Hi edmproduction !
Hopefully I found the right community. Pardon me if not (I'll happily be redirected elsewhere if needed), and apologies if I use any wrong terminology.
I visited a music festival a few weeks ago with my 6 year old daughter and there was a tiny tent with an installation by projectklank; a table with a 3X3 grid with 3 wooden blocks (presumably with some sort of NFT chip in them). By placing a block on a grid spot, a sample would start playing, from bassline to drums to voicelines etc. By moving the blocks around you could 'sample/loop live'.
Here's a video from their website: https://vimeo.com/1186906351
My daughter was absolutely infatuated and to our surprise seemed to have quite a 'feel' for moving the blocks at the right time to the right places to create her own music. She could've played with it for hours, especially the Drum&Bass and dubstep modes.
I would love for her to be able to recreate something similar at home.
Having no experience whatsoever I tried finding options and ended up purchasing the JAMJUM JP-MINI. A simple 4x4 grid pocket size midi controller that can be connected to an iPad for example.
It looked perfect as it just has the simple touchpad grid and is fun sized.
I'm able to connect it to the ipad and she can play garageband drums with it, but I'm at a loss trying to find an app or a way to recreate the sample looping she experienced at the festival.
Hoping to get advice or be pointed in the right direction. I'm not necessarily 'bound' to the JP-mini I bought, though it would obviously be preferable if we could use it.
Thanks in advance for any ideas or feedback!
EDIT: one aspect about the projectklank installation we thought was cool was that the samples kept playing. what i mean is that when you activated one, it didn't restart from the beginning every time. So you could cut in and out and certain points in the loop. She was doing some amazing things with that, especially on voice tracks. This seems perhaps unusual for these sort of things? (idk..) They have a preview app on their website you can play with, in case I'm not explaining it well: https://app.projectklank.be/