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Question for @sonosaurus
Hi Jesse
Seeing you active in another thread reminded me that I wanted to ask if you have any other apps planned?
There's many great apps, but few that match the unique expressiveness yours offer..and I truly mean that.
So, please let us know if we can expect more greatness from you?
I still remember purchasing thumb jam on the day of release and being totally astonished what kind of melodic flow I could get from it despite not being an "actual musician"
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Jesse is an hero on the iOS community!
Thumbjam was a sensation from day one!
He might miss your question with out an @Sonosaurus
Thanx, new on here..didn't know it can use @ like Twitter
Good question! I have a few ideas but have been a bit bogged down with various other projects (porting apps to android, ugh!) and a bit of contract work. I'm currently preparing bugfix updates for TJ and DJ.
There are some pretty big areas of improvement still left to do for both TJ and DJ (improving/adding custom instrument building for one), so it would be wise for me to hit those first before starting something new.
That said, if there are particular holes in the app landscape that you see need filling (that might be up my alley), let me know!
I would prefer a ThumbJam 3.0 some day. F.e. custom keyboard where i could drag any note in any order together for my "special" needs. Why not add on a already fantastic app instead of create a new thing. I would pay for sure for a next major upgrade.
Thanx @sonosaurus for replying. Not many gaps I can really think of but I'm thinking more along the lines of taking the way you enable expressiveness to perhaps an app called "synthjam"!!
Think thumb jam but as a fully fledged synth..enable tilt to x or y axis to control lfo pitch and frequency etc. Remember gyro synth by beep street, like that but far deeper, more sound options etc
It's great we have tons of amazing synths on ios but...kind of gets samey samey using standard keyboards. You really were the first to open the unique expressive nature of touchscreen devices, so why not do it with a full fledged synth app?
And yes, I'm talking going deeper than the rudess apps that really are not catered for underground electronic musicians..
+1 to "I would pay for TJ 3.0". Without hesitation. I owe you money.
I'd love for the "White keys to fixed scale" bit of TJ as a standalone tiny footprint app.
Sounds like TC-11.
Lol! You could be right there Fitz..but you ain't gonna get tc11 on iPhone..
I'm talking simpler but just as expressive. Despite the awesomeness of tc11, it really don't get used much for track production does it? Perhaps it intimidates some...cause I never really hear reference to it in track descriptions..
But thumb jam is all over the place isn't it !
Anyway, maybe Jesse hears all our suggestion and churns out "thumb jam studio " over time
I certainly wouldn't want to stop Sonosaurus next app! I still aim to tame TC-11 though, I think it's got easier recently. Just need to put the time in ...
Yeah, and call it PlumJam :-)
As a Synth x Thumbjam, only thing on iOS IMO that came close was W.O.W.s SynthX, quite an expressive synth, that like Thumjam made excellent use of the touch screen. I Still have to visit it now and again, sadly lost to take-overs I believe. Would have loved to have used it via Audiobus.
Most of us here have downloaded and used hundreds of apps over this IOS music renaissance (last 4 or 5 years), but ThumbJam remains one of the most unique, expressive, musical, and useful apps of all time!!! There really is nothing else that compares to everything it can do, or how well it can do it. One of my favorite pianos of all time (Upright Piano); And with ThumbJam, I can play it like my ass is on fire.
@Sonosaurus, how about adding some rock/jazz/fusion styles to DrumJam?
Also, since the bottom area of DrumJam is for performing breaks or fills on top of the above regular beats (which can get pretty cluttered); how about holding a silence button to mute the above rhythm when performing a break or fill, as an option. Usually when a drummer does a break or fill, the regular beat is interrupted or silenced while the break or fill is being executed. Just a suggestion.
This is a really interesting idea. If you do it, please make the "white keys only" option a switch, just like in TJ. Nothing else in any form (VST, Ableton MIDI scale tools, etc) handles the mapping of chromatic keys to a scale as elegantly as TJ. It can turn a drum pad-type interface (like a nanoPad or a Quneo) set to chromatic notes into a completely expressive in-scale keyboard with no duplicate notes.
Do it as a VST and I will give you all of my monies.
In the meantime, TJ holds a critical place in my setup as the MIDI scale master, even when I'm not even using its sounds.
Just, thanks man.
Hi. I have nanoPad but not tried this. How do you set the pads to be chromatic? And wouldn't that include black notes? Any help / further info appreciated...
I just have the notes on the pads set as the chromatic scale (1/2 step increments). I can't remember if the nanoPad2 comes with them set that way or if I changed it with the editor. Then in ThumbJam I set the "white keys only" switch off. You can also send that "scaled" MIDI out to other ports.
My nanoPad2 recently crapped out, which caused me to go ahead and get a Quneo, and now I'm using the Quneo's pads to do the same.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000, have you got the M1le, with your nanoPad?
Thanks. I'll try that. I love my nanopad. Very versatile!
I think that’s a really good idea actually.
@knewspeak - no I never bothered picking up any of the software.
Hi @sonosaurus
First, I must say I'm a big fan of Thumbjam. Thanks for developing it!
Could you make it remember the buffer size setting? 'Auto' does not work well on my iPad 2, so every time I start Thumbjam I have to go to Prefs and change buffer size to 1024, and it's kinda annoying
Yes, I could do that. I think I was hesitant because it's one of those things that is easily forgotten if changed, but at this point it should be fine, I think.
Awesome, thanks
@sonosaurus I was just lamenting to another iOS musician a few days back about how we don't currently have a drum machine with high quality acoustic samples to use for live work like the Beatbuddy guitar pedal. I play and sing professionally at live venues and the app Rock Drum Machine comes somewhat close in functionality but the sounds there are too genre-specific and DrumPerfect is nearly impossible to use live. Hope this is a gap you can help fill maybe with DrumJam or anither separately designed app!