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jungulator - live perforamnce tool (mac & pc)
StoreTags: live, laptop, mac, pc, peenizzle
Author: lilt on April 05 2008 Viewed 617 times. 3 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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so upon the recommendation of persons on this site i decided to check out the Jungulator as a way of playing loops live
the interface is very simple comprising of 6 'pods'. each of which can have a loop of audio (in wav or aiff) loaded into it. this is then time stretched and cut up linearly into 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 clips.
there is a 'random' slider just below the slider that determines how many clips the audio will be cut into, changing this betwen 0% and 100% will change the amount that the clip jumps around and (as the manual tries to get across) by 'randomising' your samples you can make potentially infinite and non-linear performances from few samples
my experiences with using the program have been mostly very positive. it works pretty much as i had wanted. drop in a sample, mute, solo, volume up and down. as all my loops have been made at the same bpm there is little need for the computer to spend time pitch/time shifting the samples and the cpu load is very low (im working on a note book intended not for word processing and net surfing so this is a major plus)
it was a bit disconcerting when first starting the program up as it actually takes a minute to load (no matter your computer) as it has to load something to do with max/msp first (which it wass created in)
the effects it has a limited. a resonant filter and an echo are the onboard effects and you have the option to load in one other vst, though i have not been able to get this function to work!?! oh well. echo is all i need (for making dubstep)
there also seems to be a problem with the program making a small 'click' noise between the different 'slices' of a loop (remember they get 'cut' into slices) which is annoying when i want just a pad playing for a breakdown, but it sounds kinda glitchy so i can live with it. though this is possibly because im just using onboard sound (of a shitty laptop) so this may be fixed when i get a soundcard
other than that, i havent taken any advantage of the other features and personally would prefer there werent any, i spend all my time making these loops so no effects or processing really needs to happen at the performance end.
i give it a 6/8 for my purposes
(would prefer it also have midi and vsti capabilities)
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04/05/08
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ricemutt
cool review, thanks
04/05/08
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lilt
thanks =) it would be more intensive, but i barely use any of the options the program provides
and rereading that review, it looks like english is my second language, it isnt! i was just sleepy
04/07/08
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prugelknaben
is this better or different or more suitable for livestuff than ableton? how is this different?
04/07/08
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lilt
it is much much simpler as you can see by the pictures on the page (link at top)
i would definately say it is 'worse' because it has far fewer features, can only load one vst effect etc.
but for me i prefer it because it doesnt look like a mixing desk (no vertical lines of anything)
04/08/08
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