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I have both a PC laptop and Air 2 setup. Now bear in mind I've been a bedroom producer for something like 25 years (yeah I started early!). I put months into trying to really figure out iOS and make it work on its own. And in the end I just gave up. That's not to say it's not possible because obviously some of you are doing it. But the best solution I've found is to just use them together, and let them do what they're best at.
The iPad is great for unique and novel effects, intuitive drum programming, and offers some really inspiring ways to record your music with touch gestures and shapes and whatever else. And the sound quality of some synths and processors is really great. The laptop, however, excels at literally eeeverything else. Arranging, audio processing, MIDI editing, file management, range of sounds, flexibility and speed.
Of course this shouldn't be surprising. One is a fully fledged computer. The other is a tablet that's gradually becoming more computer-like over time, but still isn't quite there IMHO.
My biggest issue atm is that everything with iOS kinda feels like you're not technically supposed to be able to do it...does that make sense? Like it's clear that they never intended for us to have access to the file system, but we've got workarounds to give us common storage space. But there's still no way to look at your file system and say, here are all my project files. Here are all my audio files. It's all scattered across multiple apps. And ya know, some things play nice with others. Some things don't (coughiMiniandDM1cough). Some support state saving, some don't. It's a jumble. But I appreciate it's early days. I'm not passing comment on the quality of music it's possible to create here btw. I hate that whole "you can't make pro music on X, Y or Z" argument. Obviously you can, if you're patient enough. Perhaps I'm not haha. But there's no need for me to be when I can just fire up Reason 9, or Cubase 8.5, and all my Komplete Ultimate stuff and just have it work with no app switching, configuring ins/outs or crashes.
All of that said, iOS is very much a part of my music making process now, albeit in an auxiliary sense. All the arranging and editing takes place on the PC and that's how it'll stay I think.
I've found it is whats in my head, and what my current state of mind is like that makes the main difference.
If I am calm and creative then i can get very similar results from both platforms with little or no problems, if I am agitated and creative, then I will get problems on both platforms.
There are technical pros and cons to both environments, our state of mind dictates how well we work with or around those.
True man. I mean I gotta add that sometimes, iOS does work well - mainly in situations where I'm feeling creative and need to just get something down right away without thinking about it. In that scenario, it's great.
It's when I do wanna start thinking about it that I realise how many hoops I gotta jump through to do what I wanna do haha. But yeah I don't mean to like, trash music making on iOS in its entirety. It's just a different way of doing things to PC/Mac music making. Probably would've sufficed for me to say that. They're just not the same thing.
Yet.
Problem I have is getting my head to work
If that is the case, you might even get technical problems playing a recorder !
Images of school music lessons arrrrrrrgh! Be gone you sick puppy
You should have joined the 'Recorder Club' - A room full of girls...and Me !
I should have known the Computer Club was a dead end lol
I'm going to break my rule about posting when tired, so if I'm incoherent mp you'll know why. My advice and this might not work is when using multiples, eg soundcards, midi controllers etc, on osx, it's worth setting stuff up in the audio midi app first.
From the sounds of it I'd suggest setting up an iac driver connection between mainstage and logic, an aggregate device for your ipad, apps like studiomux and soundcards, maybe setup your midi devices too. I'll use the gift of youtube vids to cut down on my typing, but when you set all this stuff up once, it can be saved and recalled in any core audio compliant app.
First tho your edirol keyboard, according to this old post, quite a few people had problems with edirol keyboards and osx, something to do with setting up the drivers without the keyboard plugged in, here it is, has some advice on how to resolve it too.
http://www.sweetwater.com/insync/os-x-issues-edirol-keyboard-midi-audio-controllers/
The drivers page, think the p section has the midi controller drivers.
https://www.roland.com/global/support/updates_drivers/n_s/
Here is a vid about setting up iac driver, from logic to mainstage to control instruments etc.
Here is a more in depth one about iac from one of my old time fav free logic tutorials blokey. This one is good as it explains the limitation of using hungry plugins (like maschine) in logic and using the standalone versions instead to save cpu, good for live work, until something crashes that is.
A video about setting up an aggregate device using studiomux, if you have more than one soundcard you can add them to the mix too.
And last maschine as midi controller in logic, should be cool with maschine but use service centre to make sure your up to date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7iIANFM4T
Here is a quite useful sound on sound article explaining audio/midi app, you might have gone through most my suggestions already, but I thought I'd put em up here just incase, you shouldn't need to spend money tho, unless you've got your eyes on something new and tasty, controllers of late have gone insane.
http://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/audio-midi-setup
Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to get some sleep, hope some of this helps.
Wow, that's brilliant - thanks for your help!
I am real happy to have the iPad running into ableton through studiomux working really well, and then sit back and use touchable on my other iPad to control ableton. I have been on iOS for a few years now, but am having more fun now using Pc and iPad together. Never thought I would of said that.
Either way, it's fun . End of.
yep, it's that simple
I started with IPad looking for a portable sound module to bring to my Friday's reharshall with my band.The more I have been exposed to IOS app world the more I realize that even the sound module part is amazing, I find that can be used as a portable studio with certain degree of satisfaction but also for an ideas generator with all this bunch of incredible apps out there.
The pricing strategy in app world is so incredibly cheap compared to hardware or desktop software that still I believe the sound module role stands over the rest by far. being able to integrate these sounds in a real Desktop DAW makes it the perfect companion for recordings but allways with a Desktop DAW involved (File management,storage, accuracy of the cahnges and depth of the software,etc...)
Yeah, I don't know anything about logic.
But I have a motu midi interface and I installed it, was immediately recognized by live, and anything I plug into it via 5 pin works. Plus the live suite synths are great, even tho they look like shit!
What has been pissing me off with iOS is , latest example, I have gadget and patterning and iSpark synced. Now I can't get those to sync with cubasis so I had to export the audio, or record it in AUM then export it. Then into Dropbox, the audioshare, then cubasis!
On desktop I would just record arm tracks and record passes and done!
And that's when shit is working properly, sometimes I need to quit and reload the same audiobus project 2 or 3 times to make it work properly.
Plus the fact that I still need audiobus!
It seems iOS and desktop both suffer from update madness that throws everything out of sync. My newish Korg controller plugs in and goes, my older controllers don't (though I'm currently working through the list @mister_rz kindly posted, so fingers crossed). If I hadn't updated my Mac OS recently the Edirol would have worked, probably.
Same with the iPad - sometimes you're in a sweet zone where your hardware, iOS and apps are all working in harmony, and then an update with one or the other will throw everything into chaos again.
Recording is not really going to take off widely on iOS until DAW + AU + iCloud Drive mature to a threshold that seems kind of around-the-corner.
^ agree with both above!
AU has been a big (biggest?) reason these days for me to spend money on apps!
Add link to things like cubasis and a AU version of Animoog and I would never let go my iPad!
Clicking on a mouse to turn knobs and check boxes is the opposite of what I want to do when it comes to making music. iOS is not ideal either but it's far from the 'opposite'.
edit: I should say (if it's not blatantly obvious already) that I'm not a serious music producer. I just play around with things and make a few tracks here and there, create some patches and noodle around. I see the advantages of a desktop for a more serious and busy producer. But that part(sitting down in front of a screen, clicking on a mouse) doesn't interest me.
Yes, because you could have produced this!
To each his own. Working with ios has shown me how efficient computer DAWs and mouses are at production. But I love the crazy, creative, fun world of ios that creates amazing audio fodder. All IMHO of course.
Animoog AU would be splendid, fingers crossed that it will be sooner than later
Oh well, after spending a couple of hours updating Maschine, Guitar Rig no longer loads in Logic, and reports an error.
I was about to upgrade my ipad but decided to learn Max/MSP so to hell with that, gotta get a laptop now.
Get zmors modular or audulus 3 instead!
They don't do video & I already have them. Max is way beyond them.
Update - this is now fixed, seems a common issue, if anyone else has this there's a workaround here:
https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/guitar-rig-5-logic-pro-x-crashed-validation.271642/
Exactly my feeling.
The efficiency with the smallest number of movements is with the keyboard key commands and a mouse.
After 4 years on iOS I'm getting annoyed with tapping on a glass screen.
Not only do I feel like I'm one of those annoying kids tapping on the glass of a lion enclosure at the zoo, but I also have the feeling that I'm eating with my hands instead of with a knife and fork.
The lack of precision in practically every app is simply too annoying when compared with the laptop for me.
But imprecision and randomness has its place too. I think it is a perfect device for creating that.
But the lack of universal file management is simply breaking my affinity for the platform, though I'm so addicted to Pythonista that I'll never be without at least a minimum spec'd iPad mini.
Haha I felt the same way about the lack of "knife and fork"...Apple Pencil on the 9.7 totally solved this though.
Exactly what I remember recorder club sounding like
Yes it hard to make music on a desktop DAW if you don't know what your doing . IOS is much better platform for the clueless.> @AndyPlankton said:
Man he nailed it