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Match plugin vst sounds in iPad & desktop DAWs
Hey everyone, hoping for some help. I'm needing consistency in instrument sounds, especially synths, from mobile recording on iPad for ideas to then go to desktop DAW.
The headache I've encountered is it's hard to find any info or lists of plugins/ vsts that would match and be available from iPad to desktop. Maybe they don't exist and are all different?? (Novation v station as an example of desktop soft synth that doesn't appear available on iPad for exact match in an app DAW like Cubasis or Auria.)
The mobile setup is for simplicity on the go/traveling and to be able to use an all in one recording of midi and audio there, which I could then reproduce on desktop for finalized tracks. I've been leaning toward Studio One for desktop - to take things into the future and cover all the bases, but don't have one beyond basic garageband rn.
If I can't get identical sounds, I'm thinking it might be bust. In that case I may need a mini key hardware synth to just audio into the desktop with and forget the iPad efforts (and exclusive midi keyboard controller) altogether.
What do you all think?
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If you are on Logic then the closest thing would be to use GarageBand with Alchemy on iOS. Everything translates pretty seamlessly
Yes he’s right. You can also do the same thing w FL studio
well. DRC is available on both ios and pc/mac. any presets created on either work for both.
there are few synths (sunrizer, nave) which are available both for ios and desktop.. but generally seamless transfering project from ipad to desktop will be never so easy like you imagine/want
with few exceptions (garage band to logic, fruity loops mobile to desktop fruity loops, korg gadget ios version to korg gadget desktop version) it will be always more about exporting stems - wavs from ipad and importing them to desktop app
from what you wrote, it looks for me better solution for you is not ipad but some windows tablet running Bitwig - it its pretty much great optimised for touchscreen but still it is full featured DAW which you can run on your big desktop computer
Either record audio from ipad to get the same sound or dont waste too much time perfecting the sound on ios if you just want to export midi
And there's always Gadget ios and Gadget Mac (plus gadgets available in any DAW as plug-ins).
It's not so much sounds, but functionality for me.
I can usually get a close sound using desktop plugins, and if I really want an ios sound from something like Geoshred or Poison, can always record it via Studiomux.
But functionality wise, plugins like Melodyne, EZdrummer and Amplesound don't have anything that is as powerful on ios. So, I will need to work in Studio One rather than in ios for these.
There are decent drum and guitar apps on ios, but they still fall quite short in functionality compared to what you can do with desktop plugins.
Synthmaster should have many of the same sounds on both sides.
Many of the sounds of the Noise app seem to have a counterpart in Equator.
Mmhhh yeah. Could be an expensive game but so far Garage Band, Logic, Sunrizer, Korg synths, DRC, PPG Synths like Infinite, Wavemapper, some Fabfilter tools, Audio Damage apps. Even most Model 15 patches could be recreated (by hand) if you would want that and you are on mac.
But for FX there isn´t much good out there for iOS so far, so i would leave that out.
I still would prefer to record your iOS parts direct into your desktop DAW of choice and then add what you want.
As mentioned already, if seamless mobile/desktop parity is the highest priority then a windows tablet/Bitwig may be the best bet.
For me, I just commit to audio fairly early and use Beatmaker3 as the primary hub, sequencing/recording/sampling my PC vsts. I record vsts dry, just using eos2 reverb on an aux channel in BM3 for auditioning, then eventually export everything to PC for mixing in Samplitude with better vst fx. Being an olde timey sampler guy, this works well enough for me. I am not into preciously tweaking midi heh.
Just out of curiosity, what sort of stuff are you making?
As @AudioGus mentioned, it may depend in what sort of music you are working on -
But one thought I had was SampleTank, while the sounds are not quite the same quality on all platforms at least it may be in the same ballpark.
synthmaster has many of the same sounds. there is a way to import sounds made on desktop synthmaster to synthmaster player on ios. I tried but the process was so convoluted, i stopped even trying.
Also once synthmaster One comes to Ios, it will be the same as synthmaster One on desktop. or so they say.
...and BM3 desktop is apparently going to be a thing. So hmmm, Synthmaster One / BM3 may be cool.