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OK… my thinking that changing the MIDI clock of the target was non-sensical: targets get MIDI in and immediately render without respect for a DAW’s clocking.
But changing the sync of multiple ToneBank generations worked and the app offers fine grain controls of per instance BPM’s so creating BPM 1 at 120, BPM 2 at 119 and BPM 3 at 118 allowed me to here the slow incoherence of 3 pianos that can’t agree on “one” with two instances slowly falling behind by degrees. Something that would be really tricky for 3 pianists to render with such precision. So, this AUv3 app could work in any DAW that supports MIDI FX apps per track.
I had some concerns about my DSP using several instances but 3 ToneBanks driving 3 PianoTeq 9’s hovers at 40% on my M1 iPad Pro. PianoTeq 9 is a modeled PianoTeq so I’ll swap that out for Ravenscroft just to see the DSP increase of a sampled target: hmm… DSP 18%. PianoTeq math consumes more DSP than just moving should audio data blocks.
I need to test a pig of a synth… since I updated Tera Pro today I’ll start there: 30% using 3 BrainZ instances of “Wood Drum”… hmm… PianoTeq 3 remains Top Pig so far.
Still looking for that DSP hog award winner. Any complaints from synth users awaiting for their favorites to be further optimized?
While waiting for Pig candidates I tried the 3 ToneBank AUM MIDI clock factors at:
1
0.999
9.998
And the results are three “wood drummers’ that start in perfect sync and slowing start “flamming” each note and eventually start producing new micro patterns of triplets, 16th note riffs, etc. where you might hear a new pattern complex in ways you’d like to snip from a performance and use as an N-bar loop. Definately useful and a MIDI FX trick that would work for any MIDI FX app and note just this new exciting app but the starting rhythm here produced some rhythmic gold to my tastes as a seeker of organized complex drumming.
Those slightly “flamming” sections are really cool… my favorite drummers are rudimentary masters of mixing two handed “fa-lams” into their drumming: Steve Gadd was one of the early pioneers to makes this technique popular since his grooves were infectious and danceable like “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”. Thankfully, Paul Simon loved such rhythmic explorations for his pop music and that led to his uses of African ensembles that made some rather banal pop songs rather epic like “Graceland” or “You can call me Al”.
Yes, would be useful to me.
Here are 2 of my first recordings…
This one demo’s the idea of three instances than have BPM’s at 120, 119 and 118 so the three wood drummers slowly go out of phase generating new loop-able patterns that could be extracted as multi-bar loops as the basis of a new grove no drum app might easily generate. At 30, 60, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3… you get a new coherent pattern and moments of chaos as the middle distances are morphing into moments of chaos:
And this adds iFretless bass and 5 Pianoteqs playing percussion instruments over the 3 Wood drummers… total DSP registers at 40%… go figure… And I added a Pop Drummer instance to clarify the groove for dance track uses. No BPM phasing but I multiplied the 3 clocks at 1/2, 1 and 2 to get more of an ensemble arrangement with a slow bass, faster middle instruments and a busy dude cranking away:
That second one started to make me anxious haha. MADNESS!!
That first track is very cool tho. Reich type theory, no? Made me nostalgic for the drum circles I used to sit in on. Pure joy getting lost in the group rhythm, even if you’re not always in time you will be at some be point down the road. Such is life! Thanks for sharing.
Yes… Exactly. Phasing phrases the eventually re-align on a common pulse.
I love when a drum circle shifts focus from the starting ONE and a given number of pulses per bar but morphs out of that phase to a different but somehow related scheme with potentially different pulses per bar. It the journey… for players, listeners and dancers.
Great stuff @Squishy !
The 2.0.2 update is now live on the App Store. This update addresses potential CPU issues, and adds missing long-press handling for mutes on the grid, and note activate/deactivate on the Pitch Sliders.
Hey thanks man, youve got a lovely app here 🤙
Anyone else seeing this?
There's something wrong with the harmony editor, when I try to edit a harmony it looks like this:
so I can't save what I've edited... @elemental
@lasselu Is the top part of the dialog cut off there?
Well it's not exactly cut off, more like hidden..the first time I edited a harmony I got the controls at the top of the window but now it always cuts of like that...
Here's a better screenshot of what it looks like...
TestFlight version still says 2.0.1
The app review was faster for distribution than for TestFlight! 2.0.2 is live on the App Store.
I get it. No worries! 🙂
I think it was just the first time I’ve ever seen an AppStore version of an app beat the TestFlight version out of the gate. But I get it; there were reports of cpu/dsp issues that you quickly addressed, which we all appreciate!
I’ve installed the new 2.0.2 version to do some “testing”, and will re-join the beta when the next version becomes available.
Can confirm it is like this on my device, wasn't like this on the release version, must have got broken in the update
If I press Select, I'm able to write a name and save
The Harmony Editor issue has been fixed, and along with a few other minor improvements has been sent for review as v2.0.3.
I really appreciate the responsiveness and enthusiasm here! Thank you guys
Not for me...
Great!
AUv3 not saving state correctly. Presets saved in AUM are also not being recalled correctly. Have reported to the dev.
Thanks for the reminder Gav - I’m on the case with the AUM state saving issue.
Your first wood drum track from 2:28 ish on is AWESOME.
You inspired a purchase.
A few examples using the app:
is this completely generated? No human intervention at all? If so, holy 💩 that’s awesome.
After seeing Gavinski’s tutorial and the “music conversation” video, I’m hooked. It feels like a completely original app! @elemental, is this an intro price? If it is, when will the intro sale end? Sorry if I’m being inconvenient, it’s just so I can organize my budget. Cheers and congratulations on an outstanding app!
Ah yeah OK! So I skipped over the call and response thing in the video, mentioning I'd heard something about it but didn't see it mentioned in the manual. So right, that's how it's done, very good and totally unique on this platform (maybe even on desktop?), I think.
The two melodies are played by Tonebank - the drums and bass are sampled / programmed (by the amazing VivaCee).
The last part was also programmed by a human
The idea of this video was to show the harmonic structure of Superstition by Stevie Wonder.
Yeah, I was wondering about the melodies themselves and whether anyone had tweaked them a little to make them sound like they do. That video sold me on it. I’m hoping I can use it as a learning tool too.
I’m not aware of anything on desktop that synchronizes like this. Melody generation like Melody Sauce, yeah, but the call and response feature is not something I've stumbled across in any desktop app.
On iPad, there are the Lumbeat drummers that can synchronize but that’s about it as far as I’m aware.
Oh wow, understanding how to do call and response patterns takes this to a whole new level, brilliant fkn app!
No surprise, but I love this sequencer. It’s such a breath of fresh air- I find the melodies it’s creating to be more engaging and musical. Neat sequencer- did notice issues when running 2 instances.