Here’s a sneak preview of Oscilab – a new mobile app that the developers say “gives you a hypnotizing musical experience.”
Oscilab is both a music instrument to perform live and a sequencer to make unique loops and musical phrases.
It’s ‘coming soon’ and will be available for iPad, iPad mini and Android devices.
Wow, this was annoying.
MAKE IT STOP!
Daft-Punk-In-A-Box
The name is perfect, as is the description — “hypnotizing”.
However, it is not the kind of sound I would want to enter my head for more than 3 minutes at a time. But I can see the appeal of it. For someone learning about LFO’s, waveshapes, filters, drum-step-sequencers, and 16th notes, this is a cool little “lab”. Having these parameters hard synced to a sequence is kind of clever.
Yea, though I don’t like that kind of music, I gotta say, it looks like quite a bit of thought went into it.
Please visit our soundcloud page. There are a few songs in different styles… even tango!
I like the part where he’s using the XY pads and 90% of them aren’t doing anything. I really need that feature.
wonder if the xy pads can be automated ?
wonder if you can load up your own samples…..easily?
I am really interested in this one…I sure hope it has external midi clock sync from the get go. I can really see this one being a lot of fun as it looks like you can map the rise and fall toscailic steps
Being a newbie at the synth thing, this appeals to me! However can you use this with a mouse and a MAC?
As always, it´s the way you use it. If it´s possible to load your samples, this thing could be a hella lot fun. Even now I can imagine it as a Monome for LFOs.
No, you cannot upload additional samples. But you have many of them within the app.
nice idea but this GUI is not for me 😛
Very nice demo. Nice interface. Good for chiptune music. I like it.
the dev must no it’s being featured here so hello Dev hows about telling us is it possible to load your own samples into the app and if so how?
regards
No, you cannot upload additional samples. But you have many of them within the app.
I suppose we should underscore that it will be released for Android. Though I suppose that might mean the X/Y pads are less responsive, otherwise it seems like a good fit for all the other annoying sound apps I have on my Android. 🙂
Android eh? So 2 seconds latency on everything. I have android and IOS.
So because the demo used a popular Daft Punk ish sound, that’s the sum total of what it can do and it is therefore a toy. I see. Some of you either have an axe to grind or a distinct lack of imagination.
That’s the impression I got from the hostile comments. I like the GUI, I like the way it displays and lets you modify waveforms visually. Pretty good demo. Hopefully it won’t be overpriced.
Oscilab may not be a professional music tool, but it sure lets you create more than just Daft Punkish tunes. Here are some examples of music uploaded to soundcloud straight from the app through its sharing options.
https://soundcloud.com/oscilab
Fingers crossed for audiobus and audio paste
yay, simple , fun and to the point!
I installed this on a Nexus7, and must say it is a great little app. A rather unique interface and novel sequencing system. Sure all synths have LFOs and envelopes manipulating oscillators, however this implementation provides some news ways to visualize and compose using these old ideas in new ways. Props for doing something different, and providing a new tool to create music and design sounds.