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This simply isn't true. There are tons of small indie developers on PC and Mac platforms making cool plugins they give away for free. There are even free and very inexpensive DAWs for computers.
it is true, decision overload is a constant hurdle. I find for my best/favorite workflow that as long as individual tracks are rolling and i am constantly recording on ipad, even in the sketching stage, that when i do sit down on the weekend at the pc daw I have hours of ready source material to draw from and the best decisions then just naturally emerge. I try to forget about the original intention and just look at the audio as source material as if someone else made it, then try to edit mercilessly. Now with modstep i am sensing there will be a lot less dead air or seemingly infinite loops and general chaff for me to sift through. Things should come out a lot leaner and tighter from the sketching/record phase as Modstep lets me get my fingers on a lot of parameters and once i can record out the way I imagine it will, with tighter more efficient bits, with more variation, then it should make the pc audio collage stage a lot more effective and enjoyable. Cant wait to see if that is the case anyway!
This is my thought too, I am now spending my noodling time in ModStep and then get the output of that more detailed noodling into Cubasis for further production, the only thing I'll add is that I like to keep the production to a minimum in terms of loop editing, and try and keep it to audio processing so that I could still perform the track live from the source material if I wanted.
Keeping this source as MIDI also means that I can store far more unused ideas on my 16GB ipad mini than I could if they were audio.
Ahh yes, live would be a completely different pickle. I have always been a 'fix it in post' kind of guy. what sort of stuff are you making? (And i know that may be a bogus and/or impossible question to answer)
I fall into the category of people who enjoy creating music with iOS and recognize my talents and knowledge are the limits to what I can currently create with iOS and not the apps or iOS. Despite no need for professional tools, nice tools do make the creation of music more enjoyable and less frustrating. LINK has definitely solved a lot of sync problems for me and as it is adopted by more developers, the situation will continue to improve.
Even if iOS music apps aren't the best available or the most reliable, I still enjoy using them, they meet my needs, and I can afford them whereas a professional setup is beyond my means and really not relevant to where I'm at or likely to be. Nevertheless it is clear that independent app music developers do struggle and that if I want to continue to enjoy iOS music creation, finding alternative ways of supporting them is in my best interest.
It seems to me that developments like LINK can be very helpful to independent app developers as they don't have to worry about how to sync their apps to other apps, they can implement LINK which is so much easier. Whether or not independent developers continue to create for iOS seems to depend upon whether or not people are aware of their apps, if their apps are compelling, if sales are sufficient to sustain their efforts, and if they're willing to create apps in spite of little or no monetary rewards for their efforts.
If smaller developers are squeezed out of the market by more established developers, I think it is due to differences in visibility on the App Store, user concerns about inter app compatability leading to people focusing on all in one solutions (e.g. Gadget), a reluctance to buy due to abandonware concerns versus the stability of large developers, and a significant proportion of the music app buying funds being tied up in larger developer apps. These sorts of issues are similar to those faced by any small independent business.
If small developers have an app that has something to offer that other apps don't which people want, then there is an opportunity if the developer can get the word out. At this point in time it seems very few independent developers are able to earn a living from their apps, so if we have apps we want to see more of in the future it seems we'd be better off reaching out to these developers and supporting them in their efforts.
Putting a lot of effort into warning about the dangers of big app developer monopolies seems like a waste of time as the success of independent developers seems relatively independent of that. I don't see Apple changing their policies to support independent developers either, though it doesn't hurt to let them know.
Even at the larger app developers, others have pointed out that they work in small teams which makes sense to me when sales on a per unit basis can easily be 1/10th of what they are on other platforms. App development for these larger developers may even be a loss leader but something which they do so people are aware of and may acquire their other products (this is 100% speculation on my part) or anticipate that as iOS devices become more powerful with increased functionality that the market will begin to resemble the laptop/desktop market.
To some extent the success of small developers can also benefit larger developers as their efforts can lead to using larger developer products to control, process, or refine what's created with smaller developer apps and vice versa.
The benefit to all developers is the extent to which the iOS music app environment can engage more people at a deeper level to create music. Once engaged, people are more likely to support the efforts of developers they believe are relevant to their music creation.
In general, most people don't want to spend a lot of time figuring out how to use apps or analyzing the politics and economics of music apps. If something like LINK makes it easier and less frustrating to make music then they're all for it. For them anything else is just a waste of time
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I make pretty much what i feel at the time, but I have a definite leaning towards Dub and Reggae/Ska with a definite overtone of punk rock but with some analog synths and the odd Hip Hop or Trip hop beats thrown in.
All of the tunes on here are me messing with various iOS apps and are not finished tunes as I have been concentrating on trying to find the apps to find the sounds and drive the workflow I want and not in the compositions themselves, the beats are repetitive and mechanical, there are less guitars than I ultimately want to have, there aren't really any finished (or even started in some cases) melodies, I still haven't found a like minded collaborator to add vocals.
https://soundcloud.com/krumpled
I have been searching for many years for a composition rig that would work equally well live or in the studio for providing the source so that I could concentrate on making that source as good as I can, ModStep on an ipad is the first promising and affordable solution that has come about,
I am super excited to knuckle down and start producing finished material. It is definitely time to put the appoholism aside and start using what I have got.
I'm happy someone rebut this. I got the serious "wtf?" face after reading that.
For the record too, there's also the Eurorack developers, which is the single most active part of electronic music production and has been for the last 1-2 years now. That is almost 100% populated by small developers (but no "miserables", ugh). Eurorack was also originated by a small developer, and guess what? It became a cross-platform smash! Even Roland and Moog have got on board!
I try my politeness with you! WTF? What that means?
Let me ask you one simple question? You staying here long enough, have you bought Diode108? How about ZedSynth, have you got it?
WTF? = What the fuck?
I own both. Why do you ask?
Ok, Sir! Thank you to support them, nothing! I appreciate your reply!
Sounds like you're trying to discourage the big companies from developing and offering useful technology. If it was so easy to have a sync capability between devices and apps on the same device, like Link provides, then we'd have it. As far as Gadget goes, it's good at what it does, or we wouldn't buy and use it. Korg offering an app that is mostly self-contained is not a diabolical plan to take over iOS music production. Korg isn't that clueless.
When something works, fills a need and is free, it'll get implemented. There's no stopping that. If you personally don't want Link because Ableton is an evil giant looking to control your life, then don't use it. Encourage the competition. There's nothing stopping competition.
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You are cruel! You winning is to only attack others' weak spot! Coward speech!
very cool man! I am really digging the mood and love the range of textures and styles you are pulling in. The industrial nods were cool, unexpected but totaly works. I also dig the 90s trip hop and dust brothers vibe. Looking forward to once you get that live friendly setup. Really sweet!
What Paul said...Also there is nowhere to run from the anti-corporate (monopoly) anti-capitalism bashing we all see on Facebook on a daily basis..Not even in the forum here...Thank goodness for corporations...They made it possible for me to type this
I like what Paul said about the limitation being I'm his own talents, not lack of apps...nice!
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lol, well said
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Ya, @AudioGus, indeed, LOL, any more entertainment?
Cheers @AudioGus glad you like it and thanks for taking the time to listen.
+1
This whole long-winded conspiracy theory angle is misplaced. If established players like Korg and Ableton develop IOS apps that causes folks to consider the platform as a serious vehicle for music production, all the better. Ableton Link and Link to MIDI allowed me to bring my iConnectMIDI 4+ back into use and it works great. IConnectivity is an indie company, so there's an example of a smaller (hardware) developer being indirectly helped by Ableton.
Vote with your wallet - problem with perception of "big" developers solved.
Link is awesome. I can finally link my vst groove box running in ableton and sample my apps into it in realtime and in perfect sync. It's mega
This thread reminds me of the time I posted a topic on a popular guitar forum which somehow opened a fifth dimension to the psyche of everyone who read it, and ended up in me having to promise the forum owner that I wouldn't post anything there ever again.
Basically, I presented something in a way that exposed the personal mental intersection between each person's hopes, dreams, and ambitions and their psychological illusions about whom or what were preventing them from achieving them, which I guess is in reality the basis of all politics.
So even though what I wrote wasn't even remotely political, and was actually a simple allegory of what the famous blues master Robert Johnson claimed as his bio, it somehow was like two planets collided so deep in the consciousness of its readers, that the response embodied the insanity of Helter Skelter.
Somehow Ableton has managed the same thing by releasing Link!
And if I have to guess, its because it solves a problem which 99.5% of users didn't realize exists, and thus this "solves a problem" which they didn't realize was a problem, which means it wasn't actually a problem, because if there were a problem, they would have realized it!
In other words, it exposes ignorance on a large scale, and is very painful for those people to cope with, I guess.
It's even worse for the people who have the solution in their hands and still can't grasp it!
I thought about responding again to this thread - but then decided not to.
You just did!
I thought about don't responding again to this thread, but then decided have to!
First, I am really leaving this forum, not for the reason by this thread influences. All I said already was a wish for other better 'Links' to be free on the market. I am really not using Link in doing music things daily! It is not a necessity for me because I still need to push the buttons, LOL! But for someone, I know why it is a necessary. I don't kiss Ableton's azz, so don't make it personal to say something I against the use of it. All I built here is for a psychological influences to developers to have further chances to make more their Link method, it is just tempo pairs, nothing is innovative. I know some smart azz and jokers here, never mind; I have guts to take criticisms. I make it clear here, I like more competitions to come. So I am welcoming, be it MTS Link, or Auria Link, even Audiobus' own Link! Why not!
Once again, don't take personal to kick my ass' weak spot, those attacks just showing your own coward speech! Thank you, guys to support iOS music!
End, no more comment, whatsoever!
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