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Atom VS Helium for Ambient music

Gaia.TreeGaia.Tree
in General App Discussion

In your special opinion, friends, which one of these AUv3 sequencers is better for long slow sequences of just a few chords? 4-8 bars of 2-4 chords is a minimum, I love fugue
Machine but it’s a busy one and I haven’t whipped it into ambient shape yet.

Comments

  • wimwim

    One awesome feature of Atom 2 is you can freely change the speed of any clip. For long-slow stuff this is great because you don't have to zoom out far and/or draw in long notes. You can, for instance, draw in one-measure chords, then slow the sequence down to a fraction of it's original speed. You can change the playback speed on the fly too.

  • xorxor

    Atom allows you to mix and match loops.

  • echooperaechoopera

    Here's my opinion:

    1. Atom is very unique in it's workflow, but tremendously powerful if you put the time in to adapt to it's workflow.
    2. Helium is very straight forward in its approach as a midi editor, but lacks some of the sophistication and visual UI 'wow' factor which is important to me when composing (I want to feel good using the apps I use when making music).

    Not to change the subject, but if you are at all interested in Drambo, I find it the perfect app for composing Ambient Music because of all the conditional trigs/p-Locks it offers. I've created several expanding ambient pieces using only a handful of bars because of the toolkit in Drambo.

    So...if you want to use something that looks as cool as it is powerful, go for Atom 2.
    However, if you want to use something a bit more pedestrian in its approach to creating midi tracks, Helium will take you to where you want to go.

    And...if you want to really go to a whole new level...Drambo will deliver and challenge and push you to new heights of music making :)

    Hope that helps :)

  • Gaia.TreeGaia.Tree

    Shoots I guess I better just learn Drambo then. I’m mostly tryna make food for my HW samplers but drambo is probably a good thing for me to
    Learn! And I can save 20 bucks too

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