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Is this on intro pricing?
I did a quick thing with this, three overdubs live into GarageBand (which continually froze so there are joins galore).
Track 1: SoundScaper
Track 2: SoundScaper
Track 3: Additive Synth via AUFX:Dub, and when I got fed up with GB freezing, and managed to get it to load Spacevibe via AUFX:Dub
Sounds like outtakes from the secret recordings of 'When Nixon Met The Aliens'.
No higher praise.
Also sounds a bit tinny to my ears ("Caribou nibbling the croquet hoops!"), but I'm predisposed to the other end of the spectrum.
I like that, I might use that as the next title...
Yeah I know, seems to be a bit of a thing with the granular glitching brigade. Not sure how to get around this, I'm a bit low on EQ-type things on my iPad, but I definitely need something to give it a good bottoming.
I couldn't resist getting this too, it's awesome. Reminds of iVCS3 in not quite sure what you are doing, poking at things kind of way. Love the random feature so it's easy to keep using that until you get something interesting to start tinkering with. I wish there was some kind of bpm syncing option and midi input though for connecting with other apps...and also 6 sample slots, but maybe I'm just greedy? Also presets in the Oscillator control window would be nice too...
@monzo nice track
I've been prodding it through AUFX:push which seems to help a lot.
this app is a very good investment, there is allot of room for growth in new and interesting ways, lots of directions the dev could take it and he's already stated that the next version will keep the samples in place when using the random features!
I am not overly impressed to be honest, I'm going to put some time into it but I haven't been blown away by anything yet but here's hoping
what's you're favorite experimental app on iOS?
That's hard to answer because they are all so unique/specific.
But some I really like:
csSpectral, Sparkle, VirtualANS, Borderlands, Sector.
I am also really loving Dedalus that I also bought last night.
Maybe I haven't stumbled upon what makes soundscaper great, I'm finding it's a great drone maker but that's not really my thing, I will have to feed some non melodic stuff through it, because it's a bit hard to control.
Thank you! I'll look into Push and see if it'll warm things up a bit.
It's definitely what we Brits would call a Marmite app - you either love it or hate it, and anyone who's not into random spacescapes will wonder what the fuss is all about. Personally I like that iVCS3 thing where sometimes I haven't got the faintest idea what's going on, but I agree it could do with a decent tutorial so we know how to tame it.
I had the same feeling when I opened it up, almost disappointed, but then I muted 2 channels and started to play with it and see what's going on in there, it seems to sound always different and the sonic possibilities are huge...to me
It's kind of a "no pressure" app, you tweak and listen, tweak some more, until you find something interesting,.. I like it a lot:-) Great app!
i see, yeah I was just curious what you might have been looking for when you got it, for me I'm planning on running mostly already completed beats through it to get variations etc… I actually think the next couple of updates is going to really turn the app into something even more special so I'm already looking forward to that
Hi, guys, I have been really busy, so haven't really had much time to get into this, though I do see it's potential, when I imported my own samples of speech about 3 seconds in length, I was only able to get about a 1 second of this to play, tried all sorts of controls but still couldn't get the whole sample to play, anybody got any ideas how to make it play the whole sample?
Hi, if you load the empty scene in the scene browser and set your sample in an oscillator control panel, it will play the whole sample. so basically everything is off (triggers top left etc) and the clock is set at /1.0.
It's a good place to start.
Although if you randomise the scenes until you find one you like then replace with some of your own samples, removing all the triggers and resetting the clock should have the same result in playing the whole sample.
have fun
@kobamoto
Ok it all clicked, I am into this now. Don't understand everything but I guess I will RTFM
But I was just playing with it running breaks through this then WOW and I was blown away with the variations and got some wicked sounds.
I was eating olives and only realized I still had a pip in my mouth about an hour after I ate the olive, so yeah this app definatley had 100% of my attention. It's really good.
It's one of those apps that I can just enjoying playing with - regardless of whether I use it in a track, it's just good fun sitting and fiddling with it. I'm going to have a go at putting it through Dedalus later, that should be interesting...
@monzo I was under the wonky misapprehension that if I bought Soundshaper I could pass on Dedalus (odd how that sometimes happens when two apps come out at a similar time), but you've just shot that down with the idea of chaining them. Bugger.
I have no idea at all what I'm doing beyond the act of loading a sample and activating the delays/filters along with moving the sample in the 'space'. Any chance of a tutorial video for the more advanced stuff by someone in the know?
Just tried it and it glitches like Twitchy the Clown on my old thing so that's a no-goer for me, would probably work like a dream on your posh new thing though so time to flash the cash Johnny. In between the (unintentional) glitches it didn't sound that impressive to be honest, I think it was a case of too much of a good thing.SeekBeats sounded superb through it though.
They're two very different things really - Soundshaper slowly unfurls coils of strange, beautiful dreams, whereas Dedalus takes those dreams and stamps on them in an interesting way.
@monzo Brave New World and 1984, eh? Endless mindless pleasure or 'a boot stamping on a human face forever'.
Ooof. Really need to get back to work.
I don't know how helpful this is but in the description the developer says the app is based upon circuit bending ideas. Originally circuit bending consisted of attaching a battery to power a circuit and then using your fingers to connect points in the circuit and thereby discover sounds you found interesting. It does seem like many people would prefer a more directed approach about how everything works in the app so they can have more control over what sounds it produces.
Good insight. I can't say I love the sounds I can make with it, but I can see the amount of a certain kind of control it offers. I quite admire what it appears to do, but am uncertain if I actually have use of its abilities in the kind of work I want to do. Could be wrong. And if you told me that somewhere (especially in a background for a podcast for example, and thus 'work' rather than 'play') I will end up making the perfect thing at the perfect time I wouldn't be surprised.
It's a funny one really - the app really lends itself towards creating spaced-out ambient soundscapes, but the circuit-bent glitchety twitchery fights against this and adds some Throbbing Gristle-esque industrial noise chaos into the mix. Just as you're drifting off into the ether Genesis P-Orridge turns up and takes a chainsaw to the speaker.
I was able to use it with Dedalus on my iPad 2. When I was in SS, the meters were going into the red and it was glitching, but when I switched over to Dedalus, that went away and everything sounded fine. Had the AB buffer set to 512.
Yeah I noticed it stopped glitching when I switched to Dedalus, thing is I wanted to tweak Soundshaper. Not a big deal, I'll record Soundshaper into Audioshare and then load it into Dedalus.
@Zymos Sorry to be a dunce, but which was input and which effect? I'm presuming Dadalus into SS?
Apologies for jumping in, but as far as I'm aware SS is input only, so Zymos is probably doing what I did and did it the other way around.
Yeppers.
The behavior I noticed made me wonder if somehow the graphics in SS are part of the issue, since once you can't see the interface, the problem went away.
OK, OK, the "problem" is actually that the ipad2 is too weak....
Yeah. I'm quite chuffed SS works at all to be honest, so don't mind jumping back and forth with samples.
word!