My journey into iOS Beatmaking - suggestions for a rookie (long read)

ruggedsmooth

What's good everyone?
Just signed up on this forum after lurking for a little while, let me tell you my story

I'm in my early 30s. I have been in and out of music production as a hobby for a long time. My passion is hip hop stuff, mostly classic 90s type boom bap and west coast style "keyboard" beats. Loved the akai MPC a lot but hated tracking out into computer. Hated the mouse using and latency of computer daws.
I was kind of set on getting push and ableton live when it came out I thought that would be my answer...

Anyways I always hated on iPads and the touch screen idea for a long time.
But then almost four years ago I got really sick and had to go to emergency. I was in hospital for a couple weeks and they diagnosed me with advanced stage lymphoma... cancer.

One of the first things I bought after starting my first treatment cycle was a iPad mini.
That was the best thing I have bought. I spend most of my time resting in beds.
Fast forward to discovering GarageBand and iOS music apps and I started to really dig the iPad interface
For beatmakimg.

So it's 2017 now and I'm still fighting this bullshit disease, won't get into all that cuz that a whole novel in itself.
I was thinking about the MPC Live, but I have been disappointed by akai in past and gonna wait it out on that one for a while. Might get a Digitakt instead.

So I said screw it and last week bought a iPad pro 10.5 256gb
Trying to build a nice little iOS iPad Pro,studio. Use the iPad loaded with apps with a electron digitakt and record player for sampling

I have gadget with Bilbao and iM1
Cubasis2
Beatmaker3
AudioShare
AudioCopy

Waiting on next sale to get auria pro and the fab filter plugs

Looking at what synths and other apps to get for more hip hop stuff.
I have the moog synth ones on my list and the other korg gadgets like module for more realistic sounds

Any guys on here that make hip hop stuff hit with your favourite apps

ANY MUST HAVES THAT IM MISSING HERE?? I want the best quality samples and synths for IPad.

I'm still,learning up all this file transferring stuff and it looks like things are getting more streamlined and easier with OSupdate later this year.

Thank you to anyone who read this and or replied

Also, F*ck Cancer Every Day

kobamoto

welcome

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bassalicious/id1089502073?mt=8

also, F*ck Cancer Every Day

Will

Welcome. Sounds like you have a nice set at the moment. The rest kinda depends on what inspires you. Don't think there's any must haves.

For west keyboard stuff, iMini seems an obvious choice (Dre and the Minimoog). There about 10,000 threads here about iOS synths and at least half that many opinions on "the best" one.

ThumbJam has good "real" samples and a great, inspiring playing surface. Sampletank has a larger library of available "real" sounds but lacks the surface (and other TJ features).

Ruismaker/Ruismaker FM are great drum synths for expanding your library or thickening up the boom and the bap. ElasticDrums and Seekbeats and DM2 are good drum synths too.

Are you comfortable playing keyboards? NeoSoul Keys for electric piano vibes either way but if you're not a keyboard player something like Chordion will help you get interesting chord riffs out of it.

Holderness Media's Caramel to add some grit and grime to anything you wanna sample. JamUp is a guitar FX app but can also work to grime up samples. I think that app is mono only but it often goes on sale for 5 bucks.

If you want stereo general purpose effects/grimers, check out Turnado and ToneStack.

FunkDrummer or SoftDrummer for insta-beats and great original drum sample collections.

also, F*ck Cancer Every Day

ruggedsmooth

Thank you for the replies.

I just purchased thumbjam, iMini and downloaded bassalicious
Lots of good stuff to dig into here!

Respect

JRSIV

@ruggedsmooth Welcome brother, I think it's very inspiring that you are taking being dealt a shit hand and turning it into the fuel to create and overcome through positive action. I wish you all the best in your recovery and am glad you're here.

Now I'm most into rock/indie/clasic rock but love all sort of genres.One big favorite is early '90's G-Funk ala' Dr. Dre, Nate Dogg, Snoop, etc. Love the minimal reliance on sampling & use of more live instruments.

You have some excellent foundation apps, the different DAW's you have are great for mixing it up & not getting bored with jyst one environment. Since you have M1 you have tons of synth & instrument voices from the presets (especially if you get all the IAP cards) you may not need a bunch of synths to start out with.

I love Moog's Model 15 and it would meld into the genres your doing no problem. I'd give Patterning, @brambos TroubleMaker and iOrchestra (which I think is still on sale) a try too.

Janie

Hey there ruggedsmooth.

I'm not sure if you know that the Fab Filters are on sale now. The next sale on them will most likely be somewhere between thanksgiving and Christmas so if you don't wait to wait then this might be the right time to jump on them.

Auria isn't on sale, and it's sort of expensive, but if you look at the price of Fab Filters on the desktop vsts and you compare it to the iOS sale prices then it's still a bargain even including Auria. Just a thought. It's easy for me to spend your money for you.

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