Is the last album of Gorillaz (humanz) made with an iPad only ?

AndyPlankton

I thinks it's all about available resources.....
If all you got is a guitar and a porch to stomp on then that's what you'll use...
if you've only got an iPad or iPhone then you are forced to only use that....
If you have external gear then you will at times use that also...
If you have free access to a full blown studio you will use that....
If you have free access to a full blown studio, but prefer to stomp on the porch...nothing wrong with that

All can and do produce very effective results

stemshade

For me music is in the details and i can spend way note time fine tuning everything if my studio is in my pocket and/or a bag.

Dropping a beat while you drop a deuce.

Will

@gusgranite said:
@supadom lol I cut my grass with a push mower. the neighbours think I'm nuts but it's very therapeutic.

Same! A 'vintage' one, no less. Don't have much grass though. Similar to this'n.

Will

@supadom said:
... I'd probably abandon electronic side of music altogether if I was to rely on a classic pc because mouse is an absolute flow killer for me.

Nah, you'd just switch to sunvox. No mouse required.

On my second listen of the new Blur album. It's really really good. They should be old an useless/pointless by now, right?

aaronpc

@syrupcore said:

@supadom said:
... I'd probably abandon electronic side of music altogether if I was to rely on a classic pc because mouse is an absolute flow killer for me.

Nah, you'd just switch to sunvox. No mouse required.

On my second listen of the new Blur album. It's really really good. They should be old an useless/pointless by now, right?

Damon's solo album "Everyday Robots" last year was quite good as well.

GrizzlyGrimes

Matt_Fletcher_2000

@Max23 said:
Have you heard his world music stuff?
It's brilliant too.
It's so nice that he just explores whatever he is into at the moment and doesn't give a fuck if people get it or not.

Yep. Love the Mali stuff. Went to the Africa Express stuff.

Matt_Fletcher_2000

@JRSIV said:
To me there seems to be two types of iOS music producers (possibly three if one does a bit of both) and both are extremely valid:

A ) One creates their music "inside the iPad" so to speak, using a DAW, single app environment (like Gadget) or just a few apps recording a jam through AUM or AudioShare. Usually it's EDM or music predominantly created with MIDI, synths, drum machines sans acoustic instruments or vocals.

B ) The other type usually picks a DAW and uses it exclusively (Auria, Cubasis, Garage Band) while combining their iOS app synths, drum machines and MIDI utilities along with vocal & instrumental audio recorded through an interface.

The caveat again! This is an extremely narrow division as I said in the beginning, many do both approches and no doubt others have more various tweaks & workflows. So I'm not shitting on anyone.

The entire reason I ran this down was that I feel at this stage in the tech timeline and with what's available within home recording circles, there's really no difference between a guy with a DAW on a laptop with an interface & a guy with an iPad DAW and an interface, etc.

Many use their DAW, myself included, like studios 25 years ago used a 24 track recorder. With Auria Pro, I can use outboard mic preamps, etc. in addition to the incredible high quality Fab Filter plugins (acting as digital 1176's, etc) to record a track without using ANY of the soft synth, drum machines or sound design apps on the iPad. I don't do that of course, I love my apps, but I make the point to demonstrate how professional this format is.

While I see where @supadom & others are coming from and how the mainstream music world may still see iOS as a toy, I refuse to be surprised an artist with a label made a record on their iPad, from A to Z or just elements.

The future is now. The music production utilities on iOS are incredible and only someone's lack of talent could prevent them from making good music with those tools. It's not "Hey, iOS isn't ProTools HD & an SSL console, it ain't professional!" Fuck that, it's defeatist and an excuse.

Steve Lacy is getting all this attention for producing a track on the #1 album in the country by Kendrick Lamar but what he did could of been accomplished 2 or 3 years ago too. The media is just now getting hep to where the technology truly is.

I say often how working with iOS reminds me of when I started recording music with cassette multitracks: the speed and immediacy along with the portability and ease of use.
But in practice it's nothing like using an old Tascam 424, God love it. AuriaPro is fucking Abbey Road and the Hit Factory in your backpack while a cassette PortaStudio was a boom box with two extra tracks!

YES, iOS music production is professional quality, end of story.

Yep. I think I'm definitely number 1. Although I'm looking to get some recorded vocals into Gadget soon I think.

Not sure it has to be EDM for number 1 though. You can make all sorts of electronic types of music. Or indeed put some ThumbJam real instruments in.

Matt_Fletcher_2000

@GrizzlyGrimes said:

Thanks. That was interesting.