New Aqeel Aadam app Coastline. Out now

Robin2

@ChimmyChungaFace said:
I see some people saying this has a lot of depth, videos suggest otherwise. Reminds me of PaulXStretch: Kind of cool, everything ends up sounding similar. Hey, prove me wrong!

As I’ve said in previous posts, I too am interested in finding other ways other than the obvious to use Coastline. Everyone’s budgets are different but £12 isn’t low enough for me for it to be a throwaway purchase unfortunately. I shall have to experiment to decide whether I’ll get real, repeated use out of it and, if not, I’m afraid I’ll have to request a refund. As such, I can understand why you might want to ask this.

It seems owning Waymaker gives you the easiest way to do everything with it, but that’s another £15. I think everything can be done via external automation if you don’t have it but obviously that’s an extra bit of setting up.

I asked about the two pitch values not being available for the internal modulators and it seems Aqeel sees Waymaker as the way for pitch related things so it’s deliberate that they’re not available. Fine and dandy if you own Waymaker but if not it’s a bit of a shame. I can understand the impulse to tie things into your own app ecosystem though.

As to it sounding similar on everything, I’m still experimenting but I’d also be interested in hearing examples of the different things it can do. It may turn out to be that it only really does what it’s designed to do though - how dare it! - and it certainly does that superbly well.

oldsynthguy

@Gavinski said:

@oldsynthguy said:

@wim said:

@wim said:

@ChimmyChungaFace said:

@wim said:

@ChimmyChungaFace said:
Hey, prove me wrong!

Why?

It’s a way to engage and elicit further discussion and examples. People say there’s depth, I have yet to see it. On face value and from descriptions this sounds like a nice multi fx app, in practice doesn’t really seem like it. So which is it? That’s what forums are for, no?

If you watched the videos, particularly the developer’s hour long demo of every feature, and that’s your conclusion, then I can’t fathom what else to say that would be relevant.

That said, it is true that Aqeel's video is more about just covering all the features than demonstrating all you can do with the app. Also, the audio input he used was kind of same-same across the board, and didn't do as much to demonstrate depth. As a "video manual" it seems to be mostly focused just on covering the mechanics of all the features. If he treats this one as he usually does, there will be follow-up videos that show a lot more of the creative potential.

That’s probably what I’m waiting for. The background harmony drones are a nice effect, and sound great in the @Gavinski demo a few posts above, but I quite like doing that bit myself with a synth or guitar. Plus it’s a relatively easy thing to do in building a track.

Interested in hearing more complex sequenced/rhythmic/modulated stuff (if it can do that), though I reckon I’m missing the point of this app!

I guess I’m trying to talk myself into buying it, as I really enjoy the devs UI/UX, but think this one probably isn’t for me. I haven’t got his sequencer yet, so might just grab that one instead.

Sure it can do the rhythmic modulated stuff, it has all those LFOs and other mod sources built in. Mod the Tide level, for example, with a fast square lfo and you have interesting gating fx. Set that to a free rate and mod its rate with other modulators etc etc. The sky is the limit.

Good to hear, need to see some examples though.