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STROKE MACHINE or ZILLIDRONE
Rarely see anything on here about STROKE MACHINE. I can say, the small amount of things I have seen were good.
ZILLIDRONE seemed to come strong out of gate and then nothing.
WHICH DO YOU LIKE AND WHY?
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Stroke Machine & Zillidrone both have very different ways of work flow. Both can make excellent beats. Both can be very quirky to use. I would say that Stroke Machine has the edge with its Sounds sometimes, then I change my mind.
One thing that stops me using Stroke Machine, is that it has a bug where it will crash if you quickly touch certain areas of the screen. If you change sound settings a lot on the fly like I do, it becomes almost unusable!
I have Stroke Machine, and had really high hopes for it, but it is buggy and very CPU hungry. On iPad2, it's more or less unusable. Perhaps not a surprise, but if it's that glitchy on my device, I suspect there are still some issues on the faster devices. It is an extremely powerful app, but its purpose is usually replaced with other apps such as SeekBeats, Elastic Drums, etc.
Yes, StormJH1 makes a good point. Why even bother with Stroke Machine when Elastic Drums and Diode 108 are getting so much love and attention by their Devs.
I say get both, Zillidrone is a really cool thing unlike anything else. A lot of choices are made for you (the two onboard synth voices have automatable parameters but they aren't labelled, you just play til you get what you like) drum voices are all sample based, using randomization functions are available on all tracks, and are really the key to arriving at your patterns.
Stroke Machine is a fully fledged groove box with up to 24 synth or sample based voices, 2 osc synth all modulatable and automatable. It's what you'd make ten+ years after you'd made the VST Attack, (as in Attack that we've got now on iOS.) Which is exactly Stroke Machine is, an IOS groove box by the guy who made Attack for vst in '05 or so...
@Fruitbat1919 after we talked about that glitch (touch or quick double tap on empty areas of the gui, especially in the empty area of the osc waveform, app closes) I wrote Wolfram Franke the developer about it, and he's said he is on it. He's pretty cool in emails, though busy, as he is Wolfram Franke. In the meantime I'm using the workaround: don't touch empty areas of the gui, which isn't super hard as there isn't that many empty areas on the gui!
That's great news! I take back my comment from above and agree...buy both....you can never have enough groove boxes!
By the way one bug that's often reported for Stroke Machine is not actually a bug. Occasional seemingly dropped notes is a function of the oscillator waveforms. The developer has made his oscillators imitate the behavior of analog machines. The user can set the start position of the waves, but the default is the dotted line (all the way to the right of the wave) that randomizes the start point. Which results in start points that occasionally result in no sound, (no sound due to phase relationships) for that event.
@StormJH1 newer devices do make a difference with SM for sure: performance on Air 2 is very satisfying, iPad 4 was troubling...
Zillidrone is crap..one of my very very few app regrets
Stroke machine is ok, capable of good crafting but the UI is like a sardine can..
Lol yup it must be the app
What is the point of driving a ford is one has a Ferrari ?
Ford GT?
I want to try one. If it's anything like Zillidrone it is crazily exhilarating and inspiring, and can do very interesting controllerism magic with auxy for example, and has a space invader as its logo
Depends on needs....there are times when I can imagine a Ford Transit Van being of more use than a Ferrari...
Yep, a transit van is very useful cause it's got more room to transport loads of clutter for the waste management site!!!!!!
Lol good reply...like it
You know I'm just joking right..if someone likes an app and it's useful for them, I'm all for that..
Yeah no seriousness here either lol