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I love it.
Even if you only use it as a small loop maker and a drum machine, Gadget is easily worth 30 bucks.
So any advice on which drum sampler guys?
I'd like to build a nice acoustic drum kit.
Bilbao probably. It's a more traditional drum sampler.
I'm somebody that wasn't a musician coming into this a couple of years ago. I've learned a lot since then and even took a couple classes to further my understanding of the musicmaking process.
I was a holdout on Gadget until the last sale back in June. All I can say is I wish I had purchased it when it was released. It probably would've saved me some money although I do love playing around with many of the other apps I have anyways. But Gadget is easily the best way to get what I'm hearing in my head out into something that can be heard. So it's a great sketchpad and also the best way to make complete songs. It's fun just to play around with as well of course.
You can also expand its usefulness greatly by purchasing the two sampling IAP Gadgets (Bilbao and Abu Dhabi). It would be nice if you could directly import from Audioshare with those gadgets but it still not that big of a deal importing samples from all the other cool apps you've probably accumulated on your iPad.
And it's easy to export tracks, either as audio or MIDI, into your favorite DAW on iOS or on the computer. In my case that would be Cubasis and GarageBand respectively.
I have all the gadgets except for Module. I already have iGrand and iElectric, as well as some pretty decent piano sounds from iM1, Thumbjam, Cubasis, etc.. so I'm finding it difficult to justify purchasing that. But these frequent sales are starting to break down my defenses!
Purchase this. You won't regret it!
Just get it. I was playing all the many loops and ideas I've created with it through my studio monitors the other day, working which ones to develop into my next full track. I realised (yet another) one of the reasons it's so great. It just sounds really good with minimal fuss. I've spent ALOT of time trying to get my hardware studio set up so I can record and mix to a high enough standard to stand up against pro-mastered tracks.
Gadget is 80 to 90 per cent there, right out the box. Which means all that time can be spent on writing music, rather than gain-staging, dealing with earth (ground) loops, etc etc.
Just get it.
^^^ just get it
Get it - get it
Alright, bought.
I found it especially refreshing to be presented with the "scenes" method of sequencing..makes it a lot more coherent and faster for me
Completely agree with this. I could never get on with a long, horizontally scrolling timeline. I'd always be losing my place and having to do my 16 times table in my head.
Gadget makes it really easy (too easy probably) to structure your track. As a beginner this is wonderful. But I'm now trying to make myself ensure there are fuzzy boundaries between sections and generally get away from ridged 16 bar sections in various ways.
Yeah, I like to do that..on occasion I'll take the beat out from the 4th or 8th bar and reintroduce it or build it in another sequence
I especially like to cut out everything altogether for 4 bars and let the delay trail for that amount of time then drop stuff unexpected after
And you're still not limited to the maximum number of bars necessarily because you can record notes and modulation of any MIDI CC across multiple scenes by just turning off scene looping (One caveat to that is note sustain might not work across scenes).
I don't have launchpad but absolutely. Although gadget kind of works like ableton as far as triggering clips, so you may not need to export to other apps. I exported a song I finished to Auria though and was able to mix it much better- high pass filters are very useful...and pro-c let me side chain so I was able to get the pumping sound and feel going pretty easily.
As someone said earlier, it's so easy to get something good sounding quickly, that's 80-90% there. I love it. It lets me pretend I can write electronic music...
It is one of those milestones in music software development. May as well be in on it.
These "acoustic drums" are SampleTank's "Natural Kit" sampled into Audioshare, trimmed up, then imported and sequenced in Bilbao inside Gadget. My new favorite drum machine
/me scurries off to investigate what @shortbus said
So, to summarise:
Don't touch Gadget with a barge pole.
It's clearly grade-A tat.
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But seriously, having been a big fan of Gadget, have now put it to one side since giving Sunvox a try. This app needs a little more effort to get half decent results but it delivers on a lot of the features that Gadget users have been crying out for.
You can sample on the fly, with multi-sampling across keyboard zones, create your own in-app custom synths and a fantastic feature that I have been wishing for: tempo changes!
Sunvox is my new DAW.
There is no reason you can't have both Gadget and Sunvox, but if you have any kind of explorer tendency then Sunvox delivers big time. (and it's only 5 or 6 quid)
Gadget makes it really easy (too easy probably) to structure your track. As a beginner this is wonderful. But I'm now trying to make myself ensure there are fuzzy boundaries between sections and generally get away from ridged 16 bar sections in various ways.
I have to disagree on this one, while Gadget does most things very well, song structure 'management' through the un-named scenes is difficult - particularly if you're dealing with a lot of different 1 bar scenes (for example).
Yep. I can see 1 bar scenes being a real nightmare!
I only ever have 8 or 16 bar scenes.
The upside of this is that I find it quite easy to move these around to structure and keep track of my song structure.
The downside is that it takes effort to go into these 8 and 16 bar sections and create variation within them. And it doesn't help that Gadget insists you start playback from the beginning of the scene.
Interesting, I had this on my iPad 2 but it glitched like an old fruit so I made (for me) a rare refund claim. Didn't get on with it at all, but maybe this was due to hardware so it'd probably run a lot better on my Air 2.
Looks like it's had some fairly major updates since then - do you have any links to tracks you've made with this? I've got a birthday tenner burning a hole in my pocket...
Runs pretty nice on 1st gen Air.
Only really been getting into it for a couple of weeks so I'm still discovering what it can do. I downloaded the free Mac version ages ago but didn't give it enough attention, and it will take a few weeks study, but it does get more natural after a while. The videos by Solar Lune helped to get my head round most of it (must go and drop a donation to him) but it is really powerful. Just don't expect instant gratification like you would from Gadget.
One great feature is the timeline being almost completely freeform and, as a visual person, it really helps me see the structure of a song.
I will push some stuff to soundcloud once I'm happier with my results, maybe later in the week..
Sorry, I got mixed up there it was actually Jasuto I had, not Sunvox (it was a long time ago). Just looking at the vids on YouTube, looks like a very powerful app. Look forward to hearing what you've done with it - think I'll check out the desktop versions, thanks for the heads up.
no worries, never tried jasuto. Another nice thing about Sunvox is that you can share source projects between iOS and the desktop, and other people.
Cool, just downloaded the free desktop version. Bit of a strange fish, but I'll watch the vids and see how it works.
Reading this thread made me reinstall Gadget on my iPad Mini 2. Again I came to realize how amazing this app is. I'm having some issues with restoring my inapps though; I managed to get Bilbao back after like a dozen attempts but restoring Abu Dhabi seems to take forever. I either get the 'all gadgets were restored' prompt while Abu Dhabi is still unavailable to play and Gadget wants me to restore it, or the download status appears for a few moments showing anything between 0 % and above, with percentage fluctuating randomly. Anyone else had issues like this? If so, any tips to fix it... other than deleting and reinstalling Gadget again? Thanks!
I've had a few poof crashes upon inserting a gadget and having some trouble when recording performances (not recording first notes, sometimes). Never got along well with programming notes on a piano roll, so will see hoping I'm missing something with recording midi.
Yeah it's a little different. Maybe we should stop polluting this Gadget thread now though. I will post some stuff in another thread when I get time.
@Jocphone Its ok. I bought it. So far I really like it. I just need to find some time to really play with it.
Cool, it's a great songwriting tool.