As always, just really energized and inspired on seeing these videos of yours, Andrew, which do such a fantastic job in conveying the workflows and methods you use. As a relative newcomer to iOS music making, for me it's one thing to have an idea about what the cool tools are to use, but it's so much more useful to see and hear by way of practical examples how they can be used together to produce your finished product. Thanks as always!
Thanks so for the kind words, Frank. That's exactly my goal in doing all this and I"m glad you find it helpful and inspiring. I appreciate you reading, as always!
I love Felt Instruments, and the UA plugins and apps. I have long had and loved both Lekko and Blisko, and often use Silo, Lo-Fi-Af.
On a slight tangent, I seem to remember you also use instruments by Slate + Ash. Can you share any thoughts for someone (me) choosing their first steps with Slate + Ash? I have been gifted Auras, so that's a given, and now am choosing another. Any suggestions that might help me to choose, bearing in mind that my genre is meditative ambient and drone?
Yes, I love my Slate & Ash software! I think they’re making some of the most interesting instruments out there now.
Auras is a good start but definitely much different from their current instruments, which are more tweakable from the ground up. I would recommend Choreographs if you are new to them; it has excellent built in sounds for synthesized tones but you can also load your own samples and go anywhere you want. The documentation on their website is also superior to the older instruments.
I use Landforms and Cycles all the time, but Landforms is very much “orchestral” and may be too narrow a starting point as a sound source compared to Choreographs, even if it can get really, really wild. Cycles is an incredible granular sampler but it can be tricky to use and extremely taxing on CPU processing power.
Thanks Andrew. That's all really helpful. I contacted Slate + Ash, and gave details of my setup. I have Auras, which I'm enjoying, as I needed pads for a project. They said that Choreographs might be a good starting point for me, as Cycles and Landforms would be too CPU heavy for my 2020 Intel Macbook Pro. Interestingly, they also said to look out for a new, stripped back version of Landforms, which will have the same instrument samples, but a stripped back engine, so ideal for folk like me.
Ha, I feel that way about the tape sims and Soundtoys stuff I use...incredibly this is my first run-in with anything from Unfiltered Audio. After years of saying "I should buy that," I finally did. Loving it!
AudioThings is my real vice. I own everything they’ve put out on iOS and use something of theirs on every track. Speakers just landed yesterday and it’s a lot of fun.
As always, just really energized and inspired on seeing these videos of yours, Andrew, which do such a fantastic job in conveying the workflows and methods you use. As a relative newcomer to iOS music making, for me it's one thing to have an idea about what the cool tools are to use, but it's so much more useful to see and hear by way of practical examples how they can be used together to produce your finished product. Thanks as always!
Thanks so for the kind words, Frank. That's exactly my goal in doing all this and I"m glad you find it helpful and inspiring. I appreciate you reading, as always!
I love Felt Instruments, and the UA plugins and apps. I have long had and loved both Lekko and Blisko, and often use Silo, Lo-Fi-Af.
On a slight tangent, I seem to remember you also use instruments by Slate + Ash. Can you share any thoughts for someone (me) choosing their first steps with Slate + Ash? I have been gifted Auras, so that's a given, and now am choosing another. Any suggestions that might help me to choose, bearing in mind that my genre is meditative ambient and drone?
Yes, I love my Slate & Ash software! I think they’re making some of the most interesting instruments out there now.
Auras is a good start but definitely much different from their current instruments, which are more tweakable from the ground up. I would recommend Choreographs if you are new to them; it has excellent built in sounds for synthesized tones but you can also load your own samples and go anywhere you want. The documentation on their website is also superior to the older instruments.
I use Landforms and Cycles all the time, but Landforms is very much “orchestral” and may be too narrow a starting point as a sound source compared to Choreographs, even if it can get really, really wild. Cycles is an incredible granular sampler but it can be tricky to use and extremely taxing on CPU processing power.
Thanks Andrew. That's all really helpful. I contacted Slate + Ash, and gave details of my setup. I have Auras, which I'm enjoying, as I needed pads for a project. They said that Choreographs might be a good starting point for me, as Cycles and Landforms would be too CPU heavy for my 2020 Intel Macbook Pro. Interestingly, they also said to look out for a new, stripped back version of Landforms, which will have the same instrument samples, but a stripped back engine, so ideal for folk like me.
I use the Unfiltered Audio stuff a bit too much probably, but they are great apps. Thanks for sharing your process.
Ha, I feel that way about the tape sims and Soundtoys stuff I use...incredibly this is my first run-in with anything from Unfiltered Audio. After years of saying "I should buy that," I finally did. Loving it!
AudioThings is my real vice. I own everything they’ve put out on iOS and use something of theirs on every track. Speakers just landed yesterday and it’s a lot of fun.