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Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 1:17 pm
by odontophobia
Wes Mantooth wrote:
alexa. wrote:Hmmm, I kinda shied away from anything touchpad or smartphoneish, but will have to look into this. Thanks!
Many have a midi option for an external keyboard too!
All iOS devices have midi options.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 1:29 pm
by askashrub
This has taken a nice twist.
Samplr doesn't fill the synth void, but Jesus god is it cool.

I wasn't near an instrument when I downloaded it, so I recorded a bit of humming.
Chopped it up to individual notes, changed the octave, added a filter, and it didn't sound like humming anymore.
And then I played myself. Magic.

Such an intuitive way to manipulate samples.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 4:22 pm
by Wes Mantooth
odontophobia wrote:
Wes Mantooth wrote:
alexa. wrote:Hmmm, I kinda shied away from anything touchpad or smartphoneish, but will have to look into this. Thanks!
Many have a midi option for an external keyboard too!
All iOS devices have midi options.
Oh yeah I know, I just meant the apps themselves. Not all the weird noise-synth apps have any midi interactivity but most of the major apps do.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 11:30 am
by BoatRich
I bought a theremini today, after fucking with my iPad/Animoog a bunch, I realized that that+a theremin could handle 90% of my noise needs. It's backordered until mid january, but I'm still really stoked to get it.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 3:31 pm
by alexa.
Ahhhh, I thought I could get by with my android tablet, but no sir T_T
iPad exclusive stuff.

Back to my Voyager gas.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 3:43 pm
by Wes Mantooth
alexa. wrote:Ahhhh, I thought I could get by with my android tablet, but no sir T_T
iPad exclusive stuff.

Back to my Voyager gas.
Yeah Android has some weird hiccup with audio latency, I read that on some message board at least. That was a while ago and maybe it is fixed now, hopefully more music stuff comes to Android, the platform as a whole has more potential than Apple's with the right support.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 5:28 pm
by modernage
I don't see a lot of love for Alchemy. Love that app. DM1 and ReBirth are pretty good for drums. Novation Launchkey is fun, but I haven't spent much time with it.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 5:30 pm
by Disarm D'arcy
Best drums are IMO Akai iMPC and iMPC Pro. Korg's iElectribe is close 2nd. iMS20 is completely crazy and synthetic and painful to use but the drum sounds you can get out of it are awesome.
DM1 doesn't really sound good when you record it.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 6:01 pm
by Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.
korg gadget is my favorite overall app. great synth sounds, great drum sounds. lots of good yet simple sound shaping.

seekbeats is daat drum synth app doe.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 6:02 pm
by Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.
kbithecrowing wrote:
Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D. wrote:iPads are beast. so much awesome stuff
Do you have animoog? If you do I may need to commandeer that from you for a bit ;)
oop didn't see this before. yeeeeep i do. was my first ever app puchase/download.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 6:29 pm
by Derelict78
This thread put me over the edge so I bought an iPad.
I couldn't stop thinking about it after I watched a few sample vids.
I also got $70 in iTunes cards this season so I have been going nuts downloading iPad apps for an iPad that will not arrive till next week.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 9:25 pm
by modernage
Derelict78 wrote:I also got $70 in iTunes cards this season so I have been going nuts downloading iPad apps for an iPad that will not arrive till next week.
Spoken like a true junky. :snax: :lol:

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 10:01 pm
by modernage
Disarm D'arcy wrote:Best drums are IMO Akai iMPC and iMPC Pro. Korg's iElectribe is close 2nd. iMS20 is completely crazy and synthetic and painful to use but the drum sounds you can get out of it are awesome.
DM1 doesn't really sound good when you record it.
I have never recorded DM1, but I'm fairly confident I could make it sound decent in a recording. :cool: The main reason I like DM1 is for the selection of sampled machines they offer. Everyone has the xOx sounds covered, but I don't know of many that offer Casio drum sounds, or Linn, or the EHX DRM-15, or MFB drums, or even the fairly well known Roland CompuRhythm... and that doesn't even scratch the surface...

The random pattern generator is real nice for those times when you know you want some drums, but you just don't quiet know exactly where to start.

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2014 6:37 am
by Astricii

Re: Polyphonic Microbrute alternative?

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2014 9:46 am
by Derelict78
Thor is only $5 right now!