Diosynth Live vs UMEAN

Diosynth Live™ is the mobile companion app for ASM Diosynth®, designed for quick access during performance, rehearsal, and everyday use. Connect your Diosynth to a compatible iPhone using USB or Bluetooth MIDI, then quickly recall favorite patches and adjust important Setup and MIDI settings without needing a computer. Diosynth Live is organized into three main sections: Favorites, Setup, and MIDI. FAVORITES Keep your favorite sounds close at hand. • Quickly recall favorite patches in Perform mode • Manage and reorder favorites in Edit mode • Keep your Favorites synchronized with your Diosynth SETUP View and adjust Diosynth system and performance settings directly from your iPhone. Setup provides access to settings including pitch, key delay, breath and bite response, assignable buttons, pressure pads, gyroscope, joystick, vibrato, fingering, clock, audio levels, Master FX, and other instrument settings. MIDI View and adjust Diosynth MIDI settings, including Local Control, MIDI channel selection, Program Change settings, joystick and button assignments, and other MIDI-related options. CONNECTIVITY Diosynth Live supports: • USB connection • Bluetooth MIDI • Demo Mode for exploring the app without a connected Diosynth DIOSYNTH LIVE™ AND DIOSYNTH MANAGER™ Diosynth Live is designed for quick patch recall and convenient access to instrument settings while playing. Full patch browsing and editing, bank management, and firmware updates are handled using the Diosynth Manager™ desktop application. Diosynth Live requires an ASM Diosynth for full functionality.

A client sends you a text: "make it thump like those old Motown records, round and warm, not too busy." You know roughly what they mean. UMEAN tells you exactly, in the language of your chair. Pick what you play, paste what they sent, and UMEAN reads it back the way players and engineers talk to each other. SEVEN CHAIRS • Drums: sizes, heads, tuning, muffling, cymbals, sticks, where the notes sit • Percussion: which instruments, hand sounds, patterns, how it sits with the kit • Bass: the instrument, strings, muting, right hand, amp or DI, note length • Keys: the keyboard, the patch, drawbars, effects, voicings, register • Guitar: guitar, pickup, amp, pedals, the kind of part, doubling • Horns: the section, voicing, articulations, mutes, how tight • Strings: the forces, bowing, vibrato, voicing, close or hall FOR EVERY PHRASE THEY WROTE • What it means, in one line • Setup: the gear and the capture that get there • Feel: how to play it • Hear it: a record that carries the sound, who is playing, and the time to start listening • How sure the read is: solid, likely, or best guess THEIR WORDS, MARKED UP The client's note comes back with a highlighter stroke over every phrase that was decoded. Tap a stroke to jump straight to what it means. WHEN THE NOTE IS VAGUE UMEAN writes the questions to send back, in plain words the client can answer. ALSO • The brief: the whole session in two or three sentences • Every record is checked against a music catalogue before you see it • Past reads stay on your phone • Share a read with the band • A free example read for every chair, before you buy anything READS • UMEAN is free to download, and every chair has a free example read. • Decoding your own notes uses reads. A pack of 25 reads is $1.99, bought in the app. • A pack doesn't expire. It only goes down as you use it, and a read that fails isn't counted. GOOD TO KNOW • UMEAN needs an internet connection. What you paste is sent to UMEAN's server and a third-party AI service to write the read; it is used for that one read and is not kept by UMEAN. The app asks before the first one. • Times are where to start listening on the original studio recording and can be off by a few seconds. • No account, no ads, no tracking. Made by a working session drummer.