ArpShift

Very nice!
Just have 2 suggestions(wishes)
A 128/256 version would be cool.
The option to choose Midi channels would be very helpfull.
Thanks for this app.

love the video ! No time now to test the app (work ...), but that's look promising !

@Fluxpod glad you like it!
I can definitely make the midi channel editable. The 128/256 version is a bit more out of my grasp, as I don't have those models. The 64 I have is on loan! Perhaps if I were to acquire those models... ;)

@Lukas Johnson Thanks! I've tried it on drums and it works ok. It's best on some kind of FX kit and not real drums. If you have NI's Battery, something like Apparat Kit or Microwave kit work well.

The 'tune' as it were, is just me improvising with the default settings. I used a relatively simple FM8 patch (can you tell I'm an NI fan?). It's two car-mod pairs panned hard left and right, each with a modulator at about 30-40 modulation depth.

@edwardloveall

this application is great fun, tons of great melodies with a view button presses :)
apps like polygome, mlrv and others have tha ability to be slaved to to sequencer like abelton, timingwise. there are virtual midibusses in windows and os x which get the timing to the max apps. also things like start and stop, in most cases.

i´m no coder myself and sadly can´t point you in the right direction, there are quite some apps downloadable here which have this function allready built in.


cheers, herrreinholt

might be my new fav app! great work! a start/stop button would be handy.

i was so into the sounds i was getting with the app when i first opened it i had to make a vid: http://vimeo.com/6028828

This looks really interesting, nice work (huge props for effective use of presentation mode in max ;-)

This app is AWESOME. Really look forward to it's development. So fun...

Wow.. can't wait to get 4 of these setup on the 256!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously you just made my week.. And yes it kicks ass on drums!

@Eimhin, @trazmick there is now a start and stop button. I also changed the clocking mechanism to a metro object instead of tempo. Let me know if you find bugs.

@Everyone thank you so much for the kind words. It makes the difference when I go fix things. (@scrag especially: Get sleep my friend. It's the only way any of us can be useful.)

@lauer303 I'm not sure how to do Ableton sync. The bigger versions will come, but not for a while most likely. I haven't even thought about save/load/trigger. Minimalism is the key. What do you mean by pages integration?

I will say however, that I'm entering my final week at college (ever) and I need to focus on some final projects. After that, this will continue.

Arpshift works with pages now. with pattern recording too. What did you have in mind lauer303? I'm trying to get 4 instances on the 256 running with hub, but can't quite figure it out. 16 step for 128s and 256s would be cool too.

Maybe you can pull a beat clock section from another patch.

yes many good apps for beatsync examples including polygome, soyuz, boiingg, mlrV... would definitely be very nice to have!

Re: pages i simply meant available as a default page within the pages app but will give it a shot as an external app page...

in any case very simple to set up and great for playing midi sequences/drums/etc through ableton... also working great with the apc 40/monomulator if anyone is curious. ;)

would like to contribute to the cause and i'm sure others would as well esp if it leads to further improvements... thank you for this app!

@Alrick hah!

I was waiting for someone to find that little easter egg. You win!

really nice.
i made this recording with it last night...
http://unrecnow.com/dust/1423

it would be awesome if you could add a function for note length/duration.
great work.

Is it possible to add the option to change the ports?

any word on a 256 release?

@alexp @SHvanBommel,

These will come, however, I'm in the middle of finals week. Give me until the end of that and I'll start work on making it expandable to different sizes.

@edwardloveall

Oops, sorry I didn't clarify! I meant OSC ports.

@heuristic: this video + song are extremely mesmerizing! keep up the good work.

@ed: haven't played with this patch yet, but it looks (and sounds) really awesome. bump on the 256 version.

I've eventually managed to stop playing with this and get some sleep, and there's a couple of things I'd like to see:

+1 for the the idea of some method of specifying a duration for each note.

I find the fact that the travelling lights on the first page indicating the cycle length are blinking makes it a little hard to follow - I'd rather they were solid while the step was "active" - think mlr.

But I'd really like to see some way of using steps other than chromatic between the notes on the third page. Either a full blown "pick a root note and a mode" system, like some of Stretta's stuff, or even (perhaps easier to implement?) an 8X7 grid rather than the current "pick a starting pitch and seven chromatic steps will follow" arrangement. That way we could make up our own scales for each row of notes.

Otherwise I'm loving this. Nicely nicely done, Ed.
And good luck with the finals!

- c -

@heuristic Wow! Cool song and sweet visuals. I'm so honored that people are creating art with this. Makes me proud. *over dramatic tear* You say that's after effects?

@Eimhin, I'll get the OSCports thing to you tonight if possible. That should be a very easy fix, but it might not look great.

@JP I've thought about implementing the tilt. Not sure exactly how it would function, but I've thought about it. Good to hear someone else is too.

@scrag Good morning! I think I get what you're saying about the first page. I'll think about how I can improve the interface. The thought was at the time that the Max interface would be supplemental to the monome, but I realize now that this isn't ideal for performance.
I've also given thought to the third page. For me, this page has the most potential and the weakest design. I'd love to hear any and all ideas that people have about it. Personally, I'd love to see it be able to go down in pitch as well as up, but stay away from a fixed interval set. Too limiting. I think of it like a guitar, which is how the idea for the app got started.

@scrag @mapmap The note length is actually built in sorta. I have it linked to how fast the LED's blink on the first page. If I can think of a graceful way to do it, I'll put it on the list.

@edwardloveall

Thanks so much! I used Arpshift in a song I am finishing up, and I'm going to use it with another app inside pages. This is so much fun, dude..