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Name your DAWs
I've pretty much settled on Cubasis as my iPad's main DAW for composing full songs. My app store linked credit card is happy I finally stopped buying DAWs. For $50, I'd better like Cubasis. I still use Loopy for quick ideas, practice and jamming.
My desktop DAW is Reaper. I still love Reaper even though I haven't done anything with it in 2 or 3 months. The portability of the iPad makes it so much "friendlier" to use than the desktop. I can sit in front of the tv with the iPad!
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Im down to 2. I have kinda settled into using Cubasis and Meteor. I occasionally start up Auria just to stay tuned to updates, but that's waiting for a ipad upgrade. If Steinberg continues to pump out updates Auria may collect more dust.
Cubase on the desktop, Auria on the iPad, NS/BM2/MTDAW on the iPhone.
Auria on the iPad, Ableton Live and Studio One 2 in the studio.
Cubasis in my iPad2 and I just got Cubase Elements 7 for my laptop so that I can transfer projects to that for more work should that be needed.
@cheesesteak: Same as you: mainly Cubasis on iPad (occasionally Multitrak DAW) and Reaper on my Desktop, which I haven't used for a few months now!
Mostly use multitrack daw. There's one or two small bugs that can make it not very fun to work with IMO. Looking to try something else so I'll probably look at cubasis or meteor. Would like something with good compressor, eq and reverb (haven't messed with multitracks enough though). Also can someone tell me how Auria runs on iPad 3? Might look into it eventually. Hear it has some great effects and some vst support
I only have BM2 which had a bit of a learning curve but seems to work well enough and I'm getting a lot faster with it. Still, I do kind of long for the "traditional" DAW workflow that Cubasis offers. Hoping that it goes on mega-sale one day
BM2 on iPad 3... I own Auria, Cubasis, and NS but don't use them much.
On desktop, Pro Tools LE 8, Reason, Reaper, Renoise, Wavelab for mastering
Cubase 5 and Cubasis, aka Lucy and Ethel
Audiobus into BM2 then eventually into Auria for adding awesomeness.
More these days I think of the iPad itself as the DAW. I use virtual midi to control various apps and record them into Loopy or Audioshare as complete pieces. Or setup evolving situations with various apps hooked up via audiobus and record that. Ive built controllers with Lemur that can modulate things like Loopy loop levels or file scanning positions in iDensity or Animoog settings so the whole pad comes into play. Anything can be recorded live into whatever. I do have Cubasis and like it a lot for linear work, but having used Ableton in this way for so long, its refreshing to get away from that tradition.
I would love to use only one, but there's a couple of cool things here that the other doesn't provide and vice-versa... Looking for the definitive iOS DAW.
Auria, Cubasis, Beatmaker 2
Can someone please mix them together?
BeatMaker 2 is my main iPad DAW, and I occasionally use NanoStudio on my iPhone with the SS25. My main desktop DAWs are Reaper and Maschine if you count that as a DAW. I find myself using all my tools in unison to create music, but my laptop does collect a bit of dust from time to time because I love programming synths with a touch screen. Nothing beats that other than hardware synth racks or keyboards! Mouse clicking isn't my thing :-P
@smeeth - any chance of you sharing any of your Lemur controllers?
Auria in iPad, and Sonar X1 in desktop.... Haha... I think I am the only one to use windows platform.....
@RockingGarage you're not alone. I use Windows as well :-P
Nanostudio or Loopy or Auria, depending on what I'm doing. MT Daw occasionally serves the same purpose as auria on my phone (longer form audio capture). If NS2 includes audio tracks and can capture fixed length audio tracks (ala loops) I can imagine myself only using that.
Years of pro tools/reaper ended last year when a new version of Logic was cheaper than a PT upgrade. I never really liked PT and while i still have a soft spot for Reaper, its menumenumenusubmenumenusubmenu parade just wore thin - even with a world of custom shortcuts. I still sometimes turn to it for straight up audio processing because of a few macros I set up. Logic's instruments are unforgivably ugly/over styled but I otherwise love it.
I'm currently using Auria and Meteor. I'd like to get Cubasis and see if I like that better than Meteor, but I don't have the money yet, and Cubasis doesn't have automation, so I haven't jumped on it yet. I have nearly every other iPad DAW and multitracker, and these three are the ones that have worked for me. Honestly, Meteor currently is the most complete of the three because of the lack of Midi in Auria and the lack of automation in Cubasis, so Meteor is being used as my main DAW right now. I really like the automation in Auria--so much better than the automation in Meteor! I'll reassess things again when Auria has MIDI sequencing and Cubasis has Automation. I'd like to drop down to just one DAW, and I suspect that one of these two will be the one I choose in the end. Until then, Meteor is working the best for me. :-)
--Sean
I have BeatMaker 2 but I find manipulating audio in BM2 to be a real pain so Loopy with its Midi clock sync is perfect for my needs everything gets hooked up to Loopy,synths,midisequencers,Groove boxes arpeggiator's and when I like what I've recorded I audio copy the lot to Auria for arranging and polishing.
@funjunkie27 just sent you one to try.
Woohoo...as soon as I get home from work. Thanks @smeeeth!
iPad 3: Auria unless I need more other heavy synths running, MT DAW when I need lightweight. Though I usually end up in BM2, which I find actually easier to use for capture on the iPhone 5 than the iPad. I have Loopy but I am not yet comfy enough with it to consider it a DAW.
NS as well, I periodically try stuff out on it, mainly because of the Windows and Mac versions where I use it as a sound effect synthesizer for an App I'm developing over there.
On the Mac, Reason 4 + Record 1 (its an old Mac
and Logic Pro, and again sometimes NS for the same reasons as Windows. I do 5.1 authoring with LP, and I must say Reason via ReWire works very well inside LP on my fancy new MBP at work.
Cubasis on iPad 3, Digital Performer on MacBook Pro. I still do some sketches with GB on my phone. If they ever allow GB in the input slot I'll use it a lot.
Cubasis and then over to Auria for mastering. On desktop Live 9 and Studio One
BeatMaker2 (and NanoStudio...but more for sample manipulation and layering synths to depth) plus my other 50 apps on my iPhone 5!
Only thing i'm using on a windows laptop is the Alchemy Synth (the full version) as a standalone synth... (with an "one tool host") but mostly just for creating and/or importing new presets to the ios version.
I finally got Loopy HD the other day and I'm loving it. Haven't really decided on a big DAW yet. I was using BM2, but I want to try something different.
@RockingGarage
I use a mix for iOS. On the MacBook it's Logic Express, GB, and Ignite.
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