#1111

Cykle is pretty intentional sequencer, and Mozaic is full of all kinds of them, generative and intentional.

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#1112

Love polyphase. Wish they made a midi au plugin option so you could run multiple synced instances. Oh well.

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#1113

There are a few generative-ish devices in the Rozeta Suite that are really fun to play with, but they aren’t as full-featured as something like Polyphase. They’re more like helpers - I like using Particles or Collider (or both with one feeding into the other) to breathe a bit of extra life into a static pattern of MIDI notes from elsewhere.

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#1114

Grab Rozeta and Mozaic first, and build your own generator out of parts. MiRack is step three.

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#1115

So this just dropped today. Completely made on koala, a 4 dollar iOS sampler based on the Roland sp series mentioned here before. He told me he just uploaded his samples to the cloud, used the iphone recorder for vocals / instruments and screen grabbed YouTube videos for samples. Mind completely blown. It sounds soooooo good.

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#1116

some weird shit is going on in my life and i have gotten distracted and forgotten twice (two times) that i’m listening to something that i only clicked on to hear how koala was sounding. i am pretty amazed, my koala demos…do not sound like this. have to wonder if there’s a hidden mastering step somewhere, how is the mix so clear??

#1117

Yeah apparently “very lightly” mastered though good hertz and 404. Still, compositianlly and musicaly it’s amazing. Bought koala immediately haha

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#1118

wow, this is something man! shit is amazing. koala is really crazy. makes you realize how powerful ios is. even your phone is more powerful than a lot of hardware boxes on the market everywhere.

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#1119

Excellent stuff! I have no issue with making entire albums in Koala - it’s beyond dope. When I started out I had a hell of a lot of less and that never seemed particularly restrictive.

As far as the extra stage goes, my personal preference is to render out loops of the component parts of the beat and drop them into AUM for the mixdown stage (so that I can sidechain with Bleass Sidekick and add a few additional effects) but it’s still an entirely iOS production. Still start-to-finish on an iPhone 6.

I’m just working on the next step of the setup, as it goes - incorporating a Photon fader and PT-01 with Loopy HD to make a portable scratch production setup… I’ll post up some video in the coming week. I didn’t receive all the elements yet, but should have them in the next few days.

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#1120

wow bleass sidekick looks awesome. im gonna give that one a try. any recommendations for lofi plug ins on ios? looking for some nice wow / flutter and pitch warble. a nice simple compressor would be cool too.

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#1121

Ddmf is the gold standard for compressors.

I don’t like the Klevgrand tape app. The lp app does some nice crackles, but it’s cheaper just to sample your own crackles and noise.

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#1122

Can confirm that endlesss is really fun and the community is great! Very handy that you can export stems to Google Drive and other platforms too.

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#1123

I really like Tape Cassette, which is totally free. I tend to use Klevgrand Degrader for bitcrushing and mixture of Tape Cassette, DAWLP, DAWcassette and Time Machine. Seems like overkill to have that many but until Wavesfactory port Cassette to iOS I’ll tough it out :wink:

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#1124

I really should try porting Orca to iOS.

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#1125

Enso from Audio Damage is what I use for tape loops / wow flutter / hiss / saturation and plenty of really really good looping stuff in there too. It’s well worth the cost of entry but needs an RTFM (or watch the demo video) to get everything going. There’s a lot going on on the front pannel.

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#1126

I never would have considered using it like that! I definitely need to RTFM more!

#1127

i am really loving these apps on my phone. i managed to find all my favorite things in app form. i have koala as the main sampler, space craft as a granulator, audulus for my modular synthesizer. for effects i have magic death eye compressor, 6144 eq, tape cassette, enso ( cant wait to try this for wow / flutter stuff thanks for the tip @tapehead , and bleass sidekick (that kick!!) . all running inside aum.

such a fun and inspiring setup. managed to really get that nice balance of depth and fun immediacy. i got myself an incredibly fun and incredibly deep instrument in my pocket at all times now.

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#1128

Agreed, man, it’s massively inspiring to have constant access to all these incredibly high quality tools. My youngest daughter smashed he iPhone 6s so badly that it was unusable. I bought her a newer model and she gave me that so I fitted a new screen and now I have another weapon in the arsenal. I love the iPad but my usual setup is the 6 and 6s with a couple of Bluetooth controllers.

A lot of people haven’t grasped that we’re not using these apps as some kind of novelty or to prove a point - they’re legitimate audio tools, up there with anything I had when I started out 20+ years ago.

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#1129

how do you do wow and flutter on Enso? By modulating the speed with something else, like Rozeta lfo?

#1130

Yeah - everything’s midi assignable inside that, so you can modulate record and play speeds.

If you have a repeating phrase you can also fiddle with the record and play speed and make sure dub in place is not lit up, and then it’s going to all go a bit fripotronic and it’ll be messing with the playheads.

You can also change the behaviour of the playspeed increments (Octave / 5th / semitone) to keep it subtle and quickly chenge your speeds rather than dragging your fingers about n’ that.

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