Scape 4+
By Brian Eno & Peter Chilvers
Opal Limited
Designed for iPad
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- $11.99
iPad Screenshots
Description
Scape makes music that thinks for itself. From Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers, creators of Bloom, Scape is a new form of album which offers users deep access to its musical elements. These can be endlessly recombined to behave intelligently: reacting to each other, changing mood together, making new sonic spaces.
Can machines create original music? Scape is our answer to that question: it employs some of the sounds, processes and compositional rules that we have been using for many years and applies them in fresh combinations, to create new music. Scape makes music that thinks for itself.
- Brian Eno, Peter Chilvers
Includes 15 original scapes
Scapes can be saved into a gallery and added to a playlist
Plays in background of other apps (excluding iPad 1)
Generates random scapes
Scapes can be shared by email
Supports AirPlay and Retina display
Headphones or external speakers recommended
What’s New
Version 1.2
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Updated for iOS 11 only.
Ratings and Reviews
Almost a Perfect App
This is an enthralling app that has engaged my creativity. Usually, an app will fall by the wayside or even be deleted. Only a very few apps continue to hold my attention. Scape has grabbed hold like no other app has. The wish list for most apps is huge since they need lots of help improving their concepts or fixing bugs. Scape only has a few:
1. Naming playlists.
2. Editing existing playlists by adding and rearranging scapes.
3. Combining moods.
4. Make Scapes extensible so I can make it my own with new moods, backgrounds, and elements that use my own sounds and rules.
Well done Brian and Peter! Well done indeed.
Spectacular — with One Caveat
I have had Scape for close to seven years now, and am still generating my own pieces (140 and counting). Don't be fooled by the price point and abstract nature; if you're looking for vastly expansive soundscape and ambience generation at your fingertips, with the opportunity to save and manage your ideas, this is your ideal creation space. There's really nothing else like it on the App Store.
However…Scape has one potentially major caveat, and it isn't the lack of a proper export function. There have been no updates in any form in over half a decade, and sooner or later it will no longer be supported by future iOS versions. Moreover, I believe that as Scape is both Opal Limited's most ambitious app and is over a decade old, it should be updated to reflect its potential in some way. I mean, Trope just received a symmetry update five months ago, and its existence predates this app.
I don't know who checks these reviews (if anyone), but in sum: Opal Limited has here a unique and innovative work of beauty. Please don't let it gather dust and fade quietly away.
It's Alive!
Popular music is about feeling anticipation and then finally getting what is expected. Ambient music (at least with the droning and floating varieties) releases that idea. Nature sounds can be pleasing because, although their are certain signatures to each sound, it's never the same way twice so your mind gives up "expecting". With Scape you choose the elements and the background and then let it live! It's not about giving you a million options (although Scape has plenty), It's about choosing things and then sitting back and seeing (hearing) what they do.
This app also adds new elements as you continue to play with it; I can't believe new elements are popping up even a year after I bought it!
Think of this as a living, breathing ambient album (animal)!
App Privacy
The developer, Opal Limited, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.
No Details Provided
The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Information
- Seller
- Opal Limited
- Size
- 237 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- ℗ & © Opal Ltd. 2012
- Price
- $11.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.