Key Features - 7 Cubes with different settings as starting point for your Session - Interactive, quantized Loop-Machine within the Cube-Cell - 7 Instruments with sequenced based note input, envelope, filter & effects - 4 different synth, 2 drum sequencers, 1 sampler with slice, granular & pitch shift mode - Sample library with user file integration - Cross-Instrument key interface to define chords & scales - Main FX Interface to perform a Snapshot playlist incl. Echo, Reverb, Reverser, Note Envelope & Flanger - Snapshot principle: keeps track of the recorded loop - Snapshot list can be used like a playlist of the different loops - Save Session to save the Snapshot list - Interactive Cube-Cell navigation to switch from one Cell to another & change the musical perspective in key, tempo & pitch - Snapshot Cloud: Load your snapshot into a 3D cloud defined by the characteristics of mood, energy and texture - Interactive cloud navigation and Snapshot filtering by author, key & tempo - Snapshot Mutation Interface to merge two Snapshot and create infinite new perspectives - Audio Record as .wav file - Ableton Link - Audiobus & Inter-App Audio (experimental) - Setup Menu to define graphic and sound quality setting - Main zoom to customize the general size of the interface - In-App Guide Mazetools Mutant lets you make music in loops. On a square surface you play synths, drums, sampler, sequencer, filters and effects. Together, all the instruments form the Hypercube. Hyper- What?. The Hypercube is a space that changes your music multiperspectively.... The principle Think of a record player, play the vinyl from 33 to 45 and everything sounds higher and faster. Conversely from 45 to 33 everything sounds slower and lower. It remains the same song, only the conditions are changed. Mutant works in a similar way. You play in a beat loop, then turn the Hypercube and hear everything from new perspectives. According to this principle, new ideas and results emerge in the musical process. These don't have to reach perfection. Mutant stands for experimenting, making loops and exploring sound, it's the session, the moment and an audio recording that counts. From Snapshots to Cloud Mutation To capture the loops you've created, take a snapshot - an anchor point with all the instruments that you can always return to. Load your snapshot into the cloud and locate it in three dimensions with Mood, Energy & Structure. If you then select another snapshot, it will be mutated in certain ways and many new perspectives will emerge. Play together In Collaboration Mode, two Mutant users can make music together via local network. All inputs are transmitted live and the people each play instruments or effects. App information We do our best to avoid bugs, often enough they drive us crazy or were disappointed when a moment was lost. But at some point it has to go out and after the update before the update. So feel free to write us bugs and problems, definitely also if you made a song or video. The cloud is offline, but technically designed to be part of an online cloud for own user data and content sharing in the future. It was created as part of the Mazetools Assist research project. You can read more about it at Ectoplastic.com. Mutant requires the microphone for audio recording, the local files to store projects and recordings, and the network for Collab Mode and Ableton Link. Much more content, terms of use, credits and FAQ are in the app in the Guide and can be found in the app's Start-Up menu. About Mazetools Empowering creativity, democratizing musical expression and making it inclusive - how does that work? These are the questions that keep us busy. Mutant is a further step in the process, alongside Soniface, and provides important points of contact through the multitouch-based loop principle, the change of perspective and the cloud. But we want to go further - with you and the community. Have a good time with Mutant, Stephan & Jakob
Not very intuitive
Seems like a great idea and I’m sure I’ll enjoy it more once I understand it. But just a few minutes in and I can’t quite figure out what does what. Meanwhile, there’s an annoying sound that plays every now and then and I felt like I was racing just to figure out how to stop it before it would play again. I couldn’t figure out how to stop it, so I just closed the app instead.
Could have been good but is too dumbed down
You can’t even change the instruments or affect their sound in any meaningful way. Most of the instruments sound terrible, and everything you make in this is going to sound the same. The strings only control is “volume”. Wouldn’t be so bad If you could just use the sampler on every track but you can’t, you can only load one sample at a time. I feel they dumbed this down because everyone was confused about their other app, but the problem isnt the app, it’s that they have no clue how to make documentation or tutorials. Definitely pass on this and check out their other app, if you can stand the frustration of it mostly being undocumented
Their own paradigm
Love everything this company does. Truly have their own unique vision of what interfacing with music might look and feel like. Love it.
Great design, really complicated
1. Drummer for 24 years so creating beats to a click is Kind of what i do... there’s a latency with this app. You turn on a click when trying to play the drums to it, you tap and about 1-2miliseconds later it responds there for your beat is never on the rhythm you want it to be on. Especially if already have a melody going and are trying to play to said melody. 2. The “clear” buttons are confusing, “clear all” seems to do nothing and “clear” workers but there now way of knowing what your clearing as far as what part of the loop you just created.... 3. How can you start over??? I looked for about 20 min and maybe I missed something but I simply couldn’t find anywhere to just start fresh with the same sounds I was working with. I had to use the “clear” button and click it a million times till everything was gone. There is some seriously amazing functionality and fun with the overall concept but for me it’s really confusing and could use a lot of streamlining to make it more user friendly. If there is anyone that can help that would be awesome, but again no “help” buttons a ay here just the “guide” but that doesn’t explain anything but what the buttons do.
Bold
This app and its team are onto something very special
Yawl be trippin on mutant
This works great on iPhone x , seems easier to grasp than mazetools. Hails and lets make it an auv3 and ko it! Cheers
mutantes
gr8 app and wonderful design. The flaws for me are that the buttons are finicky and don't always work. When I save a composition it doesnt actually save anything i did it just resets when i load it. That's all I can think of, if the developers could fix these issues i think this app will b more than worth the money.
to load Snapshot into a 3D cloud (offline) defined by perception features mood, energy & structureInteractive cloud navigation and Snapshot filtering by author, key & tempo Snapshot Mutation Interface to merge two Snapshots Improved Setup Interface New Guide, improved in-app help in english & german Background Audio, Inter-App Audio & Audiobus (experimental)
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