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Blocs Wave <-> Launchpad


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(Obviously, as with most product demonstration or tutorial type videos, it may well be necessary to overlook the actual music being made)

 

Ampify have done insanely good things with the updates to Blocs and Launchpad, meaning that they're now effectively a completely interwoven solution to the 2 step track creation that Ableton Live arguably pioneered. As the first video shows, you can create the tracks in Blocs Wave, storing each element in its own bloc - recording sounds played in through other apps (which can be routed through plugins in the way into Blocs).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WylD6HK1oVI&t=947s

Then, once you've got the elements together, you can export the Blocs to Launchpad and play with the track structure live using a load of different tools to perform it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c5wNuYx3Ak

 

N3XT 73V37, yo!

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Terrible file management, Ampify regularly visit the AB forum to ask what they should work on, ignore everybody, disappear, then reappear when they have a new app to release and expect not to get shit, it is really strange to the point that they started saying they are not the developers, then when somebody pointed out that they shouldbe answering for the developers, the guy did a whole page post on his development credentials and turns out he has developed all Novations software over the years, then he ignored the requests for file management, and disappeared hahaha, its a never ending cycle.

 

But yeah if you can live with incredibly crap file management, then the actualy editing in blocs is pretty damn good, no MIDI support though really.

 

However Launchpad is gonna be replaced by a completely modular clip launch system based on Atom | Piano Roll (just released) that is designed to rival Live.

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Yeah so so, any goo develiper is jow just building their own explorer, look at Beatmaker for instance.

Ampify just dream of being NI and shipping content and only updating their apps when it will make shipping more content viable, problem is that they are just a little too "Real software" for the spent a quid at lunchtime millions of iphone users, and a little too "This is a toy" give us file management musicians.

 

I have long said they should dumb down their software and stop pretending every six months to be for musicians.

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