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Thanks. I AirDropped the zip from one iPad, and opened the zip directly in HH on the other.
Tried this but can’t get it to work. From my old iPad - I found the Backup folder with all my presets. I shared it to iCloud, imported to AudioShare on my new iPad , then made a zip out of that Backup folder. I choose to open the zip in HH - which opens, but I don’t see my presets anywhere...? Any help?
Did you try to share the zip file from AudioShare, or from the Files app? Sharing may work differently in those two cases.
Just tried to open the zip from Files but same issue - it’ll open HH but no presets
I know right, the glitch and mutation are so cool. Also you can’t do the pitch adjustments.
Is there a way to save presets made in the drumsynth? Drumsynth settings are saved in global presets but it would nice to be able to use favorite drumsynth sounds in multiple projects without having to recreate them. Hopefully I’m missing something simple.
+1
You saw the copy and paste buttons for drumsynth settings?
Maybe I misinterpreted the original ask but I want to be able to bring a full rack of sounds from one preset to another (separate the sound rack from the sequence). The feature you mention is for the drum synth only. Reading it again, we prolly are looking for different things.
Copy/paste and the randomize button speed up creating a new patch. What I was talking about was being able to store drumsynth patches outside a global preset for later use.
You can initialize a patch, let's call it new. Then load old patch, copy, load new patch, save. Do this 8 times, if you want to save 8 drumsynth sounds from old into new. Maybe you are objecting to this process, but it is pretty fast. The factory templates like the (awesome) minipops are only sounds, isn't that what you basically want?
Not quite. I understand that you can save a preset containing drumsynth patches and that preset can be recalled as a time saver. I’ve already created a preset with 8 drumsynth channels that provides a nice template. Imagine though that you have an instance of Hammerhead that has 8 sample channels and in the middle of writing a song that you want to replace one of the sample channels with a drumsynth snare patch you created earlier. You can’t bring the drumsynth settings from one preset into another preset as far as I can tell. I’d love to be wrong about this. I realize there are tons of workarounds like just opening up a second instance of HH so not a big deal by any means. Recreating a patch in drumsynth is not the end of the world either.
I just did it, I think? Open up a preset, switch to a drumsynth sound. Do copy patch (at the bottom of the drumsynth screen). Then load in another preset. Switch to drumsynth on any of the 8 slots. Paste patch. You just copied a drumsynth sound from the first preset to the second preset.
Brilliant @circledsquare. The patch stays in the clipboard from one preset to another. Each AUM channel seems to have a separate clipboard (you can’t paste a patch from HH in one channel to a HH in another channel) but that’s not a big deal. Thanks!
Drumsynth and sample both have this. (For sample it is copy wav, paste wav, then change duration). But yes, you have to do 8 copy/pastes to copy a full kit from one preset to another. It is pretty fast though.
It’s a quibble to ask for the whole kit, for sure. I’d love to be able to quickly change kits via MIDI in HH but I’m totally down with Bram’s less is more approach.
Is anyone using a beatstep with HH? I was just given one and I’m thinking it could potentially be a great dedicated controller just for HH. Could map the encoders to control glitch, mutation, etc and volumes (no pans) plus 16 pads. I saw the previous midi controls but are there any for velocity, pitch, etc? Not sure if it’s possible to make a script to control the sequencer but that would enable an entire hands free experience. That would be super great to integrate into my live Loopy setup!
I am asking similar question as the last one from @Lacerate and as the last one in other Hammerhead forum: Is there a way to automate pitch for each sound in Hammerhead with external sequencer? Actually, velocity is fine - just set the velocity on note you trigger. But with pitch it seems not to be possible. Actually also note length is not respected (seems like internally HH uses decay parameter and ignores note length).
Thank you!
I have tried sending various MIDI CC and pitch bend on various channels but seems to not work. Also
@brambos would it be possible to implement please? Either via MIDI or as an AU parameters, ideally both
No, these are only accessible using the internal sequencer
Wishlist time!!!
Please please please let us use the built-in dynamics, saturation and glitching FX as AuV3FX.
Also, a delay/reverb inside HammerHead would be awesome.
Funnily enough, this would be my 2nd request after being able to automate the pitch
I currently use HH especially because of how beautifully it distorts/saturates/compress the sound. Actually, I wouldn't need the pitch as I could use another sampler and just pass the sound through this effect.
Would be instabuy for me.
Or this could be an idea for another AU: I think there's a market for something like Reason's legendary Scream distortion - a combination of saturation, distortion, compressor, bit reducer, filter/EQ, delay/flanger, maybe a comb filter,...? Which is especially easy to use (various modes with only 2 parameters to tweak + eq).
The only thing that's get's close is K-Devices Shaper, but it's still something different. HH somehow managed to balance the resulting sound that it simply sounds good
Hi @brambos Thanks a lot for Hammerhead!
It‘s so much fun and so intuitive. Hammer! (as we say in german)
I have also some questions or suggestions, since I would like to explore the polymeter / polyrythm side of Hammerhead more.
1) Question: Is it possible to control via Midi the two parameters „divisions“ and „steps“ (in the channel configurator)? I would like to route those parameters to midi controller knobs, so I could tweak in realtime one or more channels to find new rythms on the fly.
2) Suggestion: Also in the channel configurator… would it be an idea to have a seperate lane with 16 fields for the steps, so you could directly point on field 2 for example and directly after this on field 13 without flipping through the values in between step 2-13?
3) Suggestion: Maybe another idea would be to have a button like the „Mixer“-button, which could be called „Steps“ for example. If you push it, a window opens, in which you can adjust the amount of steps (1-16) of the 8 drum channels at once. Maybe also just through vertical bars? There could be also a second page with the same layout, but only for the divisions–parameter.
Thanks a lot & have a nice weekend
I just dabbled into iOS music making and therefore try a bunch of apps right now. I gotta say hammerhead is not just a great sequenzer app, it's one of the most enjoyable apps on the whole @brambos !
I'm missing only two features. Maybe they are there and I'm just too dull to find them:
1. Occasionally I don’t want to use the sequenzer but record directly into something like loopy pro by finger drumming. I'm using the akai mini mkiii for mobile purposes. Can I map the sounds (bass drum, snare, hats, ...) to the pads? If you open hammerhead as auv3 and expand the keys, the sounds are all there, but spread across an octave, while bankA of the akai pads only covers the 8 semitones from c to g. I could reasign the pads in the akai editor, but it was way more convenient if I could map different sounds on the fly to certain pads as I need them.
2. If 1. is solved, is there a possibility to record a pattern that I played with the pads into the sequenzer (like in ar909)?
Thank you for your help, this forum is a treasure!
It's fairly easy to do this with a script in StreamByter or Mozaic. MIDI routing can be annoying if you're not working in an AUv3 host (like Loopy Pro). There may be other apps that specialize in note remapping.
I can do the StreamByter if you tell me the range of MIDI note numbers from the pads.
Thank you so much for the offer @uncledave
I think I will have a look at mozaic though and dive in a little bit.
(Doh, I just wanted to speed up my practice routine a bit and now I'm 3 weeks in and play less and just fiddle with plugins ... on the other hand ... it's fun :-D)
@Mowag, OK. Anyway, I've attached the SB code. I assumed you meant c..g in standard Helmholz notation, MIDI 48..55. Easy for you to change if not. You can copy/paste this into a StreamByter window and Install Rules. I can suggest MIDI routing solutions if you're not familiar with this stuff.
Is there a way to turn Hammerhead's transport on and off via MIDI and/or AUv3 parameter? If it is stopped, I can started by sending the MIDI to trigger a pattern. But I haven't found a way to stop the transport.
A single Note On to trigger a pattern will start the host synced transport. The corresponding Note Off will stop it. Between Note On and Off you can change patterns and switch patterns as usual. The only disadvantage is, that you cannot see the transport running like when you started the transport manually from within Hammerhead.
I saw this in the manual and never managed to make it work. Have you successfully stopped a pattern using a note off?
This should work automatically when the playback state of the internal sequencer is off.