Progressions for iOS - Preview

[@aninterestingcharact]

Geezuz Paul! This thing is AMAZING. BRILLIANT!

[@billsaunders5717]

Just bought this today Paul, can’t believe I’ve not bought earlier- as a songwriter who doesn’t play keys very well, it’s a dream come true. Thank you

[@PaultheMusicMan]

THanks Bill, be sure to checkout the PDF downloadable from the Help Manual. It was written by David Collett who worked with me on this project and provided me with a wealth of knowledge.

[@thesefiremountains2136]

Giving Scaler a run for it's money Paul ;) Looks great!

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Thanks! Unlike scaler which I believe is using a bunch of fixed MIDI chord sequences, this is completely synthesized and will produce chord patterns that are completely different from anything Scaler will produce. This was the inspiration behind the app.

[@edzielinski]

@@PaultheMusicMan It does look complementary. Since my initials are not JSB I need a lot of help with my chord progressions and this looks promising.

[@ianbrown1474]

watched for 30 seconds and had to buy !! Very impressive :)

[@spidericemidasiosmusicprod1309]

So glad you’re doing well again, Paul. This looks just incredible! Instabuy when it drops! Really appreciating your fabulous work! 😃👍

[@eylvy]

Good to have you back in the game, Paul. Hope you're doing fine. Progressions sounds ideal for a non-keyboardist like myself.

[@tybowesformerlygoat-x7760]

I've been playing for over 30 years, and I still love this.

[@NinaAndTheDynamics]

great to have you back, paul! 🙃

[@AcoustiMan818]

Great to see you back with an app that has an unique approach to chord progressions

[@hozzer68]

Damn you Paul, I thought I’d given up buying apps. Looks like another winner here, keep up the good work. 👍

[@nturner3348]

Great to have you back Paul !

[@philcooney720]

Happy to have you back, Paul.

[@Indavidualpoet]

Good to hear and see you've bounced back with another instabuy 🖖🏽😎

[@senhorlampada]

So good to see you recovered, mate! This app looks amazing. My buy finger is itching 😂

[@PaultheMusicMan]

So glad to hear so many positive comments.

[@audiblevideo]

Paul Returns!

[@JadeStarr]

Wow! Welcome back! Now this looks epic!

[@kowloonbroadcast]

I think it might be the best product you’ve developed so far, i’m dead serious. though i’m a regular user of many of your software silutions and some of them are literally ingrained into my workflow - Helium, Visual MTBCompressor, Neon, NuRack, and others this one is a “murder by notes” type of plugin. if you want - it can be used with a single press of a button, if not - it’s a deeply configurable user-driven compositional tool. it’s quite perfect in every sense actually, ngl lool

[@SiEffen]

Great to have you back Paul. App looks brilliant!

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Thanks Si, very nice to be back and productive again.

[@alanwilton6806]

Good to see you back and I hope you’ve fully recovered.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

I'm certainly not 100% yet, but I'm sure it won't be long now.

[@lrkx_]

Nice!!! This looks fantastic, Paul.

[@MeerkatMuzic]

You really know how to knock them out the park. This looks and sounds fab for us music creators really looking forward to its release.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Thanks mate, glad you like it. I got to 20 mins and realised I still had loads to show so expect quite a few tutorials with this one!!

[@BreakSpace]

Instabuy! Good to see you back on the track.

[@louisbrochu9511]

Great to see you back buddy :)

[@wignallyt]

Wow - looks like a great app! Good to have you back making apps Paul.

[@iosmusicman]

Hi Paul. At 2 minutes in I was so disappointed to know it was just a preview so I started reading comments and saw someone had bought it. Can’t have, I thought… checked the App Store and there it is. Wallet immediately opened. Thanks again for what you do. I buy your apps purely on your reputation and they are all ace. Cheers. Lee

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Apologies, but I usually like something released before the app to give the early reviewers guidance and to let you guys understand what the app does. Hopefully the wait wasn't too long.

[@iosmusicman]

@@PaultheMusicMan no apologies required Paul. I usually follow your previews actually, so my comment was slightly tongue in cheek or at least my attempt at light humour. The upshot is that you released it pretty damn sharp after the preview which please me greatly as I am an impatient sort (I can't change that attribute no matter how hard I try). Thanks. Lee

[@djba]

Great App! Thanks for all your hard work.

[@agustinbernal2760]

Another winner!! We all were waiting for a new great app by Paul, can’t wait for the weekend, cheers!! 😊

[@xencage]

Brilliant, Paul! Glad to see you back! Hope all is well!

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Thanks Kevin, I'm doing much better now thanks. The radiotherapy knocked me for 6, but that's behind me now.

[@xencage]

@@PaultheMusicMan yes that can be rough! I was a radiation therapist before moving on to be a Dosimetrist. Treatments can take a lot out of you. All the best to you!

[@PaultheMusicMan]

@@xencage I am finding out the hard way that even after the therapy stops that doesn't mean I'm not going to loose more hair... I'm praying to the gods it stops soon!! lol

[@iosmusicman]

Worth a follow up comment Paul as I bought at around 2’45” into the video, got waylaid, went to sleep and woke up to watch the rest of the video this morning. Awesome job my man. It is fabulous! Now I’m off to buy some time to use it. Cheers. Lee

[@MobileMusicPro]

Glad to have you back Paul! This app looks amazing!

[@alanr1062]

Pleased you're back Paul. This looks good, which looks a little like Scaler 2 (Which I love) so, I'll definitely be getting this as I like all your apps.

[@raysubject]

This looks absolutely fantastic .. Still can't comprehend how productive you are in terms of amount and quality of all your iOS apps. Just incredible. Gigantic respect !

[@Jake-vq5kr]

Great app thanks!

[@kentaccordionist]

Sorry Paul been so busy. Only just found the video. This looks awesome. Hope your still doing ok. Oh and I have a small request regarding this app, but I emailed it to David as he used to be an accordion teacher so he will have a better understanding of what it is I want, and hopefully communicate it to you better than I can. It’s something that will not just be of benefit to accordionists but anyone using arrangers. Anyway keep up the good work and keep up the recovery.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

I'm doing fine mate, still not 100% but getting there. I will chat to David about this one no worries.

[@PoppaDocRocks]

Dang Paul, you are full of great apps! Excited about this one, Cheers!

[@CarbonatesOnMars]

Cheers Paul. Just purchased Progressions, can’t wait to get to grips with it.

[@n.k.turley2496]

Welcome back Paul - we've missed your genius! Definitely looking forward to this one being released...👍

[@CraftyOldGit]

Great to hear you sounding well. Progressions looks amazingly powerful. It’s on my wish list.

[@Ukobold]

Happy to see you back with another amazing app ! I just can’t wait, but please make as many midi controls available so we can tailor our own styles using them 😇

[@fredgeley]

Back with a bang Paul,another instant purchase and has the mind racing with possibilities and how to integrate it with other apps.

[@desoconnor7445]

Paul ✨✨✨ so glad to see are back on the pitch and have created such a great aide to composition. As far as I can see the app is grounded in a sound understanding of Western music theory and from listening to your compositional demos and the avant-garde work of Mr Gavinski , I can see you have created a creational environment which covers many genres. 🎖🙏🏿🙏👏👏👍🎩🦄

[@nekurobaito]

When I saw scaler2 on iOS I thought it would be cool for scaler to have midi strummer functions. Now my dreams come true, thank you!

[@howardanderson3061]

Brilliant app, I’m studied in both Jazz and Classical Western Harmony and I’m completely blown away….I don’t know what to say and David’s contribution goes without saying🙏 I’m glad to hear you’re doing OK!

[@MickTurnerMusic]

Wow! Just amazing, Paul. Great to have you back. Stay well.❤️🤘🏼

[@NickLewis]

Great to see you back! I will be buying this app!

[@patrickblot3224]

bravo! compact, easy, to manipulate, deep approach and tanks for your manual and history musik document !

[@dadadrew]

Welcome back you genius

[@MarsCapone]

I may have found a replicatable bug in 1.07/build 128… Every time I select Instrument Settings, it crashes in AUM and I must reload. I am on ios 15 still so it might be a backwards compatibility issue.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Try running the app in standalone mode first as it sounds like the soundfonts haven't being installed properly. Failing that, try removing and re-installing, then run it in standlone mode prior to loading as an AUv3. I am also on iOS15.1, but it has been installed on many versions.

[@issiewizzie]

I bow to your knowledge and dedication . Wishing you good health Paul .

[@JeffyG]

I’ve had Scaler for a while (first MacOS and now iOS) and this is similar, but with a slightly different take on some features. The arp and strummer patterns are interesting.

[@holybrook]

Paul! Great to have you back in play. This is awesome! Thank you so much for all you create in this amazing ecosystem. This app will radically improve my songwriting process.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Thanks for, I appreciate the kind words.

[@bendyboy]

Oh man this is amazing Paul. All the best

[@Iain2000]

Wow this looks amazing Paul. Looking forward to it. Glad your health is much better, really good to hear. Take care and stay well 👍🏼

[@ColinPowell_AMultitudeofOne]

Welcome back, Paul! Wow, this app will certainly give Scaler 2 a run for its money! So deep but potentially so useful! Thank you.😀 Thanks also to David for the historical aspects of music theory!

[@lovelab.berlin]

This is an absolutely stunning app that lets you create endlessly! Thank you so much! Just as a sidenote: Using my iPad mostly for live jamming with my AUM trio, it would be amazing to be able to use strumming and arp freely without the sequencer, with strumming / arp just working when I actually play a note on my keyboard. + Keep up your amazing work, thank you so much!

[@PaultheMusicMan]

The new version 1.03 now allows you to do this via MIDI input.

[@rayderrich]

I have been using Scaler 2 as a VST plugin a lot to get songs started, and you just wrote a very serious contender for that product. I could even say yours looks better on iOS, but we will see. I congratulate you on feeling better and coming back with an amazing tool that will delight many of us.

[@edzielinski]

This looks fascinating. I know you design with integration in mind with other apps like AUM and plenty of MIDI control options, so I'm not only looking forward to the app, but also the crazy things I can make it do combined with all the other stuff on my iPad. The world of mobile music creation is getting another jolt of energy - yeah!

[@etheralsmusic]

Looks awesome, can't wait for it's release

[@PaultheMusicMan]

It's already released!

[@etheralsmusic]

@@PaultheMusicMan Thanks Paul, I actually saw it on the App store last night and I got it, loving it so far, great Job

[@ITYNProductions]

Looks great Paul. Thank you. Cant wait to try it

[@MarkBennett007]

Fabulous Paul! Great to see you back on top of your game………your an amazing guy.

[@wiegraf9009]

Wow what an incredible app! Looking forward to it!

[@byron92870]

Love this! Can't wait for the release. Thank you!

[@scotth.johnson4901]

Great App, Paul. This looks super useful, and glad to hear you are feeling better!

[@lubbockleft]

Yeah this looks amazing!

[@RomanPittroff]

Hello, wow thanks you make my day! Welcome back!

[@PhilW222]

Great to see you back again - and this looks (and sounds) amazing!

[@damongriffin6529]

This looks absolutely amazing Paul, I don’t see how you do it. I can’t wait to try it for myself.

[@benashford1971]

Looks great Paul! Really pleased to see you are well enough to be releasing more top notch apps. You and Mr Collett create a potent combo!

[@MrKayMrKay]

Looks awesome! Really want to try this one

[@davidhughes3202]

Wow Paul this looks incredible, I could really make use of this on my iPad as an ideas/sketch pad tool for future projects. Glad to hear you’re on the mend. Dave

[@desoconnor7445]

I’m so glad to to see you realising new musical tools .. this one is brilliant 🙏🏿🙏✨👏🎩

[@nosense280]

Awesome, looks brilliant!

[@lordvyle]

This will get it done...

[@ProducedBy10A]

Just bought it!

[@djpuzzleofficial]

Another stellar app from you mate!

[@Antzs-11a]

Thanks mate iv subscribed love ya bro

[@jzno]

Bought and tried for an hour, great tool ❤️

[@PeterJoslynHarris]

Can't wait to buy this one. Very much hope it's available for Windows DAWs too.

[@ACelebrationofLIFEMendoza]

Superb Paul thanks for this wonderful sharing bless you

[@elipsis1]

OMG! Brilliant!!! Will this be iPad only? Can’t wait to purchase this!!!

[@PaultheMusicMan]

iPad and iPhone compatible.

[@3stig]

This is a wonderful app with so many possibilities 😎👍🏼👏👏Thank you very much

[@lovelab.berlin]

Brilliant! This is absolutely amazing! Can’t wait to try it! This weekend?

[@ChokDK-bryllupsmusik-duo]

Hi Paul.. getting a big fan of your programs and new ideas for musicians. This is the second app I wish had a kind of BPM MIDI input for ("real") live performance. When playing live in a band you can't always count on (no phun intended) the drummer starts (and keeps) the EXACT BPM as suggested for the song, so it would just be incredible nice to make the app read input from you NoteOn to determine the correct BPM. I hope you will give it a thought. Anyway, this app really sounds amazingly nice and well made

[@PaultheMusicMan]

This is indeed a great idea, and will look to find a way to implement it.

[@ChokDK-bryllupsmusik-duo]

@@PaultheMusicMan WAAAOOH taht would be really amazing!! Looking much forward!!!

[@mmane257]

would love to see this come to VST plug-in mode.are maybe be able to port over to your DAW as stems .

[@sleekitwan]

[EDIT - now downloaded ‘circle of colors’ paper, by David Collett from your link, I love to learn about the haphazard creation of musical systems!]. That’s right Paul, you take it easy mate! What the heck?! I thought you were in recovery…anyway, take care of yourself, whatever else you do. This is a very timely product launch of course, as the desktop world is easing into iOS/iPadOS, and Scaler dropped recently - but I saw the demo, and it’s perfectly possible, in some ways, Scaler 2 is overwhelming. ‘Progressions’ is really an interesting development, I am keen to get back to your presentation. Take some care, keep well, you’re like that key scientist guy in ‘Resident Evil’ series - there’s only one of you in your corporation!

[@elipsis1]

Bought yesterday!

[@tybowesformerlygoat-x7760]

Far out. Nice work. So you do all of the concept, design, GUI and coding, Paul?

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Well I do most of it, but I did have some help from David Collett on the theory on this one. He's been a big help getting the algorithm up and working, but the rest is me.

[@alejandrocortesvilches]

Hi.. I think your app is amazing …. I have a lots of them…. But I think this is the way…. I love the performance control …. Thanks for your work 👏👏

[@Robsi60]

Good to see you well again. I did not watch the video yet, but I am expecting something good. Personally for me any alternative to Scaler 2 is good, actually very good. Scaler 2 and I will never become friends as with Gestruments. I am not a keyboard player and will due to age never become one. And I just do not like to put very little effort to make this impression. To become a good keyboarder it takes probably a lifetime and to make this impression within a few hours feels wrong. I could just as well send a song by a band to my friends. But my friends deserve a lot more. But this is my personal oppinion. With your apps so far to my experience they are spot on what suits me to keep a good feeling. But an app is an app and the main thing is what I pointed out in my first sentence.

[@eross21]

oh wow!! this is excellent for song writing? take my money now. will it be out this weekend. so cool

[@eross21]

also, you are a genius. so glad you are back at it and feeling better. the world needs more people who are both highly creative and technical. 👍🏻

[@PaultheMusicMan]

@@eross21 Thanks Eric, yes, it will be out this weekend.

[@xavierf2229]

Hi Paul,very nice App, will it also be available for iPhone? And when it’s the release?👌

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Yes, it is compatible with iPhone and will be released this weekend.

[@elipsis1]

Awesome!

[@enrifretless]

This app looks very interesting, congrats!! BTW regarding the MIDI controls, I see you have fixed MIDI Inputs for the Chords and modes "buttons", it will be great if you can add more and maybe MIDI Learn capabilities, so we could map and trigger using our MIDI controllers on a "live" situation. Even maybe a "Play next chord" button, that could trigger the next chord on the song sequence, at the end of the specific duration or something like that, we can have a wish, right ? 😅 Thanks

[@PaultheMusicMan]

There are a whole host of things you can trigger via MIDI such as chord pads, play mode, arp/strum selector etc. and these do change at the end of each measure. I do plan on looking at this again to see how it can be improved.

[@PeterPrism]

A QUESTION. First of all thanks for the fantastic app Paul. Now my question, When i transfer the presets with the app from a device to another after the transfer how can I install the file in the app? Tried to use also audioshare but there is no option for upload in Progression and in the app “File”(i use iphone and ipad) I can’t find the folder named Progression where supposely should be the presets. So Can you suggest me how can I install the preset created in another device after the transfer? Thanks for your imagination and ability, wonderful app. Peter

[@PaultheMusicMan]

The easiest way is just to connect to a PC/MAC and use Web Transfer in standalone mode. See the bottom of the help manual.

[@bryantwalley]

Be interesting to see where the price point lands with this. Can you lock the chords into a single octave like the way we would play one hand inversions.? Example G,Em,F,C all in the octave 4 grouping.?

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Progressions uses it's own algorithms for generating sets of chords using complexity and freedom levels. You can however force any chord to a chord pad. The app also attempts top note alignment so if you start with a key / mode in octave 4, all other chords will be forced to have sumular top note alignment. This can be overriden if you like, but with all this you are stepping away from what Progressions does best.

[@nonyourbuz5805]

..Thanks Paul...

[@SoundtempleMusic]

Hi Paul, thanks so much for making this app. I’m using in Logic Pro iPad. When used as a midi effect, clicking the pads don’t seem to output midi to my instrument. Strums and arps do in playback. Clicking the pad preview button says preview off with every click but the blue ring to suggest it is enabled stays on. Button works fine when progressions is used as an instrument. Wondering how I can get the pads to trigger my instrument?

[@PaultheMusicMan]

I'm not sure why its not working for you. I've just loaded a copy of SynthMaster and added Progressions as a MIDI FX. It does allow me to toggle the Pad Preview button and it is sending MIDI to SynthMaster. I have noticed however that Logics transport needs to be running (or to have been run at least once) to be able to process audio, so although Progressions is sending MIDI, Synthmaster will not produce sound unless the transport is active. This is possibly a bug in Logic, but since Logic is not something I use on a day to day basis I'm not sure.

[@RhymingontheBeats]

thanks for the cool app !!

[@LucidMusicIncRecordings]

Slow down!!! You're blowing my mind!

[@LucidMusicIncRecordings]

When can it be released?

[@LucidMusicIncRecordings]

@1:30 I would absolutely be interested in hearing you talk about theory.

[@biggersound]

Looks and sounds great but correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this more or less midi strummer with a slightly different UI?

[@itsaboutchina732]

Midi input within Cubasis doesn’t work even after the latest update. :-( I really like the idea that I could trigger the chords in real time with an external controller but I would also like to capture the midi of the instrument doing the triggering so I can do some more post editing.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Are you sure the 'Input' button is actually turned ON? The incoming MIDI pad triggers are also in the lower 2 octaves (notes 0-23) along with the ARP mode.