A Masterpiece of Perspective and Utilization of the IPad
These two apps in particular from this developer are absolutely Amazing in terms of usability ingenuity and the reimagination of what a touch insrument can be!
Brilliant
Fascinating novel intuitive design
Breathtaking
I have been looking for an app that uses the touch interface well, and I tried all the usual offenders (TC11 etc.) but this one has blown me away and, even though my old iPad can get a bit glitchy with it, it’s still amazing. It’s a music creation tool that could only be touch-based and yet you feel utterly connected to it. Tip, for my old iPad going mono helped reduce glitching a lot - like I said though, I’d rather have this app and glitchy than many of the others I’ve tried.
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Not very intuitive
Seems like a great idea and I’m sure I’ll enjoy it more once I understand it. But just a few minutes in and I can’t quite figure out what does what. Meanwhile, there’s an annoying sound that plays every now and then and I felt like I was racing just to figure out how to stop it before it would play again.
I couldn’t figure out how to stop it, so I just closed the app instead.
I couldn’t figure out how to stop it, so I just closed the app instead.
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A superb, great value gem
I’ve been using this app for a couple of days and I see a lot of value in here
Using with an iPad Air 1 iOS 12.4.8
First some niggles:
Saving sometimes results in crackling popping interference which is remedied by a relaunch of the app; otherwise fairly sturdy.
The sonic output of the synth, string, bass and arp aspects fall within a sonically predictable (or quickly familiar) range in spite of the input process itself feeling somewhat (and pleasingly) random.
Latency prevents accurate drum programming for the most part but this somewhat misses the point, again the randomness of the app in general can whisk up warp-style offerings pretty quickly, but the same flip side is apparent: I wonder how similar my creations are to everybody else. This apprehension may only be because I’ve made 4 ‘things’ already that I like, with virtually no effort. Ordinarily I’m wrestling with my Octatrack or programming stuff, so I’m not accustomed to this effort/reward ratio!
Can’t work out where the stop button is?!
Positives:
Layout is intuitive and encouraging. Compositional aspects, when used in conjunction with an external sampler, are impressive. The key and note information help wend towards more interesting key segues and will no doubt impart more theory subliminally over time to someone like myself who can neither read nor write music.
Sharing from my iPad to Mac over airdrop worked perfectly. Within this ecosystem therefore, it’s dead easy to take clips and treat them in Logic or another DAW with minimal fuss.
Ultimately this app is a breeze to use, has possible music theory applications to steer you towards interesting transitions and has a well-thought out GUI that’s fun to use, I think £4 is very good value for something with this many components, I was happy to pay a tenner for Huangs Flip sampler, but this is especially decent value.
I’m tending to get a beat going, throw in all the melodic aspects and establish 4 or 5 ‘starred’ snapshots then remove the drums altogether, sample in my octatrack and apply proper drums from my TR-8S. The melodic and structural ideas that you can get from this thing are lovely and I’ve already recommended it to several friends as, at the very least, a superb travel companion, but a worthy tool for sketching out quick ideas and getting inspiration.
More power to the developers, a lovely thing!
Using with an iPad Air 1 iOS 12.4.8
First some niggles:
Saving sometimes results in crackling popping interference which is remedied by a relaunch of the app; otherwise fairly sturdy.
The sonic output of the synth, string, bass and arp aspects fall within a sonically predictable (or quickly familiar) range in spite of the input process itself feeling somewhat (and pleasingly) random.
Latency prevents accurate drum programming for the most part but this somewhat misses the point, again the randomness of the app in general can whisk up warp-style offerings pretty quickly, but the same flip side is apparent: I wonder how similar my creations are to everybody else. This apprehension may only be because I’ve made 4 ‘things’ already that I like, with virtually no effort. Ordinarily I’m wrestling with my Octatrack or programming stuff, so I’m not accustomed to this effort/reward ratio!
Can’t work out where the stop button is?!
Positives:
Layout is intuitive and encouraging. Compositional aspects, when used in conjunction with an external sampler, are impressive. The key and note information help wend towards more interesting key segues and will no doubt impart more theory subliminally over time to someone like myself who can neither read nor write music.
Sharing from my iPad to Mac over airdrop worked perfectly. Within this ecosystem therefore, it’s dead easy to take clips and treat them in Logic or another DAW with minimal fuss.
Ultimately this app is a breeze to use, has possible music theory applications to steer you towards interesting transitions and has a well-thought out GUI that’s fun to use, I think £4 is very good value for something with this many components, I was happy to pay a tenner for Huangs Flip sampler, but this is especially decent value.
I’m tending to get a beat going, throw in all the melodic aspects and establish 4 or 5 ‘starred’ snapshots then remove the drums altogether, sample in my octatrack and apply proper drums from my TR-8S. The melodic and structural ideas that you can get from this thing are lovely and I’ve already recommended it to several friends as, at the very least, a superb travel companion, but a worthy tool for sketching out quick ideas and getting inspiration.
More power to the developers, a lovely thing!
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