Gauss Field Looper - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

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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4.73 out of 5

41 ratings in United Kingdom

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It’s great but missing one vital feature

Super creative looper, easy to use and works like a charm. Just one thing stops it from being perfect, well two. First up why can’t you sync the playback to your daw or host playback? If I have 2 or 3 loops I really want them to start and stop at the same time but Gauss doesn’t seem to allow that. It’s the one thing that stops me from using it. It would also be a bonus if you could trim your loop but that’s not a biggie, just would be a nice feature.

Not really a field recorder

This app is a briefly engaging toy in the studio, but utterly useless in its stated role as a “field recorder” as it does not record in standalone mode. Whether there is a trick to making it do so I do not know, as the manual is completely silent on the actual recording process, and all the YouTube demos show it being used in the studio in one DAW or another. The wait for an iOS field recorder goes on…

Lacking AU3 save and export

Gauss is an endlessly fascinating app. Wonderful for ambient composition, and sound track effects, but also capable of adding uniquely twisted sound to more melodic works. With a little awkward effort. Sadly, when placed in an FX slot under AUM for recording, there is no audio threshold setting and no way to save or export anything recorded. Other apps that occupy the AUM FX slot, such as the vastly more complex Loopy Pro, can record and export with ease. So why not Gauss?

Almost Perfect…

As huge fan of music concrete and Eno’s early tape loop experiments I naturally gravitated towards this potentially amazing plugin, I say potentially because as of now, there’s no saving the buffer contents to Apple Files. (Plug-in mode) I would easily give this full stars if an update adds buffer saving!

Dusting off my tape machine

Really great for creating atmospherics. Has a lovely feel-takes me back to the days working with tape. It’s inspired me to get the old tape machine out too! One thing I’d love - or maybe it is possible already - is to have fine adjustments for the tape loop section. The pitch/reverse don’t always increment in single digits, so slowing or speeding up to adjust the pitch to fit with my out of tune piano can be tricky! And if I’m being picky-would love to have the app fill the screen more to allow for bigger controls. A very useful and detailed app though. Keep up the great work!

Happy customer

Bought a field recorder for iPhone which does make a difference in clarity if that’s what you want. Made some great dub techno style sounds. Very quick to make. All ready got 100’s of interesting sounds. Thanks a bunch it was just what I needed to give me the motivation to go on long walks.

Brilliant

Just brilliant fun and easy to use and inspiring. Just the best.

Love it

This is a great app though I agree with soniquest that a cut and splice feature would be a worthy addition. Another thing I would really like is for the loop to last much longer; several minutes rather than seconds.

Great actually

Sorry! This is actually brilliant. I hated it, now I love it. Where are the factory/user presets in AU?

Creative looper

To the person that said the sonic quality is high fidelity - try recording a simple sine or triangle wave then look at a spectrum analyser (but you can also hear it). The plugin is adding distortion by default. Slow the loops down and you get a lot of artifacting. This is not a clean looper but it’s clear that it was designed that way. Functionally it’s nice to use and you can get some interesting rhythms with the sequencer. When you press stop on the record button it sets that as the length of the loop which is nice but as you can’t do this with overdub so any sustaining sound gets cut off so not so useful. When sync is enabled, in AUM it produces a click at the end of the loop (tested it with long pad sound), turn sync off and the loop plays cleanly.

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