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Fiddlewax Pro and Korg Gadget go great together
Yesterday I tried Fiddlewax Pro and Korg Gadget together. Initial indications are very promising! Other than having to hunt for the Background Audio switch under the iOS Settings for Gadget, it was easy to get them talking to each other.
If you don't know Fiddlewax Pro, it's a very different music app. Choose a key, and you can immediately hit any of the diatonic chords. And you can play pentatonic or other scales in the key, or the chord tones. Fiddlewax Pro alone offers nice looping tools to sketch out harmonically integrated ideas.
But with Korg Gadget, Fiddlewax Pro gives me my wish for any easier way to play harmonically correct without having to learn the keyboard. For example, I can fire up any non-drum Gadget instrument, and lay down a I IV V chord progression in the key of G by just pressing the Fiddlewax "G", "C", "D" buttons as Gadget records. Once that is looping on Gadget, I can then improvise easily via Fiddlewax. For some of you, a proper MIDI Sequencer would be the way to do this. I frankly don't know those tools well, so maybe it's better. But I can tell Fiddlewax does this job well, and requires little futzing about about while I play.
And, yes, AudioBus makes this better. Without it, I have to swap between the apps. With AudioBus, I can set up Gadget with the track and instrument I want, arm the Record button, go to Fiddlewax to set the key, and then bit the Play button via the AudioBus side panel to start the actual Gadget recording.
Anyway... I wanted to share my initial positive results. Let me know if you try it out!
Cheers,
- Joe
Comments
Been using this kindof as described for a while.
Gadget is great.
Midi in to Gadget is really great.
And FiddleWax is great and allows you to do a fair bit more on top of what you describe above.
The only not so great thing is that Gadget is midi channel permiscuous. So you can't isolate instruments in FiddleWax into Gadget right now.
Doesn't sound like that affects what you're doing above though.
I'd love Gadget to open up different gadgets to different midi channels one day but that might take a while (and might be rather CPU intensive I suspect).
But what is more likely is that FiddleWax might implement a way to kill certain midi channels it outputs so even if you bake a few different instruments into a FiddleWax loop you could record one by one (one instrument in your FW loop to one instrument in Gadget then rinse and repeat). That would be great.
FiddleWax is an amazing app in my opinion and in no way inferior to a sequencer. Just different (and IMO much more innovative). I love it, I really appreciate the Adam the developers incredible responsiveness, communication on this forum and work rate. I imagine he doesn't sleep!
Matt, Good to hear from you and your report on Fiddlewax>Gadget.
(No, I'm not a developer...!)
BTW, last uber-developer place I worked gave away free soda and other caffeine
Cheers,
Do you finish all comments in cheers joe
Cheers-joe
Sometimes not
Fiddlewax Pro and Sampletank work well together also. You can set four sounds simultaneously on separate channels.
FWP and ST do make a lovely couple!
Their 'ship name would be Fiddletank...or Samplewax
This cool trick of multi-channel midi out to a multi-instruments app, also works w/ Thumbjam, NanoStudio, Stroke Machine, VirSyn's iSyn Poly, Caustic. All are channel assignable (or workaround-able to archive assignment) rather than promiscuous. I don't have Fiddlewax Pro (yet) but I've used BM2 and MTS to simultaneously sequence multiple instruments (and record multitrack) with these...probably they'd work with FWP...
Cubasis, BS-16i, and Soundfont Pro are also good destinations. Some other fun sources are Jam Maestro and Different Drummer. I'm sure there are others, but those are some I frequent.
@funjunkie27
Good ones. You made me realize BM2 and MTS also ought to work as multi- instrument resources for Fiddlewax Pro type magic
This is a great list of app combinations.
As the Fiddlewax Pro dev, it's super helpful to hear what details can make a big difference for users. Sounds like I should get cracking on per-channel MIDI volume.
... And per channel midi disable please (I'll stop asking now, I promise!).
Per channel Vol/mute would be a great addition!
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 - I'm thinking that when MIDI channel volume is set to zero, it will mute the channel (i.e. disable MIDI event output for that channel). Would that address your issue of getting Fiddlewax Pro to work better with "midi channel promiscuous" apps?
Yes, thanks Adam. That would be perfect!
And save you needing 2 buttons/dials or whatever. Nice thinking.
Loving the FWPro app it's even making me re download and load old apps to try out the chord / and midi on. FL Studio,s Varazin Orchestral sounds great using it.
Had fun putting this little improv together using Fiddlewax Pro controlling 4 instrument tracks in Sampletank and recorded via Audiobus into AudioShare. Works really well not Quantize was of so timing no brilliant! Enjoy.
Nice tune, thanks
Gadget has the chords and scales already buildt in.
Brad_Moore wrote:
Gadget has the chords and scales already buildt in.
Yes, if you start with Marseilles you get chords. And any instrument that's not a drum has scales. But IMO it's easier to play chords and explore harmony using Fiddlewax.
Thx,
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Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I can only get one midi voice out of Sampltank when using midi with Fiddlewax Pro. They all have individual midi channel numbers in Sampletank but I only hear one at a time, the one highlighted in Parts. Any thoughts?
RJB You have to touch all 4 parts simultaneously, so they are all highlighted in red.
For sampletank, use more than one finger to simultaneously press instruments and activate midi
@mgmh4872 @Zetagy thank-you both. It's been said before but this forum rocks!