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STEREO DESIGNER - New app by HoldernessMedia
@HoldernessMedia Posted this video of a forthcoming app onto YouTube today.
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Well, here's another app I'm going to HAVE to get! :-)
@SppokyZoo You've been dubbed Eagle Eye on Discord. Lol
@mgmg4871 said:
Haha, yes he saw it right away in the video before I even noticed it!
Nice looking app, but what did you use to make the actual track?, it sounds great.
@mgmg4871 ha, nice. Look Ma....I'm on the news!
I'll use to listen finally in stereo the e-lesson of my teacher that he stupidly recorded in mono only in the left channel...
@Muzetech said:
I always use a bunch of iOS apps and live instrumentation for all my music, either by recording directly from the iPad into Ableton or exporting from AudioShare to Dropbox. I've always done final arrangement, mix and mastering in Ableton and Logic but when I start on my new album this year I'll be working mostly in iOS for everything.
This particular track in the video I used:
Echo Pad
(Most of the delays in the mix, plus I recorded a lot of the loops and exported to AudioShare, then import to Ableton. Live guitars were also recorded through Echo Pad.)
Orphion through Echo Pad
DrumJam through Echo Pad
(hang drum and another one of the percussion instruments that I can't remember the name of at the moment. These were played live into Ableton. I added additional percussion programmatically in Ableton, pitch shifting some of the hang drum notes to achieve the melody which isn't possible using the hang drum alone in DrumJam.)
Magellan through Echo Pad for many of the synth sounds
(usually recorded live directly into Ableton. I rarely use MIDI for anything anymore as I find manipulating audio much more flexible.)
live percussion recorded directly into Ableton including tambourine, clacking drumsticks together, probably some other non-instruments used to make clicks and clacks as I do that a lot.
The rest of the beat and programming I do in Ableton by hand by cutting, pasting and manipulating audio. I don't normally use MIDI or Ableton's native sampler plugins as I prefer to work directly with clips in the timeline.
Nice! This is a simple concept that will see a lot of performance use!
@eyeballjackson said:
Thank you sir!
@HoldernessMedia thanks for your detailed response. I'm usually just as impressed with your music as I am with your app development skills. Looking forward to your album.
@Muzetech said:
@HoldernessMedia, I thought I recognized that Hang
Incidentally, you can play the DrumJam pad instruments via midi, so you could use any controller to play a melody...
@sonosaurus said:
Ahhh, of course! I didn't even think to try that as I'm so accustomed to pitch shifting the audio in Ableton's timeline. I'll have to try controlling DrumJam from my Roland TD-6 kit!
The drum kits have fixed bindings that are as close to GM as possible, so the TD-6 should work ok by default (I assume). The pitched instruments are just standard, of course.
@sonosaurus said:
Cool, thanks. I'll have some time to play around with after NAMM hopefully.
Just wanted to say that it is great to see Devs communicating on this forum.
Will buy this when I upgrade to iOS 7.
I own all HoldernessMedia's apps, and Im planning to keep that status!
Sounds awesome!