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- June 13, 2024
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OUTSIDIFY
BASTL INSTRUMENTS
Bastl App
HERE YOU CAN FIND VIDEO TIPS FOR THE APP.
OUTSIDIFY
Outsidify allows you to manipulate and explore the sounds happening around
your smartphone. The microphone and speaker of your phone are hiding exciting
potential: create feedback, manipulate resonances, use your mouth as a
resonant filter, capture the impulse responses of your coffee cup or the pipe
at the construction site you’re accidentally passing by. Just have fun. Your
imagination is the only limit. Early electronic music was full of exploration
of what you can do with just a microphone and speaker. Now it’s your time to
explore! Go outside and make sounds outside of your phone. What would you
Outsidify?
YOU CAN…
- create feedbacks from your phone´s microphone and speaker
- play sounds from the speaker and influence them with outside conditions
- the world is your resonator
- capture impulse responses of any space you can fit your phone into – anytime!
FEATURES
- PLAYER
- for replaying your files
- loop
- adjustable start and end points
- ¼ to 4x speed slider
- crop/uncrop
- RECORDER
- for recording and replaying sounds
- mix crossfader between the microphone and the player
- save wav files (export to files, airdrop, apps etc.)
- adjustable start and end points
- copy the recording buffer directly to player
- speed-match recording (re-adjusts the recorded speed proportionaly to the player´s speed preserving the pitch)
- FEEDBACK PAD WITH AMOUNT AND TONE
- DELAY OF THE MICROPHONE GOING BACK TO THE FEEDBACK
- TIMER MACROS
- set countdown time
- record trigger
- play & record trigger
- capture impulse response
MIC & SPKR
Your phone features an exceptional-grade microphone and speaker, both
positioned at the bottom of the device. The MIC and SPKR dot indicators will
respond and visually represent the sounds coming in and out.
Use the volume buttons on your iPhone to amplify or attenuate the speaker peak
level. You will get the most out of this app with higher volume settings.
FEEDBACK
How about routing the signal from the microphone back to the speaker?
The FEEDBACK pad will allow you to explore the tonalities of audio feedback
and how you can modify them by altering the space around your phone.
AMOUNT
The higher you place the dot in the FEEDBACK pad, the more pronounced feedback
you will get. However, it will also depend on how you set the speaker loudness
of your phone.
TONE
Moving the dot fully to the left will accentuate low-frequency feedback, while
moving it up will accentuate higher frequencies.
However, the main factor affecting the resonance of the feedback tone is what
happens outside the app.
DELAY
The DELAY slider will delay the sound from the microphone before it passes
thru the FEEDBACK pad and back to the SPEAKER. Use shorter delays to create
lo-fi sci-fi sound effects for your voice, or bring the slider up to play with
rhythms.
PLAYER
The PLAYER can load a sound from your phone and play it back, loop it, chop
it, and speed it up or down. Combining your sounds with the feedback and the
world around you is a great way to process your samples or songs, giving them
a new texture, context, and flavor.
CLICK ON THE PLAYER HEADER TO SHOW A DROP-DOWN MENU.
LOAD
Choose LOAD to open the file browser on your phone. When you find the sound
file you want, simply tap on it, and it will load into the PLAYER.
LOOP
Enable the LOOP to continuously repeat your sound between the start and end
points.
PLAY
Press PLAY to start your sound, and press it again to stop the replay.
SPEED
Adjust the slider to speed up or slow down your sound. Maximum is 4x slower or
faster.
START & END
Tap and drag the blue edges of the waveform to set the start and end points
for the playback and the loop.
CROP & UNCROP
If you need to zoom in on a longer sound, set the start and end points where
you want to focus.
Then tap CROP in the drop-down menu to zoom in, and you´ll have more precision
in setting the start and end points. You can zoom in several times. Simply
press UNCROP to zoom back out.
RECORDER
CLICK THE RECORDER HEADER TO SHOW A DROP-DOWN MENU.
RECORD
Tap RECORD to start recording, and tap it again to stop recording. Note that
each new start of recording replaces the old recording.
PLAY
Press PLAY to listen to your recorded sound, and press it again to stop the
replay.
MIX
The MIX slider sets the balance of the recorded audio between the microphone
and the player.
START & END
Tap and drag the blue edges of the waveform to set the start and end points
for the playback and for what you want to save or copy to the player.
COPY TO PLAYER
This will copy the recorded sound, cropped by the start and end points, to the
player. This speeds up the workflow, so you don’t have to save a file in order
to load it and use it in further recordings.
SPEED MATCH RECORD
By activating this option, you will record at the inverse speed to the speed
set in the player. For example, if the player speed is set to 2x, the
recording will be slowed down 2x in the end. This means that in the final
recording, the pitch of the player audio will be true to the original, but any
resonances and reverbs will be transposed up or down based on the player speed
settings. Please note that due to technical limitations, the speed slider is
deactivated when this feature is enabled and the recording is active.
SAVE
Press SAVE, and you can save your recorded sound, cropped according to the set
start and end points. By default, the sound is named by the date and time of
the recording. You can change the name by tapping on it.
Tap the SHARE button to access the system screen where you can directly air-
drop the sound, open it in another app, or simply save it to your files.
Outsidify saves standard stereo wav files.
NAME
TheBestSound| SHARE
TIMER
TAP THE TIMER ICON
TO GET TO THE TIMER SCREEN.
The timer screen allows you to trigger a few
macros that will activate once the time countdown expires.
This is very useful when you want to place your phone in a specific space, and
perhaps close it, and then wait for the recording to start.
Set the countdown time in seconds using the jog dial, select your macro and
press GO! to start the countdown.
RECORD simply starts recording once the countdown expires.
PLAY & RECORD will simultaneously start the playback in the player and the
recording of the recorder.
CAPTURE IMPULSE RESPONSE will load a noise burst to the player, set the
recording MIX fully to MIC and simultaneously start the player and the
recording. This is useful for capturing impulse responses (IR) for convolution
type plugins (for example Ableton Max for Live Convolution Reverb or Bitwig
Convolution). Please note that you need to manually stop the recording and
probably crop the end of your IR file.
CREDITS
CONCEPT AND DIRECTION: Václav Pelousek
MAIN DEVELOPER: Samuel Bilý
MANAGEMENT: John Dinger
MAIN TESTERS: Juha Kivekäs, John Hornak
TESTERS: Václav Mach, Martin Klecl, Oliver Torr, John Dinger, Viktor Piorecký,
Milan Říha, Patrik Veltruský, David Žaček, Antonín Gazda, Matěj Kotouček,
Niels Doucet, Tomas Niesner.
BASTL
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References
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