iPhone Music Making: How I played Moogfest with just my phone.
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- So I did an improvised 40-minute ambient live set at Moogfest, using just the phone in my pocket. This video explains how. Link to the full set, all apps used in this video below! Hit subscribe and share this, yo!
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xynthesizr (main synth): itunes.apple.c...
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audio damage studio bundle (contains dub station delay and EOS reverb and more): itunes.apple.c...
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Susumu Yokota - Sakura:
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Great to see how you work with iOs and to see Moog accepting of such a performance (they doo make the great AniMoog app as well). We have to work to appreciate great music, no matter how it's created. There is a tendency to only acknowledge music makers that have the most gear, the most rare synths, made with the most esoteric tools. Sure, that is great, but it's also great to be able to make music on a portable device, like an iPhone, which many people have access too. As you said, it's all really about taste and talent to create music, not the tools so much. I remember when people started performing on laptops and how new and exciting that was. Seeing a solo laptop / Max/MSP show was sort of like seeing a modular show now. To me, it was equally new and mysterious (what''s he even doing up there?).
Thanks, and yeah - this. Despite the fact I still obviously bloody love boxes of things, never forget: "It's not the gear. It's the ear." You can make music with anything.
@@mylarmelodies Agree - most important musical statement ever. Make music with anything. Last night I made one of the best tracks I've done in a while with a delay pedal and a stone...
This is REALLY cool :D
Is there anything like Zynthesizer on 'Droid ?
brilliant
"All that's in the eurorack modules is the chips in our phones". Except of the knobs, maestro! We're doing it for the knobs man. ;)
I hope you realise how much of a positive impact you are having in the music microcosm by reminding us what got us all into frequency exploration : Curiosity and wonder.
When I download the app WHILE watching the video, you know I'm already hooked. Thanks. Brilliant work. You've done it again.
Best YT synth video of 2019!!! AUM is a game changer. Learned so much, thank you.
Moog does have a few great iOS apps... Model 15, Model D, Animoog
Valdis Krebs +1 for the iOS Model15 🙂✨
Just came across your performance and this overview and wanted to say thanks for the inspiration and great music. Working my way through your recordings and tips!
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Amen!!
When people who are interested in making electronic music ask me what to get first, I always tell them to start with their phone.
So much power in there.
I love xynthesizr! I've made some loops on it that I then sample a couple of bars from onto a sampler and it adds such an awesome ambience to any hardware set
4 years later I still highly enjoyed this talk with fitting background sounds.
I switched to iPad. It is really really good I can do mostly whatever I want with cheaper equipments/softwares. It is really future and I think it will grow.
I use Xynthesizr all the time on my Ipad, my fav app for sure. It is also a great app for sequencing hardware, you can set different midi channels for each row of color in the app as well. So you can sequence drums and different synthesizers with Xynthesizr alone. I'm really happy that you pick up this app since it deserves the attention! You should also check out shoom which is a drone synth made by the same developer.
Thank you for that awesome demonstration of iPhone capabilities in a very entertaining video - highly appreciate this 👍
Thank you for the walk through, incredibly inspiring.
Straight up Dr. Alex Paterson territory, this. Love it!
Don’t get me started on all the audio apps I own and beta test. I have four iPads and 6 iPhones (along with a shit ton of adapters to midi control them or use them to do just about everything). I still own a boat load of hardware and use software but sometimes I love doing a gig where I literally just use an iPhone and an iPad and sometimes I get the stink eye from other bands on the same bill. But I’m not some kid that just started using an iPhone to make music a year ago. I have lugged gear, records, and just about everything else for many years-so being able to play something cool as shit on an iPhone is refreshing. I love that you played that at Moogfest. I beta tested Animoog for a year about five years ago. It is one of those apps that still plays nicely on an old iPad 3. I remember pushing Audiobus on an iPhone 4-it was such a breakthrough app. I could only get three apps to play at once but I did it and I was damn proud. I loved nano studio, music studio, and the first alchemy. I remember actually having to pay for garage band on iOS. I would check what apps were on sale daily and I literally own so many it is sickening.
But if I were to buy all that gear it would be 10 times as much. Plus beta testing is fun because you get to help developers make kick ass apps that you hope will be used to make kick ass music! Total iOS addict.
Love what you’re doing and love iOS integration!! You rock🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻
Good recommendations are hard to come by. I'm a music app nerd and a huge music hunting nerd and somehow I'd never heard of this app and the Sakura album. Loving both of them so much, thank you for enriching my life with this video!!
Sakura - One of the best ambient albums of all time. Glad it continues to inspire!
oooh..made my morning this...amazing! love it!! totes blissed out
i've been making a lot of gadget music lately..it's bloody awesome..I bought a big iPad to use it with and it's even more awesome..though Apple have latency issues on the new pads..off to check out those other apps..cheers!
Great stuff! Thanks for introducing me to xynthesizr and aum.
The trains are very inspiring.
Times square nyc has a lot of resonant nodes too.
You got to send the synth into your modular for hoots!
The interface on xsynth is flawless. Nice demo. Pretty music.
Great video. I'm actually preparing a live set myself, where I use a AUM/Xynthesizr/... setup and I might have used the one or the other trick after I saw your video. But I couldn't strip the setup down as much as you yet, so I'm about to bring some more hardware. For controlling the apps I also use a small MIDI controller, which is quite helpful if you want to change things in more than one app at a time. Furthermore I build some generative MIDI sequencers out of a few Patchblocks modules that trigger two small synths, a few guitar effects and a couple of dictaphones for drones etc.
Anyhow, I'm getting quite chatty ... thanks for your video. :)
This is exactly what I needed! Thank you!!!
Only time I want to have an apple product is when I see the music apps on ios. Damn, that is cool.
I’ve just listened to your Amos Gaynes Why we bleep episode while doing a paint job where you mentioned this wonderful app! Now I’m making lovely music in stead of painting the upper rooms...
Oh goodness, I'm going to need a longer commute! Well done mate.
Samplr is excellent, I dig Borderlands Granular as well right now. I would also recommend Igor Vasilievs apps (Fieldscaper etc.) for anyone looking for interesting ios apps. I work with modular as well but there is some cool stuff going on in these other realms. Also a Susumu fan btw!
Cheers!
What the poop...When I first watched the live set I thought you recorded the video with an iphone....I'm amazed at how good it sounded for just being a simple iphone app. Wow...
I also love US trains! Trains in general. Very interesting what you said about the effect -never thought of that.
Loved this. Thanks for sharing
Xynthesizr, meet Clouds. Clouds, meet Xynthesizr. I literally stopped watching at about the 10 minute mark to buy Xynthesizr. AUM will be next once I fully get my head around Xynthesizr.
Rad mate! Now get yourself an iPad, run multiple instances of Fugue Machine sequencing M15 and Quanta drenched in EOS2 reverb all in AUM :)
100 points for having the guts to do this with your phone alone. It sounds cool and relax btw.
Ahh. I am very glad you enjoyed my small island in the North Atlantic ! Your music is so inspiring. Thanks for making it.
Dood. Nanostudio is still my jam. I wish it was updated but I can’t imagine how hard that must be. Thanks for keeping me hip on the freshest audio apps!!
Wow just really got into it
Great app
Very nice, your enthusiasm is infectious. I’ve only watched 2 of your videos and learned so much.
I had watched this a bit, but not fully. But then saw Jeremy on RMR mention you and have come back to this. It's a bit of a revelation! I might have to fire up Animoog again...
This was great and really inspirational. I am also a huge fan of Ambient and Downtempo (long live Brian Eno). I write primarily in those styles, but have never given much though as to how I might perform them in a live setting. This video gave me a million ideas. As well as introducing me to some apps I did not have on my iPad. Thanks for all of it, I've got some work to do.
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Great! The sound and vibes remind me of a Legowelt set I went to in a movie theatre called Eye here in Amsterdam. He scored the movie Nosferatu 1979 live. It was really good! See if you can find some footage on that online if you find the time.
He says they recorded that live score and planned on releasing it, but I'm still waiting.
Aaron Swain I got a bunch of video’s of the legowelt set shot throughout the show. It’s pretty decent quality, I mean for a phone recording of course. No distortion, cause the volume was quite low. Would be awesome to have it as a release though!
Steve would call your set "Music for iPhone". That app is fire. I can also recommend Sunvox (sort of a cross between oldschool dos trackers and Jeskola Buzz, all wrapped in a nice fluid interface), and PixiVisor (It converts images into soundscapes and back, effectively giving you the opportunity to do effects processing in image editors!)
Im a fan of train sounds also, arrived & departed Durham 15 years ago and have lots of audio from that time. Ended up in Seattle.
Impressive, even on quite a limited device you've still really got across your sound. These clips fit side by side with your recent album. Look forward to listening to the full set.
Every video you do keeps getting better and better mate, enjoy the channel a lot, always something new :) very insprirational
your channel is very informative and I found it through RMR. great stuff mang. I gotta try this app!
There is joy in repetition.
There is joy in repetition.
There is joy in repetition.
There is joy in repetition.
There is joy in repetition.
There is joy in repetition.
There is joy in repetition.
There is joy in repetition.
There is joy in repetition.
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Excellent demonstration of your style and methodology thanks 👍
Dude, that was super chilled out. Could listen to your ambient stuff all day long :)
amazing, simple, creative, totally ace mate.
Great video. I noticed your podcast has slowed down. I think you’ve interviewed everyone that you’re comfortable interviewing. Next step is to reach out and interview people that you’re not comfortable with... your heroes, people outside the TH-cam sphere, etc... it’s the next phase and I know you can do it man. Keep it up.
Hah, no I just moved North so have been struggling to actually physically get to people as I am aiming to record them in person! Plenty of other people I'd like to interview who have agreed in principle
The music sounds great, and thanks for a clear and concise walk through of how you did it. I use a lot of the same apps, just not as well as you!
Great video, learnt lots - thank you! I used Xynthesizr in my last video but you have inspired me to go deeper! 🙏
AMEN to everything you say. And thank you for advices. Great video. Cheers to you.
This is a product is very similar to Sunvox.
And if you don't know what Sunvox is you would love it
It's not but Sunvox (by Alexander Zolotov) is an exceptional app nonetheless. Yuri Turov, the dev of Xynthesisr also made Shoom, which is a unbelievably good app for abstract, ambient jams.
@@Zaubrer488 thank you for correcting me
@@Zaubrer488 Shroom is iPad only however
Nice video, and really cool app 😎
thank you for sharing as always, this is so great and inspiring
Such a wholesome video, pumped to give those apps a try on an upcoming 4 hour flight 🤙
Your channel is super inspiring and as always, positive, love it and thanks for the video! :)
Awesome, man! This is something I'd love to try
What an interesting and inspiring video. That 25 minutes went by really fast. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for the walk through. The filter mixing tip is a gem! I think you'll love Ruismaker Noir. Ripplemaker is also good.
Thanks for sharing. Gives me some ideas and things to explore.
I was there and this was an awesome set. Wished there was a camera to show what you were doing during this performance.
Been using AUM so much in the last two weeks, love playing with midi sequencers and sending them to diff instruments. Been on the lookout for good little synth/drum apps that are both cheap and have low CPU usage.
That AUM app blew my mind. Holy shit.
Great video and great music
I was there and you were amazing! Thanks for this background on your motivation and “gear.”
The sky's the limit. amazing
Excellent demo!
beautiful tutorial !)))
Yes I know that Durham sound! Cool stuff as usual, thanks. Still need to figure out AUM but I’ve seen a lot of people using it at Superbooth as well.
I would have passed so much gas at this show once I seen you using a phone .
That. Is soooo good! I'll follow this trail for my traveling times ... in particular the aum and audio damage stuff :-)
You put on a great set. Enjoyed it a lot. 21C is a damned nice place for a show and you put on a good one. It was our six year old daughter's first show. I thought she would lose interest quickly as kids do, but she loved it. Thanks for doing what you do!
What, literally her first live show? Honoured!
mylarmelodies yeah man! It was a special thing for us. Thanks for this video. Nice to learn about your process. iOS is an awesome platform for making music and you use it well. Ready to trade in your DFAM for Ruismaker Noir? 😉
Looks like a high energy live set
Proper bangin
seeing this is the first time i've ever wanted an i phone. caustic is cool but i would love something like aum and xynthesizr
Really nice sounds!
and cheers to Alex, a friend of mine ;)
Greetings from Berlin
You know xynthesizer has midi out right? And AUM has clock out. It could run with your modular .
Yup that’s my plan next
Pretty late to the party but I have to say that this is truly amazing. Thanks for sharing! All the best!
Thanks and still agree, Endlesss is a triumph, and now there’s a mac & windows version that can live in your DAW - win win.
Soooooo, Nano studio 2 is out and the newest update will allow you to drop it into AUM!!! Now put them all in AUM run Nano as the main with moog AU inside it and send midi tracks out to korg synths in gadget plus run samplr and others 🤯🤯🤯🤯
i LOVE this app. One of the best for iOS IMO. Great review/show of implementation. My other is Bebot. Amazingly fun.
Sounds awesome !!! Looks like a Tetris game !!! I've got to get to #Moogfest !!! 💚 #Patranizers
Great! Thank you so much for you videos.
Check out Noir from Bram Bos as well. It's a bit like the Moog DFAM in it's sound, and fits well with this kind of music.
I'm getting an iPad Pro just for music and digital painting. They just seem to really be getting to the point where the cost is low compared to what is capable.
Reminds me of some of Laraaji’s work ... the blissful Day Of Radiance comes to mind ... we are traveling in parallel, Alex ... I liked this performance and +1 for Moogfest in general 🙂✨
Thanks, enjoying all these good reccs as well - Laraaji is now on the list
Ive not watched this all the way through yet but 2 mins in I definitely recognise a clipped vocal sound from Gadget’s London.
“beb”!
sounds really nice , reminds me of global communications from many years ago. i'm off to by the the xynthesizr app.
Guess it's time to re-download xynthesizr again :)
Good stuff Sir!
Sounds great. Who was eating the Doritos during recording your set
Been producing on iOS for over 10 years - straight up would never touch a computer again for that purpose 😎
This is so coooooooooll!
Very inspiring
wow..just got that ap...i’m hooked already =)
got AUM too..blimey that’s a good app..much easier to use than audiobus imo..good steers my man! as you say, both of those are well worth the money 👍
So very cool! I totally loved Moogfest this year! Way more to see than humanly possible.
Mmmmmmm blissssed ooooout......
Needs more keymasher
Have you tried chordflow? Bit like someone smooshed xynthesizr and gadget together.
Terry Riley on a bus.
Very informative and inspiring walkthrough. Aum is fantastic. Thanks for the filter mixing trick. Maybe you mentioned it, but did you use a mic for your recordings or did you record straight into phone?
Thanks - All audio recorded straight to phone!
I played a live set with a korg monotron
Lessee