Here’s a short video of one of my first tryout patches, a pulse feed inspired by the slightly irregular clicks of our daughter’s milk bottle one sleep deprived morning during the first months of her life.Īnd here’s the (iPhone Voice Memo) recording of the original milk bottle clicks: Your browser does not support the audio tag. The best way to get an idea of Audulus is to see it in action.
AUDULUS 3MUSIC PATCH
It’s great to be able ‘play’ a module or patch without the intermediary of an extra interface/controller. Part of that has to do with it existing on the iPad: Even though certain aspects of building patches may be more efficient on a Mac, I find the direct interaction with the interface on the iPad a nicer way to work. Whatever the case, it has caught on with me in a way that Max for some reason never has. I hesitate at the comparison with Max since Audulus, in its focus on sound, is not as wide ranging (or complicated) as Max, nor is that the intention. While the visual programming aspect brings Max or PD to mind, with Audulus the approach is more closely modelled on (analogue) modular synthesis. I will also say, that part of baking and preparing a cake involves letting it cool to apply icing/frosting and fillings – a “hot cake” is a crap cake, most likely microwave re-heated.27, 2016 3 min read Audulus 3 First ImpressionsĪ little over two months ago I chanced across Audulus, an app for programming sound and music by connecting nodes and modules with virtual patch cables. Believe it or not, cheap useless shite sells.īut a real irony in all this is that I’ve never brought a “hot cake”, I don’t know anyone who buys, sells or eats “hot cakes”, where do you even go to buy “hot cakes”? Bakers don’t sell “hot cakes”. It is like saying it is ironic if a person moans about thrift stores yet doesn’t shop in high end exclusive luxury stores they can’t afford – that isn’t irony, that is reality.
I won’t have the funds for a Modal in the next 6 months. I dislike the JDXi, and adore the Modal 008, in the next 6 months I may own a JDXi, not because I want one but purely based on it being a cheap piece of hodge-podge I can afford. The only option was to buy a cheap piece of crapola. Is that ironic? People talk about buying cheap affordable hardware, they do so as it is accessible and affordable it doesn’t therefore follow that they like these synths or find them useful, or ever held any real desire to own one. The boutiques by Roland failed in every single way by my account, all I’m saying! (Surely an interesting topic tho lol, not having at the list makers just reviewing a product by comparison ) Even at under 200 dollars, it has little real competition on the market in terms of my needs and wants until you go up to a prophet 6 or something. Volca is a few vcos and a single bucket brigade cup rigged up in an extremely efficient digital control system. The wobble of the whole thing is real, it’s just not a boomstar in sound – mind you, I’ll never think of a boomstar as a real performance synth for me because it has no CC control and can thus only be used in super-basic minimoog style (just bend and vibrato and maybe one other paran can be applied at once, and it is harder than it should be to do with one hand), or by a two-hands-tweaking setup necessitating use of sequences and other stuff to simulate a riffs and leads performance I could be playing in real time, if the company had the wisdom to let me use my xy page and sliders to control the synth how I want to, how they really deserve to be played, worbling and resonating like vco beasts. The poly ringmod is unique and sounds amazing especially combined with portamento. I prefer to jam with the volca and a good controller than with all other low cost synths I’ve tried and heard. It has a midi in, takes CC for everything except resonance, and is thus EXTREMELY performance friendly.
My volca keys sounds warmer deeper and better than my friend’s jp boutique, all I’m saying.
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