Rolf Seese

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

Have you already watched the video about AUBE 2?
A short wrap-up about all the features.
It is very helpful and also great fun to organize all your AUs in this great app.
Thank you @fac_corvest for such a cool addition to the iOS music making world https://t.co/v0L6Jem8vE

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

For everybody who wants to have a great overview about his music and midi apps this is a must-have - so cool listing and sorting and managing your favourites - great app - top job @fac_corvest

[Fred Anton Corvest @fac_corvest]

AUBE 2 is now available on the App Store!

Don’t miss this one-week promo deal: $14.99! Regular price is $19.99 (US Ref)

https://t.co/NprONJ2lmi

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

FAC is brewing something new again…

[Fred Anton Corvest @fac_corvest]

Been working on a mix recently, needed specific super easy clipping controls and visu for iOS/macOS setup.

So, I created it! I always start by building a prototype for my own needs, and if it works, I make it available for others. I’m proud of how it turned out! AUv3 Beta soon!

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

@fac_corvest Wow - you seem to never got short on new ideas - I am very curious what you will come up with next. Count me in for the beta - thank you

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

Wusstest Du, dass Banken Beweise für Steuerbetrug bald vernichten dürfen? Hilf, das zu stoppen! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen! https://t.co/1xx8ECDSyI

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

@fac_corvest No worries - understood that - it was just to emphasis my preference 😎 - a choice could never be bad 👍 - tastes are different

[Gavinski’s Tutorials @gavinski_s]

This great new update to Pure Piano and Pure Upright Piano (iPad / iPhone) adds sympathetic resonance. I have a 20-minute spoken walkthrough on this on my YouTube channel, Gavinski’s Tutorials - link in the tweet below.

🟪 Giveaway:

2 winners on Twitter, 2 on my Patreon, 2 on Insta, 2 on YouTube. Winners can choose to win either Pure Piano or Pure Upright.

Winners will be picked at random 2 days from now. I'll put the Twitter winners’ names in a reply to this tweet (or I’ll retweet it with the names) once picked, and DM them their code. To have a chance to win:

✅ Follow me
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✅ Write a comment, any comment

Good luck!

#Piano @Einstruments #PurePiano #PureUpright

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

@gavinski_s Nice apps 😎

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

@fac_corvest Congrats - Well deserved 👏👏👏

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

@gavinski_s Nice chance - thank you 🙏

[Gavinski’s Tutorials @gavinski_s]

MuseBud - New App by Cem Olcay, Now Out (AUv3 for iPad/iPhone/Silicon Macs)

I have copies of ANY Cem Olcay app to give away to a few lucky Twitter followers, details below. There are also giveaways on YouTube and Insta. First some info about the app:

Website with info is here: https://t.co/3vz3LrtMQX

🟧 INFO & REVIEW:

Cem Olcay’s new AUv3, MuseBud, is a MIDI generator app which allows you to customize individual possibilities for note, octave, duration, velocity, gate length, and ratchet counts of the output midi and whch ialso has a built-in midi looper/sequencer.

The main selling point of the app is its fairly fine level of control over randomisation. For example, for duration, you have probability sliders for values from 1/64 to 4 bars (strangely though, no dotted or triplet values) and you can set any probability from 0-100% for each value.

Notes can be chromatic or you can set limitations by scale, mode etc, with a vast list of scales to chose from. Octave values can be from -1 to +9, for velocity you have 15 different sliders for various velocity ranges, there are 12 different sliders for a range of gate times, for ratchets you have 4 sliders to set the chances of 1, 2, 3 or 4 ratchets, and so on.

There is also a looper where you can record sequences within the app and then play them back. During playback you can vary the start/end times of the looper, you can delete/edit steps in the looper by pressing them, and can modify every property of each step, from note and octave to duration, velocity, gate length, and ratchet count. Each pattern comes with its own buffer, allowing you to create an unlimited number of loops by generating new patterns.

Like all Cem’s apps, you can easily set up patterns to switch between.

All in all, another handy tool, but I would like to see more values for note length.

🟧 MY WORKFLOW HERE:

All this is done inside AUM on iPad, as usual. My 40-min spken AUM walkthrough, ‘Almost Everything You Need to Know About AUM’ is worth a watch (See my YouTube). One instance of MuseBud is being used, in chromatic scale, to sequence vocal samples in Elf Audio Koala, with some processing by Bleass Slow Machine and GS DSP Magic Delay. I have done vids on both of those, also. 2 other instances of MuseBud are sequencing 1 instance of Korg Module, with another MuseBud sequencing yet another instance of Module. The Module sounds are from the Far North pack, which I have done a demo video on. One of these instances is being processed by Quantovox RealPhase - fantastic. Not in view, but also used, are FAC Medusa, FAC Alteza and Toneboosters ReelBus (have done a detailed walkthrough of that too!).

🟧 Links:

Website with info is here:

https://t.co/3vz3LrtMQX

Appstore link:

https://t.co/0v9u9o5pYj

🟪 GIVEAWAY:

There are separate giveaways on YT and Twitter, by the way (you can find me there by searching for Gavinski’s Tutorials), meaning a total of 5 winners. Here on Twitter, I have 2 copies of ANY Cem Olcay app to give away. The winners will be picked within 2 days and notified by reply to their comment here, as well as by DM on Twitter. To have a chance to win:

✅ Make sure you’re following me on Twitter
✅ Give this post a thumbs up
✅ Quote tweet or retweet this
✅ Write a comment below, any comment

Good luck!

@cem_olcay #musebud #auv3 #midi #ipadmusic #iphonemusic #iOSmusic #macmusic #generativemidi

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

@gavinski_s Yeah - nice chance - thank you

[Gavinski’s Tutorials @gavinski_s]

🟧Riffler Flow 5 min silent YT video demo & giveaway

Riffler Flow is the new app by the Riffler dev, aimed at a wider range of genres than the original Riffler app, and based on progressions rather than scales or modes. All details, appstore link, giveaway details of how to win either Riffler Flow or the original Riffler app etc are in the pinned YT comment as usual.

The vid is just 5 mins long, but should give you a nice idea of what the new Riffler Flow app is capable of. I really like it so far.

https://t.co/b069mhJl0v

Insta giveaway will be up later today, you can find me on Insta by searching for Gavinski’s Tutorials there, cheers! Gav

Extra chance to win on Twitter!:
✅Follow me
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✅Quote Tweet / RT

[Gavinski’s Tutorials @gavinski_s]

🔥GlitchScaper finally has a single page view! Giveaway of ANY Igor Vasiliev app for M1 Mac / iPad / iPhone - See Below for Details 👇

🟧 I found #Glitchscaper by Igor Vasiliev @zzzwiw to be an interesting fx and instrument when it came out but I didn’t like working with it because of the way the UI was set out. At the time, Igor said he would introduce a single page view for each generator, and that update has finally arrived, which makes me very happy and means I will finally start using this! Anyone using #NoInputMixer will be familiar with how this (optional) new layout works, and you can see how it looks in the attached video. Basically you can now have all the controls for any given generator on one single screen, and then on the left side you can control which generator’s parameters you are viewing, the level of each generator, and you have mute and solo buttons for each.

Appstore Link for your convenience:

https://t.co/iq1JlJYGnY

🟧Here are the main details of the update:

The new button "Multi/Single" toggles the main screen between displaying all six sound generators or displaying all controls for the selected generator on the single screen.

The new option "Undo" allows you to revert parameters to their previous state after "Make sequence" / "Make tone" operations for each generator, as well as return to a save point that you can set before making changes to the parameters of different generators.

Buttons that have multiple values now open a pop-up menu (but you can set the toggle values mode in app settings).

🟧 In this little video, I am using Glitchscaper as an FX on an arpeggiated piano, I have a simple kick running in the background from @BLEASSapps Sidekick and am using @BabyAudio #Transit as an FX from time to time. All the glitchiness and the occasional bassy sounds are coming from the processing that Glitchscaper is doing.

🟪 GIVEAWAY:

I will put giveaways for this on Insta and YouTube later today, you can find me on those by searching for Gavinski’s Tutorials. To win any Igor Vasiliev app (note that many of his apps work on M1 Mac as well as iPhone / iPad) here on Twitter:

✅Follow me
✅Like this post
✅Write a comment, any comment
✅Quote tweet or retweet this

The winner will be picked at random 2 days from now. The winner’s name will be posted as a reply to this post and I will DM you to your Twitter inbox if you win, in which case you will need to reply within 24 hours to claim your prize, or it will go to someone else instead. Good luck! Gav

Ps: At the time of writing, both of these tweets still have open giveaways:

Geoshred Tweet:
https://t.co/KmRQ3cnNKa
Mela / Nikolozi Tweet:
https://t.co/YiN0C9uSyx

#auv3 #ipadmusic #iphonemusic #glitch #aum

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

@gavinski_s @andreitonescu @LunaLi423073 Looks quite easy to use - Great 👍

[Rolf Seese @haitide]

@gavinski_s Nice choice 👍

[Gavinski’s Tutorials @gavinski_s]

LINES by @audiothing and @Hainbach101

A Detailed Written Walkthrough, Review & Giveaway

Appstore link: https://t.co/cN7Auqiw3O

Desktop Plugin: https://t.co/76fNDxE5ag

☎️Giveaway Details are at the bottom of this post

Lines, by Hainbach and AudioThing is described on the App Store as an experimental multi-feedback synthesizer. You load it as an FX app and it can process audio that you put into it but it can also produce sounds completely on its own - It can be an experimental synth based on feedback, for making rhythms, pulses and organic sounds. It’s available for Mac, PC, Linux, iPad and iPhone / iPod. 

What is Lines based on?

Lines is based on a very rare bit of hardware - The Axel Line Simulator, made in the 1970s in Jamaica, New York by a company called Axel Electronics. This was never intended as a piece of music gear! It was used to simulate signal loss over telephone and data lines. That's the original function of all these different parameters like jitter, noise and so on. 

Where it really came alive for Hainbach, after he bought it on eBay, was when he experimented with routing the unit's output back into the input and was blown away by the kind of crazy stuff that came out of it. In essence, using it this way is a kind of #NoInpoutMixer setup.

What’s New?

This original sound has been carefully modeled, but they've also added features. The most important is the feedback section - in the original, feedback would have had to be done by using a cable from the output to the input. Here you simply increase the feedback amount, which also has a low pass filter added inside the feedback path. There’s a built-in limiter too - though it is pre-Output, so I strongly recommend using a limiter after it.

Other additions included giving the frequency shift section a bigger range, adding fine tunable filters, an extra filter in the feedback path, the pulse sequencer, as well as the modulation possibilities of the trip section and sync options for timing that were not in the original. 

Some Menu Section Features

It's really fun to go through the presets but actually you can really get even more value from them by using the parameter lock up in the menu. This will lock certain parameters not only when you're using the randomizer but also when you're changing presets. Also in the menu settings there's a thing called diode temperature drift. This enables or disables a modulation of the internal diode temperature for the second harmonic distortion section. 

UI Walkthrough

Lines has 10 different sections:

pulse sequencer

feedback section

noise section

jitter section

frequency shift section

nonlinear distortion section

line selector

trip section 

momentary buttons 

master section

UI Walkthrough

Let's walk through these sections pointing out a few details. 

On the top left we have the Pulse Sequencer. We turn individual steps on or off with these switches. Length controls the length of the sequence. Volume controls the pulse amplitude. Trigger allows us to switch between free and synced mode and Rate controls the speed of the sequence. 

In the Feedback section, Feedback controls the amount of feedback. The low pass filter controls a low pass filter in the feedback loop. 

In the Noise section we can turn on noise and control the level with the Level button. With the Envelope switch, we can make it so that the noise will only be activated when an input signal is passing through. 

In the Jitter section, DEG means degrees and it controls the amount of phase jitter in degrees. FREQ controls the frequency of the phase jitter. So what is phase jitter? This is a periodic variation, or ‘jitter’, of the phase of the signal. In other words, it's basically playing with the shape of the waveforms. Note that it affects the input data, so if you're just using lines on its own to produce sound, this section won't do anything. 

In the Frequency Shift section, Polarity determines whether the frequency will be shifted up, that's the plus sign, or down, the minus sign. Hz controls the amount of frequency shift in Hertz, Leakage controls the amount of original signal bleeding through. 

In the Non-Linear Distortion section, 2ND controls the amount of the second harmonic distortion, 3RD controls the amount of third harmonic distortion, and Polarity sets the phase for the third harmonic distortion, either inverted (minus symbol), or non-inverted (plus symbol). 

The Line Selector selects four different filter configurations, Width controls the width of the filters, and we can control the Q of the high-pass and the low-pass filters. 

In the Trip section - a built-in modulation section - we can select from various waveforms, Speed controls the speed of the waveform, and the other knobs are to control the negative or positive modulation of various parameters in the app.

The Momentary Buttons are performance controls - Phase Hit temporarily inverts the phase of the input (or generated) signal. Amp Hit temporarily increases the volume of the signal and Amp Drop temporarily decreases the volume of the signal.

The Master section has a switch to turn the limiter on / off, as well as level knobs for Input, Output and Mix.

VERY important! : Note that the Input knob will - of course - alter the sound dramatically when you have the feedback level turned up, even if there is no external input audio, since the feedback knob acts like a cable connecting output back to input. 

Review & Closing Thoughts

I like this VERY much. The clicks, resonances and feedback have a lovely tone to them. The UI is gorgeous (even though the iOS app doesn’t offer anything ‘touch-forward’ in the UX). It is capable of generating a huge variety of interesting sounds, even without any input. As the manual says, as an effect it can generate lo-fi telephone sounds, phasing, distortion, feedback, ring modulation and frequency shifting. Even without any input, it can be an experimental synthesizer based on feedback, capable of generating a wide range of rhythms, pulses, and organic soundscapes. The combination of the powerful parameter lock feature combined with the randomizer can lead to really interesting results. 

I do - as always - have a few suggestions for improvement:

1. I find on the iPad that the Frequency knob responds a bit too sensitively to touches - I hope this can be optimized. I sometimes find it hard to make very fine changes accurately.

2. Note, as mentioned that the limiter is pre-output. I highly recommend using your own limiter after this app to prevent sudden volume spikes above 0dB, This is not a problem at all, its just worth mentioning as a warning. Almost any host app will have limiters among its built-in tools.

3. I don’t like a certain aspect of the preset system - if you want to scroll through presets, the interface is completely obscured. A normal system using left / right arrows to the left and right of the preset name would be vastly preferable for me. Also, currently, the Save button for presets and the randomize button are unresponsive at times, on my iPad, at any rate. I am sure this will be easily fixed though. 

4. While the Trip Section is cute, I would prefer an internal modulation system that allowed you to pick more modulation destinations - for example, I really miss the lack of ability to modulate the pulse sequencer rate. Not a big deal, as you can I use an external LFO, but it means that you have more limited options for preset design than would otherwise be possible. 

5. With the sequencer, I would love to have a way to adjust the timing of each pulse slightly, would like to have some kind of offset feature, maybe some swing options, and maybe some kind of mutate function. It’s a very basic sequencer. Here a bit more of a departure from the original hardware would be welcome.

6. I wish it had undo and redo buttons - because these are always useful with a randomizer

Overall though, I highly recommend this for lovers of the weird and experimental, it‘s an instrument you can get lost in for hours.

🟪GIVEAWAY:

1 Winner will be picked at random 2 days from now, to win a copy of Lines iOS version. To have a chance to win, simply:

✅Like this post
✅ Quote tweet or retweet
✅ Follow me

Good luck!

@audiothing @Hainbach101 #Lines #auv3 #plugin #audio #sound #music #experimentalmusic #sounddesign

[Gavinski’s Tutorials @gavinski_s]

MAC & iOS PLUGIN GIVEAWAY:

A flash sale on Alexey Nadzharov apps is on and will only last 2 days. 2 winners here can win any app by Alexey. Details are below 👇

Here I am using his apps Sinusedo & ddtctmcc. Sinusedo is creating a modulated sine wave drone, and ddtctmcc is being used to draw in automation in real time of the filter frequency and bitcrush amount in SoundSaw by Igor Vasiliev, which I am using to distort the sound of Sinusedo.

Alexey has some very interesting apps for those into experimental music. The UIs are extremely basic but the prices are also cheap and they are often unique in what they do.

App Store Link for your convenience:
https://t.co/jui8iIK1B7

Note that many of these apps can run on Intel Macs as well as on iPad / iPhone - check the appstore descriptions.

GIVEAWAY:
As this sale is short, I will pick the winners a few hours from now. To have a chance to win, simply:

✅Follow me
✅Like this post
✅Quote Tweet or Retweet

When the winners are picked I will - as always - add a comment here announcing their names and I will DM the winners to ask which app they want.

Good luck!

#AlexeyNadzharov #Sinusedo #ddtctmcc #resonatedo #soundsaw #lfoch #soundfruuze #auv3

[Gavinski’s Tutorials @gavinski_s]

One of the winners of my recent @cem_olcay giveaways did not claim his prize, so here is another short demo of BounceBud (a #physics-based midi generator) with a giveaway.

If you want a chance to win a spare copy of BounceBud #AUv3 (works on M1 Mac btw, as well as iPhone / iPad / iPod, simply:

✅Make sure you’re following me
✅Like this vid
✅Repost or Quote Post

The winner will be picked at random tomorrow. Good luck!

Note one thing here - I am using the instance of #BounceBud to send #midi to itself to ‘shoot its own walls’, pretty cool! The iOS host I am using, AUM, is also totally capable of all kinds of audio feedback loops, and indeed you can very easily set up #AUM as a #noinputmixer as long as you know how to do it and take care to use a limiter or be very careful with your send amounts etc.