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I love how slices are handled in Samplr as well I didn't say anything about that.. I said that manually adding slice markers and removing them is implemented badly in Samplr.
can you trigger slices in pdk via midi? if so that's fresh, cause from a performance standpoint pdk has the best resampling on the fly. so if you could combine that with midi triggering that would be quite cool.
Pretty sure PDK has no midi right now. I always heard midi sync was in the works but no midi control. Does Aslicer have it? I haven't taken enough time with that one.
I hadn't heard about either of them having it, that would def take pdk up a notch
...and I said that I think manual handling of transients in Samplr is great. Do you agree to disagree with me @kobamoto or you disagree to disagree? I don't mind.
I agree fwiw....just soooo wish I could control each slice via midi
were we talking about the same thing or were you talking about 'playing slices, or adding slices through the ribbon dial?
Same. iPad 3.
Not 100% clear on 'screen press'. Do you mean switching between the left hand tabs? If so (well, or anything else I've come across in the app) I have no lag/delay (Air1/8.2)
Every single tap, not matter which control in Egoist , has a small delay for me.
Perhaps Sector?
Tap to add @kobamoto slide up to remove, works for me.
I think my dislike of Egoist comes mostly from the fact that I'm finding it hard to use in live jams. I guess once properly mapped to a controller would open it up a lot though which would take time which right now I don't have.
If only the midi sync got sorted we could just mix and match all of the above and play music instead of trying to find a holly Grail which on IOS still doesn't exist AFAIK.
What are you slicing? What instruments?
@kobamoto to move transients around I press the transient button to the right of the subdivision numbers and then add a transient by touching the ribbon immediately below the waveform and the point I want the transient to appear. I swipe up to remove an existing transient. Is that what you're talking about. Sorry not sure what you mean by ribbon dial?
As well as the others mentioned I have a lot of fun with Yellofier Electrified. Basic, but sometimes that's a good thing as it's easy on my CPU and a doddle to use.
Drum loops. Nothing more than that. I want to be able to take a drum loop with a groove that I like, and alter it for intros, fills transitions, endings, etc. Basically I want to be able to use a single loop and make it into an entire song. :-)
it's about time for some bm3 teasers isn't it?
I want to give an update for those who may be looking for something for the same purposes as me. This was what I wanted to do:
I want to be able to take a drum loop with a groove that I like, and alter it for intros, fills transitions, endings, etc. Basically I want to be able to use a single loop and make it into an entire song. The app needs to be small.
I found several great apps. I even found that I can slice and sequence the individual beats manually which doesn't even require an additional app, provided my host can edit basic audio (old school methodology). I also learned that I don't need to have exactly the tool I was looking for (even though it would be better). I still have to experiment more, but it's looking like I can get what I want done through using the app, "Sector". It's not really a beat slicer, and it's not really a playable sequencer, but it has the basic needed elements, and uses WAY LESS SPACE. After playing with it a bit, I think it will work for what I want to do. I can then delete Gadget and still get the work I need to do done. :-)
It's not the tool I originally was searching for, but it looks like it will get the job done. :-)
Sector is great for that...
By the way, possibly useful tip... you can record sector by sector in a very methodical, "stop frame", way by stopping playback, hitting record, tapping each sector one after the other in the order you want them until you're done with your sequence, then tap record again to stop recording. This will save the concatenated audio file just like you'd recorded the sequence 'live' in realtime.
Also you might want to check out Strom as an alternative - but it does pretty much the same thing, with fewer features than sector. The warp tools in sector are really great.
Great tip @Matt_Fletcher_2000!! Thanks!
Thanks, I'm looking for something similiar, I looked at 'Sector' before, but most of the youtube vids seemed to show it as a 'glitch-fest' thing - which I don't like ! I presume it can be used to mangle loops in other ways ?
@Igneous1 It appears that you can get as wild or as mild with is as you care to--the power is there.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 Where have you been learning these tricks? The manual is pretty basic. Are there some tutorial videos, forums, extra documentation that you can refer me to that shows the things you've mentioned and more?
@Audiojunkie I asked the dev on this forum and he told me.
I wanted to know if it was possible to record not just the slices, but the slices with the warps applied in some cases, one by one in a very controlled way. I don't find the crazy random sequencing to be that useful - but I do like to be able to slice, re-order and apply the odd subtle tape slowdown or slight glitch to a slice here and there - and it works a treat for that. Some of the more subtle warps are very nice.
(If you record you complete loop of slices in the stop frame way, you then get a perfect loop back out, and from there you can, for example, take the loop back into Gadget's Abu Dhabi and play with it further there in a track). Although I know you said you were going to delete Gadget - but I assume that was a typo?
Great to know @Matt_Fletcher_2000!!! No, not a typo. I like Gadget, but I've got an iPad2 with 16GB. I'll likely update to an iPad Air3 when iOS 9 comes out, but until then, I'm staying on my old, slow, reliable, trustworthy iPad 2, and space is at a premium. :-D
I'm in the same boat audiojunkie as I'm on an iPad 3 which feels like no difference to me compared to an iPad 2 but anyway I allot of the same kind of processes you do as I need to squeaze all I can out of a loop or sequence, Sector is one of those no brainer apps that's basically always in the middle of whatever I'm doing but on either side of that I've always got the impc pro and Samplr in the mix, both have their shortcomings but also both have a couple of superpower features that make them indispensable. When it comes to Samplr even though allot of people don't talk about it Samplr has the best follow actions of any iOS app, so you can run your loops and then while they are running you can tap all over the waveform and get a world of fresh variations out of 1 loop and you can record it on top of that and I'm sure of course that you knew that already but it's the follow actions I don't hear much about, with samplrs follow actions, arp, and the way that the volume rises and lowers up and down the wavform the variations you can get are so dynamic. Samplr is the best app for ghost notes on iOS imho when you're not using an external midi controller so creating fills and build ups and changes is just dynamically flexible on that app I love it more than anything.
then there is the impc pro and the thing with the impc is this, you can take one sequence and take that one sequence and turn it into 40 different sequences if you want, through the mixer, fx, and iaa fx alone.... of course you can resample through all kinds of fx until your hearts content but I'm not even talking about that.. Take one sequence, then automate the fx, pan, pitch, volumes, etc... of every sample on each pad, then add to that that you can automate all the mixer channels and mixer track fx, then add to that that you can do all of that and then just copy that one sequence and do it all over again on the copy of that 'same' sequence and quickly the power of the app reveals itself..... you're not stuck in global parameter land, as soon as your sequence changes to the next sequence you hear something completely different- you can take a beat and wash it out into something ambient in sequence 2 and then turn the same beat into something glitched out in sequence 3, and then take the same sequence and turn it into something completely different for the 4th sequence and this is all from one simple loop and you didn't even get into using iaa fx yet or resampling or the fact that the flux fx can also be used and recorded indpenently per sequence.................the app is a monster for sample mangling addicts...
i don't know if retronyms did it on purpose or not cause mpcs cannot do these things but it's like they created a modular sample mangling, sequencing, beatmachine
Take one sequence, then automate the fx, pan, pitch, volumes, etc... of every sample on each pad, then add to that that you can automate all the mixer channels and mixer track fx, then add to that that you can do all of that and then just copy that one sequence and do it all over again on the copy of that 'same' sequence and quickly the power of the app reveals itself..... you're not stuck in global parameter land, as soon as your sequence changes to the next sequence you hear something completely different- you can take a beat and wash it out into something ambient in sequence 2 and then turn the same beat into something glitched out in sequence 3, and then take the same sequence and turn it into something completely different for the 4th sequence and this is all from one simple loop and you didn't even get into using iaa fx yet or resampling or the fact that the flux fx can also be used and recorded indpenently per sequence.................the app is a monster for sample mangling addicts...
Would love to see a video of you at work like this one day...
maybe one of these days, I'm more of the seldom seen type but I just love the sampling artform and learning about sampling. The tools we have to push the boundaries of sampling these days are like a slice of heaven, from convolution spaces to groove extractions and melodyne-esk sampling to just everything we can do with our sample slices it all makes me happy to be alive : )
I'd love to hear more about sector mr @kobamoto it's one of those apps that everyone raved about and I almost pulled the trigger today but those YT videos are totally over the top heaps of chaos. How do you use it? Does it sync well with sugar bytes, loopy?
@supadom I would have bet you had this one in your toolbox....
you know who explains sector well, Doug
, his pace and depth match perfectly in his sector video don't know if you've seen it but even for those who feel like Dougs style is an aquired taste will love this video.
as far as syncing with loopy or the byte apps no I don't....I don't really do too many things at one time I like to be in one app and focus on that app and then copy paste out and drop what I'm doing into another app and focus on that etc.. for instance Samplr, Sector, and the impc are so different and its easy to get into each of them passionately