Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
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Fav apps for generative music making?
Need some direction for tools to make generative music. What apps work for u?
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(From google search on Generative Music)
In 1995 whilst working with SSEYO's Koan software (built by Tim Cole & Pete Cole who later evolved it to Noatikl then Wotja), Brian Eno used & coined the term "Generative Music" to describe any music that is ever-different & changing, created by a system.
Wotja seems a definitive place to start? I used a few versions of Noatikl but didn’t get on with the interface and eventually deleted.
As I posted earlier today on a similar thread I recommend Senode as great playable sequencer. You can combine and control one-shot lines and multiple simultaneous polyrhythmic lines. Some smart programming and somewhat redundant sequences can bring a sense of repetition with variance instead of endless chaotic rambles.
I like to use Gestrument, and soon there will be Gestrument Pro.
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Wotja
https://itunes.apple.com/no/app/wotja-2018-generative-music/id1281471637?l=nb&mt=8
Refraktions by Jason Snell
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/refraktions/id866134037?mt=8
Dhalang MG by Joel Kivela
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dhalang-mg/id1140176533?mt=12
There are quite a few generative apps for composition melody and chords.
Xequence, oscillab, dotMelody, Odesi, Autochords, chordbot, fortamento, Stravinski, HarmonyWiz, youcompose, cordana composer, ichaios2.
Some older ones include beatwave, and rhythm studio.
Generative “set and go” apps not too many.
Refraktions , Nodebeat, Quincy, Xynthesizr, Wotja, and I’d include Droneo. Also maybe any of the scaper apps (mood piano and guitar)
Then there’s what I call “sample mashers” like egoist, sector, ReSlice, and arpeggio generators like thesis and arpeggist where you just keep pressing the dice button for a new series of notes.
Personally I love Xynthesizr, oscillab nodebeat, and droneo.
Rozeta should be near the top of the list for ease of use.
+1
+1 for groovy Rozeta.
yeah rozeta
I like Fugue Machine as well, just give some nice notes into it and play around ... 🎶
Quantum Sequencer
ACK! I forgot the great one inside Xequence.
PolyPhase has impressed a lot of people, myself included.
I like (attempting) to build self-playing patches in Audulus, zMors Modular, and SunVox, but nothing I've started is completed yet, but it's fun. Feeding them MIDI via Rozeta. Would love to try Wotja, but will wait until 2019 (same thing I said in 2017).
NodeBeat, Noatikl, Beatwave, Quincy, Xynthesizr, and the relatively new Riffer are some favorites of mine.
I don’t have it yet, but how does Autony fit in this overall generative line up?
It fits well. Not a easy to use as some others, but easy enough to get good results. The pattern can be 64 long and the gate >100% for ambient droning.
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