Wotja - Generative Music & Cut-Up Text Generator
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Free | Intermorphic Limited | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
In FREE operation you have access to EVERYTHING in Wotja (including mix randomisation, templates, parameter editing, cut-up editing etc.) and can create, save, play and share.
Wotja can be used just for playing relaxing music, but is also a very deep app - a creative instrument - and is perfect for those who like to explore and experiment. We recommend having a look at our extensive User Guide.
USE IT TO…
• Create, play and playlist high quality, royalty-free, totally custom generative music / soundscapes: ambient, drone, relaxation, mindfulness, experimental etc. (you can use your own or 3rd party loops and SF2, too)
• Help break composer's and writer's block with new melodies & ideas for lyrics, poems, haiku, songs etc.
• Experiment with generative (MIDI) music composition
• Drive other MIDI synths
• Experiment with sound design using the many included ISE Sound and FX units
• Build a hyper-instrument responding to MIDI note input
• Quickly create melodies using your text as a seed
• Share your creations via email or by embedding a Wotja URL (WJURL) in a webpage
ROAD MAP…
In just one app, Wotja for iOS now represents the future for each of our Noatikl, Mixtikl, Liptikl and Tiklbox iOS apps and provides a forward migration path for files created in them. It brings new features & capabilities with many more to come.
FURTHER DETAILS…
Wotja includes hundreds of editable generative music templates and supports Core MIDI / Virtual MIDI Out/In as well as Inter-App Audio and Audiobus. At its core are three powerful engines: the MIDI generating Intermorphic Music Engine (IME) with 130+ parameters, the sound generating Intermorphic Sound Engine (ISE) and the Intermorphic Text Engine (ITE) that utilises the cut-up technique on a user editable word pool. The ISE lets you design/use portable complex stereo synth networks - great for rich & evolving sounds in shareable pieces - and supports SoundFonts (SF2) / DLS Wavetables and use of audio loops in Paks. It includes many modulatable sound units, FX units & quality SF2.
LIMITATIONS
• FREE operation - Play Time: 1 minute; Save/Export: Cell 1 ONLY; MIDI Out/In: Ch 1 ONLY; Words tab data: Not saved to file; Text Export: Some restrictions
IN APP SUBSCRIPTION TIERS
• ESSENTIALS ($4.99) - Play Time: Up to 1 hour; Save/Export: Cells in column 1; Words tab data: Saved to file; Text Export: No restrictions
• PRO ($9.99) - Play Time: Up to 8 hr 53 mins; Save/Export: Cells in all columns; MIDI Out/In: Multi-channel; Otherwise as ESSENTIALS
DON'T LIKE IAP SUBSCRIPTIONS?
• That's OK, get "Wotja Pro 2017" instead! See also our Bundles.
SUBSCRIPTION NOTES
• Prices above shown for US region.
• Each Subscription Period is 6 months, auto-renewing (it is *EASY* to turn off auto-renewal if you want to).
• Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
USER GUIDE & FORUM
• Guide: https://intermorphic.com/wotja/guide
• Forum: https://forum.intermorphic.com/viewforum.php?f=67
• Privacy: https://intermorphic.com/privacy
• Terms: https://intermorphic.com/tos
FURTHER NOTES
• If you make and/or share a wotja make sure you don't infringe the copyright of others.
• Wotja is required to play a Wotja File or Wotja Music URL.
FEEDBACK?
Please send it to @intermorphic on Twitter, via our forum or through our website contact form. We're always improving Wotja, so thanks for your support & interest!
Reviews
Steep learning curve...
T.j.V.
but worth the exploration! Generative music can mean a lot of things and Wotja covers all of them. You can use sounds provided in the many and varied paks or you can send midi to your other apps and equipment. The modular synth and the pattern coding aren’t readily intuitive to knob tweeters, but you can obtains some really cool results if you take the time to explore!
Works well, just get the full version
lostproductivity
I really like the work the company put into Mixtikl. I have an iPhone and am not a user of time machine backups. I wish Wotja well, but don't subscribe to anything. I know devices grow old and expire, but Mixtikl was my only bought app to be rendered unuseable ahead of time. Just don't want to pay $15 for a new app that will leave me $21 in the hole if the same happens while all of my iPhone 4 purchases still work albeit obsoletely. This company is fantastic at what it does. I had Timbre of Freesound perfect a Mixtikl piece called Taste of an Ache, used by a company for a YouTube short, and encourage you to check the quality of this earlier music generator. I sympathize with the difficulty of monetizing sleepless nights coding, but subscriptions don't work for me. Tell you what, I won $50 on a lottery ticket, and you can check my review on the full app soon. Let's bury the hatchet, developers. You do amazing work in a very unfilled niche, and your unending politeness and respect in the face of this review is admirable. You also deserve to make an unobstructed living from concerns you are addressing. As for this demo, it suggests a decent portion of the capabilities you can achieve. It is honestly more limited than I like, but I understand any more capability would be ripped off without paying for it. Thank you, sirs.
It does exactly what it says...
T.j.V.
I don't care for the ads and I would definitely want midi support, so I'll purchase the full version fairly soon. Other than that, it does exactly what it says.
Just deleted all their apps
Eriptron
I won't support a pay (or rent my software) as you play developer. Capitalism at it's worst, in my opinion! To bad as I really liked their apps. They're making using their apps like buying a cell phone data plan except for stand alone, on your device apps!
what?
fgk
A day ago I thinking about how much I loved using Koan Pro to compose music. That was over ten years ago and it was the best music app I owned back then. I was interested in what had happened to Koan Pro and some web searching revealed that SSEYO had morphed into Intermorphic and that they now made generative music apps for iOS! Perfect. I was then delighted to see that I could download the brand new Wotja 4 app right away and try it for free. However, after downloading and running it I was immediately at a loss. I could see nothing like the screen shots on the app page, there was zero on-boarding, and tapping on the "Create New" block brought me to some tables of switches titled Templates. Randomly tapping around made some sounds, but there was nowhere else to go. Eventually I looked more closely at the title bar and found that there are buttons with white text on pale gray backgrounds that say "Wotja" and "Random" and I have no idea what any of those things mean or what they do. I went back to the prior screen and picked a thing named "Relax" which seems to be a collection of compositions. Uh, a screen with dice on a beach? I don't get what conceptual model of musical things that might be in use, what any of the UI elements are doing, or how to use any of them. It is an utter mystery. There's nothing in the UI that isn't vague. Given that touch interfaces have come to dominate mobile, and there is so much that the UI can now do to expose complexity in an easily manipulable way, I was a bit shocked to see how little effort was made to turn this into a great tool. Audio apps on iOS are of such variety and work so hard to give users power to create and overcome hurdles to creativity. So the bar is not low, but this app doesn't even try. Well, maybe it does, how would one tell? Koan Pro was such an amazing tool for making music that I want to give this app plenty of chances to impress me, so I will not rate it low. I wish I could give it a "not rated yet" option, but I can't. I'll give it a 3-4 but what I really mean is: these guys have done amazing work in the past make great stuff, I hope this is or becomes one of those great apps. However, this app needs at least an on-boarding video linked from the app, or a detailed help section that explains how to think about the currency of the app, or something. Anything. The UI/UX are the most dead and flat I've seen in any iOS music creation apps and I have at least a hundred. Given the complexity of the parameters in electronic music, a good UX treatment would go a long way to making this into a very powerful UI. Maybe it already is such a thing but I can't tell cause it isn't clear how to use it? Navigation tables of sliders and switches are not really doing it for me, however. And the white text on the navigation buttons has to go. UPDATE: Thanks to the developer for responding, but even though there have a been a few updates, there have been no UI improvements. Maybe a demo video that explains how to use the app would help? Also, the IAP shows PRO, but this is actually a 6 month auto-renewing subscription for those who thought buying a pro version for $10 would let them build something interesting. As it is, the screen shots look cool, but I cannot get to anything like that. Maybe a $2/month PRO IAP would let people like me test the app so I can be sure it actually works? I don't mind spending money, but this is just too expensive for a shot-in-the-dark. The UI is just obscure and dense and assumes you already know the tool. I don't mind spending money on music apps, I've paid for 60-70 of them already, but I don't buy stuff that I can't get a sound out of after an hours. And the white text on light gray buttons really is a unacceptable. My vision is not sharp and I cannot find the buttons without eye strain, let alone read the text on them.
Best generative music app
Goldenage2012
Its sad to see many bad comments in such a great apps. I wanna give my inside so new buyers don't get turned off of such amazing apps. First off, you can buy the full version without subscription. I mostly use noatikl, it has great sound possibilities but i use it to sequence external synths, 16 midi outputs can be used to sequence anything inside and of outside the ipad. There is a learning curve but with any app as complex as this its understandable. There is so many possibilities on this app. Their website has lots of information and a very helpful forum. The creators are super nice people, theres only 2 of them but they do answer very quickly and are not greedy like other reviewers mention. It really scares me to think that the developers would stop supporting and growing such amazing tools, please don't! Much love
Not seeing the value
Benny Badman
And it looks like you somehow got my previous comment removed after I spent time trying to explain the customer viewpoint and offer possible solutions rather than just flame. Oh well, just keep arguing with your potential/former customers, I'm sure you'll convince us someday.
It's all finally coming together!
skiphunt
I'm giving this app a second chance and will eventually update my review of this new collective app by Intermorphic once I've spent more time with it. I enjoyed their previous app Mixtikl so I'm very interested to see how their earlier impressive efforts have evolved. UPDATE: After having spent more time with this app, I have to say... it's come a long way since my experience with Mixtikl. In some ways, I liked the graphic user interface of Mixtikl better, but in practice, Intermorphic has made some efficient and intuitive choices. It somehow is much less of a complex puzzle to figure out, and now more of an excellent tool that allows you to get right to the business of crafting generative music. The text to music feature is interesting and cool, but I'm barely scratching the surface with it so far. All in all, I'd say Intermorphic did an excellent job taking several other mature generative applications, and melding them together with the best parts, in a fairly intuitive interface. Well done!
Generative but unusable
Michael1995!
It has a potential but probably can be used by its developers only. No adequate tutorials or help files to explain how to create own music.
The perfect sleep machine.
tbrensinger
Intermorphic is awesome!! I was a little hesitant to purchase another subscription service, but it all really factors out to only about a dollar per month. I do plan on switching to the yearly paid option...I just wanted to try things out first. Wotja is hands down the best generative software that I have ever used. Extremely musical. Keep up the good work. ~Tim
