#1314

Koala, for sure. I’ve also got a soft spot for Orphion.

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#1315

Are you asking for a sample-based playable synth that can record? Tardigrain does this…I’m not sure Quanta can record…

#1316

I need to check out Orphion then!

I started out playing with Gauss last night and ended up sampling apps into Koala and creating this:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10IiY24jV4aV0Pfa9ThQHOoH8PNOenK6X/view?usp=drivesdk

The splashing resonance percussion is my favourite filter of the moment - the RRS Polivoks. I sampled it into Koala and chopped up the hits to re-sequence them.

My general approach with Koala is to make 4 bar sequences which I render as their component stems and load back into AUM in file players so that I can re-effect them there & sequence using enable/disable tracks and bus muting. It’s rough but fun.

The textures are through VolBot which did lovely spacial things to what was already there. I need to do more studying but it’s very impressive on first use.

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#1317

Mononoke is brilliant. If Ripplemaker is Bram doing a take on the 0-Coast, Mononoke is his Lyra-8.

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#1318

Very different things, related by virtue of being very “playable”. I wish the orphion sound engine was configurable, but it does output midi.

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#1320

Have you tried this?

#1321

Gauss is great, I was hesitant because I’m a huge fan of FieldScaper and the Morphagene but being an AU means you can layer instances of Gauss, really great feature.
And with Heinbach and Bram Bos it’s a no-brainer!
I’m pairing it with Koala and Koala FX for a really robust, small setup.

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#1322

+1 to Tc-11 for playable by hand.

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#1323

I’ve heard good things, but haven’t taken the plunge. An embarrassment of riches on iOS.

#1324

Can anyone suggest a method for achieving this within iOS? (There’s a video embedded in the post which demonstrates the theory within the first 30 seconds or so)

I’m thinking of two possible options:

  • using a sample and hold LFO to trigger samples somehow, maybe in a round robin style but with a couple of dozen hits

  • using some method of randomly generated FM synthesis to create hits on the fly (maybe from Ruismaker FM or Noir?) instead of samples and using some kind of mutating sequencer to trigger them

I’ve got vague notions of using a number of Bram Bos apps to get me there but wondered if anyone had any more concrete suggestions.

@junklight could Cality help, perhaps? Or maybe I could load up a bank of single hit samples within, say, Koala, and then input them all into Ioniarics to sequence them? (Is there a maximum to how many notes Ioniarics will accept?)

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#1325

loading custom samples into Patterning 2 with lots of randomization would get really close I would think

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#1326

That’s a good call and much more simplistic than what I was coming up with! I use Patterning all the time and yet it never crossed my mind to do this!

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#1327

If I’m on the right page, I do something similar with Fractal Bits using any number of apps to trigger the samples (including mozaic/other Bos apps) and an LFO to randomly change the tuning of the samples (I use the built-in LFOs in ApeMatrix for this).

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#1328

I can imagine that yields some very intriguing results! Using an LFO to control the tuning is an excellent call. The randomness options within Patterning basically does a very similar thing (albeit via an algorithm rather than an LFO)

#1329

Just to mix it all up a bit more, Sector still works fine despite no updates in a while, Glitchcore is cheap and neat, and Filterstep is an easy way to have random filtered variations pulsing.

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#1330

Ah, I’m embarrassed to admit that I have all three of those and yet can’t remember the last time I actually used any of them! I used to love Sector - I can’t imagine why it has been left to gather virtual dust.

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#1331

I’ve used similar methods to this, often pointing Rozeta Cells or Rhythm at Fractal Beats w/ Cality in between manipulating the midi. So I’ll have a relatively simple stream of events fed into Cality, and use its “chord” section to somewhat generatively add notes that then go to FB. This allows a lot of control over how many notes get added and to their distribution. Also the transpose portion of Cality can be played manually or through an LFO to vary the voices played in FB.

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#1332

Inevitably some of them will gather dust. I’ve got way too many bloody apps, but occasionally I see one that I haven’t cracked open in a long while and magic happens. Replicant is good too, in case you have it and forgot it or haven’t tried it yet.

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#1333

The Audio Damage one? I do have it, although I tend to use Bram Bos’ Scatterbrain mostly which I think essentially covers much of the same territory.

#1334

Yep, the audio damage one. Sometimes I use a combo of Scatterbrain and Perforator. All told, I seem to have a lot of apps (chiefly) meant for rhythm but don’t really make rhythmic music, so ¯\(ツ)/¯ .

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