#1356

So I just picked up a Novation Launch Control XL, trying to use it for midi control in AUM. It’s strange, I can’t get any of the mute, solo or side select buttons to light up at all. I tried it in Ableton and they work there, so it’s not a faulty unit. The Novation editor for the Mac doesn’t have an option to make these work.
It does send midi data to AUM, it just doesn’t light up when you toggle these buttons.
Anyone use this with iOS?

#1357

Are you using it through a powered up or directly through the CCK? The reason I ask is that it sounds like it’s working in low-power mode when connected to the iPad

#1358

No the mute buttons don’t work with or without a hub, in low powered mode or not. I tried all that.
It only works correctly on Ableton Live plugged into my Mac. I did some research it seems the Launch Control only seems have the mute buttons work when it’s with a software that uses HUI… which kinda sucks. AUM doesn’t seem to respond to HUI even though a separate LCXL HUI midi config does show up in the midi matrix on AUM.

Idk, this might be a reason to transfer away from iOS and just use Live for everything.

#1359

Ah, interesting. I know that @burns_audio has made some amazingly cool scripts for Mozaic which control the lights on a Launchpad Mini. Maybe a Mozaic script can do that for your Launchpad needs within AUM

#1360

It’s not broken. AUM just doesn’t send the same MIDI signals as Live. Such things aren’t standardized. Novation made their controller so it would work with Live. The Mozaic suggestion is a good one, but you’ll have to get some understanding of how the software and hardware behave at a low level.

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#1361

Yeah, that’s an option. However I really started to dig into Live again this morning and I’m thinking of switching to Live as my main hub instead of iOS. It had been like 15 years since I really dig into Live and I forgot how amazing it is, esp with Maxforlive being included with it.

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#1362

Just a really quick heads up regarding things that are coming to Koala. The three really exciting things in beta currently are:

  • time stretching (different modes depending on whether you like things smooth, with artefacts or stretched by duplicating microchops & in different lengths from 1 beat up to 8 bars)
  • autochop (using either selectable beat divisions or transient detection)
  • piano roll editing (this one is truly amazing! Allows for incremental snapping in 4ths/8ths/16ths/32nds as well as - 12ths for beautiful triplet timing and free (no-snapping) editing too)
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#1363

I thought that It could be easy but I can’t find what I’m looking for :slight_smile:
A simple sample player (like the one in garageband BUT :

  • with the ability to be put as audio source in AUM
  • Midi mappable (can control volume with midi for swell

Any idea ?

#1364

AUM itself can do this. Just load an audio file instead of a plug-in in a track, and map track volume to a MIDI CC.

AudioLayer and the AUv3 sampler that comes with apeMatrix are also useful.

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#1365

heads-up - drambo can host auv3’s now (in the standalone mode). Very easy to map au parameters to sequence and modulate them!

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#1366

It isn’t even an in-app purchase either - just a regular, free-to-all-users update!

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#1367

Any recs for fav interactive modulation apps? Was just checking out the Maestro euro module and thinking to myself that would make a great ipad app.

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#1368

It’s not as elegant as a standalone app made specifically for this use case could be, but now that Drambo acts as an AU host I’ve been having a lot of fun exposing some AU parameters in Drambo and building up modulation chains to switch/fade between with the layer mixer and/or N-1 switch.

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#1369

It depends what you want to do, but there are some excellent LFO apps that allow you to modulate parameters.

This is one works as an AUv3 or there are LFOs within both ApeMatrix (which can be used in AUM or other AUv3 hosts, not just ApeMatrix) and Rozeta Suite. You could essentially write Mozaic scripts to modulate pretty much anything you could think of too, in theory.

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#1370

mirack can convert cv to cc, also

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#1371

This thread has been so helpful! Thanks everyone for sharing.

I’ve started to use my iPad Pro 12.9” for music-making and it’s just hit the right combination of immediacy and depth.

I had been using miRack for a while and had the Bram Bros/Hainbach Gauss field looper for a while, but never really understood how to actually make something on the iPad. This thread pointed me in the right direction and I just got AUM yesterday.

My current combination:

  1. AUM;
  2. Gauss:
  3. elsa, shape synth, strng;
  4. Borderlands Granular.

I then play with the levels in AUM and also do some “live” manipulation in Borderlands, which is recorded together. I was thinking of going down the four track tape loop route for this kind of recording but AUM makes it so flexible.

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#1372

That sounds like an excellent approach. I’ve been meaning to try the other Erik Sigth apps. Tardigrain is superb and I assumed the others would be equally powerful. Do you have Spectrum? I was wondering whether strng is rendered superfluous by it.

#1373

Thanks very much! Sigth is really a talented developer. I’m really enjoying all of those apps so far.

As for Spectrum, sorry, but I can’t help you there, I don’t have that app to compare with!

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#1374

Ah, I can highly recommend it! Our forum member, Tom Burns, created it. It’s a port of a number of Mutable Instruments modules for which he refused to take payment so the full thing is on iOS as a free download

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#1375

My jaw almost dropped when I saw this! Thanks for sharing — I’ve always loved Mutable Instruments’ modules (one of my dreams is, in the far future, to build a modular system) :+1:

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