great midi generator
nice differentiation from the other apps in this space. offers a different way to generate midi that’s interesting and fun to use. my only gripe is picking the notes in the pitch area. tap and drag when your finger is on the box you can’t see what note you’re trying to narrow in on. why can’t i just tap and select from a menu? not the best UI choice as i spend way too much time time trying to get it to the right note.
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Texture
I love this app for adding textures to my sounds, it really is amazing. Just a heads up, I cannot find where to save my presets or how to… idk if this was on purpose but it would be really dope to save my own presets. Other than that it is super dope for adding textures and adding distortion of sorts.
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Powerful
This thing covers quite some generative ground. Take your time.
Great for ideas and experiments
This is a great app for quickly getting ideas and doing experiments with MIDI. You can of course connect it to other MIDI apps to feed it notes to produce even more interesting results….
Midi generative thing.
This is amazing as it can create notes and chords but isn’t a sequencer really. Ambience use is easy and great, and once u get the hang of it anything goes. Very unique, perhaps kinda like cality or autonomy.
Has potential, currently limited
This is a generative MIDI app, i.e. it is designed to create a stream of notes, shaped by parameters that you control, which you can send to the software synth of your choice. Load it in a MIDI channel in AUM, route the MIDI to an audio synth, press play in the transport and it'll create music on the fly. It's an interesting concept and I love generative music but TATAT is nowhere near as good as Piano Motifs, Polyphase or other generative apps. For a start is nowhere near as flexible: an instance of TATAT can only play a maximum of four fixed notes (e.g. C3, A3, D2, F4) throughout the entire song. Yes, that's right: you choose four notes to begin with and TATAT can only play those four notes, unless you play live and use a keyboard to change the notes, which kind of defeats the purpose of generative music. Why not have the ability to have TATAT change one or more of the notes at random at the end of every bar, with a "probability of change" parameter and a scale parameter so that the notes stay in a chosen key?
The second big problem is the manual. It's AWFUL. Just completely useless. It's really disappointing when developers put lots of effort into creating an app but can't be bothered to spend even the minimum of time on a manual. Simply listing the buttons and giving a brief description of the button is not enough. Examples: there's a "time resolution" section in the app. What is time resolution, and what effect will it have on your music? Here's what the manual says:
Time Resolution: set numerator and time signature for time resolutions
Huh?
Or: Lentgh Value (there's a spelling mistake in the manual - it should of course read "Length Value"): Set note length.
These things tell the user absolutely nothing. Even worse, the tiny manual talks about installing the app on Windows...
Also there's no MIDI control within TATAT other than a Thru - no channel control, nothing. So you have to route everything through AUM's MIDI, which isn't necessarily a problem, but it's worth pointing out.
So...it's got potential and I really wanted to like it but at the moment I'm finding it to be so limited as to not worth spending much more time on. I'll stick with the far superior Polyphase.
The second big problem is the manual. It's AWFUL. Just completely useless. It's really disappointing when developers put lots of effort into creating an app but can't be bothered to spend even the minimum of time on a manual. Simply listing the buttons and giving a brief description of the button is not enough. Examples: there's a "time resolution" section in the app. What is time resolution, and what effect will it have on your music? Here's what the manual says:
Time Resolution: set numerator and time signature for time resolutions
Huh?
Or: Lentgh Value (there's a spelling mistake in the manual - it should of course read "Length Value"): Set note length.
These things tell the user absolutely nothing. Even worse, the tiny manual talks about installing the app on Windows...
Also there's no MIDI control within TATAT other than a Thru - no channel control, nothing. So you have to route everything through AUM's MIDI, which isn't necessarily a problem, but it's worth pointing out.
So...it's got potential and I really wanted to like it but at the moment I'm finding it to be so limited as to not worth spending much more time on. I'll stick with the far superior Polyphase.
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Rhythmic delights
Brilliant, chaotic, out of control, in control... feels very alive for a midi event generator! buy it.
Does what it says
I like this, ui is nice and intuitive, would love to see some modulation options introduced like an lfo you could assign to the note sliders or rhythm sliders etc. and the ability to use mor3 than 4 notes would Be nice too.
Chaotic order?
An experimental gizmo, for the price of a drink. Capable of producing interesting variations, some more melodic than others, others more useful when a bit of chaos is the desired outcome. If possible, what I’d love to see added, is a function to greatly extend the sustain of notes. Both selected and randomly.
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