Martin Schiff

After days of beating my head on my keyboard, I finally figured out how to make Geoshred on an iPad work both to record midi, and playback from that midi to the iPad routed to the computer sound. Requirements: Apple camera adapter USB Midi adapter 3.5mm stereo male to dual 1/4" male (Even though Geoshred is mono) 1. Connect the 3.5mm male to the headphone jack on the iPad 2. Connect the 1/4" plugs to your audio interface line in 3. Open Sonar (or any DAW) and add an audio track. 4 Set the input on the audio track to the output of your audio device 5. Click the monitor button on the audio strip (headphones in Sonar) 6. At this point you should be able to hear Geoshred play through your monitors 7. Add a midi track 8. In Geoshred, click the 3 dot menu button in upper right and select MIDI 9, Click Connect Send, and Connect Receive Click the midi connector icon and make sure Inputs and Outputs have the USB Midi interface set to Note Input and Note Output 10. Select the midi track and set its input to your MIDI interface OMNI (on mine, it's Focusrite USB midi OMNI) 11. Set the midi track output to USB MIDI 12. In MIDI configuration on the Geoshred, set it to Multi Channel Mode. Enable record for the MIDI track, and you should be able to record midi from Geoshred Click play and it should play the midi through Geoshred on the iPad. It may be necessary to reclick on Connect Receive, or Connect Send, depending on how you are using the Geoshred at that moment. Have Fun!

Very nicely done!

Do you use a notation program, or Cakewalk/Sonar, and if the latter, do you play the parts in?

Listening now on YouTube.

Are you going to release the entire series as a compilation at some point?

Beautiful work, Jerry. Both the astrophotos and the music. I really enjoyed listening to the music. What libraries do you use primarily for the orchestral realization? I have the Hubble deep field photo as the background on both of my monitors, so it was on one while your video was playing on the other. 😉

Nice!

Very well done! I enjoyed listening.

I love this one! Both the images and especially the music.

Yes, it does sound better now.

I like the music, but it is kind of flat dynamically. After looking at the score, I can see why. There are no dynamic markings, or crescendos or decrescendos. That would add a lot.

Does the new computer have virus software enabled? If so, disable real-time checking and see if that makes a difference.

Beautiful composition, and it did bring me peace, if only for 6'42". Great astro images too! What is your setup for astrophotography? Before I remembered that you are an astrophotographer, I was thinking they were Hubble images.

Here's a new piece I did in SONAR called "Cloudy". https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14975956 Here's a new piece I did using 7 instances of Unify in SONAR. Luna 2 in Soundbox - 2 patches combined Moog Mariana 2 Unify instances SoundPaint legato cello, legato viola, legato flute and duduk each in its own Unify instance.

Beautiful work! Enjoying it very much.

Thanks @treesha. I also had a picture of the original pillars image cut from the newspaper on my fridge for years.

Here's a new ambient piece done in Sonar called "Descent". It's done with the new Hyperion library from PluginGuru.com called Cinematic Landscapes. https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14951165

Musically, I don't mind the vocal effect, but if the lyrics are important to you, I have a hard time understanding them. Why not try mixing some uneffected vocal with the effected one to make it a bit more understandable.

I already owned Scaler 2, but bought into the $49 deal so I didn't have to deal with Plugin Boutique. I can't imagine that the upgrade will be much cheaper than that, but even if it is, it was worth it to me.

Very nice! I enjoyed watching and listening. Especially impressive that you did the astrophotography as well.

https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14918431 Done in Sonar using PluginGuru Unify, SoundBox Lumen from Kompose Audio and Purity from PluginGuru.

Love this! Both the video and audio.

I enjoyed it a lot.

Thanks for listening!

https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14915567 I just posted a new ambient piece called "Dreams" with multiple tracks using Soundbox with sounds from Kompose Audio, and Audiomodern libraries for Soundbox. Also a couple of tracks with Purity from PluginGuru.