Android music applications

Mazetools Soniface wins AppArtAward for SoundArt!

7/10/2017

Mazesoft Soniface is something that I mentioned sometime ago and not really paying too much attention to it as to me it felt that it was too much flash and not too much substance.
Later installing it and starting to try it out it was pretty obvious that it is much deeper than eyecandy.
The eyecandy can get pretty intense and that is no way all there is as the sounds that you can coax out of it is great as well. But the big strength is not only the sound as it is the sequencers that you set up and manipulate that is important and fun.
It takes some time to get into it and I would say that a bigger screen is not a bad idea but tthink that there is a lot of people that will enjoy this and am curious what will be made using this app.

All in all on Android it Is the most exciting and different app to come out since Oscilab.
So big congratulations to have won the AppArtAward! You deserve it.

2 Comments

chakotay_maquis_the _hater

7/11/2017 12:14:24 pm

To me it looks very much like "app art" rather than real music software.
The basis of its music creation capability seems to be random generation of notes in a scale, followed by xy pad effects. When I checked on google play I found it described as such:

"Let the grid play a sequence of notes automatically using the arpeggiator interface."

As a seasoned pro, I have to say that I really do feel that this approach, albeit fine for sampling out a few sound effects here and there for use in a real production, is just not going to cut it in terms of a complete beat-making solution. In reality, there are no shortcuts that can take a musician to excellence. Excellence is a product of time and effort. Taking the time to learn the sound design and songwriting skills from scratch, in my humble opinion, is something far more admirable to those in the know, although the driven herd may not readily agree...because they really dont want to put the effort in. Even an old casio rompler keyboard from 1989, in the hands of a true pioneer, visionary...master composer will yield better results than generative apps every time.

-Chakotay-

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7/17/2017 06:37:41 am

Hi there guys at musical android, thank you for your congrats and this really awesome post.

@chakotay_maquis_the _hater
I know exactly what you mean and understand your point of view. I'm using music software solutions since 1997 and i really love FLStudio <3 . I started working on the "Soniface" in 2011 with the claim to create a tool that could also be used for music-therapeutical things and not to make a further music app that is for production and getting a further mp3 out of it. The name "Soniface" comes from "Sonification" and "Interface". Sonification for make a sound out of something and here it is more about to "sonify" yourself. So it is closing the circle to the begin of itself ;) It has functions to compose and to perform nearly in the same moment. Before I started to develope / design this app i made a study about this geometry and animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f3oKiPiQtE
It's called "Geometric Poetry" and was the starting point of that what it is now. So it is always in progress and we've a lot of smart testers and supporters behind us, planing together for the next updates. I would love to get your feedback of testing it, so if you're interested please write me a mail @chakotay_maquis_the _hater.

Best Regards,
Stephan (Mazetools)

Mazetools Soniface wins AppArtAward for SoundArt!

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