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Ruismaker Noir: The One-Shot Factory
I wanted to share this as I don’t think it has been discussed here and I think it’s worth sharing. Ruismaker Noir is a one-shot sample factory. I know it’s probably not how it was intended to be used, but this beast is perfect for creating drum and bass one-shots.
It’s very easy to take something like the kick preset and tweak various knobs until you get something super punchy and bassy that could be used in a beat. Claps and hats are pretty straight forward too.
I’ll typically make a handful of presets and then load Noir into AUM. I’ll set the sequencer to the first node and turn off the rest. I’ll record that one node and then immediately turn off the sequencer so that I just get the one hit. Within a couple of minutes, I have a folder of samples in Audioshare. I can throw them in Flip, EG Pulse, Slate, etc..
@brambos not sure if you intended Noir to be used this way or if anyone has mentioned using it this way before, but I have to say you created an excellent sample creation tool.
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Ooh. I have an OP-Z arriving next week. This will be an easy way of creating new kits (although I'll stop myself doing it for the first few months, as the factory kits sound great). Cheers.
Another 'One-Shot Factory' worth trying is Fractal Bits.
yes! what a gem
Good factory kits are extremely helpful. @ElliottGarage has some fantastic kits built into EG Pulse.
Thanks. I definitely needed another app to buy today 😂😭
I actually had to uninstall Bass 808 to force me to try something else. It’s so useful, but I’m hoping to diversify my sound a bit.
Ha! Two thumbs up from me
It's a plugin, so its range of intended uses is only limited by the host and how you plug it into your workflow
I made a hundred or so one shot samples with it. Great types of sounds to record with no low pass and throw a velocity controlled lp filter on for variation.
I love the randomize features on plugins because sometimes it can surprise you in a positive way. What about loading Noir (or multiple instances of it) together with Fractal Bits or other plugins 😇🤟
Noir is just an all-time favorit
Great thread title
Noir comes through with sounds and tweakability that no other app does. Killer app. And yes, love the description of Noir as a hit factory.
And lots of things are possible to further enhance what it already has to offer:
What would be nice though is to be able to automate the randomize functions of an app. Currently this is a feature within Noir and Fractal bits that works but cannot be automated within AUM. If that would be an option you could use the randomize function with a single button click instead of tapping the multiple views.
Just restart your device. It’s the dreaded disappearing AUv3 bug of iOS since 11.0
Although quite limited, this guy is quite good for one shots. Randomise button makes it a good one for happy accidents.
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Yeah, it's mostly dreaded by me as it's the one iOS flaw that leads to a ton of support effort and 1-star reviews for me
I love Noir. I like to tweak it up and make some weird ambient one shots, usually a crazy background snare. I just love BB apps period haha
Hopefully it'll work fine when iPadOS15 drops
If the app is important and the issues one is having are 'fixed' by a more recent OS update then I really don't get why some refuse to update the OS?! (I have ZERO 'broken' apps installed on my iPad Air 2, iPadOS14.7.1).
Cheers!
Agreed, Noir is great for one shots. I like to add some variation to the sequence and record the full bar, then slice the hits up in Drambo’s Flexi Sampler....you get a nice bunch of hit variations that you can rearrange however you want. Great for adding dynamics to a percussion track by having subtle variations for each hit.
If you get HammerHead, you don’t need to waste time sampling oneshots ever again, but it can also use the old samples you’ve created over the years.
HH is So Great.
How does that work?
Here’s what each sound option looks like:
(Any one of these can be selected for each part separately)
Great Built-in samples
Import your own sample
Drum synth with randomizer that can easily create kicks, snares, hats or other percussive sound fx
I have both apps. What do you find is the most straightforward way to get Noir one-shots into Hammerhead? I can imagine doing this with AUM/Audioshare; I'm just wondering if there's a more direct route.
AUM with AudioShare or other DAW that can host/record AuV3s, so that you can export layered sounds from multiple instances of noir or even hammerhead itself.
Hammerhead can also take loops.
A randomizing one shot factory that is able to cut and save its individual sounds would be handy. Although I like randomizing, I dislike cutting/renaming things on iOS.
Hammerhead also gives very nice results, especially with the resonator.
In all seriousness, where this is a danger is when a developer ships an app where the majority of the sounds were created by patch randomisers. Look at DrumComputer, a really deep and powerful synth engine but there’s hardly a single kit shipped with DrumComputer that holds together as a kit (drum hits benifit from being sonicly complimentary when grouped as a kit). The default kits in DrumComputer are mainly random sounds grouped together, not complimentary drum hits.
Good point. But Drum Computer is another one-shot hit machine. It's like the Stock Aitken Waterman of drum samples.
Sorry to butt in. Thanks for the heads up on Fractal Bits & Noir. I’m in need of some sample food and they’re perfect 👍
Another good one for crackly glitchy one hits is Skiid. It might be good for loops too but I need to spend some time getting my head around the sequencer.
Amen. Update your freakin iPads. The one exception was the jump to 64-bit, if you wanted to keep something old. Otherwise, you’re just fear-mongering.