

Of course you should be paid for your ongoing work. I wasn't sure about the yearly version at first but once I understand how mature the app is then I had no problem with it. The payment system bends over backwards to accommodate everyone whilst paying the devs a yearly amount. That is very kind of you - thank you so much! Love the app, I'll have to buy it outright once my app budget resets. Just put them in the top level of the iCloud Wotja folder and off you said:įolks, if you've not yet left a review for Wotja on your App Store, please don't forget us! If you use iCloud as the storage option, working with sound fonts in Wotja is really easy.
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Once that happens I’ll put together a full tutorial video going into the detail of how this all holds together and ways to use it.Īnd yes, it can be saved as a patch. It’s just not been very easy to access it previously. There is actually some really useful material lurking in those existing sound fonts.
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So those should show up in an update at some point in the near future.

And, as Pete says, it needs some changes under the hood for Wotja to be able to make use of this way of organising sound fontsĪt the moment I’m reworking the percussion sounfonts that are already built into Wotja so they can use this approach. It’s just a little prototype I put together to test the concept. I presume this will also work in Wotja 21? Any chance of being able to see the table you have created. I don’t think this approach will result in many floor filling bangers but I do think it’s very well suited to down tempo, laid back pulses. The other voices follow it using different quantised delay values or compose freely using rhythm rules. It’s using a simple 4/4 pattern as the leader. This is a little take of a proof of concept. It does have the advantage that, once the soundfont is configured that way, you can easily identify individual drum voices without needing a cheat sheet telling you which drum is where. It’s not a big deal, it’s just not the way things have been done up to now. To do this you need to author soundfonts in a specific way. This also means you can take a more stochastic approach using TTM, Rhythmic, Follows and Repeat voice types to generate shifting, evolving percussive accompaniments rather than wrangling pattern voices. So, instead of the currently rather involved way of creating beats in Wotja, (forcing voices to play specific notes ) you can simply focus on the rhythmic behaviour of each voice and build up percussive patterns from there. The only thing that matters is the note duration, ie the rhythmic pattern. The point of doing it this way is that notes don’t matter any more. So once you select a given preset, regardless of which midi note you play, you always hear the same drum voice. What I mean is that, inside a sound font you have a range of presets each of which is a single drum voice. What I’m thinking is that, rather than going down the traditional route with sample based drum voicings where you have one drum sound per key, instead you have one drum per preset. It’s at a very early stage but I thought it might be worth sharing where things are at and to see what interest there might be in pursuing this concept. I’ve been thinking about easier and hopefully more interesting ways to create rhythmic beds in Wotja.
