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What is your preferred DAW to use w iOS and why?
Especially interested in hearing from Cubasis-Cubase users.
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I love Samplitude on the PC. For me it is the best way I have found for chopping, slicing, rearranging and editing audio, particulaly masses of long audio files. I feed it all my iOS stuff, 95% of which leaves the ipad as pure audio with very little midi.
As for the iOS side of things I enjoy sequencing and/or recording with Cubasis, Gadget, Blocs, BM3. They all have something to offer in different ways. IOS is my land of quick, fun, spontaneous sketches where I feel like a kid again and Samplitude on the PC is where I feel like a GOD with a gorgeous full head of hair, a six pack and sweet pectoral muscles.
Reaper - fully customizeable.
Scripts that can do stuff that no other DAW can touch
Extremely lean OS.
Constantly updated (almost monthly)
$60
Although I do run HD protools to mix on and record large projects at 96khz (latency free)
but IOS never gets to converse with Protools - only Reaper.
Why Reaper? - apart from easy integration with IOS, the midi fx/scripts are the bomb.
I can do anything I can dream of with incoming midi, and most of the scripts are already made by some midi nerd.
Just one of many great examples: my fave one lately is - I can make any incoming note change to any midi channel live - then route these notes to hardware / back to IOS / samplers whilst the IOS notes are coming into Reaper.
So imagine - Rozetta particles or any killer arp, Fugue Machine spitting out midi into DAW, and every note can be converted and mapped to its own output midi channel - live.
Any midi FX you can imagine can process midi as it is coming into the DAW live, and re transmitted to any device internally or externally
Logic Pro X because it‘s still the best bang for the buck and has everything i need and works great with the Logic remote and the IDAM stuff (but it‘s a bit buggy). It has Sculpture which alone is an important tool for me i won‘t leave ever. I‘m covered for the next 10 years or so.
I didn’t tried cubasis but I was Cubase user around 7 or so. After that bought my first macbook (intel ones) and try to use Ableton with few result...
ATM I was working without DAW and just enjoying BlocsWave/Launchpad fast workflow but glitches made me recap and now I’m enjoying for the first time using BM3. It requires a bit of dealing but te last week I’m gettig results and feeling confortable with lego building and mixer. Sampler is also superb and powerful so I need to try record some chops and maybe ditch Blocs completely.
If I can’t success I will look into Ableton due export feature in Blocs. Finish my work and move on directly on hardware and ditch iOS as platform. Apple had wrecked the things with iOS11 IMHO.
BM3 on iOS. Logic Pro X on Mac OS. They aren’t even similar but their workflow suites me the best on each platform
Reaper because it cost $60 and does everything that I need. The only DAW I can imagine replacing it would be Ableton for the workflow/interface. Though playtime and this theme might be sufficient.
@ Samplitude is a beast.. That’s up for consideration also.. Lots of tutorials by craznek on YouTube. But the tutorial;s for Logic are tops
@Cib https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203718
I know....sadly Logic 10.4.1 with the latest High Sierra is a bit unstable for me.
But if i could start from zero with the knowlege of today i would maybe go for Logic Pro X alone.....
O.K. maybe a few of my favorite synths and FX and sample libraries on top.
Ableton, it has Link and more and more apps are adding export to Ableton sets. Plus I find it easy and fun to use.
I also love using Renoise on PC. For me it is simply a fun and fast sketcher, ideal for the type of music I make, plus I started using Trackers very early on so it is in my DNA/blood. There are some cool slicer scripts that enable me to drop in iOS sketches and +1 them with fx etc. Slowly Slowly I end up using more midi tricks but for the most part love audio collage.
While not a DAW, Resonic Pro is a stunningly good player / slicer on PC that for me is the cherry on top of the whole mixing and collage phase. You can skim through audio files super fast, highlight ranges, drag and drop straight into your daw / build sample libraries at lightning speed. Fantastic...
https://resonic.at
Logic. I can do 95 percent of a project in GB/iOS then seemlessly open in Logic to tighten things up using Flex Pitch and Logic’s compressors/limiters
Ableton & BM3. I’ve been on Ableton since it’s inception. Was all hardware before that.
I’m hoping at some point more developers step up and do more iOS (or just touch) versions of DAWs (or that Apple finally does a proper touch computer).
I’ve been VERY tempted by Bitwig on a PC tablet.
Maybe slightly off topic (but i think it’s still in) i was happy to finally saw someone shows the good things about the touch bar like this example with Abelton Live:
or
...and combine that with this f.e. (if you on mac):
Just in case anyone want to try (i would like to hear feedback since i have no touch bar mac yet).
http://miditouchbar.ch
Even with 14 bit midi....and it´s free also and just needs 1MB space
I’d love to give ableton a shot but it cost so much to own the full version. I have so many licenses of Live 9 Lite lol
To date, I work only in Gadget, then export all tracks to Mixbus32C for effects, mixing and mastering. Otherwise, if making music on the computer instead of phone, I use Tracktion Waveform first.
I use Bitwig on Surface Pro 3. The touchscreen with all that capability often makes me wonder why I’m on iOS at all. Also use MTS and SunVox on the SP3. MTS AND SunVox for the cross-platform fun. As is the case with iOS, I have too many choices, a few more DAWs, 100s of synths...not a good thing necessarily
I start in Gadget and finish in Auria. Why? Both DAWs were intuitive for me to learn, and I want my focus to be on making music and not learning more DAWs.
Digital Performer. Because I’ve used it since the dawn of computers. I’ve tried Cubase, Logic, ProTools over the years. And keep Ableton around, because it’s the most different. And I could work with any of them if I had to, but after so many years, trying to work in anything other than DP just feels like everything is in the wrong place. ProTools would probably be my second choice, because it feels the most similar. DP also has several features which make it the best for scoring to picture, and that is the main direction where the money is nowadays.
+1.......... Same as.......
Bought Cubase Artist 8......... Bloody hated it......... Wish I could sell it (Bought the Dongle)
CUBASIS (along with Poison-202, Kauldron, SwarPlug and other AUs) all the way because it is professionally designed for ease-of-use and gives a tablet-experience! This will have the features of other DAW apps over a period of time (similar to how the matured desktop DAW apps have more or less similar features).
Easy-to-use app - Cubasis
Fun app - GarageBand
Powerful app - Auria (needs a better iPad)
There are so many different kinds of cool and interesting workflows on iOS. I find diversifying is best.
Gadget (mostly Abu Dahbi and Vancouver) through AUM/fx into Blocs = awesome
AUs in BM3, sample chopperoo = awesome
Cubasis Midi sequencing and automating AUs and Micrologue = awesome
There are tons of mixing and matching of various modular components like Rozetta, Fugue Machine, Egoist, KRFT etc etc... etc...
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Cubase Pro 9.5. Via iConnect sync & Mackie Mixer to RME Babyface or via Studiomux, right into NI Maschine.
I use SAW Studio for fast and precise snip-edit-arrangement and occasional special processing of raw microphone recordings.
(mostly ambience/room corrections with Zynaptiq plugins). IOS stuff is imported as files.
My other system is ProTools TDM 5.1 under MacOS 9 ... much tighter integration with IOS via an iCA4+ interface (Midi DIN + analog io-pairs. Works flawless in both directions.
I like the sound of TDM a lot - quite different from IOS and thus a perfect complement.
But my most appreciated feature is that this system represents a kind of digital concrete.
All fixed - nothing ever changes, no internet, no malware...
Hey studs1966 - I would happily trade you my Logic 9 for your Cubase. Logic is not working for me.
-kinkujin