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This Egoist is a mind- & earblowing app indeed! I'm on page 4 of the manual (for the VST-version with mouseclicks - 35 pages to go), but I've already an intriguing 'PTRN' running with a simple sample from a recording of my chicken shed (8 chickens; 90 BPM). I bought a new reading glass though and maybe have to buy a stylus pen soon...
True but won't go for that option unless I have to. It is yet another thing between me and the computer (like mouse), would probably misplace them all the time just like guitar picks (which I stopped using for that exact reason and would make me look like an architect which image I'd rather avoid. Yeah, I think that's about it
@Harro said:
"8 Chickens, 90 BPM" Song name of the day award winner right there....
@supadom said:
Oh no not for live use! That would be worse than 'guy hunched over laptop looking like he's checking his emails'. ;P
I just meant for editing. I use one with Thesys on the steps, when it comes to programming and stuff like that it saves a lot of frustration, i can even get around without the zoom to a certain extent. Feels natural to me anyway. I think i got two for £1.73 so if i lose them no biggie.
Really great app anyway, i hope it sets a benchmark for the future in ios although i guess Egoist is like a cut down version of Gadget?
We all have our individual ways of doing things. I'm into dark red trainers these days
By the way I just 'accidentally' stumbled upon the zoom bar above the slicer waveform. Just mentioning it because I haven't seen it in any if the tutorials I've seen.
@musikmachine said:
There are similarities, but they're quite different really. Egoist has the better sampler and more drum sounds, plus they're more tweakable, whereas Gadget has a bunch of synths. And the step editor in gadget is better in my opinion. The one thing letting Egoist down is the slightly awkward system for entering bass notes.
Worth having both - I'll use Egoist to create beats, then overdub some Gadget synths. Best of both worlds.
+1 zoom bar above the waveform. Found it after trying to slice a long sample last night. Very handy.
Had a lot of fun with it and even closed the app feeling like I actually made something worth opening again.
I found the UI to be really unresponsive on my iPad Lemon (3). I'd hit a control and there was a lag between hitting it and the action triggering. I was using a longish sample (1:15). Some controls, like the decay steps, simply wouldn't trigger unless I stopped playback first. I had rebooted, entered airplane mode and the app was stand alone with nothing else in the background. Everything worked perfectly sound wise (zero audible glitching). Anyone else experiencing this?
I don't know if someone talked about it but here is a great feature:
Go to a field like pitch and press a long press on a value you changed. Now while finger is done move it to the right or left. It will copy this value anywhere you move.
I think moving fast enough will skip cells you wish to skip.
That is a really good tip for speeding up drawing notes! Thanks @Shay
@Shay Good stuff. Also @supadom had to fiddle with the zoom bar, but with longer samples is def. a good addition. Starting to integrate patterns from this into Auria and want nothing much more than the 16 patterns to be 64....
I think it's probably already been said somewhere here but this app has the added advantage of having a free, fully functional demo available from Sugar Bytes website. It's for Mac and PC but it looks to be exactly the same as the iPad version which makes it perfect to try out for those on the fence about this iPad version.
http://www.sugar-bytes.de/content/download/demo/index.php?lang=en
I wasn't going to get this but then I tried this demo and it completely changed my mind. The one thing I had been lacking in my arsenal was a decent sampler app. I assumed all along that the answer would be Samplr and was just going to get that when it got updated to be fully functional in iOS 8 but then this came along. This seems like it might have some of the best potential among all my apps of either making really great sounding, complete songs or at least being a fantastic starting point towards doing the same thing with a combination of apps.
Can anybody further comment on how this differs from Samplr and if there's any point to having both?
@Paulyboy They're very different beasts. Egoist excels at 'chop and sequence on a grid' with patterns/song mode. Sampr excels at 'chop and play like an instrument'. It has a loop recorder but it's not a step sequencer. If you like sampling and sample chopping, you'll be glad to own both.
I think they're unique enough to justify having both, especially if you love this area of music production, but here are some differences: Samplr can actually sample (externally or through Audiobus), has more sample import functions through Dropbox and Audioshare, has timestretch (a really good one), and has more of an interactive interface in terms of playing live (a keyboard mode, a granular playing mode, tape mode, a bigger area to tap out parts on the sample, etc.).
Egoist has way more sophisticated sequencing options (Samplr sequencing is basically a manual exercise, like the budget Roland SP hardware samplers), transient detection(!!!), a few more effects, a few more options on the effects (and probably a little higher quality effects), the drum and bass sections, really useful randomizing functions, way more stock sounds, way more saving and recalling and nudging options in the sequencing, and more midi options.
Egoist perhaps encroaches more on Sector territory. Sector timestretches (if I recall) and has better sample import options, but Egoist wins in most other ways probably. And Egoist does the whole chopping and sequencing better (deeper and quicker) than bigger groovebox samplers like iMPC Pro, and is at least quicker than BM2, if not ultimately deeper.
Yeah, Samplr is a better expressive 'live' instrument, though you can record decent stuff on it. For building songs though Egoist is excellent, I've created a decent track already tonight.
I'm finding the controls a bit fiddly, in particular trying to select pattern numbers in the song sequencer, but it's just such an almightily brilliant app I don't care.
Probably the best app purchase I've made since I discovered Audiobus.
Yeah, being able to resample your performances and sequences in Samplr is a check in its favor. It's nice that Egoist can at least be sampled on Audiobus and IAA.
So I'm a little confused, is it 16 patterns per each individual part? Or 16 total patterns? If it's the latter seems like a limitation there.
@1P18 16 total patterns and, for me anyway, it's a limitation. I ran into it today. Occurs to me know that it would easy enough to save-as and wipe out 15 of them and string the two songs together later but I'm rarely that dedicated these days.
6 total parts and those parts can only contain 8 pattern steps. Parts have a really interesting feature though: you can have it step through patterns as full bars, 1/2 bars, 1/4 bars or 1/8 bars. So if you put patterns 1 and 2 into a part and set it to 1/2 bar the part will play the first 8 steps of pattern 1 and then the last 8 steps from pattern 2.
It's very cool/innovative but is the exact opposite of what you need to stretch out the most from the song mode. If it had 2x, 3x, 4x (length multipliers in addition to divisors)... you could get a lot more song information into a single part. Even more productive if you could set that per step like:
Part A:
pattern 1 x3
pattern 2 x1
pattern 3 x7
pattern 4 x3
...
In trying to bounce a song today I just did it all live with pattern switch sync set to on. I flubbed a lot of stuff and had to go but will try it again later. Happily and thoughtfully, egoist will respond to midi program change messages so you can make larger pattern sequences for it via an external sequencer.
Just curious, does anyone know of a way to filter the midi data sent to Egoist (or any other app for that matter)? I haven't tried using it with my other gear, but it would probably be more useful for me if I could use it like a standalone groovebox and only send it transport/tempo (and maybe CCs, in which case I would assign it to a channel), but to exclude note data so I could use Egoist's internal sequencer. I'm guessing MidiBridge can probably do this, tho I haven't messed around with the midi filtering in that app. I'd get heaps more use from it if I could use it like this with the Octatrack, without needing to trigger notes from an external sequencer...just seems problematic with this app.
This app in a very natural and smooth way has replaced impc pro as my remix machine. The biggest gripe is still the sync with other apps. Has anyone managed to successfully sync this with other apps? I've tried it with wow and turnado running alongside each other in AB but they don't seem to want to play ball unless I manually se the tempo.
Awesome app. Highly addictive to me. I synced with Auria and Cubasis on midi clock. The result was good for my ears. Then I synced Fiddlewax Pro manually and it stayed in time as well.
@supadom said:
In the "Egoist" tab, under the global tempo, have you checked the right settings for clock sync? (Internal/External/Host)
Yes I have. But there's only bass line out that can be pointed at specific devices. Virtual midi out has just midi channel selection. Any luck yourself? @ChrisG
@Peanutcram said:
It seems like syncing egoist to an external daw works (bar loopy, which has a bug). I'm trying to get egoist to be the master to other SB apps but I haven't been successful so far.
Not under midi settings. Under the tempo you have 3 settings, tapping on that will change which options is ticked and how Egoist behaves in regards to syncing up with stuff.
From the manual:
"Clock Source
Determines how the Egoist engine is started and stopped. When the Clock is set to internal the pattern will start per playing a MIDI note and will always start from the beginning, unless you play Legato.
In external mode Egoist starts per playing a MIDI note and will always start at the current song position.
If the clock option is set to external + host start, Egoist will sync to your host start. So, when you press play in your DAW, the pattern will start wherever your host clock is at this point in time."
Ok I see, u want to start say Effectrix with/from Egoist, having it receive a clock from Egoist. I'll check that out
Couldn't get Effectrix to listen to Egoist inside Audiobus. So to sync up multiple things with egoist (or the host rather), like Egoist+Effectrix and so on, it all needs to be inside a host environment. So having Auria/Cubasis etc sending out clock will work. Should work with loopy as well (unless there's a bug or something in there). Anyway, I just slapped Auria as host inside that Audiobus chain and it all lines up fine, both SB apps also keeps track this way where in the song your at.
Personally I just use IAA In a host if I wanna mess around with multiple apps, syncing, midi on iOS. Either way, having Egoist sending out a clock to say Effectrix without any host controlling it all would be nice for sure.
Yeah, I got it slaved to bm2 and it seems pretty tight. Saves me from going crazy trying to manage a straight vocal track in the slicer. So now I have an arrangement in the ego running alongside a linear vocal track in bm2 which I'm about to run through effectrix lol!
Ah shit, I just realized that if I run egoist throug iaa within bm 2 I won't get a separate audio from bm2 to sent into effectrix. Bummer!
Has anyone hooked this up to a midi keyboard or pad set yet? I haven't but just came across this interesting bit in the manual: You can assign a MIDI controller to the pattern selector in the lower right (when in trigger mode). Since you can 16 different chopped samples up, that 256 pads available, with effects, by swiping a midi controller to change the preset. Sounds pretty sweet for MPC players.