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What are your 5 most used apps when making music
In response to the thread on Apps we've bought and never used, I thought it would be nice to do the flip side of this, and see which apps and utilities we use the MOST and what we use them for. Not which ones we like the most but USE, the most. This is to find the real workhorse apps
I suggest the limit of 5 just to make us think about and have room for DAW, Synths, and utilities
I'll start the list with
Gadget - Sketchpad
Cubasis - Audio recording and Final Production
Dropbox - File transfer between apps as well as storing files off of the iPad to save space
AUFX PeakQ- Obviously for EQ, but use this as it has MIDI control, I still find knobs easier than touch for this.
Tonestack - For processing Guitar and Bass Guitar signals
Wow, that was actually pretty hard to do, I have left so many off the list, lets allow ourselves a 'nearly made it' list too
Launchpad (for instant messing with arrangements), iM1, Drums Live, iMS-20, iPolySix, Galileo
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Audioshare: because it is like the mayor/mayoral residence of my highly amateur Tune Town.
Samplr: because it does well for rough-sketching a six-part framework, though i usually just stop after mixing down (though really i'm supposed to take it over to FL Studio and add more, refine, etc.--but i lack Song Stamina, so my drives are littered with many not-quite-there 20mb Samplr wavs).
Flux:FX/Turnado: Absolutely necessary for vocal processing when one is in the unfortunate position of hating your own voice.
ChordPolyPad: because i utterly lack skill/awareness of proper instrument-playing, but am all gaga for lovely chord progressions (lately Chordbot and Suggester are creeping in on CPP's territory, very convenient to just export that MIDI file).
Thumbjam: my go-to for 'real instruments,' now becoming even more Essential because i had never bothered much with scales, but am now awakening to their Deep Realities, and there are, what, 500 or so here? Plus i got Scalegen now to grow my own, the possibilities are limited only by my drug supply.
Here's how I currently crank in this order:
Audiobus
Cubasis
DrumPerfect(other drums sometimes)
MasterFX&Altispace combo for Guitar
iGrand for Pianos (lots of other apps depending on mood)
Obviously we switch to lots of other keyboard/synths to get a specific sound, and tons of other effects to do different fun things. Sebastian predicted correctly in 2010: most of the apps on my iPad are effects apps! 5 is way too small a number, maybe the most essential 50 apps, I've gotten too used to having millions of options!
At the moment:
Audiobus, Audioshare, Auria, Stereo Designer and Dub FX are used for every track I make - essentials really.
I'd agree with those first four and allow myself an effect variant for number five. All infrastructure apps I guess for the arranging/processing/recording of the noise to be made, whatever that noise (or generator) might be...
I'm hoping it will be down to less than five soon - Auria Pro, AudioShare, and Different Drummer.
I just looked at what Stereo Designer is and does, another app purchase on they way
Yeah, I use loads of effects, but Dub is a good all round delay/reverb so probably gets put in more often than the rest.
Auria(pro),Cubasis,Gadget,iSem,Effectrix.....and yes,Audioshare of course.But i left it out since it isnt actually involved in the MAKING of a tune.
It's a good one that - adds a bit of depth to an Auria mix
The 5 most used (currently) -- AudioBus, Cubasis, SynthMaster Player, Gadget, Altispace.
AudioBus, Guitarism, Slash Amplitude, ifretless Bass, Cubasis (recording & the excellent sounding AM drum pads). As a bloke who can't play guitar, these apps ensure that I'm loving the experience of learning.
I'm afraid I can't even run to 5 for my current uses !
Gadget, Final Touch and AudioShare (used to use Audiocopy, until it stopped working with Gadge).
So many worthy apps just languishing there...
SunVox, AudioShare, Mastering, bit of Poseidon, DM-1 occasionally.
No synths!?
Audiobus, AudioShare, Midiflow, Cubasis, and MT DAW. These and various MIDI apps form the infrastructure which is why they're most frequently used by me. The actual sounds are created with various synth apps, groove/drum apps, and effect apps along with vocals, hardware synths, and some analog instruments. I'll revisit Auria when the pro version is released.
I've spent time with apps from the following developers and will do so in the future. They have been a tremendous musical resource and I feel the need to acknowledge their work:
Sugar Bytes, Holderness, IK Multimedia, Kymatica, Alexander Zolotov, Virsyn, iMusic Album, Olympia Noise, mobile only, apeSoft, Amazing Noises, Yonac, Propellerhead, iceWorks, tempo rubato, Wolfgang Palm, BeepStreet, Waldorf, Erik Sigth, Sonosaurus, Wooji Juice, Novation, Iglesia Intermedia, Bit Shape, White Noise Audio, Secret Base Design, Yamaha, Techne Media, Fingerlab, Markus Waldbooth, Synthetic Bits, Vibrant Digital Engineering, Jesper Nordin, Alexandernaut, Audeonic Apps, Rejean Poirier, Audanika, INTUA, Moog, Arturia, TBStuff, Liine, Bastus Trump, Mark Carlotto, Klevgrand, Korg, Bolasol, UVItouch, 2beat, Alex Matheu, Marcos Alonso, Positive Grid, Intermorphic, Ngo Minh Ngoc, Rhism, TonAp AS, zCage, Yannick Roy, Nicola Pisanti, Justus Kandzi, Bitcount, Sergio Barbosa, Wizdom Music, Burgerkone, Zaplin Music, UK Music Apps, joerg piringer, Shun Murabayashi, Green Oak Software, TC-Helicon, Native Instruments, Alexey Nadzharov, Pier Lim, James Navarro, Never Be Normal, Primal Audio, Takashi Mizuhiki, David Gamble, Normalware, Taika Systems, Epicore, Richard Meyer, KV 331 Audio, Daniel Larsson, Alexander Smith, Mayank Sanganeria, sohla, NOIISE, and Tim Strelnikov.
Very well researched, @Paul
Oh yeah, it's just that the input thing will always vary, but the recording/exporting chain is pretty standard. So statistically these get more use.
AnalogKit, Audiobus, Flux:fx, genome, gadget.
GarageBand; Music Studio; ThumbJam; bs-16i; iFretless Brass
Of course I will off and grab something else if it'll fill a bill, like iFretless Sax or Animoog.
Hmmm. Well to choose only 5: Audiobus, Cubasis, Auria, Crystalline, Animoog.
My last track:
MTS, iSem AU, iElectribe
That was all!
But I'll add Animoog and Drum Jam
(AB and AS feel like part of the OS tbh)