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Alerted to Famistudio by this, kinda far more tempted by that mainly cause of the portrait mode on phone, but also chiptune >soundfont in my brain😅
Oh trust me, I’ve got a lengthy list of steam purchases as well. I don’t know about 925. Haven’t bought anything in the last couple years though, as my gaming PC has kinda fallen behind (my old GTX1070ti doesn’t quite cut it for the most modern games) and I can’t sit at the desktop too long any more. (Probably why I’ve started buying more apps) and buying games for the Xbox now, were I can sit comfortably on the couch.
KiraStudio has chiptune synths in it, not Soundfont import only. ☺️
Yes, tons of good generators in here, I'll share a screenshot in a minute @Krupa
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SID support could be nice too
Whats your fave iOS synth/app for chiptune that's not a tracker Samu?
Yeah that is a nice selection, I’m with Samu on the SID train though, love me some crunch, got several real ones in the studio here already though😅
I think this one definitely doesn’t have portrait on phone though does it? None of the screenshots show it, but then the Fami one also shows landscape so maybe is an option?
I don't use iPhone, I'm an Android man. Someone else will have to confirm that!
But no portrait mode on iPad anyway
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SquareSynth, OPL and miniBit do a pretty decent job and are relatively easy to use.
Most synths can be programmed to do pretty convincing chip-sounds if/when the modulation sources (ie. step-sequencers, custom LFO waveforms, multi-point envelopes etc.) are up to the task and this is where many 'regular' synths fail...
For LFOs in particular, being able to control the LFOs waveforms start-phase and switching the output between bi/uni-polar is a must.
If the LFO provides a 'custom waveform' (this way the start-phase could be shifted by editing the waveform and scrolling the points left/right) it's a real bonus.
Extra LFO bonuses would be cycle count (ie. how many times the LFO repeats) and a 'Fade In' time (think manually moving the mod-wheel up to increase the modulation depth over a set time period).
For example an LFO with a 'Delay' that just waits for a fixed time and then bumps up the modulation to 100% is pretty 'un-musical'.
With enough modulation source one one-shot LFO could be used to ramp up the output of another LFO etc.
In reality chip-sounds are pretty basic, it's mostly about having absolute control over parameter changes over time.
One synth on the desktop I've had a real blast with is the free u-he Zebralette 3 which can do almost anything
Not to veer too far off-topic, I remember Summer of last year where I sported an S25 Ultra. It was a great phone, and I made lots of drawings on it with the S-Pen in HiPaint. But, then I redownloaded Auxy Studio on my iPad Mini 7, and I'm like, "Man, this app would be better on an iPhone." Thus, I got the iPhone 16 Pro Max with 1TB storage. 😂 It's easier for me to produce music on a phone than to draw on one.
And back to topic - KiraStudio looks beautiful on my iPhone 16 Pro Max. Unfortunately, no portrait mode. No settings to switch it to portrait, and turning off rotation lock did nothing either.
Portrait mode would be super on the iPhone even though I'm on the regular iPhone 16...
...thankfully there's sone nifty UI scale options in the settings so I can actually see what is going on
That's good to know. I didn't know there were UI scale options. I must've missed those.
Thnx Samu, some great points there, yeah I really wish all synths had good, creative modulation options built in, this is indeed the problem with most of them.
Okay, after monkeying around with Kirastudio, I've established the start of a useable workflow. Screenshot of the extremely short project I did as a test...
...and attached below is the result. Yes, the piece is rather short and sweet, because it's just a quick little experiment for me to get used to Kirastudio in the first place. Its default soundfont has "that Nintendo OST" sound to it that I was looking for. ❤️ Sounds like a Roland SC-55 to me. Shit, I haven't even dug deep into the chip synths in it yet. I also need to figure out how to expand the song length beyond 16 bars.
I can start an idea on my iPhone and finish it up on my iPad. In the screenshot, you see I laid out my song idea with the default piano in the soundfont before copying the MIDI to their respective tracks and editing the notes further from there. Meaning I can start an idea on iPhone using the default piano and finish it up on iPad if I so wished, or I can finish it up on iPhone, period.
So, back to the original purpose of this thread - Kirastudio is worth the $10. If you're like me and like to make videogame music like Concerned Ape, Toby Fox, and the composers who made Nintendo OSTs from the mid-to-late 90s and beyond, Kirastudio is worth every penny.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that Kirastudio has the ability to turn on/off ghost notes and have multiple tracks per channel so I can lay out my MIDI in separate clips rather than all in one. Useful for quick copy/pasting to other channels.
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Tap project in the top right corner, then tap song and set the desired number of bars
Right on it, mate!
Thank you for the info. Cheers. 🍻
I'm missing an option to 'record' and 'loop' sections of the arrangement (the loop function is not working) especially on the Mac where I'm used to using the keyboard to enter/record notes into a trackers so having 'step recording' in KiraStudio would be totally bonkers!
At some point I'll shoot him an e-mail but knowing it's a 'spare time project' I don't expect instant fixes or replies
Cheers!
Cheers mate. For what it is currently, it's really robust!
I’m super tempted to go with FamiStudio for the portrait mode functionality, but all the additional features in Kira sound so good… Torn!
Depends if you want to use Kirastudio on iPhone or iPad. Landscape mode works a treat on iPad. On iPhone, it takes a little bit of an adjustment. Also depends on what kind of videogame music you wish to compose.
Then again, both apps are about $15 combined, which isn't horrible by any stretch of the imagination.
“Why not both? 🤷🏻♂️“
Looking more for something to have ‘on the go’, so I guess that answers my question. Thanks for weighing in!