Propellerhead Figure $1 beat-making app for iOS Announced

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What a joker that Meffy is.
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Just a reminder that personal insults / attacks can earn a time-out. The more you indulge in, the more likely it becomes. Discuss the app, not your opinions of each other's intelligence.
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Leslie wrote:
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... ;)
The condescension just makes you come off like an ass.

I have a well equipped PC for making music, as well as several synths, and of course an iPad. I just didn't feel the need to include all that in my signature.

Not sure what any of that has to do with Figure, a cheap fun app that delivers exactly what was promised. I've already gotten more than a buck's worth out of enjoyment out of it. Obviously you haven't, which is fine, but calling anybody who likes it "ignorant " says a lot more about you than it does about Figure.

....sorry Meffy...
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My big hope with Figure is that the interest in it spurs the Propellerheads on to develop a more fully-feature iPad version of it (with export for starters). In the one interview video I saw a couple of weeks ago, they said pretty much as much. So yeah, it's basic and frustratingly limited in terms of export, but imagine what it's going to be six months from now :)
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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!!
I thouhgt the same too, but I think that, it is because of its limitation to 2 bars recording and no save/export fonction that people can see it as a jamming tool.
With all the automations, plus the missing features it' coud definitely be more than that.
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i like it, it'S the props 4 years late attempt at a kaossilator, but it's as fun to play with, and the sounds are pretty good IMOHO, and if i want to record it, i'll do like every iApp, plug the line out in my soundcard and hit record, not that big of a limitation for me
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Leslie wrote: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...
Sounds like it does get your creative juices flowing but then the limitations rain on your parade :)

While I'd like to 'do more' with my noodlings, I love that the act of creating is so intuitive. The more I use it, the more I love the interface - it's brilliant. It's great that so much is really just doing things by ear - by whether they sound good or not - due to the pitch, range & scale steps being fairly ambiguous.

I'm sure the Props have more planned - they must be looking at this like a gateway drug for Reason, interface differences notwithstanding. Continuing a track in Reason makes way too much sense for it not to happen.
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arp_laszlo wrote:I'm sure the Props have more planned - they must be looking at this like a gateway drug for Reason, interface differences notwithstanding. Continuing a track in Reason makes way too much sense for it not to happen.
Yeah, seems unlikely that the Props wouldn't take advantage of this huge potential, especially if this entry level app really wets the appetite for more advanced editing among its users. A simple "Export to Reason" option instead of a local "Save" on the iOS portable devices could create a new reason to download the demo version of Reason for further editing...

...then they could just create a dedicated Figure device for the Reason rack, with a little button that pushes the 2-bar patterns to the Reason main sequencer, similar to how the Matrix Pattern device already works in Reason today with its 'Copy Pattern to Track' functionality.

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Leslie wrote:
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... ;)
Yeah I'm a bit of a newbie at it I guess, I just started recently , hmm with an atari st and version 1 of cubase back in the 90's sometime.. :hihi:
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shanecgriffo wrote:
Leslie wrote:
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... ;)
Yeah I'm a bit of a newbie at it I guess, I just started recently , hmm with an atari st and version 1 of cubase back in the 90's sometime.. :hihi:
Yeah, I have started my music creation journey with Atari 520ST and Steinbetg Pro 24...
But times have changed and so have music creation. Time to move forward buddy, or are you still stuck in 90's... ;)
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Leslie wrote:
shanecgriffo wrote:
Leslie wrote:
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... ;)
Yeah I'm a bit of a newbie at it I guess, I just started recently , hmm with an atari st and version 1 of cubase back in the 90's sometime.. :hihi:
Yeah, I have started my music creation journey with Atari 520ST and Steinbetg Pro 24...
But times have changed and so have music creation. Time to move forward buddy, or are you still stuck in 90's... ;)
win 7 64bit and ableton live nowadays :wink:
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Not sure if this has been posted. From the prop forum, a developer commented on coming features.

More features are on its way, including save/export.

From the developer
As you might have guessed or read elsewhere, we do have a nice long list of features to add to Figure in coming updates. Bringing stuff in/out is high up there. That means save/load, export, social sharing and so on.

And best of all - if you bought Figure already, these features will be free. We won't put basic features like these behind In App purchases, that'd feel very wrong.
https://www.propellerheads.se/forum/sho ... stcount=65
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No doubt that they 'll bring save/load fonction. It's so obvious, we shouldn't have to ask for...

Social sharing :roll: Bring something usefull instead. Already heard about virtual midi? WIST?
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I look forward to see where it develops.. Might have to hunt up feedback avenues, I have a little wish list
-a pattern pool
-an undo/redo (revert) button on each edit page that remains active on that page even if you go do edits on another page then come back ( a quick easy way to have 2 variations per page)
-having the option of automating those round pattern select dials

I just saw the manual is now available.. Picked up a couple extra things.. How to use the range control properly.. (horizontal and vertical swipes) and the fact that swiping across each of the drum strips gives variation in the sound of that kit piece.
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It is amazing to see the heated discussion this app has caused. Also at iDesignsound where I have never seen such an amount of posting unless it was about getting free promo codes. If some unknown dev had released such an app, it would have been forgotten again 5 minutes later. Limited apps with no export options are almost flowing from the app store at a daily basis without causing such a "sensation".

Maybe the problem is that big names cause big expectations? Or maybe they should not have associated it with Reason engine wise? At least they can not complain about lack of attention.

Personally I would love to see Reason for iPad, but come on guys, meanwhile there are a lot of great apps to engage in. Why do you let is one get to you?

Get over it and go make some iMusic on apps suited for it.
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It's pretty alright. Played it a bit with my son... It waskinda fun. Wish I could tweak a lot more the synth engine. It's great to waste a bit of time. Might even be good to actually start a track.

I won't use it that much, it's a nice lil toy.
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