[iOS] Tensor - Kit & Pattern Randomizer for the Model line

bibenu · October 18, 2020, 5:48pm

Could someone help me out here ? I see lots of superlatives but I’m not sure what it is that everyone likes so much. Is it sounds randomisation ? Melody randomisation ? Preset rhythms ? Generative music ?
Or is it just a very good editor for the model:cycles ?

thermionic · October 18, 2020, 5:59pm

Any and all. If you’re not interested in any of those features I wouldn’t be worried.

bibenu · October 20, 2020, 3:07pm

Hmm … I’m a bit stuck right at the outset.

Within the 1st minute or so the app froze M:C. Not even power off did anything I had to unplug from mains.

I’m bewildered by all the buttons … and the help pages aren’t helping me much. If I set “morph” and hit “kit” it appears to send a “kit” to the M:C … but only track 6 changes. However T5 is selected at the right.

I’m finding it difficult to predict what the app does. Is there an introduction video or text to help me ?

mekohler · October 20, 2020, 3:34pm

Are you on OS 1.12? Is there a MIDI feedback loop in your setup? Are the Track Channels set up correctly?

Morphing a Kit will Morph All Tracks… if you just want to Morph a single Track use the Morph + TRK button and make sure you don’t have ALL enabled on the right. The Morph amount is set very small (12%) initially and won’t affect all Parameters at once. Increase the Morph amount under the Options if you want more dramatic results.

The Help text describes every button’s function, so I’m not sure what the issue is there.

bibenu · October 20, 2020, 3:50pm

I can see the help, but some of it leaves me wondering “Hold to lock”. Lock what ? If I don’t want the value to change I don’t press the button.

mekohler · October 20, 2020, 3:54pm

Yeah, if you hold down a Slider for a second or so it will turn red and that Parameter’s value will not be affected by any functions

bibenu · October 20, 2020, 4:00pm

I’m finding it hard to figure out what’s going to change. From reading the help, it sounds like I first select a mode and a page type, which set up a target ‘area’ or page to change, then use ‘sound types’ and ‘sound designs’ to change things … But actually soon as I hit (for instance) “kit” the app is already sending changes to the M:C … but I haven’t yet said what kind of changes I want. (via sound types and sound design)

I can see the app does a lot … but I’m finding it difficult to figure out how to use it do something predictable for me.

mekohler · October 20, 2020, 4:10pm

By hitting KIT you are telling the app to either Randomize / Morph / Reset the entire Kit. Changes are immediate, there is no “staging” point. If you want the Snap Kit type across all Tracks, enable ALL and hit SNAP…if you just want Track 1 to have the Snap flavor, make sure ALL is disabled and Track 1 is selected then hit SNAP…the same applies to the functions below the Kit Types

bibenu · October 20, 2020, 4:14pm

OK, so If I was to do (for instance) “get kit”, “morph”, “lfo” … what change will that make to the LFO ?

Trying to get my head round what ‘morph’ really means.

mekohler · October 20, 2020, 4:16pm

Morph will slightly alter the values of certain parameters…it won’t touch the LFO Destination, for example, since it assumes the user doesn’t want that to change. It goes through every Parameter that the user wants to Morph, and with a certain chance, it will decide to Morph it or not…after that decision is made it will then change that Parameter’s value by a small amount (Amount set under Options)

bibenu · October 20, 2020, 4:26pm

Ok, thanks, I’m getting it slowly. So Morph is not related to genre buttons like ‘techno’, ‘urban’ and ‘snap’ then ?

I initially assumed that ‘morph’ meant ‘change in the direction of ’ X genre’ … ?

EDIT: oh … I see by reading back a few replies I may have got that wrong

mekohler · October 20, 2020, 4:28pm

The right side Kit / Sound Design buttons are in 3 sections…Top (Randomize / Morph / Reset certain Pages or TRK / KIT), Middle (Kit Genres), Bottom (sound design functions)…they are unrelated to each other, besides the fact that they alter the sound

bibenu · October 20, 2020, 4:34pm

Ahh … ok … now it all makes sense I think. Because the vertical strip ‘rand’, ‘morph’, ‘reset’ ‘all’ was beside all three groups I was trying to figure out its relationship to the lower two groups.

So presumably ‘reset’ means ‘go back to the state of the last “Get kit”’ ?

mekohler · October 20, 2020, 4:35pm

Reset means go to that Parameter’s default value, as if you did a Kit init on the machine. If you want to go to saved Kit states, use the Kit Snapshots.

bibenu · October 20, 2020, 4:36pm

Great, many thanks for taking the time to explain.

mekohler · December 14, 2020, 9:49pm

Update 1.9:

Improved Kits & Randomization for the Model:Cycles
Improved “+ Algorithm” P-Lock function for the Model:Cycles
Added option “Rand Engine With Kit Rand” for the Model:Cycles
Added function “Bal Level” for the Model:Cycles (iPad)
Fixed a bug where Morphing a Track would affect the Algorithm on the Model:Cycles
Fixed a bug which would cause the App to crash when sending too many CC’s at once
Updated Help Text for iPads
Added support for iOS’s Files app

phenray · January 8, 2021, 3:14am

Does Not Work On iPad Air 4 !! It seems as though the screen is too small and you can not access menus.

mekohler · January 8, 2021, 4:05am

Yeah I didn’t realize they released a different resolution iPad. I will need to update the app.

phenray · January 8, 2021, 4:12am

Thanks!!! That would be AMAZING!!!

mekohler · January 17, 2021, 6:39pm

Update 2.0:

Optimizations
Added support for the new iPad Air resolution

Next up is adding support for all the new iPhone sizes, then I will revisit the app