Co-designed with Berlin-based electronic musician Hainbach, Gauss brings the oldschool tape-looping art form to mobile devices. This creative field looper works both standalone and as an Audio Unit effect plugin and puts the possibilities of using looped tapes in your hands. Without the need for scissors. Like real tape loops Gauss takes you off the grid of your DAW: you can adjust tape speed and direction, even during recording. The flow of your loops will drift organically as the tape follows its own cyclical timeline. Use overdub, or even multiple instances of the Audio Unit plugin, to create multi-layered ever changing sonic palettes. We want this app to be a celebration of digital audio technology, so when audio quality is degraded it will do so in a pleasingly crunchy digital way. For example, recording on low tape speeds will give you longer recording time, but at the cost (or pleasure) of a distinctively lower recording quality. So Gauss mimics the behaviour - not the sound - of magnetic tape. Set the length of the tape, record and overdub your audio, play around with tape speeds; Gauss captures the essence of two ends of tape stuck together in all its unsynchronised, free-running glory. There's even a unique built-in 4-step polyrhythmic sequencer for sequencing tape-speed changes. - designed as a standalone field recorder and an Audio Unit effect plugin (AUv3) in one package - universal app: plugin and standalone work on all iDevices, iOS11 and higher - variable tape speed; seamlessly change direction and speed during playback or recording - 4-step sequencer lets you trigger (polyrhythmic) tape-speed changes in sync with your host tempo - variable inertia for the tape drive motors (from instant to very slow speed changes) - built-in multi-mode filter with LFO modulation - delay effect with optional host-sync mode - “1989” mode uses a special 8 bit/11KHz tape head for a last-century vintage digital sound - 45 seconds maximum loop size at 1x speed, proportionally longer at lower speeds (.e.g 90 seconds at half speed, etc.) - overdub at any speed or tape direction - plugin supports global cross-host preset handling (requires iOS13+, compatible AUv3 host) Find the user manual at ruismaker.com
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The uncrowned King of this Kingdom! All hail the King! On your knees Daug!
Great for iphone
awesome little lofi effects sampler that mimics tape. pretty neat
Huge update
Sample import makes this already great app 10x as great.
Importing could be way better.
Does it’s job but I can’t upload original sound files.
Creative options!
So much you can do with this!
Cool app - UI uselessly small on iPhone
Really like what this app does. Pretty intuitive and satisfying. But the UI is so irritatingly small that it seems rolling this out on tablets-only would have made more sense. It’s 4 years old so I can only imagine it hasn’t had enough adoption to put time into another UI update. Bummer. Could see this as a bonus auxiliary tool in live sets but not as it is now.
Great buy why can’t you load loops in standalone?
This app is killer as an audio unit in AUM but why is there no simple way to load loops from AudioShare or another method in standalone? If this is some “purist” decision to only serve as a field recorder it’s a bit ridiculous….
- import of audio files (WAV, mp3, AIFF, M4A, ...) - louder playback in standalone (use headphones to avoid feedback!) - smaller save files; ~50% space saving - visual UI update (bigger touch strip, less clutter, ... ) - standalone UI now handles both notch and dynamic island - performance improvements and minor bugfixes
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