dot Melody

It is a shame that such a nice app, with huge potential has been neglected. If this was AU3 it would have a whole new lease of life, inspiring sonic imaginations.

It’s fun!

Olympia Noise Co are true innovators in software musical instruments. They have a track record consisting of the outstanding Patterning drum sequencer as well as Ribbon (fka Ondes) and Chordion. dot Melody is a stripped back groovebox with a twist, the sequencer's interface is activated by a blank grid where you drop, tap and drag interconnected dots. Like Allihoopa's Figure, dot Melody may feel like too much of a toy on an iPad, on the iPhone it makes much more sense as a simple sketch pad for tight moments. Ideal for commuting or being creative in private spaces (ahem.) With its preset sounds you can focus on song structures and progressions with its easy to use pattern bank. However like Figure, it would be greatly improved with a export or multichannel record feature like say in ElasticDrums or audio output per channel like in Patterning. Then the sketches whipped up on your tea break could be uploaded to dissected and fleshed out on a DAW. Apps like this are often caught in a space where they conform to a preset ecosystem making them feel like toys but for them to evolve into bridges to professional tools, these kinds of exports could be great outlets. But toys are fun and the appeal of dot Melody is its dot chaining interface, a new way to play music. A huge feature is that it can even be used as a 3 channel MIDI controller for other apps or with the help of a MIDI interface could be used to control 3 hardware instruments! Olympia Noise Co deserve recognition along side developers like apeSoft for really pushing the boundaries of creating music on tablets and smartphones.

Love this app! Really good to play around with ideas then connect to any soft synth or Daw! Ace👍

Joy

Absolutely wonderful. A must have!!! Pure joy. Thanks olympia!!!

Firstly, I adore Patterning and have all of the devs apps, Dot Melody is dope, had some great elements, sounds, capabilities- but the inability to quickly export midi and wav is absolutely missing and makes this app a pass for any suggestions. Audiobus recording is garbage- we need the ability to export our saves, otherwise- this was completely pointless and could have purchased something worthwhile. Removing from device(s)

It’s wonderful and creative but adding AUv3 makes a workflow gem. Hoping…

This app is so cool, You don’t really need to learn anything. Such an intuitive app, I was creating music that I would otherwise never have conceived. If your a fan generative or ambient music, you will love this. Excellent App!!! Kudos to the developer

The latest update fixed the crashes I was experiencing in iOS 11. I’m so happy that the dev is still supporting this wonderful app!