Wotja: Live Generative Music

Can’t buy any in-app purchase from inside the app! The payment window simply doesn’t open… :(

This is a must have for generative/ambient/experimental music enthusiasts!

I’ve been practicing “rabbit-hole-diving” sports discipline in regards of different types and forms of generative music entity for a while now lol. Started out feeding Mubert algorithm with loops from my productions several years ago as well as created those for this specific implication a bit later - it always got me excited that the machine is able to combine elements that you do well know as the creator but in such ways that they start to form a completely unfamiliar material. Later after these first dives of scratching the surface of generative music, tested out basically every software that I happened to discover (and the pool is getting more and more units as the time goes and this type of music gets more exposure) - some of them are quite impressive and packed with features - such as MIDI in/out support, available as AUv3 etc, etc, etc - some are purely just for entertaining yourself rather than creating anything. So, back to Wotja: Compared to anything that exists out there - this basically is the sickest lab you can think of when speaking or thinking of generative workflows of any kind. Period. And the fact that I’ve discovered it just recently kinda surprises me, ‘cause it seems that the app exists for quite some time. But maybe it’s really for the better - since when you launch the environment for the first time you really do notice that it got to its current state of stability through time of being in active development, no doubt, it’s impossible to fake this stuff - and for the amount of processing it obviously handles in the background it is very safe to say that it’s running rock-solid. Damn, it even supports javascript for the precise control over the real-time composing - and I got my hands on it for some relatively basic tasks and it worked and it really amazes me. Some more HUGE features of this production environment worth pointing out: • AUv3 hosting support in standalone mode, which really promotes this app into the category of DAW - of its own kind. • Custom-made audio engine – if you are familiar with some main titles of iOS music production software (DAWs), then you know that most of them don’t fully rely on their own audio engines and utilize built-in Apple’s system resources for audio processing and vast majority of sound-related tasks, and this is not always the best way to go for sure. From all the software I happen to own for this platform - from GarageBand to AUM, nTrack, NanoStudio etc, etc - there’s only one that I

The wotja program spawns what melodic music it can generate automatically! And at the same time, there are a lot of settings and functionality to customize the composition and its random rendering as you want. I didn’t think that this kind of program existed at all. I definitely recommend it! and the support service is responsive and responsive. positive goes off scale :)

The major complaint people have with Wotja is that it is too complicated. And to understand all of it is complicated. But I think of it as kind of like a video game - if I could figure it out in 2 minutes I would be bored. And with a video game, what do you end up with? Here, you can make music like no other app can. It’s fun to play with it and see what it can do. I have not completely figured it out so it’s kind of an endless experiment. The developers are always updating it, and are very responsive. If you have the time and are into ambient / generative music, I say go for it. You can also just use it at basic level and make great stuff. There really is nothing else like it.

Love it! But slight bug. When I try to go to templates the app just closes.

I’m not sure why the developer bothers to sell a permanent pro unlock. I paid for “21 Pro” some years ago, figuring I could at least continue to use what I paid for indefinitely. It turns out that isn’t true at all. I’m no longer able to even install a build that respects my previous purchase, meaning I essentially paid for nothing. I do understand the appeal of ongoing revenue, but if the “permanent” unlock is going to be time limited due to availability of a particular app version, what’s the point? What I paid for was apparently a subscription in all but name, except worse because you have no idea when the version you’re paying for will become unavailable.

Wotja has entertained me for years. Incredible depth of features.

I found this app to be way overkill as a plugin host to replace opening my DAW to using plugins. The interface is not very intuitive and I'm a software developer. To add, unless you get the Pro version you can't use the free version without a timeout with a popup dialog prompting to buy the full PRO version. If you're looking for something more than a Plugin Host, maybe you'll like it if you're willing to spend signficant time figuring out the UI. Otherwise, there are much simpler apps out there for free to host plugins.

Probably the best Generative Music app ever created. Enough Said.