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Good old Samplr
This was one app many rave about that I hadn't picked up Til yesterday - and I just wanted to rave about it some more. It's awesome and so much fun/expressive. An essential ios app along with Thumbjam and Loopy (which it syncs nicely with!). So I highly recommend it to any newbies here or those who don't own it yet - just awesome!
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I also picked it up recently as well and I finally get it. It's pure excellence. Would be great to see it developed more.
Yeah, I think a number of us are late to the game, but it's a hell of a game...
Yeah I haven't even scratched the surface of all it can do.
I remember when I first got it, some 12momths ago the first thought after messing with it for 5mins was: mmm, this ain't a keeper. Now, one year on, if I had a choice of keeping one app on my ipad it would be this, no hesitation. This is because there's no equivalent on no platform AFAIK. Welcome to the party!
Yes Samplr totally unique, could not be without it
I feel like I find some new way to use it every time I have a go with it. I loaded a sample of a few hi hat hits, and swapped to the arpeggio mode. Bouncing between rhythmic subdivisions and pitch, I ended up with an incredible hi hat track for a tune I'm working on.
I really don't like it when people deem something to be "must have" because nothing is must have, except maybe air and water, but I would add Samplr to that list. Air, water, and Samplr are must have.
Earth Wind and Fire too, their early stuff is overlooked.
Triplets would make this app a groove monster though
@supadom said:
Yep. More rhythmic divisions would be great all around. Swing would be nice, but I don't think it absolutely needs it.
I would also really dig a sequencer somewhere there, too. Seeing Egoist made me really wish Samplr had something like that. Maybe a hybrid between Sector and Egoist's sequencer, that would be bananas.
@1P18 said:
Way off topic here, but I just had to get funky! Seriously, early Earth Wind and Fire is tight!
Ugh, the Kalimba gets drown out in that ^ version. Here's a great version, lol:
@supadom had the exact same experience. Bought it, tried it out, deemed it a cute toy for DJ types and deleted it. Then caught a few videos of folks who actually knew how to use the app and my mind was blown. Has been ever since the unexpected upgrade recently that brought it back into my workflow. Love the app.
So you're saying DJ types don't know how to use it properly?
It has limitless possibilities, managed to pull off a hiphop beat on it earlier.
Haha, not at all. I think the only folks I saw in the initial videos were DJs mostly. They were producing some incredible stuff with it, and I still find those fascinating to watch. But it wasn't my preferred genre so I just wrote it off. I just didn't get it. Once it hit me, though, I was shocked at how versatile it could be and just how unique it really is. Certainly makes me keep an open mind more when I'm reviewing apps these days.
Heres a jam I did with samplr + the new electribe
Give me the women wailing
the sound of dead ships sailing
off the unfound edge
of the pledge we two made
when we made it through
but not because of me
and not because of you.
Good stuff Buska, all 13.30 of it.
Anything that makes me get my biro out is always three points in the bag.
another recent convert here too.
(lack of an ipad was obviously quite a factor )
I find it beautiful and frustrating in equal measures.
Some things should be easier to do and there are some weird omissions, but it's still very capable. (and beautiful).
why no input monitoring though?
@Mezzanine said:
I think (yet I may be totally erroneous) this comes from the long lasting discourse whether sampling gear can be called instruments. Of course for the last 20years + recordings of sounds have been used to make music, however I remember being resistant to the trigger-loop and be happy attitude to music. There are several layers of depth of approach:
Those who load ready loops/samples from sample packs and rock
Those who mix and match pre-made with self made
Those who only use they're own loops samples
Those who only loop and sample on the spot, live while performing
Of course there are several more combos and variations to the theme. I personally come from the all organic approach and when the first hip hop acts appeared I did not want to hear about music being played on samplers, even more so when the music was a remix like 'can't touch this' where the 'artist' couldn't even be credited with having conceived the original song. I'm still absolutely convinced that it is million times harder to come up with a great song/riff than to repackage something but I'm diverging.
Having come from the DIY approach I've currently completely embraced sampling etc. but I'm still adamant not to use sample packs, especially because I think they make you more of a remixer than an artist (remixing being a type of art too I suppose).
So going back to what @boone51 said. My reaction was exactly that of seeing DJ type as someone who remixes rather than coming up with an original idea but that's just my instinct and I guess we're all good at different things and that is ultimately a good thing.
Summing up this random post I'd say that it is a deeply philosophical matter for me and depends what your creative self is comfortable with. Top of The Pops style playback performance being on one end of the spectrum and a guy with a bongo on the other.
@Buska great video. Are you using midi sync between the korg and samplr?
@supadom Interesting and thoughtful post you old softie intellectual you
But, and beyond my usual bollocks, you speak to something that even as we type someone else is writing a PHd thesis on. Hopefully.
Art, in all its forms, fine thing aint it?
I guess it's just a question of choosing your poison. But then again: art or entertainment?
Well my old China, that's why it's such a long discussion. Having been brought up on the post-socialist-realist assumption that art was a matter of inspiring others to aspire, I find myself wanting a good chunk of fun with it also if it's to be had, but, as Mister Larkin mentioned, our mums and dads....well, you know the rest.
the funny thing about art is that since it exist in the eye of the beholder it also doesn't exist at the least just as much
I think maybe 'inspiring others to aspire' is probably as good as a definition of art that I've heard, if it really does exist then that sounds like a good place to start.
Fluffy stuff is always very palatable in the world of definitions, pity that it means so much that it is hard to phantom what it actually means.
This just illustrates how alien the whole sampling business is to me. I was referring to acts using prerecorded stuff as instruments. Apologies to all hip hop aficionados.
I was hoping that you'd respond with your view on the matter instead of picking on a mistake that I've made in what I wrote.
I was right there with the whole sample/hip hop thing, right up until I tried to do it. Now, yes, there is some low brow stuff out there that anyone with a drunk cat and a kayboard could come up with, but I'm talking about the big names. I hate Kanye West with a strange passion, but when i tried to copy his Lucifer track he did for one of JayZ's albums, I had to give the guy credit. And that made me weep for a little while.
^ an honest words.
when it comes to these types of artforms it's strange how they can be often looked at as not that difficult but I can't count how many people I've come across who've had immense difficulty in just getting a good hiphop swing down, not to even mention the sampling yet
it's like that with turntablism and beatjuggling too, many are quick to dismiss the skills but couldn't juggle some beats to save their life, don't really know what that phenomena is all about with regards to hiphop.
I understand where Supadom is coming from though, I'm a sample fiend now but I started out making hiphop in a live band that included no samplers or drum machines, came from punk first ala bad brains and it just never occurred to not make hiphop with the same instruments so my first forays into sampling were rough to say the least.
it has to be said that mc hammer whatever you thought of his music, he paid for the samples he used and so if he ripped off rick james then rick james ripped off himself.
I do understand where you are coming from artistically speaking but I look at it like this, would I enjoy mc hammer trying to be madlib, who btw uses large chunks of samples as well, or prefuse73 probably not, imho mc hammer was never meant to be those people but he worked unquestionably hard at being who he was, by that I mean there are few musicians that worked as hard as he did, for me it's hard not to respect him for that.