Bummer. Did you just not like it or was it poorly made? I really like the Pumpkin Spice Latte and, in fact, am drinking one right now. Made perfectly. Perfect amount of warmth to bring out the pumpkin flavor.JavaJ wrote:Well, I bought a venti pumpkin spice latte today and it was awful. $5 totally wasted.
The packs do offer quite a bit, but maybe not in the style you are looking for. A year ago, the one thing I really wanted were pads. When Alchemy Mobile was released I thought Alchemy would fit that role as it seems to have lots of available pad sounds. What I discovered was the pad sounds generally were along the lines of spacey/ethereal/open sounds and not really a style for backing pads which is what I needed it for. I do enjoy creating space/ambient music so I actually did enjoy the sounds it contained. But I'd listen to the soundpack demos and would find some of my favorites in the demos were not in the Mobile version. It was a bit of a bummer to have to find that out after purchase, so now I try to warn people that you are not necessarily getting what you hear. Camel Audio wants to update their demos so they have specific ones for the Mobile version, but they haven't done that yet.JavaJ wrote:Spent $2 on the voices pack and didn't realize that it was a subset, expecting a ton of pads. I think there are 8. Still not what I was looking for, and now know not to expect that much in the packs.
I do recommend fiddling with the controls. Take a pad sound and adjust the cutoff and resonance values. Also move the X/Y pads around. Sometimes I find the X/Y pads will adjust between an analog pad sound and some otherworldly sound. If you set the X/Y pad just right, you end up with a nice pad sound and can adjust filters to your liking. If you have the Pro version, you can save this sound.
Do you have Alchemy Mobile Pro? If you do, I suggest creating a Camel Audio account (actually you probably already have one through the Mobile app) and downloading the Alchemy Player Demo. You don't have to install it, though. In your Account Page, under the Support Menu, select "Product Downloads" on the left hand side. On the page should be downloads for "Alchemy Player Content" and "Alchemy Player 50 Bonus Presets". If not, then click on the link at the top for downloading Alchemey Player 1.5. Then download the Presets and Samples on that page. You can now install these in your Mobile version following the steps here. One thing to note here is, once these are installed, you can't remove them unless you completely delete the app off your device (which in turn also deletes any saved files you have). Warning!!! I installed the "Content" package which took up 200MB of my space. I think the Content added 150 more sounds. If you are low on space, you may not want to install these. You can always listen to the sounds first on your computer, though some of the sounds don't perfectly translate across to the Mobile version. Let me know if you have any questions on this.
The other thing is, Alchemy may just not be the right tool for you. In the end, I ended up creating my own pads on hardware synths. But eventually I would like mix things up with iPad pads.