KVR Audio

shanecgriffo · Post by **shanecgriffo** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:58 am

I had a jam on it with a friend who was on guitar/guitar synth and it was sounding pretty good actually.. And quite fun!

DrApostropheX · Post by **DrApostropheX** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:44 am

It is fun and what I like most about it is that in under a minute I can come up with a track that sounds indistinguishable from 99.95% of all of the music ever created with Reason.

shanecgriffo · Post by **shanecgriffo** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 12:00 pm

DrApostropheX wrote:It is fun and what I like most about it is that in under a minute I can come up with a track that sounds indistinguishable from 99.95% of all of the music ever created with Reason.

is that a good thing tho??

decalogue · Post by **decalogue** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:44 pm

More user experiences:

Today two guys at my workplace installed Figure on their iPhones. One guy is a decent hobby musician, the other is a "wannabe decent" hobby musician.

The decent musician made a cool little 2-bar song within minutes, while the wannabe musician swore that this app was a piece of garbage and that it was impossible to get anything good sounding by using it.

Go figure...

I'd guess that overall this is the pattern we'll see in response to Figure's usability: people who have some musical talent and an idea what kind of sound they're trying to shape will love it. People who have no real musical skills whatsoever will tell the music producing world how much they hate it, because it doesn't let them fake their poor skills with a minimal amount of personal effort... which is exactly what they had hoped for when downloading the app.

decalogue · Post by **decalogue** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:56 pm

A good entry app nevertheless for kids who're new to music production.

fceramic · Post by **fceramic** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:02 pm

I think the developer said that this was only the very beginning. This could be a wicked performance controller for Reason. Figure Pro?

Jazz Franco · Post by **Jazz Franco** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:06 pm

So have anyone actually tried this on an iPad? Graphics are ok or?

DrApostropheX · Post by **DrApostropheX** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:25 pm

Jazz Franco wrote:So have anyone actually tried this on an iPad? Graphics are ok or?

It's fine. It's not a universal app, so if you want to fill up the iPad screen, you have to hit the 2x button or it'll be super tiny. It seems to work fine. If you try to run it in landscape mode (so you don't have to turn your dock or whatever), it'll switch over to a full-screen tweaking pad view, which is kind of obnoxious. Otherwise, though, it runs great. I ran it using a Go Pro mic as a USB soundcard, and it worked great.

Leslie · Post by **Leslie** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:02 pm

I have an iPhone 4S and use it mostly for phone calls only. I have iPad 4G and my usage of it differs dramatically. First of all, I'm utilising it as part of my home studio i.e using it as sound module and control surface for Reason 6, Cubase 6.5 and Ableton 8.3
Most of apps that I have purchased comply with that, but Figure does not.
Let me summarise what Figure is not:
1. You can not save your patterns
2. You are limited to only 2 bars of "music"
3. You are limited to only 3 tracks/instruments
4. No import/export to Reason
5. No chaining of patterns into songs
6. No Copy/Paste
7. No MIDI
8. No iPad native support (Universal)
Well, to be honest, it has nothing to get your creative juices flowing

If anything, it makes you angry and frustrated that you can not expand/continue with the pattern created in Figure to any other app...
Maybe version 2 will address these issues, but for now it is just yet another $1 fart app...
BTW: Not surprisingly has Figure rocketed up the charts and is now number 2 in Appshopper...
My prediction though is, that it will hit the the bottom 14 days from now...

enough time for users to realise that this app is truly useless as it is now...

J.C · Post by **J.C** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:05 pm

decalogue wrote:!..people who have some musical talent and an idea what kind of sound they're trying to shape will love it. People who have no real musical skills whatsoever will tell the music producing world how much they hate it, because it doesn't let them fake their poor skills with a minimal amount of personal effort...

That simple?

shanecgriffo · Post by **shanecgriffo** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:42 pm

I really don't think this is an app meant for creating 2 bar patterns.. It's a crazy evolving performance jam tool.. I think people aren't exploring it enough to see this.. Plug it into some good speakers/phones start playing around getting familiar and experimenting and watch an hour fly by!!

Leslie · Post by **Leslie** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:50 pm

shanecgriffo wrote:I really don't think this is an app meant for creating 2 bar patterns.. It's a crazy evolving performance jam tool.. I think people aren't exploring it enough to see this.. Plug it into some good speakers/phones start playing around getting familiar and experimenting and watch an hour fly by!!

Obviously you don't create music on your PC/Mac at all.
BTW; Good to see some ignorant, happy customers...

Aural Chaos · Post by **Aural Chaos** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:53 pm

shanecgriffo wrote:I really don't think this is an app meant for creating 2 bar patterns.. It's a crazy evolving performance jam tool.. I think people aren't exploring it enough to see this.. Plug it into some good speakers/phones start playing around getting familiar and experimenting and watch an hour fly by!!

Exactly! This thing is made for jamming. When you combine all the different areas that can be automated, and then overriding the automation in real time by touch, going back and forth to the different patterns and tweaks of each track, Figure is actually one of the most exciting performance apps out there.

The more I play with it, the more I love it, and the sadder I get that I can't save my setups or export my audio!

You have to wonder about people that spend the time and effort to go one 3 or 4 different sites to post treatises about how much they hate something. No one is going to be impressed by how superior you think you are....

Leslie · Post by **Leslie** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:11 pm

Aural Chaos wrote:
shanecgriffo wrote: You have to wonder about people that spend the time and effort to go one 3 or 4 different sites to post treatises about how much they hate something. No one is going to be impressed by how superior you think you are....

Obviously you don't create music on your PC/Mac at all.
BTW; Good to see some ignorant, happy customers...
Happy Easter anyway, I'm sure props are having one...

mbncp · Post by **mbncp** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:34 pm

I was close to buy it but finally went out and got a chocolate bar instead.
Maybe next month ...

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