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Of course, that’s the results of what the app will deliver
Can’t think of anything else released that matches that standard mate on iOS thus far
It will be the real game changer I’m sure and thankfully change the headlines lol
He had it running on iPhone 5 so the wait won’t be long
So you are saying that you cant complete anything until somebody else has first, otherwise it is all just experimental ?
It's no wonder you are underwhelmed if you are always following others.
If you are bored with iOS multi-touch tools you could invest here.......
https://touchinnovations.com/xg/
So for those of us who have completed full albums using iOS tools...we’re just experimenting?
I think you should reevaluate your perspective because it is highly flawed and limited if you think that is the truth.
A true artist can release their creation to the world through their intent and focus regardless of platform or tools used.
I think the reason people try a lot of different tools on iOS is the simple fact of economics. If you have the chance of buying something which has potential to help you make music and the barrier to entry is the cost of a high end coffee, you are more willing to try all these options.
But this is a trap. If you lose focus and don’t abide by intent you will never make anything. You’ll just try and try and try and never release.
There is no app which is perfect. As with all things related to music and the arts, the act of creation is a process of synthesis and refinement. The artist toils with their tools until they strike a harmony which allows them to release their creation to the world.
Don’t believe your own hype. It’s called navel gazing and it’s an illusion and will keep your perspective on life, love and liberty limited.
Trim down the noise.
Embrace a purpose.
Create.
Release.
Refine.
Repeat.
@echoopera
Woah, knowledge bombs.
Great points....
But again, I’m taken out of context
I said “for the most part”, not all
I respect people like frozen lonesome and Wayne for doing great atmospheric work..
I’m just saying that there is too much emphasis on hooking this app to that app, not enough emphasis on polished pro tools . The evidence is on the sheer deluge of fx apps.. why cause the daws don’t have them . And then.. thousands of synths
For example, how many real fully fledged mastering apps are there? Not a lot really... even frozen lonesome finished his stuff on a Mac I believe
> A true artist can release their creation to the world through their intent and focus regardless of platform or tools used.
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If you lose focus and don’t abide by intent you will never make anything. You’ll just try and try and try and never release.
This is the truth. If you haven't made your record because you lack a piece of gear, you will never make your record.
...and what‘s wrong with experimental, by the way? I for one appreciate exactly this quality of ios: great things happening out of „chance“ (people love it when I use that word, because it SEEMS to imply I don‘t know what I want or what I‘m doing at all), through experimental App-constellations. All live in realtime, connected with videoprojections of, again, realtime-manipulated clips. The perfect combination of ios and Mac (to me, of course). No songs, just sounds, but I keep on producing this stuff for years now, without a care for „professionalism“, or such... . It‘s the JOY, people, not the WORK, that makes humans do things creatively, thankfully so...
Experimental is great! and I’ve done it for years lol and it’s fun.
I’ve alternated between experiments and formulas and merely decided to find my formula and stick to it awhile.
If I were just experimental then I would never have writing the OP in the first place. I’m simply expressing frustration that my formulas needs are not yet fully expressed within currently available apps. It was almost there with NS1, almost there with GB
Linking apps just is not cutting it for me anyone, no matter how good they are
I need the linear sequencer with all the automation tricks that NS2 will offer . Of course it’s great that it will do AUV3 if needed but I feel that it’s obsidian synth and drum machine will sort me out for years to come
I guess I’ve always been an advocate of building upon my future with the tools i use today. The road forward is the one you’ve labored on to build toward the holy land if you will.
Tools come and go.
The mind and the heart are constant when we listen.
Peace Out
All in all I really don’t think we are missing sheer tool here.
We are blessed with so(too) many synths but none of them is cutting edge, almost all are sort of lesser replicas of already available desktop software.
Samplers are sort of crippled when compared with the ease of drag&drop of desktop realm where you don’t really need a dedicated software to do so, along with automatic recognition of bpm & root note from keywords in the file name(not hit&miss audio data analysis), multiple file import.
Sample editors...uh? Nothing on iOS is not even near to audacity.
Fx came later to the ball because connectivity was shit at first, now devs are giving us really cool, innovative stuff even if very little of this stuff is properly groundbreaking outside iOS.
DAWs, when compared to real daws, are just toys; way beyond 2008 reaper 2.0, which is sort of coming from the same "indie" devs arena of our own iOS goodfellas. There is no real advantage taken from being on a multi touchscreen instead of a mouse+keyboard driven interface; the opposite actually. I’m missing the with 3 mouse buttons and 3 keyboard keys I could achieve something like up to 36 different actions which could also be sensitive to which area of the software I’m interacting with. Keyboard shortcuts and you won’t need to dive in any menu ever again.
I now I can do everything I need on iOS, but when compared to a 800 bucks desktop with a 60$ non commercial reaper license and a lot of free, top notch software, my 1200$ iPad Pro along with the now obsolete 800$ iPad 2 and a couple of thousand quids worth of apps...well... nothing well really.
BOOM!
Perhaps it's due to my age coupled with way too many head injuries but I am overwhelmed. In the past year we've had such a wealth of fantastic new toys and advances in old. Happy birthday David.
Dinner was ready so I had cut it short where it most deserved.
I’ll add a couple of bits here and there.
And let’s not talk about disk space.
Automations? 2002 Fruity Loops style. I feel lucky when I find a vector based approach but still there is no tension control which is vital for a fast workflow(specially when adding, removing and moving points is a pain).
Flexibility on iOS? I want to copy effect A to track 1. Computer: from mixer view, ctrl drag the effect on track 1. iOS: find the effect track, open effect, save preset, find track 1 insert effect, open effect, load preset.
I love what devs are doing, I really love most of the tools, I love buying new shiny apps. But forcing me to stay on this platform is not doing any good to my music since I couldn’t find a workflow that fits me and how I want to do things and I can’t really find any good reason to prefer an iPad/iPhone over a computer:
I ain’t no live nor touring player, so even if it could a small-but-powerful mobile rig won’t be my cup of tea;
Making music while walking/commuting/waiting is not my thing either, music making deserves some better, dedicated time;
I don’t have epiphanies, so I won’t need a musical memo recorder to whistle the riff of my life. Probably all I need is a field recorder;
there are very little apps that makes having a iOS rig essential.
Despite all of this I will keep investing time and money on my mobile setup because this is the future of music.
Once opon a time, even the old heads could be caught saying that tools on a laptop / desktop were toys...
They were and still are for many productions kind. If the wallet can afford it, everyone still goes the hardware route, but for editing.
The next killer app could be the one that intelligently operates like Pro Tools / Ableton / Reaper / Logic, etc. in a exact or very close manner consistent with desktop use with few consessions without losing any of the expected functionality that is known of iOS.
We could get into discussions on why it can't happen... But with all of the progressive conversations giving influence on applications and software that either were released some time ago and others not too long ago - that it wouldn't surprise me if the right group of people decided to take an idea and run with it to completion.
Sound familiar to anyone?
@rarien said:
BM3 is heading for Windows/Mac. And an eventual feature set comparable/superior to Ableton/Protools (tho probably without a Push2 equivalent..). That's the end game for me. Just flip entire projects between ipad(rehearsals/sofa) >desktop (studio) >iPad (stems/click for shows). All in the same daw. Just freeze plugins that aren't available on each platform when necessary. Will be kinda new era in terms of workflow convenience/portability/integration. MPC live was close but nowhere near depth of BM3 + AU.
What he said.
At the risk of seemingly losing topic, the interesting thing is that the means to get an iOS solution (app and/or hardware wise) that realistically leverage and satisfies workflow power and versatility is within our grasp though for some it seems it is not enough.
I mean, we know that our tablets are not desktops or our laptops, but as computers of a supposed pedigree we're still expecting results to meet or be able to exceed them.
I think the solution may not be expensive or inpractical hardware or in fancy programming per se.
Nor do I believe that a walled garden existing or not would keep an solution from happening either.
Most of the time I’m overeasywhelmed and once in awhile poachedwhelmed
I lost track here as well. It´s simple for me from big and complex projects to smaller (and sometimes more fun to play a bit with) when it comes to music software: desktop > notebook > tablet > smartphone. Neither will ever be on the level of the other because all these things grow and might have always a specific workflow and tools which works better or not on these. Alone the size and connections you might can use or not will never be the same.
Until we all just sitting in the matrix and it´s all not real anyway.
But yeah, i miss "simple" things in iOS and don´t really get that these things are not there. Drag and drop FX, samples, complete FX channels, instruments in DAW´s. Drag and drop modulations which would be so much better for me than scrolling trough a mod-matrix, menu, lists or whatever with my finger on a small screen.
Dial in parameters, i don´t see that often in iOS apps too. Preset management is terrible too mostly.
Korg ArpOdyssei even still lacks double tap to default and make this app so terrible to use and fine-tune things so that i never use it while i love the sound of it. Again i can just say in general that a lot apps are not even touch-friendly at all. Some apps are outstanding, great and useful but it´s not all that wonderland it looked like at the beginning for me.
Yes, you could say i´m underwhelmed too in general and sometimes i don´t understand the euphory about some apps and developers since i see similar tools for free, better and more unique on other platforms as well.
Also there is much talk about independent developers which makes the innovations here. True of course, but that is also true for other platforms and even more there.
But people still make great things with iOS and if they are happy, all is fine.
If you reach a border and think iOS will limit you to get further or need new inspiration.....don´t wait for it to happen.
Make a break, think about what you want, revisit older tools you might not used much. If that all not works and you feel still limited after a while you might use another platform for your music creation/sound design.
You also don´t hav eto prefer any platform, just combine them all and take the best out of it.
If i would make a long list of my favorite tools for creating sounds it would be a mixture.
I just know now that i really prefer a much simpler set-up on an iOS device. NanoStudio 2 will be my thing, i´m pretty sure about that. It will not replace anything for me and i don´t think it will be my new wonderland to do everything i want and more since i have that already almost with Logic. I´m sure i will miss there things too but that is O.K.
Now i don´t know what i all wrote here and just wish you all a nice day
Instead of delivering this lecture of bullshit which may or may not be true (it probably or definitely is, intent and focus and using the tools at hand are no doubt skills of an accomplished artist),
Why don’t you share what kind of music you make and your workflow to make iOS music producing and finishing a reality.
Point is, the person who said iOS is experimental and there is not good enough tools for finishing his work, maybe he already knows the content of the lecture you just delivered and makes vastly different music than you or had different workflow preferences. Perhaps you are a performer and he is a midi programming guy. Two VASTLY different experiences on iOS.
Yes. I love it when people are just honest about iOS limitations and workflow.
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Might be faulty memory, but ISTR it was Sebastian’s policy to disallow users blacklisting each other, on the grounds that encountering people who did not necessarily agree with us is a good thing.
Have you tried the „Future Singer“ presets? Made me a believer.
Music apps that i have been underwhelmed by recently:
Music apps that i have been overwhelmed by:
What underwhelms me are when what I’ll call leading apps are not kept up to date with current software tech. There is no good excuse for such apps, sold at premium prices, to consistently let customers down. Like, the developer’s agenda trumps reality.
@deleted user. I feel for you. It sounds like you are bored as you stated so candidly. And for an artist that is the devilment for sure!. I don't think you are purposely being negative. I believe you are looking for positive reassurance from members of the forum you respect. we all go through creative difficulty. Two cliches: there are no boring days, only boring people. A poor workman blames his tools. I think this is what your responders are replying to.
Please understand,@deleted user, I am not criticizing you, but rather empathizing. As you said you have put decades into music. Me, too, and there have often been troughs of emptiness, boredom and disillusionment. It was there when I discovered iOS a few months ago, thank the heavens. Being an artist is rarely easy and we look to our forum brothers and sisters to buoy us up, inform us, make us laugh, make us angry but above all we usually feel for what others are going through in their creative efforts. And, at least in my case, I hope I can give something back to the good souls who wander this pastoral parkland with the occasional planted and hidden stake.
I think members are misunderstanding you, though I don't know your history on this forum. On the surface you seem to be criticizing, but you love Zeeon, Apesoftmood, even Kauldron! I think we all would agree not every app is a winner. How could it be so. The great thing about this forum is you hear what people have to say about everything and can make good choices.
Some posts are dissing you, but I think that is just reactive. They are not hearing your lament. A song we all sing periodically. So, cheer up, @deleted user. You will be back, maybe better than ever! You can't create music for years and ever really believe it was a mistake.
The muse. Ah, the muse... What a bitch!
For me, coming late to the party, when the cave people are dancing around the monolith ( though we are better dressed) and throwing spaceships into the air I am agog! But no doubt I will wake up bored with this, too, one morning. But the pain is within, not without.
When King Solomon wanted a reminder of what would be appropriate to say on any occasion and, one day before the sabbath, he set his royal jeweler to the task of inscribing a ring for him that he could look at to find the answer. Well, that jeweler sweated out the weekend, let me tell you! When he finally presented the ring to his liege, Solomon smiled. On the ring was written "This too shall pass". And so shall it be for you.
Take heart from those who venture the same unpredictable highway @Deleted user. You are perhaps misunderstood this time but you are definitely not alone.
Shit!! I just saw this thread has gotten almost 4,000 hits! Congratulations! You hit the bullseye with this one?! You gotta laugh!