Gadget feature requests/comments - Ipad Musicians Facebook
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:14 pm
Hello Korg! I hope you are listening!
Here is a list I've compiled from a "feature requests" thread I started in the iPad Musician group on Facebook. It is a very active group with almost 1400 members now!
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OK, so everyone is geeking out on Korg Gadget - and for good reason. It's amazing!
Now, may I suggest we give some constructive feedback in this thread for improvements? [or should I start the thread on Korg iApps page? I guess we could just share this thread with them after a bit.]
- Sample import would be nice
- More Midi control - network midi, midi learn, control of knobs, sliders, etc.
- FX bus on the mixer channels and master bus and automation (so perhaps a master track lane for automation]
Mark Kunoff - copy and paste between songs
Alan Alovus - AB and IAA please!
Mark Kunoff - Yes, with freezing too!
Daniel Jesus - And of course landscape mode.
David Biedny - Insert effects would be a great thing. There's also the issue that Korg should have made the base app free - including a couple of instruments - and made IAP the way to collect the rest, so that folks could work their way up without one big up-front expenditure. That ship has obviously already sailed, but it would have been vastly preferable, methinks.
Mark Kunoff - "There's a roadmap for future updates that will add new gadgets and support audio tracks, further perfecting the system as a mobile music production studio. KORG Gadget will continue to evolve in support of serious mobile music-making."
Miguel Fierro - Sample import would be great AND a cute little sampler module with a vocoder or something.
Mark Kunoff - I would expect in the future some IAPs in the form of sounds, particularly since 3rd party vendors are supplying samples for this app. And of course gadgets! Maybe they'll open it up to other vendors, like Propellorhead did with Reason. That would be way cool to do Korg!
Mark Kunoff - Also - I'm curious Korg, why didnt you use the same clip approach you've done in iKaossilator for clip launching? In Gadget you can only launch a scene at a time. It would be awesome to have some different gestures for each - one for scenes, one for individual clips. The way scenes are described in the manual, I cant see any technical reason you couldnt implement this idea.
Ted Barrett - Gadget responds to virtual midi from Thumbjam, Genome, StepPolyArp, Musix Pro and I assume most others. However it is a minimal implementation. Listens on all channels, no pitch bend, no CCs.
Max Mallard - MIDI file export would be perfect (clips, tracks, scenes)
John Cougar Melancholy - yeah portrait mode only is the only sucky thing really
Ted Barrett - When Turnado came out I railed about portrait only. Sugarbytes obliged and did a landscape mode that hides the effects while displaying the pads. I find myself using it in the original Portarit to show everything that is available. Suspect Gadget may be the same.
Todd Meredith Taylor - Without MIDI ports, I'm afraid I can't use it for what I do. If implemented, though, I'd be all over it!
Mark Kunoff - intelligent preset generation/randomization
Adrian Proctor - For live use, it would be great if you could play 2 or 3 gadgets at the same time from an external MIDI keyboard, for layered sounds like you can create in Sampletank
Filip Trenson - You cannot copy parts of the piano roll inside the same bar.
- It is very difficult to reorder scenes
- No sample input nor midi import.
Here is a list I've compiled from a "feature requests" thread I started in the iPad Musician group on Facebook. It is a very active group with almost 1400 members now!
----------------------->>>
OK, so everyone is geeking out on Korg Gadget - and for good reason. It's amazing!
Now, may I suggest we give some constructive feedback in this thread for improvements? [or should I start the thread on Korg iApps page? I guess we could just share this thread with them after a bit.]
- Sample import would be nice
- More Midi control - network midi, midi learn, control of knobs, sliders, etc.
- FX bus on the mixer channels and master bus and automation (so perhaps a master track lane for automation]
Mark Kunoff - copy and paste between songs
Alan Alovus - AB and IAA please!
Mark Kunoff - Yes, with freezing too!
Daniel Jesus - And of course landscape mode.
David Biedny - Insert effects would be a great thing. There's also the issue that Korg should have made the base app free - including a couple of instruments - and made IAP the way to collect the rest, so that folks could work their way up without one big up-front expenditure. That ship has obviously already sailed, but it would have been vastly preferable, methinks.
Mark Kunoff - "There's a roadmap for future updates that will add new gadgets and support audio tracks, further perfecting the system as a mobile music production studio. KORG Gadget will continue to evolve in support of serious mobile music-making."
Miguel Fierro - Sample import would be great AND a cute little sampler module with a vocoder or something.
Mark Kunoff - I would expect in the future some IAPs in the form of sounds, particularly since 3rd party vendors are supplying samples for this app. And of course gadgets! Maybe they'll open it up to other vendors, like Propellorhead did with Reason. That would be way cool to do Korg!
Mark Kunoff - Also - I'm curious Korg, why didnt you use the same clip approach you've done in iKaossilator for clip launching? In Gadget you can only launch a scene at a time. It would be awesome to have some different gestures for each - one for scenes, one for individual clips. The way scenes are described in the manual, I cant see any technical reason you couldnt implement this idea.
Ted Barrett - Gadget responds to virtual midi from Thumbjam, Genome, StepPolyArp, Musix Pro and I assume most others. However it is a minimal implementation. Listens on all channels, no pitch bend, no CCs.
Max Mallard - MIDI file export would be perfect (clips, tracks, scenes)
John Cougar Melancholy - yeah portrait mode only is the only sucky thing really
Ted Barrett - When Turnado came out I railed about portrait only. Sugarbytes obliged and did a landscape mode that hides the effects while displaying the pads. I find myself using it in the original Portarit to show everything that is available. Suspect Gadget may be the same.
Todd Meredith Taylor - Without MIDI ports, I'm afraid I can't use it for what I do. If implemented, though, I'd be all over it!
Mark Kunoff - intelligent preset generation/randomization
Adrian Proctor - For live use, it would be great if you could play 2 or 3 gadgets at the same time from an external MIDI keyboard, for layered sounds like you can create in Sampletank
Filip Trenson - You cannot copy parts of the piano roll inside the same bar.
- It is very difficult to reorder scenes
- No sample input nor midi import.