Its great that this is like a drum machine, sampler, synthesiser & sequencer all in one. You can really do some amazing modulation with this. Only thing that is really missing is having separate swing on each channel and then being able to modulate the swing parameter so that every note could be a slightly different position. Its definitely got the potential to be one of the best instruments out there and it's not too far away from it
Perfect idea for a manual, very concise, going through every control and parameter hands on with short explanation of each is much easier to comprehend than the written manual, very good job man and thank you!
Such an inspiration to watch you work / play, John! STROKES is just beautiful and it is a joy to watch you interacting with your powerful creation! Carry on!
Pulled the trigger after seeing this and been going to town on it. Hats off indeed! And your jams are slick John! I'd play them out if they where for sale somewhere, loving the breaky house chord blip bloops whatevertheyare. xx
thanks man :) the last LP I made was for Peak Oil under the name paperclip minimiser -> paperclipminimiser.bandcamp.com/album/paperclip-minimiser I also release mine and my friends' music here -> congburn.bandcamp.com/
@@cong-burn Cheers! Will have a dig after work tonight :) 3 days into exploring Strokes, and its been a total revelation. Its f**king nifty! Small question though; Is there a way to create "selfmade" chords that would fall into a certain scale? The chords in the Plaits engine only plays "predetermined" chords right? I would really like to play some chords in the Minor Pentatonic scale lol!
these were inspired by palle dahlstedt's nord g2 patch mutator which you can check out here www.nordkeyboards.com/sites/default/files/files/downloads/manuals/nord-modular-G2/Nord%20Modular%20G2%20Mutator%20English%20User%20Manual%20v1.0%20Edition%20A.pdf every synth should have a mutator IMO!
CLAP version would be great for Bitwig CLAP plugins effectively become native devices, so utilities like microtuning come into play. Also significantly lighter on resources.
John, great app, and I finally got around to buying it. However I'm still confused how to save patterns. I think this section needs work. Very much looking forward to what you add next.
This looks very interesting and complex! Does the iOS app allow Any Kind of Trial with an option for in app purchase?? I’m very intrigued to try this out but not sure I’d be able to wrap my head around it! I mostly use digitone and op1 with iOS apps not a lot of modular stuff
Thank yo so much for the brilliant app. I have only one extra question: can Strokes modulate sample start point? Or can I use some another app(LFOH in AUM session for example ) for modulating this parameter?
thank you ! :) yes you can modulate the start point AND the end point internally. there's a few interesting things that can happen with this, firstly moving the end point away from the end will make the sample loop from the start point to the end point. you can make very short loops that sound like oscillators. for longer loops strokes will try to find a zero crossing point for a smooth loop, otherwise it'll click (tho I love the sound of clicks thru a resonant filter!) secondly if you set your start point past your end point, the sample plays/loops in reverse. thirdly if the start and end points are set to the same position, the sampler doesn't play. so when you're firing complex modulation at the start and end points - sometimes your sound will play backwards, forwards, as a 1ms fragment that sounds like an oscillator and occasionally from start to finish like normal. if you really dial it in you can chop a breakbeat too
How can I set up midi from an external controller that has a lot of faders, sliders, joysticks? I want to manage all the features of your application using midi. Is there a midi learn function or something else? Thank you in advance!
Hey Mike. There's hundreds of parameters to map, and the interpolation sliders on the performance page can effectively work as macros where you can control all parameters for a single voice/channel with the slider - so there's lots of fun to be had with controllers. There's no MIDI learn on the standalone iOS app so you'll need to use a host like AUM or Ableton Live if you're on desktop. But basically everything you see on the UI (with the exception of the octogonal XY pad) can be mapped to a controller. Adding MIDI learn to the standalone app isn't my top priority at the minute since its handled so well by hosts, but its likely to end up in a future update one day
As someone whos watched redmeansrecording for a long time and really wanted to get into this sort of music creation, but didnt have the money to buy physical things: Is the ipad program good on its own? I dont need a pc? The video seems to say yes but maybe im missing something.
I made this so I'll skip over the question of whether its good (yes if you ask me!) But to answer your second question, you can run strokes as a standalone application on iPad so it doesn't require any additional software to make sounds. if you want to record your projects you'd probably want something that can record the headphone output of your iPad - there is not built in capture/recording in Strokes. Hope this clears things up - happy to take any other questions
Hey really sorry about this ! that button sets the polarity of the modulation. basically bipolar goes from -1. to 1., while unipolar goes from 0. to 1. - I will try and think of another word to describe this behaviour and get it changed in the next patch. Thank you for the heads up
thanks for taking the time to explain this but my comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. please don't change your console, it's really nice :) @@cong-burn
Old star trek set designers would have killed for this
lol good catch .... has enterprise design vibe all over it
Just getting ridiculously powerful and innovative, John, hats off to you!
This app is changing the way I channel music now. Thank you, I m hooked and obsessed
Its great that this is like a drum machine, sampler, synthesiser & sequencer all in one. You can really do some amazing modulation with this. Only thing that is really missing is having separate swing on each channel and then being able to modulate the swing parameter so that every note could be a slightly different position. Its definitely got the potential to be one of the best instruments out there and it's not too far away from it
Perfect idea for a manual, very concise, going through every control and parameter hands on with short explanation of each is much easier to comprehend than the written manual, very good job man and thank you!
This is one of the best things I've ever seen. I'm gonna be telling all my friends about it hahah
looks like a control panel on the starship enterprise
Inspired. Congratulations on another stellar update.
Such an inspiration to watch you work / play, John! STROKES is just beautiful and it is a joy to watch you interacting with your powerful creation! Carry on!
I don't know why I waited so long before buying it. That's a brillant app! Thanks!
Getting better and better...
ridicules good upgrade.....one of the best out there.
This is really wonderful, can’t wait to dive in and experiment
Great work, John! This is so impressive.
Wow, what an update. Nice work!
So cool and even though I'm not gonna pretend I followed every turn in your demo it was helpful. Yes, more please.
Pulled the trigger after seeing this and been going to town on it. Hats off indeed! And your jams are slick John! I'd play them out if they where for sale somewhere, loving the breaky house chord blip bloops whatevertheyare. xx
thanks man :)
the last LP I made was for Peak Oil under the name paperclip minimiser -> paperclipminimiser.bandcamp.com/album/paperclip-minimiser
I also release mine and my friends' music here -> congburn.bandcamp.com/
@@cong-burn Cheers! Will have a dig after work tonight :) 3 days into exploring Strokes, and its been a total revelation. Its f**king nifty!
Small question though; Is there a way to create "selfmade" chords that would fall into a certain scale? The chords in the Plaits engine only plays "predetermined" chords right? I would really like to play some chords in the Minor Pentatonic scale lol!
i really like the look and transitions you convinced me to grab it
love the little drawings in perform section!
these were inspired by palle dahlstedt's nord g2 patch mutator which you can check out here
www.nordkeyboards.com/sites/default/files/files/downloads/manuals/nord-modular-G2/Nord%20Modular%20G2%20Mutator%20English%20User%20Manual%20v1.0%20Edition%20A.pdf
every synth should have a mutator IMO!
@@cong-burn thanks!
Such a massive update
It looks amazing. Great job!
Bravissimo John👏🏻👏🏻
Can’t wait for this, really need to get back into Strokes
looks incredible
Such a good app had a blast 💥 using this lately 🎉
Strokes is really quite special!
Love this
Looks amazing 😍
Great update 👍🏻🤘🏻
Just Wow!
very cool indeed
so sick
This sounds so damn good.. If I could make beats like in this vid, I’d buy it hands down. Looks pretty damn hard to get your head round though..
CLAP version would be great for Bitwig
CLAP plugins effectively become native devices, so utilities like microtuning come into play.
Also significantly lighter on resources.
John, great app, and I finally got around to buying it. However I'm still confused how to save patterns. I think this section needs work. Very much looking forward to what you add next.
Looks like Rebirth on steroids, I like plugins like this.
This looks very interesting and complex! Does the iOS app allow Any Kind of Trial with an option for in app purchase?? I’m very intrigued to try this out but not sure I’d be able to wrap my head around it! I mostly use digitone and op1 with iOS apps not a lot of modular stuff
Loving the app so far, so much to get my head around.
Where can I get the factory sample pack?
Thank you 🙏
thanks adam! hit the "i" button in the bottom right corner of the app and you'll find a button on the menu
I can't find any documentation on routing the audio out/multi. Please could you do a quick video guide?
Hey, you'll need to use a host/DAW for this. There's a mention of it in this video
th-cam.com/video/pZ6aetRM3T4/w-d-xo.html
Killer!! Please implement scala files 😇🙏😈
+1
Wow ❤
Great
Need a course in this unteal😅
Thank yo so much for the brilliant app. I have only one extra question: can Strokes modulate sample start point? Or can I use some another app(LFOH in AUM session for example ) for modulating this parameter?
thank you ! :) yes you can modulate the start point AND the end point internally.
there's a few interesting things that can happen with this, firstly moving the end point away from the end will make the sample loop from the start point to the end point. you can make very short loops that sound like oscillators. for longer loops strokes will try to find a zero crossing point for a smooth loop, otherwise it'll click (tho I love the sound of clicks thru a resonant filter!)
secondly if you set your start point past your end point, the sample plays/loops in reverse.
thirdly if the start and end points are set to the same position, the sampler doesn't play.
so when you're firing complex modulation at the start and end points - sometimes your sound will play backwards, forwards, as a 1ms fragment that sounds like an oscillator and occasionally from start to finish like normal.
if you really dial it in you can chop a breakbeat too
This is a sentient Groove Synthesis Playground Laboratory ….off da 4king planet .
Anybody use strokes on an iPad mini 6th gen? Whats the UI experience like with smaller real estate?
When is this new version been released?
it went live on the app store about 10 minutes ago :))
@@cong-burn looking forward to having a play.
How can I set up midi from an external controller that has a lot of faders, sliders, joysticks? I want to manage all the features of your application using midi. Is there a midi learn function or something else? Thank you in advance!
Hey Mike.
There's hundreds of parameters to map, and the interpolation sliders on the performance page can effectively work as macros where you can control all parameters for a single voice/channel with the slider - so there's lots of fun to be had with controllers.
There's no MIDI learn on the standalone iOS app so you'll need to use a host like AUM or Ableton Live if you're on desktop. But basically everything you see on the UI (with the exception of the octogonal XY pad) can be mapped to a controller.
Adding MIDI learn to the standalone app isn't my top priority at the minute since its handled so well by hosts, but its likely to end up in a future update one day
@@cong-burn thank you for your reply and once again: very very inspirational app!
Can all these sequences and modulation be sent to VST's in Bitwig instead of using the built in osc's?
Delved deeper. Question answered. Looking mighty interesting.
@@f_stop nice ! yeah I was going to point you here -> th-cam.com/video/pZ6aetRM3T4/w-d-xo.html
Is the vst multitouch capable and is there a full screen mode?
When Nasa meets Cern and having a Baby...
As someone whos watched redmeansrecording for a long time and really wanted to get into this sort of music creation, but didnt have the money to buy physical things:
Is the ipad program good on its own? I dont need a pc? The video seems to say yes but maybe im missing something.
I made this so I'll skip over the question of whether its good (yes if you ask me!)
But to answer your second question, you can run strokes as a standalone application on iPad so it doesn't require any additional software to make sounds. if you want to record your projects you'd probably want something that can record the headphone output of your iPad - there is not built in capture/recording in Strokes.
Hope this clears things up - happy to take any other questions
@congburn6504 yes it did! I was missing the record functionality. I agree this looks great ;)!
What touch screen device are you using?
this is a 10 year old iPad pro, 1st generation
What device do you use in the video exactly? Looks so large.
this is a first gen iPad Pro 12.9 inch - it runs way better on M1
Is Linux included? It's just a compliment away! A LOT more people are in Linux these days!
I don't want to put a date on anything but yea, there'll be a linux version one day :)
Waiting 9.99€…
no discounts/sales planned sorry
I saw the word bipolar on your console and got triggered :( the music is great though; that more than made up for it.
Hey really sorry about this ! that button sets the polarity of the modulation. basically bipolar goes from -1. to 1., while unipolar goes from 0. to 1. - I will try and think of another word to describe this behaviour and get it changed in the next patch. Thank you for the heads up
thanks for taking the time to explain this but my comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. please don't change your console, it's really nice :) @@cong-burn