Borderlands Granular Upgrade | 2020 Starts Strong | haQ attaQ Docutorial

Borderlands Granular is without a doubt one of the most loved iOS Music Apps out there and it just received a proper upgrade. Apart from having a look at all of the new features in the new update, we’ll also be hearing from Chris Carlson himself, the guy who created this Granular Synth beast. Join me and discover how Chris has improved on an already brilliant Granular synth concept!
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[@JakobHaq]

😱 This is why I was I didn’t post anything during the end of December and beginning of January! I was working on this video for a month. It’s feels good to share it with you all. Btw, Chris is basically giving this update away for free which is very generous of him. If you want to support him and his continued work on Borderlands Granular, why not buy him a coffee through his donation button here >>> www.borderlands-granular.com/app/

[@unkatom]

Great vid, Jakob! Chris did a fine job upgrading his baby. Lets hope more app makers are inspired by this effort. I hope Chris not only makes a Boarderlands 2 ($) with an AUv3 side-tool (maybe just one audio strip?) but dreams up even more quirky, interesting features. But I also want (need?) someone to make a "proper" plain old AUv3 slicer. Granular is great for exploring chaotic, shimmering "arty" sounds, but a nice straight ahead AUv3 sample slicer seems more what folks need.

[@MikeDeanOfficials]

Feels good to listen! 🤩

[@rustikinc63]

Hey Jakob!! Boy the audio quality sounds awesome on your voice.. Audiohub still?

[@JakobHaq]

@RUSTiK I’m still using the same michrophone that I’ve been using since I started my channel, an iRig Mic HD (v1). I’ve just slightly adjusted the processing I do (Cubasis) on my audio over the years.

[@JakobHaq]

@UnkaTom Did you ever have a look at VirSyn’s ReSlice? I haven’t gotten around to it myself yet. 😅

[@InstantlyDistant]

worth the wait! Borderlands was the app which first made me curious about modern iOS music-making. great to see it updated, with a possible AUv3 on the horizon!

[@chicoaria]

Your channel is like going to the best university (so well done and interesting) and my patron to you is like paying nothing to be there! Amazing content. @chris: is far unbelievable to see what he did beside his normal life. Music creators are enthusiastic with this app! More for the future of good music!

[@nickynocknoo]

Amazing work Chris, and thanks so much for the great overview, presentation, and interview Jakob!!

[@jmgsb]

Amazing resources in the description! Thank you so much!

[@fadplastic]

Your stuff just keeps getting better and better. Love Borderlands. The only issue I have with it, its so good as it is right away. I hadn’t considered many of the advanced options and use cases because it was providing so much immediately. Chris seems like a really thoughtful and intelligent programmer. Would love to see him collaborate with the creator of Samplr on something this decade. Great stuff!

[@openstrings]

Well done Jakob! You are a great understander and teacher. Props to Chris, of course.

[@tojaniktinny]

Great video Jakob, thanks! BG is thoughtful simplicity + infinite possibilities.

[@Nico-np9bh]

Some great potential songs in here for an album! Like the one at 29:05! And the one at the end of the video! Looking forward to hear more!

[@MatthewJohnCrittenden]

Quality update, quality video. So much more than a maintenance update and maybe more to follow. Excellent start to 2020. Off to add to the dev tip jar ...

[@HortonLawrence]

Excellent Excellent Excellent! Thank you so much for this video, above and beyond brother. Wonderful insight on Dev and inside scoop on all new features. So greatful.

[@Harrzack]

Great presentation! Iv had BG for some time but haven’t explored it fully. These new features along with your great explanations of the app will def help me make more use of it. Thanks for all your worth! 🍻🥂👍💋

[@antfactor]

Great explanations/examples. Need to play with this again/more. Cheers!

[@seanfoley7323]

Awesome video, Jakob! Great insight into the developer’s vision, and some pretty convincing Humpback Whale songs around @24:00 👍

[@dergrosseufator]

Thank you so much for this BG Session..it helped me a lot...watching your channel always kicks me more into quick understanding of Apps you’re taking about

[@spooky_zoo]

Update looks great. Good stuff!

[@adamlanfrey]

I've been looking forward to this! I'm gonna spend a lot of time on diving into this update. Borderlands rules. Thanks for the video Jakob

[@MyriadDubstep]

Wonderful presentation Jakob!

[@simongregory3114]

This app looks great, I must get it (though I'm hesitant as an iOS newbie with a hundred apps I haven't really used yet....) And also, the more I watch your videos, the more I like them. Great mix of hard info, inspirational sounds and quirky humour. Defs one of the best iOS music channels

[@DiOSakaVerso]

Great Job, Jakob... You’ve got me back interested in it 😎

[@tinagreen6698]

Thanks you Jacob for this tutorial I'm a new user to borderlands, and this is very essential in understanding the control menu. Cheers, awesome channel.👍

[@Larry30102]

This vid kicks butt!! Many Thx!

[@kallekempe9140]

Thank you for the video, it had precisely the right pacing for me today. Thumbs up!

[@hArtyTruffle]

Apple sorted itself and I just couldn’t wait, could I 🤓 what an amazing app. Love it! When I had GarageBand years ago, there was a sound in the loops that they no longer have. Managed to find a sample of it on a video. Converted it and bunged it in Borderlands. So happy. Thanks Jakob. You’re an APPsolute ⭐️

[@HustonSingletary]

Great video Jakob. I'm a new BG user and I already know this latest version will sit alongside plenty of my upcoming album tracks. Thanks for all the tips, cool music and great dialouge with the amazing Chris Carlson.

[@markus_knoedel]

Thank you for this indepth look into this update. This app has become so much more fun...

[@ThierryLalinne]

Fantastic Jakob ! I really do love Borderland Granular and this update was worth the wait.

[@JakobHaq]

It’s an amazing update and it feels good to know that it was never abandoned either!

[@SighDown]

Well done, Jakob!!

[@douglasfink131]

Thank you your tutorials are always the best.

[@stefrance2]

Great video for a great App ! Target few great apps and go deep in the way to use them .... I love it ! Thanks for this great content.

[@TheDjenzyme]

Nice! Borderlands is easily one of my favourite iPad apps, now it's even better!

[@KarlSadler]

Thanks for your video. I’m about to do a weeks client work with borderlands and I wouldn’t have known about this update if you hadn’t have made this video! Off to update!

[@LesProductionsZvon]

Very informative docutorial, I have never used BG but it certainly has great features. Great audio examples, I especially like the one that starts at 32:00. I enjoyed the interview with Chris Carlson too!

[@SandcastleTheory]

An amazing update to one of the only apps I own that actually makes using an iPad for music worth while... Cheers!

[@veloopity]

amazing and well done overview over a truly amazing app - thanks so much !!

[@hoagyguitarmichael]

Thank you so much for this brilliant post.

[@seazenbones6945]

Thanks Jakob. The amount of time you put into editing, is much appreciated.

[@JakobHaq]

Thank you so much! It really means a lot to me that my viewers are noticing my efforts! 🙏🏼

[@jakomaron]

you see that ! ! I asked for that in your last video, about what we wanted for 2020. and Bam !!!! here it is. Too good!!!!!

[@lerosa3656]

Thank you Jakob, always a class act

[@FrozenLonesome]

Excellent video Jakob. I really enjoyed the snippets of your music in Borderlands throughout the video.

[@JakobHaq]

Thanks man! 👊🏼

[@el-bov8034]

Great tutorial, by the way. Will watch it in full, later on.

[@imagine9033]

Good review. I like borderlands granular a lot.

[@tranquilitybase6417]

Good job Jakob!

[@mankismelbournejay]

Thanks, this was super informative, super helpful, super entertaining, super duper!!! 👍👍👍

[@Dichotomos]

I just found out about this app and this video is an amazing resource! Thank you, I bought the app and I am looking forward to using it and learning it!

[@Garriswillbegarris]

Love the app and really enjoyed hearing what you created with it

[@saltedscholar]

These are a fantastic content format.

[@johndeggendorf7826]

Touching sounds? Grainclouds? Are you guys trippin? Nope. This is reality now. Big thanks to very smart guys, like Chris, who think differently. This app feels right. It fits the human mind well, and in a way that clicking and keystrokes just can’t...touch. In the weird and wonderful category the Oscar goes to...(opening envelope)...Borderlands! So Jakob, in the opening shot, you know we could see you, right? Thank you synth guru.

[@JakobHaq]

Aw man, I was crouching so hard I almost busted a vein ... 💋💋💋

[@stevengofstein]

Sweet! and worth the wait. I love apps like this that totally inspire musical ideas with randomness but yet you have so much control over the randomness. I was definitely afraid of losing this one.

[@craigbecker2192]

An outstanding video about an outstanding app! Thank you!

[@mundelator]

Awesome docutorial, useful and inspiring ! Thx

[@JakobHaq]

My pleasure, thanks for watching! 👊🏼

[@ramirojotabeats]

Thanks jakob!

[@paradiddle16]

Thoses new features are awesome. Especially love the adsr mode!

[@infektdubstep]

this video is amazing, soo interesting and helpful at the same time

[@MC-sr3ib]

Nice job Jakob

[@salvadorbarajas6862]

This is brilliant work, mate! Thank you!

[@JakobHaq]

Thank you for watching! 👊🏼

[@sokoleski]

this makes me so happy

[@GoodMenstruationAttitude]

Nice get, jakob!

[@yamamoto1208]

Borderland was my n°3 granular app behind Samplr and Spacecraft. But with the new features I think it will go to n°1! Thank you Chris for the big work and thank you Jakob for the wonderful video!

[@tompoynton]

I’m so happy today

[@hectorenriqueroblesalonzo2643]

i've been reviewing this app since i got an ipad and im very critical when its about choosing an app to make music because presisely i want to evolve the way i make music. Im convince this app will saticefy me and other users that discover this. Thanks jakob and thanks to the developer. I wish to create an app this way to change the music making is today.

[@lienadreckanav]

one of the best app in sound design since his birth on ios! great, great job from chris! I'm gonna buy him .... two cups of coffee, for sure!

[@nobatttroll6205]

Docutorial? Fantastic invention! Thank you...

[@JakobHaq]

My pleasure!

[@AlanKroeger]

Very informative video, much it works as a tutorial. Nice to know more about the developer and what drove the design decisions

[@Kkidzz]

Jakob, looking forward to a future video where your drop into the frame from the ceiling(bungee of course) as the intro. 😉

[@NoFishCanSwim]

Great documentary Jakob

[@JakobHaq]

Thank you Grant! 💚

[@JoshuaDb_The_Witness]

This app is the reason I started making music on iOS

[@jantuitman]

This synth looks very awesome and I don’t have it yet... however I need to assimilate more of my previous synths. I think I am starting an “iOS future synth purchases list”!

[@albrenes3258]

Hello Jakob, thank you very much for your videos. They are very helpful. You are the best. do you know if when it comes to backing up in iCloud, the scenes of Borderlands Granular are saved with all the audios and their distribution on the screen and all the knots and our specific configuration of all parameters? Thanks !!

[@glenallan6279]

This gave me an idea for an app to develop!

[@MehmetKoseDev]

Oh I have to say that what he done here is genius!

[@hansendesigns]

A little kiss on Chris Carlson’s forehead, my thoughts exactly! :) thx for vid!!! Excellent.

[@janbonne]

Omg insider looks at developer ppls I luv it

[@thomasnikzakrzewski4477]

Great update video, Jakob. First one was great too. I’m wondering how Borderlands manages the selection and sequencing of the grains in a cloud. Is it random? If it's not random, is it possible to alter the pattern of grain selection?

[@velanche]

Borderlands is one of those apps that I had bought long ago, but never used. While doing some research for granular apps, as I was inspired by toying with it in the new Sampler instrument in Logic Pro X. I found that BG was one of those apps, and I guess one of the top apps for this. I played around with it tonight for awhile,, and it’s really cool. I know it has potential. I look forward to the AUv3 implementation to use with apps like Zenbeats, but it’s a great app on its own. Thanks for this!

[@VictorSteiner]

Can‘t wait for the Auv3 or the possiblity to use it in split screen. Wanted to use it for Jamuary but since I need to add reverb in AUM I had to switch apps and people would have seen my private data in the app overview.

[@douglaswaterson7107]

Great app, and nice job on the video too.

[@JakobHaq]

Thank you!

[@maupivetz]

Great!

[@LimGiong]

Thanks.

[@dafingaz]

Such a great app!

[@douglasfink131]

Thanks

[@ben-s]

It's very unimportant thing but i guess for the sake of aesthetics/design of the app I'll just put it here - it would make sense (of course if possible) to have no frame around an audio file, but just to see the wave only of an imported/recorded sound. So you drag not a square document but only visualisation of a sound wave. It would not change anything, just a visual thing, if possible of course to accomplish. However - I love this app and - great interview, very honest and friendly.

[@bjam2424]

Thanks for the Very helpful video. Whats the sample you play around 11.20 ?

[@chitlun]

Excellent video man! How come this has only just come onto my radar??? I’ll waste no more time in purchasing it… I’ll use your link, I’m assuming it’s an affiliate one. Gonna be jamming with a friend tomorrow so I’ll be experimenting with this no doubt, peace ✌️

[@JakobHaq]

Thank you! I’m happy you like the video. Btw, Apple removed the Affiliate programs for apps back in 2018, so no one is able to make money that way unfortunately.

[@kabood777]

Thank you, Jakob and Chris 🙏🙏👌 , Now I need an I-pad, I never had one, I never used one, I just know I need this Granular Synthesizer in my life ... and I don't have the money for it 😊

[@JakobHaq]

I understand the frustration of that. Is there any chance of you being able to get a hold of an older used pad? This thing will run on an iPad mini 2 for instance.

[@kabood777]

@@JakobHaq thank you for answering Jakob, there might be , I don't know, but it's great to know that it runs on older models too, I will check it out , maybe I can find a good deal for a used unit 😊

[@walrtbstudios5430]

This has stepped it up a level. Borderlands used to be less complex than iDensity, but more user-friendly. Now it rivals iDensity for... er, density, while retaining it’s relative simplicity. All we need now is AUv3...

[@skyddsrum3350]

Hey Jakob, lovely video! 👍🏻 I’m about to buy an IPad Mini (5th generation), my main usage will be to feed my hardware samplers with all the awesome iOS-synths and also use it for recording some performances, but mainly as a ”synth”. Need some advice! Will the 64gb be sufficient or should I get the 256gb?

[@JakobHaq]

If you do not intent to do heavy audio tracking type work with big wave files and or video work with big video files the. 64BG can last you a long time. Synthesizers are small in file size (unless they’re synth/ROMpler combos).

[@Paparumbo]

One of the best apps ever .

[@lerosa3656]

Jakob if you host it in AUM can you sync AUM to midi IN clock thus also syncing Borderlands to it? I managed to get some sort of sync using audiobus3 taking midi clock in and then hosting borderlands in it but couldn't do it on AUM.

[@joeohagan1507]

I’m stil loving Borderlands, gets a fair bit of use mostly through massive reverbs of course.

[@joeohagan1507]

Beautiful examples throughout!

[@JakobHaq]

I tend to do the same thing. Massive wet bubbly reverbs together with BG. 😊

[@GonUkeCrazy]

How are you getting audio out? And are you taking it to Ableton?

[@hasan7786]

Hearing him explain the lack of a manual made me come to grips with using the app. I mean, I have been exploring like crazy cause you have no choice and it adds to the excitement but I would like to, at the very least get a "what's this button do" explanation. At one point I had all of my grain clouds dropping from the sky, making sounds as it passed my waveform. It just kept raining, it was great. How the hell did it happen and how do I make it happen again... Manual. If someone knows, please let me know, gravity button?

[@alicelucas913]

how do you link up multiple ipads!?

[@tybowesformerlygoat-x7760]

My understanding is that reverb was added in post..

[@basmancreeert]

Hi Jakob, I just downloaded this app and I love it. But is there a “stop” button? Or is that not how this works?

[@JakobHaq]

Ah, there is no stop button. You have to move the clouds away from the wave files I order to stop sound. Also There is a main volume mute in the menu located in the top right, but it instantly just cuts of the sound.

[@PhilanderingBastard]

Ermahgerd. Mr. Haq you naughty.

[@GaryR55]

If I were to buy and install Boderlands Granular now, would I be getting this updated version? I gotta tell you, I like the original version more than this. I haven't bought or installed it yet (other prorities), but I have intended to. Now, with this update, I'm not so sure I want it anymore.

[@adamlanfrey]

It hasn't lost any of the previous features, you can do whatever you could before so don't worry :) You don't have to sync it to tempo if you don't want to, it's just what is extendedly reviewed here because it's new. The old cloudy stuff is still there

[@nickhem12]

I have an iPad Pro, and just over 18 dollars credit... but I also have a microgranny 2.5 from Bastl instruments. Will borderlands give me that much more granular satisfaction? Thanks all.

[@Valleedbrume]

Reminds me of Gestrument pro.

[@JakobHaq]

Funny thing is that the original gestrument app (named “gestrument legacy” nowadays) and Borderlands Granular came out during the same year (2012). Borderlands came first in October and Gestrument came out a month after in November. On another interesting note, SAMPLR also came out in November that same year. Those three apps properly demonstrated what could be done with a touch interface.

[@krazywabbit]

Recently I made a comment on one of your polls that AUV3 is not a must have but I’ve been deleting apps that don’t support it. I just finished watching your video with Marcos, developer of Samplr and his view on why no AUV3 made sene. Then to hear Chris essentially say the same thing. What the consumer wants and what the developer is able to deliver under the confines on the tools at the current moment rarely gel. This has caused me to change my views. Yes, still a nice feature to have, however, if the app provides fun and value in the standalone, keep it.

[@JakobHaq]

It’s a difficult line to walk. Apps like SAMPLR, borderlands granular and now Beatsurfing 2 does not really need AUv3. They are all apps that fully utilises the entire screen on their own. They’re fully fledged “instruments” once opened up and so making them smaller and having to em sit besides other plugin windows kinda holds them back. At least that’s what I feel. I love AUv3 but some apps does well on their own and constricting them to AUv3 standards kinda makes them less good. AUv3 is good, but not always needed.