corresponding note/drum on the piano roll.
But the piano roll itself is a real treat to work with! I think of a few QoL modifications (maybe a mix between Koalas and GR2 piano roll), but it is very well adapted to the touchscreen!
No notes, waveform, like render the audio and showing it in the midi tracks
Works great. Use the keyboard shortcuts to map it out on LPX. (this is at the end of the manual).
I can control most things (except knobs) from the Launchpad.
Ah, yes, I know Cubasis can't do that (unless you meant track freezing, but I get the impression this is not what you meant). Not sure Logic can do that afaik. If it can, then that's your mainline DAW with GR2 being a great creative environment.
Seems like it would use a whole lot of CPU (because it would have to dynamically re-render every time you edited any of your MIDI) for not a lot of immediately obvious value in return.
Other than probably looking cool…;)
Indeed it would look cool, but I do agree that I personally wouldn't find any practical value of rendering and re-rendering a waveform with each change to MIDI I make. But, regardless, Cubasis is my go-to for most genres of client work. I did make a couple client tracks in GR2 however. Very excellent groove box.
Ah thanks ! The knobs in GR2 can't be assignable ?
They can. There are default MIDI CCs that he'a already setup. See the manual. Plus you can add your own mappings.
I set mine up with a korg nanokontrol but haven't used it yet. (did find the Layer Pitch CC85 didn't work. If someone can test this/confirm this, that would be great.)
I don't see the utility in rendering the wave form from a midi clip. Showing the midi notes communicates more information about the musical content than a waveform.
Maybe as an indication of volume change over time? That wouldn't be useful for me, but I guess maybe I could be useful for some. It would come at a high cost in computing power though. To be meaningful, it would have to be computed on the fly, taking into account volume adjustments, synth and FX tweaks, automation, etc.
fwiw, Zenbeats has an option to display the generated wave for for clips in it's clip view. That's just eye candy though really. To be useful it would need to be computed somehow in the timeline view.
I don't think so. Would be nice though. No, more than nice. Essential.
I use the piano roll primarily, but I do like the step sequencer a lot now that I understand how it works. I find it great for the initial sketching out of drum beats. I don't mind the way of selecting notes at all. Your idea of selecting the note by tapping the keyboard notes on the left would be pretty cool for sure. In my head though, I generally prefer there to be just one way of doing each thing because once I get used to that way, then it's locked in. When I have choices, then there's always a little part of my brain arguing over whether I'm using the most optimal way in context.
The most important thing I'd like to see for the step sequencer is that it automatically selects the last tapped note in the step sequencer. That seems like a simple change that would dramatically increase the usefulness of the step sequencer. I've made the suggestion to Jim. I hope it gets considered.
GR2 is very good on battery versus DAWs
Has anyone else noticed that??
And also - is there a way to enable “auto save “?
No auto save feature (at least as of yet?). Not sure it will be implemented, but if it is, that'll be great! But that said, easy enough to open the top menu and hit "save" every two seconds (at least for me personally, ymmv, yada yada yada).
Yes, fantastic with battery. I wish Drambo was even half as easy on my battery as GR2
Hey all and congrats Jim!
Long time Gr16 user and release day adopter of Gr2. It released the day before my birthday actually so thanks for the gift Jim! Were on page 46 here so if this was handled previously I apologize.
Ok heres the biz, It appears that the side-chain compressor and side-chain gate have changed (in an update?) from pre-fader to post-fader. In my experience I have found that you are always right about your software and bring great logic to the interface as well, but am also of the opinion that it would be so great if sidechains went back to pre-fader -OR-
if an option was added in the menu.
Basically now you cannot create a trig track and mute it and still have that side-chain trigger, nor solo to listen and set the side-chain or gate exact without also shift-soloing the trig track.
I say this because I created a track to utilize a muted trig track and it appears to have changed and no longer works. If this assessment is correct, could we please have an option to select pre-fader or post-fader for the side-chain side gates?
Thanks Jim!
Muted ghost track is working for me (using mute button, not lowering the volume)
While Jim may be reading this thread, he also may not be, or may not be regularly. You should probably send input to him directly through the contact information on his site: https://jimaudio.pro to be sure.
I can't reproduce this behavior. I'm able to mute the side-chain source track and it still triggers the side chain gate.
Have you set the side chain source in the bottom-left of the side-chain gate plugin? It defaults to off.
I know it’s madness but have just bought a second hand iPad Pro 12.9 2nd gen so I can laze on the couch and easily use headphones and use this app. It will be interesting to compare performance of it to my iPad M1 when it arrives.
I have an irig midi keyboard (3 octave full size keys) with a lightning cable adapter so I can jam on the kitchen table with headphones on and not a single dongle in sight.
Yes. I missed having an iPad with a dedicated headphone output that much.
This would be a nice idea! And thanks for confirming about the sound, I'll stop searching for it 😅
My iPad mini gen 5 has a shattered front screen, but that dedicated headphone jack is still great to have. Apple Pencil + Mouse & keyboard means no shards of glass in my finger, and a tactile home button is nice. So sad the screen is chipping off and I’m afraid to move the thing - kind of defeats the purpose of such a portable device.
Yeah dude
I know I SHOULD save
But I’m not used to doing it like that
I’m used to at least some incremental points
So I’m not complaining -
I’m just saying, I would find that a useful feature for my forgetfulness
I lost two songs now cuz I didn’t save and I had auv3 crashes - which is something else maybe.
But I’ll just do what you said and remind myself
Sounds like a good plan to me. Good luck mate.
Autosave is a double edged sword though, at least the way it's implemented in Cubasis. I've had a session where all my creative genius has basically borked a track and there's either not enough undos to save me or I've not realised how bad it is until I open it another day. I've gotten back to versioning when I go to make some serious edits. Harking back to my old days of working in 3dsMax although I am hoping I don't see V84 happened to my project names as I so often did then!
That’s also true. It could be the wrong save point
I guess - as soon as you hear something you like, click save
Btw cambler im glad your enthusiastic about gr2 - im usually not excited about things like this but its awesome
I must admit that I'm actually not that enthusiastic about it
But I'm going to keep digging and see if I can found some use for it. I think it were able to be hosted as an auv3 I'd have more of a use case. I'm not a clip guy and the timeline feels really rudimentary to me compared to Cubasis, Logic and the others. There are some cool things going on in GR2 so I need to see if I can prise some of them out for my own use. Please note I am not talking sass about the app, just my own peculiar approach/use cases.
What about adding a paperlike substrate ?
That definitely helps unless the very edge of the screen is shattered. I tried similar approach to frozen the damage on my old iphone screen
Thanks @wim & @cokomairena.
Have you updated your app?
Muting or pulling down the fader both stop the trigger. The only thing I can think Ive changed was the name of the track and an update.
Ive tried swapping the effect for another and going back and then changing the trigger source.
Thanks for the info to contact Jim!