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What is the difference in technical terms between an arp and a sequencer (esp. if the arp can be run over many, many steps like this one)?
An arp wants live input, you press a few notes on a keyboard and it plays the notes back in some order, a sequencer plays back melodies you programmed into it ...
if the arp is programmable and has many steps you can use it like a sequencer (in this mixed context it just means you need to press a note to hear something - u can't just press a play button as in an sequencer - but you can kind of fake it with the hold button),
> so you can program melodies and play them back
>and/or transpose them in realtime with the keyboard by simply playing other notes
>or do the simple arp thing like play this chord as octaved notes the scale up and down) ...
hope this makes sense for you
It does. And thanks @lala. One sounds like a cousin of the uncle. Similar but different etc.
sz + cassini
I have been trying to record Sunrizer into Auria, but the arp suffers from severe bpm drift. When recording, playback sounds fine and steady, but 120 bpm in Sunrizer is not 120 bpm in Auria, it doesn't synch up. Same problem when controlling it with Auria's clock. Ditto for recording within Sunrizer and pasting into Auria. Is it just me or have other people experience this problem?
It's not just you. I've noticed if I record longish sequences into the recorder I.e more than a few bars, it will drift off tempo. It's always been like that.
Addictive micro synth used to be the same. Long time deleted now, so don't know if they fixed that one. Oh, and finger bassline. That may have improved, I don't know, it's also long gone from my iPad.
Thor is even worse. I guess I'm just mystified how someone could spend so much time developing a really nice sounding Soft-synth, charge people money for it, and not work out something as basic as internal clock synch.
I guess my next question is:which apps are solid? Gadget and Alchemy have been fine in my experience. IMPC too. Also, Animoog, which I usually play live, but the delay synchs to bpm precisely. Strangely, Beepstreet's iSqeuncer clock is solid, even though Sunrizer isn't!
It's a matter of the setup. IAA is unusable in the most situations as my experience has learned me.
Setting this up the old school way works much better. The most reliable clock sources on the iOS universe are (my personal opinion) Loopy or Midi Link Sync. I myself use Sunrizer/Thor clocked to Midi Link Sync which is running in Link to Midi mode. Not glitches there.
If that does not work, turn off all the clock settings, set BPM equally manually, record in to Aurio, set 1 Transient Marker and Quantise.
Best regards
Sunrizer was the first iOS Synth to totally blow my mind. It was like a 3-way crash between a beer truck, a truck full of weed, and an ice cream truck: Weed caught fire and cold chocolate beer!
Yes I will submit to a blood test.
'Godzilla vs Sunrizer'
O_imseng, Thanks, I will Midi Link Sync. iAA and Audiobus are both fails.
I tried the set bpm manually and quantize, didn't work. I had to in every other beat and cut and nudge the audio. Pain in the ass.
Sunrizer was the first iOS synth I bought. I love it and have been chasing that first buzz ever since.
Hey, is this Makyo from Rasa Bhava, Shringara, etc? I got into your sound way back in the Silent Record days. Welcome!
I can't get Sunrizer to respond to program changes. I send PC 3 for instance and nothing... What am I doing wrong?
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FWIW, I was the same. Didn't need another synth. Then I heard one of our friend Doug's demos which included Sunrizer, and a sound that nothing else in my collection had. Never regretted buying the app.
I'm not near my rig and can't remember what I did when I set it up. It was a long time ago. I'll get back to you.
@lukesleepwalker some ideas albeit obvious but just in case:
Did you point Sunrizer at your controller in Sunrizer's settings?
Are you on the same midi channel? (Not sure if this matters).
Now I remember!
I have it set up sequentially from Pc1 to 16. I recall having issues with the default bank always appearing on top which is a problem as pm messages will apply to the top folder. It was a bit of a muddle but I think I deleted the default patch folder, the one with itar.
Sorry can't help more right now. Are you using a USB midi or the 5 pin? If the latter then you'll have to point sunrizer at the interface your midi plug goes into.
Thanks for the input. I think you are right that I'll need to muddle with the default folder. What I've noted is that my controller allows me to move up/down through patches but I can't use a virtual controller (Modstep) to dial in a specific patch via a specific PC.
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RE: Patch Changes — My Akai MPK Mini (original model) just works — the pads have a PC mode that sends PCs 1-16 (or whatever you program them to send using the Mini's editor), and Sunrizer responded immediately.
I don't think you need delete anything. As you likely know, Sunrizer alphabetizes your Bank folders after Favourites, so I created a folder called AA_Performance, quit Sunrizer, came back to it and now that is the first folder following Favorites, and my Akai's PC messages choose my patches in AA_Performance.
HTH!
and now a little digression re: midi mapping...
One thing I wish were MIDI Mappable is Sunrizer's Seq Record button. Rather than Arp-sequencing things in advance, for performance (experimental / noise stuff) I'd rather record a long phrase on the fly and then do a Hold to make it continue while I morph it. I'm thinking of putting Sunrizer on my iPhone 7 — thus a rather small pair of onscreen buttons to hit for Seq -> Record — for an upcoming set of shows because my main instrument is Samplr on an original iPad Mini, and I want to have another sound source but not overburden the Mini. I go into performances with Samplr empty and bring in lines + mics from other performers and then do live sampling and manipulation. So live use of Seq would fit right in with that "seat of the pants" approach.
Thanks for the info! Been getting into Sunrizer again since AU arrived. Would love to see a video of your live gig. Sounds interesting!