Wotja: Live Generative Music 4+

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I’ve been practicing “rabbit-hole-diving” sports discipline in regards of different types and forms of generative music entity for a while now lol.
Started out feeding Mubert algorithm with loops from my productions several years ago as well as created those for this specific implication a bit later - it always got me excited that the machine is able to combine elements that you do well know as the creator but in such ways that they start to form a completely unfamiliar material.
Later after these first dives of scratching the surface of generative music, tested out basically every software that I happened to discover (and the pool is getting more and more units as the time goes and this type of music gets more exposure) - some of them are quite impressive and packed with features - such as MIDI in/out support, available as AUv3 etc, etc, etc - some are purely just for entertaining yourself rather than creating anything.
So, back to Wotja:
Compared to anything that exists out there - this basically is the sickest lab you can think of when speaking or thinking of generative workflows of any kind. Period.
And the fact that I’ve discovered it just recently kinda surprises me, ‘cause it seems that the app exists for quite some time. But maybe it’s really for the better - since when you launch the environment for the first time you really do notice that it got to its current state of stability through time of being in active development, no doubt, it’s impossible to fake this stuff - and for the amount of processing it obviously handles in the background it is very safe to say that it’s running rock-solid.
Damn, it even supports javascript for the precise control over the real-time composing - and I got my hands on it for some relatively basic tasks and it worked and it really amazes me.

Some more HUGE features of this production environment worth pointing out:
• AUv3 hosting support in standalone mode, which really promotes this app into the category of DAW - of its own kind.
• Custom-made audio engine – if you are familiar with some main titles of iOS music production software (DAWs), then you know that most of them don’t fully rely on their own audio engines and utilize built-in Apple’s system resources for audio processing and vast majority of sound-related tasks, and this is not always the best way to go for sure. From all the software I happen to own for this platform - from GarageBand to AUM, nTrack, NanoStudio etc, etc - there’s only one that I know that developed their own audio processing engine from the scratch - and it’s Korg’s Gadget. Which makes sense - since they are huge as a brand and a company and do have resources to support this kind of ambitions and what’s nonetheless important - to maintain and support its existence in the long run. And the fact that the only software besides Korg’s that I witnessed having the same feature - and really not that much behind in terms of overall stability and build quality - is something that is created by the team of 2 (TWO!!!) men that are behind Wotja developement - honestly, this just blows my mind very faaaaar away. Guys, u f@(l<in’ rock, like - for real.

There’s really much more worth mentioning but YOU🫵🏽, reading this review - better just get this lit piece of software installed at this point and find out for yourself loool.
No, seriously.

Cool!

The wotja program spawns what melodic music it can generate automatically! And at the same time, there are a lot of settings and functionality to customize the composition and its random rendering as you want. I didn’t think that this kind of program existed at all. I definitely recommend it! and the support service is responsive and responsive. positive goes off scale :)

Developer Response ,

We are so glad to hear you are enjoying Wotja, and that you found it! We hope you can help let others know :). Many thanks for your lovely words, they do mean a lot to us. Best wishes from Tim and Pete.

Awesome app!

Thank you for awesome music app!
It's an inspiration for unlimited creativity!

Developer Response ,

We are very glad to hear you are enjoying Wotja and thank you for your nice review! Best wishes from Tim and Pete.