[SOUND].
Okay. So as you know, we were just talking to
Martin, and he was telling us a bit about RJDJ.
We've heard from Marko. Marko's been telling us about how to use
sliders. and we've also done some stuff last week
on sliders and building them and stuff. And, you know, Matt's been doing this
stuff with you about, playing back sounds in rhythm to a sequence.
So, what I'm doing is I'm going to show you an application that we developed, I
just briefly touched upon with Martin. I'm just going to I'm going to set it
running again for you. But I want you to just kind of pay
attention to the little things I do. As I'm doing them, I'm going to briefly
explain what they are, then I'm going to go through the whole application in
detail. Explain how it works.
Then we're going to discuss it with me and Marco and Matt at the end just so
that we can make sure we've got everything covered.
This is like a fully fledged music application.
It's sonically quite advanced. It's just bare minimum on the user
interface, it just has the interaction, so you could use quite a lot of the
techniques that are in this to make your own thing.
But let's just see what it sounds like again and see where we, we are with it.
[MUSIC] Okay, here we are. So you can hear we've got a drum machine.
Let's just turn the two synths down, so we can hear these these, these drums
here. We've got a bass drum, we got a snare
drum and you can see, I'm pointing at a snare drum hit.
[MUSIC] That one and that one. And there's a blue line that tracks
across telling us where in a drum beat we are.
The second line in the drum, in the drum machine is this.
You hear that? That's the
[INAUDIBLE]
the clap. So the claps going on the in between
beats in between the base and the snares. You got a classic techno feel.
And as Matt was saying all of the sounds we're using come straight from your
standard kind of 808 or 909 drum machine and thereof [MUSIC] So, what else can it
do? Well, we've got two synthesizers.
We can play these [INAUDIBLE] synthesizers individually, and we can
vary a whole range of parameters for them.
They're fully fledged synthesizers. We can write waveforms for them.
If you're interested in synthesis and you know a little about it I think you'll
find this one interesting. But if you don't, it's still really
usable and I need you to get your head around it.
We can write waveforms, we can add a filter, we can change the quality of the
filter. Now let's just have a listen to the
filters, I'm want to turn one of them up. [MUSIC] So here's one of the synths.
I'm going to change the filter. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] I've also got this
resonance. And this filter out.
We could also change the release and the attack.
So we're giving it an envelope. And it creates that kind of acid techno
feel. If I change the attack actually with
something like this. [MUSIC] Just makes it quieter.
We can transpose any of the channels. So I'll change the key of the entire
sequence. And then again.
And then if I want [MUSIC]. You just go back to where you were, more
or less. and also, I can add some delay.
[MUSIC] And I've got a second one here as well.
Now, the beat that I'm altering at the moment is the actual [MUSIC] [INAUDIBLE]
sequence of notes that it plays. Now, I can select a sequence of high
notes, like this, or a sequence of low notes.
And just like in the example that Matt was showing you [INAUDIBLE] [MUSIC] Drum
machine. There's 16 steps, so I can change two of
the notes. There you go.
I've got the fill trap as well and I'll do this stuff.
[MUSIC]. That's quite pleasant.
We have resonance. [MUSIC] That's distorting quite a lot.
I don't really mind. I can add some more delay.
[MUSIC] Add a few claps. [MUSIC] And some more snares.
Maybe a cymbal.
[MUSIC]
You gotta take, So that's a basic music machine.
[MUSIC] It's a common thing that you can easily sell on the upstart for, I don't
know, actually music apps. Let's talk about this for a minute.
Music apps go for quite a lot more money than other kind of apps.
You can sell an app like this for much more than three quid on the [INAUDIBLE]
on the IOS app store. You can probably sell it for five to six
pounds or more. Or if you're in America, that would be
dollars. I imagine that like $8 or $9 out of
[INAUDIBLE], what is, what are pounds and dollars anyway?
Who cares? Anyway, they're much more expensive and
they're much more specialist but they're still they're still really useful.
And I think something like this, I mean as something really famous, well, there's
a really famous [UNKNOWN] app which is built on, based on a and old-fashioned TV
R3 synthesizer and a nice [INAUDIBLE] drum machine in which still sells in it's
droves. And all the people do is complain about
how unusable it is. So I'm not that worried that ours is
knocked out quite quickly. It is knocked out quite quickly, but it
is powerful, and you can build on it to do more interesting things.
And you could use some of the other stuff we've done to play some loops.
By there are some complexities to this and I want to show that you know, what
they are, so I'm going to quit this temporarily and just go back to the basic
version before I continue with that. Just see you can see in the most simple
possible way what it is that we're doing. So you go all this stuff for free as I
was describing before. as I've said every week, you know, you
can just go to your lessons. but this time we're in week six.
Week six has got a bunch of small tests in it.
It's got a small drum machine, and t's got this thing called synth test.
So, we're going to have a quick look at this synth test.