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Curious: Anybody here start their musical journey on iOS?
And furthermore, anybody here do so recently? Aka in the era of gadget?. I came from the desktop daw world and struggled to find a musical flow without getting distracted by all the technical possibilities and adopted iOS music making due to the sheer number of tools that gasp, are actually fun to use and it focuses me on simply being creative within smaller simpler parameters (though I do know of lot of you like to go all out, the point is there's something here for everyone) But I'm wondering if there's people new to music where perhaps Gadget is their first "daw" and how they are liking it in conjunction with learning music period. From my perspective, it's a perfect introduction to music production with an incredibly easy interface and enough functionality for a novice to acquire quite a bit of knowledge through using it. I personally don't use it that often but I think Korg have done an incredible job with it and I'm curious what impact, if any, it will have on new music makers. What say you guys?
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I was a musician many years before we even had personal computers. Back then it was a lotta book-learnin' and wearing out phonograph needles picking stuff off what now they call vinyl---a different kind of sampling. Maybe a good thing was that we learned mostly by playing with other musicians, which seems less common these days. But the tools we can use for learning today are kinda what I dreamed of but had no reason to believe would ever be possible in my lifetime. An iPad with Gadget (and an Internet) on it would have been like something left by an advanced species from some other galaxy.
I wonder about this sort of thing a lot too (what it would be like to start now) but doubt they are on a forum like this, after all they are probably young and are someplace else with a million flashin things grabbing their attention with like buttons or up/downvoting, posts that last only 24 hours etc. Anywho here are my first two introductions to computer music...
Reminds me of the first time I opened fl studio after thinking to myself one day "I bet, since these sounds are electronic, that there's some software out there that can make them" then googling "music software". Then I got in there, put a few notes in the piano roll and pressed play. Pure shit fills my ears. "Uh oh, better Google, what's that term? Oh yeah music theory." Lucky to be in the era of technology at 29 I suppose.
Had a guitar & bass and jammed a bit for years, never got anywhere near serious about it until I messed around with an ipod touch, which sent me into all other forms of digital musicking, now i have seventeen handsome sons and i'll be speaking at the convention in cleveland tomorrow, etc. etc.
Been a musician all my life.. Piano, vocals, drums.. I'm a hardware synth guy and was a bit intimidated by computers. I've never owned one.. I was about to but a laptop when the iPad Pro 12.9 came out, then Auria pro.. After I saw the feature set of Auria, I thought "If I can't do it with that"..
I now have Auria Pro which I'm still trying to figure out as well as "Gadget " and "Module". I shudder to think where these two programs will be three yrs. from now. I am not worthy.
More like re-started.
Started off on guitar and eventually got into such a rut that I set it aside until ...
I discovered PC DAWS and was inspired anew, but eventually began to get creatively locked up every time I sat down to the PC. So I set it aside until ...
I discovered a iOS apps, AudioBus, and a seemingly never ending stream of inspiring apps, upgrades, and newfound knowledge. So far so good! But, we'll see.
Nope. Started with a totally legit copy of Cubase on windows. Eventually made my way to Mac and later iOS.
First I was all (SH-101)
Then (I think) I was all
Then, I was all
(4x MIDI In, 8x Out!)
Then I was all (Voyetra Sequencer DOS)
Then Cakewalk 3 for Windows 3.1. Then the nerdery never really stopped. Jump ahead 15-20 years and I met Nanostudio.
I still have the SH-101 and recently endeavored to setup Voyetra DOS again. Still amazing!
I didn't start on iOS, but iOS rekindled my interest in music after a very long hiatus. I played in various bands when I was younger, it was great fun, but now I'm happy to do it all on my own (with some help from Darcy and Mason now and again).
Gadget is cool, but it's not the be-all and end-all, even on iOS. Personally I much prefer recording some kind of performance to noodling on a piano roll. YMMV.
@AudioGus and @syrupcore great photos. For me it was a Sequential Circuits Six-Trax, Roland R8, and an Amiga computer running Mr T's.
To answer the OP's question iOS actually brought me back to music. Because I had a job with long hours I dropped out for about 3 years. I started using an iPad exclusively at home and then my iPad 3 brought me back to music.
I ran a Roland Sound Canvas on the Amiga with Octamed. Was always curious about Dr. T's... i tried to come up with a 'pity the fool' joke but I didn't get enough sleep.
^ Or maybe you got too much sleep. Suckah!
Octamed looks very cool. Reminds me that right around the time I started to fool with cakewalk I had a deep love for ScreamTracker. I remember sampling Nirvana songs and horror movies... from betamax tapes.
I was running Dr.T's on an Amiga driving a Roland JX-8P and later a SoundCanvas. Cool stuff!
Oh yah I went through my horror and scifi movie sampling phase. I remember the first time I realized just how rampant sampling was when I watched Robocop2 and heard all these sounds from my favorite album at the time. Here I thought these industrial geniuses were in their garage with power tools and strange looking mics slaving for hours... nope, two cables in a VCR while eating popcorn.
I have always had an ear for music; in middle school I chose to play trumpet and did that through one semester of junior college - and I turned my attention to my art career.
It wasn't until the late 80's that I had a formal introduction to computers, with everything they could do and promised to do.
Eventually I was fortunate to work for a multimedia company that encouraged their people to wear more than one hat, and contributing to music production was one hat I donned.
Creating music with computers has only gotten easier and easier since. And here I sit with an iDevice smaller than a paperback novel, and it blows the before away.
You just made my day!!!! Adlib Visual Composer was my first PC sequencer. I still remember opening the packaging with the Adlib soundcard and the 5 1/4" floppy disk that contained the Visual Composer software. The things I did with that FM chip!! To this day I love the sound of those OPL2 drums and bass sounds
My first synth....;-) and the best was you cant save anything, print a sheet and draw the degrees/value to save your sound.
With this you learn subtractive synthesis faster as fast ;;-)
I started on iOS.
No musical experience before that.
I started with apps like Figure, Garage Band, iKaosilator, Alchemy etc. Made a track in Cubasis and a track in BM2 (both took ages and were very simple).
Then Gadget got released, and that made things a whole lot quicker and easier.
I also started with iOS about 6 months ago. Gadget was my first foray into making music. I now use a blend of it and modstep plus a slew of instruments.
When Ableton had their sale a while ago I jumped at the chance of getting Live. Now I spend a majority of my time in Live. I still sketch out ideas in Gadget because it's so easy and fun and export the midi into Live for further refinement.
Music is something I love to create. I love that there are tools which get out of the way and let us explore sound and music making however we like. I make music to express another side of myself. I'm glad iOS allowed me to open that door within myself.
I did.
My first venture beyond the recorder which I learnt at school was a long wide rubber band, which I looped onto the handle of a wooden cupboard at home, I could get a very convincing 'I Feel Love' bassline from it along with some drums from pans from the kitchen which were overdubbed onto a cassette recorder.
Have been through many iterations and versions of what is essentially the same thing, on 4 track, PC, PC and 4 track synced, Digital audio, hardware synths, software synths, and now on iOS. The medium changes, but the fun and satisfaction remain the same
I started out the 'old school' way - playing guitar, then got into 4 Tracks, ADATs etc. On the way I made lots of mistakes and picked up a lot too. If I was new to making music and I started out on iOS, I think I would be amazed / overwhelmed. I can certainly appreciate the power (and complexity) on what iOS offers, after having to do things 'by hand', as it were in the past. Perhaps if it was all new to me, I'd approach things in a different way.
I don't think Gadget 'defines' iOS music making (even though I use it primarily), there's a lot more equally 'worthy' stuff out there.
I began with FL Studio in early 2000´s .I don't have the iOS's FL studio i am waiting for the Big update .
They are my 2 intro screens too
I have GOT to get on a copy of this Gadget of which you speak.
Ha. You do.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000
As soon as I acquire the proper funds, I do!
My first foray into music on computers was
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Soundfonts and MP3.com. I still have my old IUMA cheque for 23 cents.
I think they accept improper funds, just don’t admit to it.
@u0421793 One always wonders about that...