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This is a Review and Intro to Caustic Mobile App. The text you see here is text that I (Tone), am writing quickly off the top of my head:
The windows version is free, The mobile App versions are also free, with a second Key-Unlock-App of two additional features being 10 dollars. The two features are saving files and exporting WAVs/OGGs. But the free demo will always kind of "Save" one project at a time because even if you shut your phone off and turn it back on; loading Caustic will bring you right where you left off in the demo.
Caustic is a full mini-DAW for phones and tablets; its the only one that exists, others are not full DAWs. The DAW is 75% Reason-Like; 25% FL-Studio-Like in interface/client/general nature. Caustic is a Rack-Mount Emulator Style Daw.
DAW means Digital Audio Workstation, a more accurate non-euphemistic term would be Music Composing Studio that is Synthesizers, Effects & Sequencing based. Like all other small and medium DAWs, These are geared toward electronic music; but nothing is stopping someone from playing instruments and singing in high quality mics and then pasting that in the track with electronic stuff then added to it.
Caustic has 14 Synths that automatically have their own channel on a 14 channel mixer, and each channel can take 2 effects. There are 16 effects available in caustic, but also a Global Send-Knob-Based Reverb & Delay on the Mastering Sections, so 18 Effects total. So There is Global Delay & Reverb Send-Knob on each of the 14 channels
Each of the 14 Possible machines have Piano-Roll Pattern Sequencers that have 16 patterns per bank, 4 banks for a total of 64 possible patterns. You get to the Piano Roll of a machine by swiping to one screen below the machine. In caustic you can swipe up and down between screens besides using a menu button. There is also a global piano roll in the Song-Mode main Play-List style Sequencer, that has a toggle selector between machines. Anotherwords, you can go down to the Main Song Sequencer, and press a 3-way toggle button between the Pattern-Playlist, the Automation-Editor & another Piano Roll that is the length of the Entire song. In the latter two screens there is another tapping-toggle between which of the 14 machines you want to add piano roll notes or change its automations
Automation means you press a record button and while your Track/Song plays, you can turn knobs & flip switches; and it will remember those knob turns at the time in the track you turned them. This then is reflected by a list of parameters in the aformentioned paragraph where you can edit it with your fingers, represented in graph mode
The machines are all generic named basic synths of every basic kind -- like theres one FM synth, one subtractive synth and guess what, there is even one MODULAR where you can tap to add what modules you want and then use your fingers to plug jumper cables in the jacks of the modular you have made. Theres a PCMSynth where you can add a sample or samples to it, and i think it includes the use of loop-point samples. Theres also an organ and other stuff. Here, heres a picture of the available machines from the tap-to-add-machine menu:
And here, look at the greatness fact that Caustic has a Modular you can Customize and Patch up:
Now Play this short 2:14 video so you can see the screens in Caustic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JW2JR4Yrak
I dont have anything done in caustic yet worth showing, There is that old track in 2004 i did that has trenchwars sounds, like Lancster Firing, in one segment of it. I dont like to do music because its too frustrating that my concentration is afflicted by this suffering dysphoria feeling i feel 365 days a year, so i barely used FL Studio over the years and hopefully i can use caustic some.
Heres the 2004 FL Studio Track Afterburn, the trenchwar sounds are at.....
1:48 into it are the Trench Sounds
http://mboxmp3.com/u/Afterburn.mp3
I dont like making music, its too hard, but you all have to go download Caustic Demo and have it to play around, its one of the top 5 best apps ever made in all categories for sure.
I only had Caustic for a few days, all i did was program these old school melodies in a non-song sketch clip:
http://mboxmp3.com/u/EDD5.mp3
I have no song, just a sketch of melodies above; You can go on youtube and see songs that people make for Caustic and some are really good -- even if i spent 2 months making a song it would only have some interesting aspects to it and otherwise be subpar, its way way too hard to concentrate. But you can enjoy this App and my clear description of it here.
EDIT:
I forgot to say that there is a VOCODER in Caustic that can make your voice sound robotic and lock your voice on a resonate key so that you can make singing robots
when I made this clip of Melodic Caustic Patterns, i did a VOCODER Demo As Well. I Loaded VOCODER, then pressed into its Built-In Waveform Editor & Recorder. I think Pressed Record and said "COME PLAY TRENCHWARS" into the mic. I saved that file and applied it to the VOCODER
so at the end of my short Caustic MP3 Demo, youll hear me saying "COME PLAY TRENCHWARS" affected by the VOCODER
The part before that is the 303 solos -- note that I used one Baseline and one Modular fo the two 303 emulations I made. I am good at Emulating 303s or making acid sounds that arent meant to me emulations. So the Barking 303 you here that barks with "Bwow Bwow Bwow" i made by creating my own custom modular and wiring it up in a special way in that I wired the Note Velocity Voltage into the the Modulation jack of the envelope whih I had wired to modulate the cutoff of the filter I had on the saw-square oscilator and then when i programmed the notes I changed the Note Vel slider of each individual note on the piano roll
Do you see what Im saying and does that make sense why my modular is then emulating a Bwow Barker? If you need help with Caustic of FL Studio i can help you and want to help you -- I cant make good music that sounds like it could be published and this breaks my heart because i like music composing but i have too much depression, anxiety and brain damage to ever be able to be successful so I want to help anyone who is a music maker
The windows version is free, The mobile App versions are also free, with a second Key-Unlock-App of two additional features being 10 dollars. The two features are saving files and exporting WAVs/OGGs. But the free demo will always kind of "Save" one project at a time because even if you shut your phone off and turn it back on; loading Caustic will bring you right where you left off in the demo.
Caustic is a full mini-DAW for phones and tablets; its the only one that exists, others are not full DAWs. The DAW is 75% Reason-Like; 25% FL-Studio-Like in interface/client/general nature. Caustic is a Rack-Mount Emulator Style Daw.
DAW means Digital Audio Workstation, a more accurate non-euphemistic term would be Music Composing Studio that is Synthesizers, Effects & Sequencing based. Like all other small and medium DAWs, These are geared toward electronic music; but nothing is stopping someone from playing instruments and singing in high quality mics and then pasting that in the track with electronic stuff then added to it.
Caustic has 14 Synths that automatically have their own channel on a 14 channel mixer, and each channel can take 2 effects. There are 16 effects available in caustic, but also a Global Send-Knob-Based Reverb & Delay on the Mastering Sections, so 18 Effects total. So There is Global Delay & Reverb Send-Knob on each of the 14 channels
Each of the 14 Possible machines have Piano-Roll Pattern Sequencers that have 16 patterns per bank, 4 banks for a total of 64 possible patterns. You get to the Piano Roll of a machine by swiping to one screen below the machine. In caustic you can swipe up and down between screens besides using a menu button. There is also a global piano roll in the Song-Mode main Play-List style Sequencer, that has a toggle selector between machines. Anotherwords, you can go down to the Main Song Sequencer, and press a 3-way toggle button between the Pattern-Playlist, the Automation-Editor & another Piano Roll that is the length of the Entire song. In the latter two screens there is another tapping-toggle between which of the 14 machines you want to add piano roll notes or change its automations
Automation means you press a record button and while your Track/Song plays, you can turn knobs & flip switches; and it will remember those knob turns at the time in the track you turned them. This then is reflected by a list of parameters in the aformentioned paragraph where you can edit it with your fingers, represented in graph mode
The machines are all generic named basic synths of every basic kind -- like theres one FM synth, one subtractive synth and guess what, there is even one MODULAR where you can tap to add what modules you want and then use your fingers to plug jumper cables in the jacks of the modular you have made. Theres a PCMSynth where you can add a sample or samples to it, and i think it includes the use of loop-point samples. Theres also an organ and other stuff. Here, heres a picture of the available machines from the tap-to-add-machine menu:
And here, look at the greatness fact that Caustic has a Modular you can Customize and Patch up:
Now Play this short 2:14 video so you can see the screens in Caustic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JW2JR4Yrak
I dont have anything done in caustic yet worth showing, There is that old track in 2004 i did that has trenchwars sounds, like Lancster Firing, in one segment of it. I dont like to do music because its too frustrating that my concentration is afflicted by this suffering dysphoria feeling i feel 365 days a year, so i barely used FL Studio over the years and hopefully i can use caustic some.
Heres the 2004 FL Studio Track Afterburn, the trenchwar sounds are at.....
1:48 into it are the Trench Sounds
http://mboxmp3.com/u/Afterburn.mp3
I dont like making music, its too hard, but you all have to go download Caustic Demo and have it to play around, its one of the top 5 best apps ever made in all categories for sure.
I only had Caustic for a few days, all i did was program these old school melodies in a non-song sketch clip:
http://mboxmp3.com/u/EDD5.mp3
I have no song, just a sketch of melodies above; You can go on youtube and see songs that people make for Caustic and some are really good -- even if i spent 2 months making a song it would only have some interesting aspects to it and otherwise be subpar, its way way too hard to concentrate. But you can enjoy this App and my clear description of it here.
EDIT:
I forgot to say that there is a VOCODER in Caustic that can make your voice sound robotic and lock your voice on a resonate key so that you can make singing robots
when I made this clip of Melodic Caustic Patterns, i did a VOCODER Demo As Well. I Loaded VOCODER, then pressed into its Built-In Waveform Editor & Recorder. I think Pressed Record and said "COME PLAY TRENCHWARS" into the mic. I saved that file and applied it to the VOCODER
so at the end of my short Caustic MP3 Demo, youll hear me saying "COME PLAY TRENCHWARS" affected by the VOCODER
The part before that is the 303 solos -- note that I used one Baseline and one Modular fo the two 303 emulations I made. I am good at Emulating 303s or making acid sounds that arent meant to me emulations. So the Barking 303 you here that barks with "Bwow Bwow Bwow" i made by creating my own custom modular and wiring it up in a special way in that I wired the Note Velocity Voltage into the the Modulation jack of the envelope whih I had wired to modulate the cutoff of the filter I had on the saw-square oscilator and then when i programmed the notes I changed the Note Vel slider of each individual note on the piano roll
Do you see what Im saying and does that make sense why my modular is then emulating a Bwow Barker? If you need help with Caustic of FL Studio i can help you and want to help you -- I cant make good music that sounds like it could be published and this breaks my heart because i like music composing but i have too much depression, anxiety and brain damage to ever be able to be successful so I want to help anyone who is a music maker
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