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Boasts of apps we haven't got
There's a lot of threads that highlight or recommend an app and many threads that incidentally do that, often involving other thread participants joining in and encouraging.
This is the flip side.
Which apps do you staunchly not have, despite knowing all about it, despite everyone else seemingly owning it and using it all day every day, despite popularity and ubiquity, and even - despite the fact that you could indeed find it useful if you ever did buy it. But that simply won't happen, you're not going to buy it.
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Not exactly the same, but Gadget is constantly being deleted, used very briefly, forgotten, deleted, downloaded again, used very briefly, deleted you get the idea. Also staunchly don't have Bm2 or Caustic
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Seriously, for me there is only one app that comes to mind and it's Auria Pro with all the IAPs and it's not about the money either...
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Patterning, Link & Aum.
Nave, Auria Pro IAP's, Animoog.
I'm sorry, is the object here to out yourself as a philistine?
Seems the only app I don't have is the willpower one, seems to me I have pretty much everything, thank goodness for sales and discount ITunes top ups.
Modstep... Not too keen with using multiple apps. Too many things tend to go wrong from all I've read. So I try to keep it simple and use Cubasis mainly with AU instruments. Stability is most important to me.
Facebook ! or Twitter ! or InstaWhatever !
For some reason,, the way I express myself has often been responded on this forum with repeated escalating persistent attempts to change my thinking. I find this unpleasant, but other than ceasing to care about caring (which I've tried unsuccessfully), I don't know how to change this and still participate here.
This time, I will try by saying ...
Yes, there exist audio apps which have had multiple favourable reports on here, some of which for varying reasons I nevertheless decline to use.
Professional Piano Tuning Application PT-A1 - US by Yamaha Corporation of America
https://appsto.re/us/CoNW3.i
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Facetube I cannot stomach. Not a fan of Zuckerberg or pilfering all that personal data. Have been trying Twitter, but will probably knock it on the head.
If this thread is turning into a a*sebook / twit bashing fest then I'm all for it, but I didn't see the point of it originally.
True, but I'm a glutton for punishment.
For me, it's the "pricier" apps from the big names like Moog Model 15 or Korg iMS-20. I have no doubt they are fine instruments at a terrific value, but I am so well stocked on the desktop side that I cannot justify the $$ or the space on my iPads.
This is quite revealing and interesting. I'd imagined everyone had pretty much everything, but there's some quite notable ones that some quite notable ones haven't got, and that's reassuring.
I'm sure we all have different values and philosophies when it comes to buying apps. I will admit to having a preference for the "little guys" who seem to have a passion for what they're doing such as @j_liljedahl @sonosaurus @technemedia @HoldernessMedia @brambos etc. (Sorry if I omitted your favorite indie dev.) Their apps are typically more unique than the more commercial offerings IMO.
Given the strictness of the last sentence of the rules I may be disqualified. However if I were to be prideful about foot dragging then I could name a few. First an honorable mention to iM1. Highly lusted after sounds, but failing to be bought on the technicality that it's not really universal. The sideload to Gadget iPhone seems a silly non-starter, but if someone told be that everything that can be done in iM1 (primarily the ability to make your own patches, but also the option of using the extra 'cards') on iPad can actually be done in Darwin on iPhone, then I might lose my patience. I could mention a lot a synths (Audulus, Mitosynth, Model 15, Poison, FRUM) actually, but most are probably just a matter of time before desire outweighs the promise I made myself I wouldn't become a synthhead and focus on apps that push the boundaries of what touch screen can do (Loopy, Fiddlewax, triqtraq, ThumbJam, LoopTree, Figure, Auxy, Gadget). Hell, I already bought Mersenne on sale despite it not being universal cuz I love the sound and rationalized might as well get a deal. Same for Magellan and Galileo (I mean 99¢, come on, no brainer to steal it). Even though, on account of the iPad being old (iPad 3), I don't like using it, and so don't. That brings me to the second app I don't own, Samplr. I mean it kills me a little that Patterning (fantastic touch screen UI envelop pushing) is gathering dust. It really would kill me to have Samplr and not play with it, so I think if I bought Samplr it would force my hand on buying a new iPad. So I drag my feet saying I'll wait til the fabled update, so by then I can get the big iPad (update will support right?!?) instead of opting for a smaller one now. Top prize goes to Blocs Wave. Everyone seems to love it. Even the gripers. It's right up my ally in that I started down this iOS road looking for novel UIs for interacting with sound. It passes the basic tech test (universal, supports at least one of bus/iaa/au, has Link). Yet every gripe seems fundamentally legitimate. It's probably fantastic as is, but oh what it could be...
TL;DR
Nothing, but for the moment Samplr and Blocs Wave
I bought up nearly everything for several years then my financial situation changed, so I'm more reluctant to pull the trigger lately. If my situation improves I doubt that will change my approach though, as I have so many apps that are collecting digital dust. Still, there have been a few that I've added to my buy later bucket.
I would guess that most of the apps I've never used would be those that are iPad only.
To my chagrin, that list has collapsed recently. It would have been:
I seem to have phases where reason prevails. But just about everything I resist gets the better of me some time. Except for the really expensive stuff (like AP plugins, Takete). So far.
Not gonna lie, I already own a LOT, of course Ive had buyer remorse with some, there are some apps on the apps store I wouldnt buy because they just dont fit the kind of music I make or my over all general approach to making music, or just apps that arent useful, however there are a few apps I just refuse to buy, Phase84, Hook and stryke by Retronyms, partly because they dont support Audiobus, which while not supporting Audiobus isnt a deal breaker in all cases, Retronyms have pretty much ignored users request for adding Audiobus to IMPC and IMPC pro, and just seem to be anti Audiobus, which I find short sighted and users suffer for what ever their beef is against adding it in ANY of their apps. I know IMPC is by Akai but Retronyms are the developers as far as writing the app, so Im anti Retronyms, lol.
The second app , while the app itself is free as a limited functioning demo , Lurssen Mastering Console, icost $99.00 for unlimited usage and another $99.00 for the HD Engine, so basically they want $200.00 for an Ipad mastering app, which cost just as much as the desktop version, and it doesnt even come close to the versatility and customization you get with Final Touch, which I paid about $20 If I remember correctly, but you can get it today for $2.99!!!!!!! lol
Jeez.... most of 'em?
Great thread. To me it has become a real challenge to withstand all the praising comments about some new thingie ("I'm gonna need this, too - but what will it do for me - but everybody seems to love it - but I already have every possible soundthing -" ...repeat ad infinitum), so it's become almost like a sport to me, to see how much praise I can read without succumbing... Thank you people, for your enthusiasm and insight, always a joy!
Cheers, twobeers
Aum, cubasis, auria pro, audiobus upgrade...
I just cannot do daw on a touch screen
I only buy apps that have no sample import, no audio export, no midi out, no panning, and no ACp, because these are the most esoteric, useless, frivolous features on the iOS platform and I don't want that kind of stuff anywhere near the apps I pay for!!!
oh yeah... gadget, and cyclops.... I fought and I won.
Mitosynth
I'm sure I'll get it at some point but I've been waiting for it to go on sale and it never does.
I think I pretty much have everything else
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That's one in common with myself.