Outstanding Sound Designers Territory
Today is my first time reviewing an app on the App Store. Experimentation, finding new sounds, and the ambient field of musical expression is where I find myself. So, this app and others from you, Igor, are welcome territory. The Op-Amp “fuzz” quality is particularly pleasing. There is nothing like this app available outside of actual, physical mixers feeding back into each other (and at the potential destruction of said mixers). Thank you Igor, for developing such unique apps. All the best to you and yours! Cheers! 😊
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Unique and fascinating for experimentalists
No-input mixing seems to be having a bit of a moment at the moment, what with Cuckoo and other YouTube music influencers giving it a go recently with actual hardware.
Now anyone can experiment with this avant garde sound technique, using an audio mixer itself as an instrument, either on its own terms, or as the creator of future sample fodder, making controlled use of feedback to create amazing drones, glitches, and out-there sonic textures. And since it is a software recreation of an audio mixer, you don’t have to worry about blowing up your actual, real, expensive hardware. (Though it still pays to watch your levels with this app, and maybe supplement the onboard limiter with an external one in your recording environment, just to be on the safe side.)
You begin by injecting an initial sound source eg various colours of noise (white, pink, brown etc), then feed the output of that back into itself, drag it through a fistful of onboard effects, mix it into other channels (which you might also have set to feedback) and so on, before having the resulting glorious (and probably unpredictably varying) noise exit into your AUV3 recording environment, eg AUM. It is an experimentalists delight.
The app is, mostly, easy to understand but has a super dense manual and in this first iteration, some interface quirks (labels which are only sometimes buttons, etcetera) so be prepared to learn by, well, experimentation, and check out Gavinski’s Tutorials on the YouTubes for a detailed run through which is more fun than that electronics degree of a manual. Clarifications to the slight wonkiness interface wise are promised for future updates.
Getting interesting noises out of this thing is actually far easier than it’s dev has managed to make it look, actually. If you are looking for another identikit EDM synth, look elsewhere. But if you don’t need telling who Hainbach is, you’ll probably love this.
It is a lot of fun, and the relatively high price for IOS does get you full cross platform compatibility with phone and MacBook too, so there’s that.
I bought it as soon as it dropped. I am not regretting my decision! :)
Now anyone can experiment with this avant garde sound technique, using an audio mixer itself as an instrument, either on its own terms, or as the creator of future sample fodder, making controlled use of feedback to create amazing drones, glitches, and out-there sonic textures. And since it is a software recreation of an audio mixer, you don’t have to worry about blowing up your actual, real, expensive hardware. (Though it still pays to watch your levels with this app, and maybe supplement the onboard limiter with an external one in your recording environment, just to be on the safe side.)
You begin by injecting an initial sound source eg various colours of noise (white, pink, brown etc), then feed the output of that back into itself, drag it through a fistful of onboard effects, mix it into other channels (which you might also have set to feedback) and so on, before having the resulting glorious (and probably unpredictably varying) noise exit into your AUV3 recording environment, eg AUM. It is an experimentalists delight.
The app is, mostly, easy to understand but has a super dense manual and in this first iteration, some interface quirks (labels which are only sometimes buttons, etcetera) so be prepared to learn by, well, experimentation, and check out Gavinski’s Tutorials on the YouTubes for a detailed run through which is more fun than that electronics degree of a manual. Clarifications to the slight wonkiness interface wise are promised for future updates.
Getting interesting noises out of this thing is actually far easier than it’s dev has managed to make it look, actually. If you are looking for another identikit EDM synth, look elsewhere. But if you don’t need telling who Hainbach is, you’ll probably love this.
It is a lot of fun, and the relatively high price for IOS does get you full cross platform compatibility with phone and MacBook too, so there’s that.
I bought it as soon as it dropped. I am not regretting my decision! :)
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