Nice try Capitalist.
Very nice ambient music for your work
Thank you Intermorphic, for Wotja 26 OTB
Response from developer
Thank you so much for your support and lovely review. We really appreciate it! Best wishes from Tim and Pete.
Love this app!
Great app, absurd pricing
Just bonkers
A great app, super useful- sounds amazing, but we're not all out here cashing Brian Eno royalty checks. I feel honeypotted.
Great software, great developers
Response from developer
Thanks very much for your nice review and we are glad to hear you have been enjoying Wotja. In respect of your question about Linux, we have no plans at this time to go that route, sorry :(! See this FAQ: https://wotja.com/help/#linux. Best wishes from Tim and Pete!
Subscription model via versioning
How I use Wotja
For this reason, after various researches, I’ve decided that Wotja will be the main tool coordinating my arsenal of synths and sound libraries.
Initially, I had planned to use MIDI output from Wotja to drive the sounds of Diva, Omnisphere, Hive2, Pigments, Wavestate, Wavestation, Lunaris2, and all the other synths/sound libraries/effects I own.
However, after conducting several experiments, I was very (positively) impressed by the sound quality of Wotja’s internal synths. In fact, by processing Wotja's synths/drones through plugins like Crystallizer, Phase Mistress, Filter Freak, Echoboy, Black Hole, Valhalla Shimmer, Room, etc., the results — in my opinion — are truly beautiful and original.
I personally do not perceive any difference in sound quality between Wotja’s internal synths and the other synths I own, so I’ve decided to let Wotja play using its internal sounds, which I will combine or layer with sounds from my other plugins. The result is very original and pleasant soundscapes.
Of course, I was particularly struck by Wotja’s generative capabilities, which often deliver moments of rare beauty and entirely unexpected musical passages. At the moment, I’m still inexperienced with Wotja, but I’ll learn to use it better as I go along, especially since this project — which I hope to begin in earnest this week or next — will be a long-term work for the coming years.
For now, my workflow with Wotja will be as follows: I will generate 9-minute-long stereo WAV files (this will be the length of each track, and there’s a reason for this choice), and I’ll import them into Logic’s timeline. Then I’ll select the parts I find most interesting and let them ‘emerge’ from silence, before gradually fading them back into silence. I’ll then fill in some of the silent sections with my other synths, which I will play strictly in real time and without any quantization.
One more thing: I really love the text-to-music feature, but also the possibility of being inspired by the wonderful randomness of the generated text. In fact, I think the random text generation function is one of my biggest sources of inspiration. I don’t know why, but I feel very connected to it. I love being inspired by these seemingly nonsensical phrases that, to me, actually hold a very deep meaning.
Really starting to feel dated
The UI is terrible and really gives old iPad app vibes and really, if the UI locks up whilst the app is doing something, or the sound stutters when saving there’s a problem somewhere.
It does get updates fairly regularly but they’re not particularly helpful/effective (changing the colour of a button isn’t really a “massive update”)
Response from developer
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review and for being Pro user, we appreciate it. The biggest factor impacting many developers today concerns what to do about Generative AI and, to be sure, it is something that will put many devs out of business altogether. Wotja does not use it and, because of what it is and what it is all about, we cannot see that it ever will. If that means you think it is “dated”, then so be it. See what we say about this side of things here (and the table below it): https://wotja.com/app/#ai. That said, we continue to work very hard on Wotja and we continue to add New Features and make continued improvements to it (both big and small). To see everything we have done since Wotja 23 see our releases page: https://wotja.com/releases/. Wrt UI: We give *maximum focus* to ensuring that the Wotja engines generate great results, and equally so across 7 OS platforms (including in the Plug-in variants where applicable). Wotja has a necessarily complex UI and being a 2 man dev team means that we have had to adopt a common approach to it for all the supported OS platforms. We do our best to make usability good (something we work to improve all the time) but it is unfortunately simply not practical for us to build sexy native UIs for each OS, sorry! Wrt stuttering: If you are getting this then it is most likely that Mixes you are creating are too complex for your iPad, see this FAQ: https://wotja.com/help/#audio-issues. Wrt button colour change: We think you are referring to how it is now clear which open files are playing. We would *never* consider that to be a New Feature but we made that improvement (just one of many) as it is something that is actually very useful to know!
Straordinario
Essential and Beautiful
Response from developer
Thank you so much for such a lovely review, we really do appreciate it! We are not quite sure what you meant by Muse as we never did an app of that name, so we presume you meant either SSEYO Koan or Mixtikl - but no worries :). We hope you continue to enjoy how we continue to extend and evolve Wotja. Thanks once again, Tim and Pete.
Outstanding
I love Wotja
Response from developer
Thank you so much for your lovely review, and for taking the time to leave it. What you say is very interesting and is great to hear - we really do appreciate it. Best wishes from Tim and Pete.
Noatkl 3
Response from developer
Many thanks for purchasing Noatikl 3! It was retired around 7 years ago, but provided it still runs on your device then of course you can continue to use it. Yes, you are correct that Wotja is its future. The Wotja App was first released in 2014 and we have been working hard on it ever since - it is also free to use in capable Lite mode. Not only is Wotja the consolidation of all our other past Apps (and can load their content), it is also the evolution of all of them and includes a lot of new included content as well as many, many new features and capabilities. Whether you do or do not wish to use Wotja or anything that is new in it, or even to Go Pro in it, is of course entirely up to you! We suggest checking out this FAQ: https://wotja.com/help/#noatikl-mixtikl-v-wotja. Hoping we have answered your question! Best wishes from Tim and Pete.
Love it! But slight bug
La nuova versione eccelente!
Paid for Pro unlock; now unable to use
I paid for “21 Pro” some years ago, figuring I could at least continue to use what I paid for indefinitely. It turns out that isn’t true at all. I’m no longer able to even install a build that respects my previous purchase, meaning I essentially paid for nothing.
I do understand the appeal of ongoing revenue, but if the “permanent” unlock is going to be time limited due to availability of a particular app version, what’s the point? What I paid for was apparently a subscription in all but name, except worse because you have no idea when the version you’re paying for will become unavailable.
Response from developer
Hi, you can ALWAYS redownload a previously purchased paid-for version of Wotja. It is easy to do, and we have a FAQ on that here: https://wotja.com/help/#wotja-redownload. If you have any difficulties in doing so, we recommend reaching out on our contact form. NB: We hope you can update your review once you have successfully completed your reinstall - tx! As you know, we no longer sell paid-for versions which only got updates during the year in question. In 2023 we moved Wotja to be a free app with In-App Purchases and that was to allow us to provide rolling free updates for it - whether or not a user wishes to Go Pro to unlock New Features in any major version (and there are 3 different ways to Go Pro according to user preference). Wotja is a very deep App and the two of us we work very hard on it, both to maintain it and to evolve it. Ongoing revenues are *not* a luxury for us (even though they are small). Without what we get from those who Go Pro in any major version then we would simply not be able to continue working on it - period. I hope our explanations help and we have lots of detail in our FAQs, for example see: https://wotja.com/help/#iap-cost. Best wishes from Tim and Pete.
Endless depth of exploration
Too complex as a Plugin Host
To add, unless you get the Pro version you can't use the free version without a timeout with a popup dialog prompting to buy the full PRO version.
If you're looking for something more than a Plugin Host, maybe you'll like it if you're willing to spend signficant time figuring out the UI. Otherwise, there are much simpler apps out there for free to host plugins.
Response from developer
Hi. Thanks for taking the time to leave a review. Wotja is not a general purpose DAW and we never claim it to be. At its heart it is a music generator system - but is *also* an AUv3 Host. Yes, Wotja is free to use in Lite mode which has various timeouts. We have to put some limitations on free use because it is only those who Go Pro that support Wotja's continued development. We have a range of low cost options to Go Pro, including doing so for only 30 days. If you are looking for a totally free no restriction multi-featured general purpose AUv3 hosting DAW then you would need to search the Mac App Store or internet. You might well find that to get the features you want you will have to pay something to the developer to help them continue to fund development of their app (unless the developer is independently wealthy or has another way to fund development), even if that is just a tip. Best of luck!
