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I have ipad synths, loopy, and a drum app and all that and have cubasis and aria pro.....can you make quality tracks just with the ipad?
which daw should i use for recording? just need a little guidance here
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I feel I can make a track with just the iPad; whether or not they would be considered “quality” is another matter. It depends on a lot of factors and they’re all personal to you.
I’ve been dabbling in music making on the iPad since iMS-20 was released about 7 years ago. My workflow has changed fundamentally around 5 to 6 times. Even now, I go about making music a number different of ways. My basic current workflow for track making is to record AUv3 synths, often sequenced by Rozeta, in Cubasis. I tend to use only a few synths that I’m familiar with. Drum sounds are usually sourced from BeatHawk (lots of high quality and varied sounds) or the Classic Machines IAP in Cubasis. I like to keep my workflows as simple as possible.
In terms of mastering, I like to fiddle with some knobs and sliders like I know what I’m doing until I get frustrated and confused. Then I know my work is complete.
You have the right tools already. YouTube is your best friend when you are just starting out. This forum is great, but to get great answers you will need to ask questions that are a little more specific. If you don’t even know what to ask, check out some YouTube tutorials covering basic iOS workflows, and check out the tutorial videos Steinberg has online covering Cubasis.
Once you check some of these out, ask some questions here to get some clarity where you need it. Or if you are attempting to setup certain apps to accomplish a certain task, and things aren’t working, you can get helpful suggestions here. Many times, you will get the actual solution to your problem.
So check some YouTube, dabble around a bit, get terribly confused, and then get some help here. The more info you can provide in your posts requesting help, the better the help will be.
Do you play instruments of any kind? That’s one place to start. A number of iOS musicians are not traditional musicians but if you play an instrument maybe start there? Which DAW should you use? Well you have 2 of the most popular ones already so use that, and I’d really recommend Garageband if you don’t know where to start.
I plat a little keyboards...i have released 3 albums on itunes, amazon, beatbort ect....i love my ipad so i would like to use it if i can because i live the synths i have.....its just so much fun...its like a new toy and in a sense im tired of using my pc.
You can PM me if you like.
Because this is detailed question you have posed.
Instead of stepping on other people here, I will just tell you feel free to reach me about this.
I will start by asking to hear or see your current musical creations.
My diagnosis starts there.
Yes, you can make quality, professional-level tracks with an iPad, to give you the short answer.
A lot of people seem to take excessive pride in iOS-exclusive production, which I think is silly. And a lot of people seem to still have an inferiority complex about using an iPad to make music, which I think is silly.
You should take him up on this offer.
Yes you can. You can also make quality tracks on a 4 track tape recorder. Just make the music as best you can. Lots of good advice here in these forums. And many of us have published quite a variety of music made with iOS apps.
So read and lot and yeah, PM Rustik for lots of good info, he’s a fine fellow.
You can definitely make quality tracks with just an iPad, many people here do just that. In fact you can make quality tracks using nothing but GarageBand if you put your mind to it.
Just dive in and make something.
I would say if you really want to make quality tracks in the sense of sounding pro, you will need some tools on iPad. With auria pro, if you use the fabfilter plugins C2 and L2 properly for example, you can possibly make anything sound super good. The iPad now is powerful enough to make any music sound great. It's just a matter of knowing the tools and how to use them.
Watching some tutorials on mastering is a must, I would add.
Think about it this way, if you walked into a pro studio, say 1991, that was the 1st time I did, in many ways, a new iPad has greater mixing and mastering capabilities than a pro studio had. They had 8 track reel to reel and an ADAT. A dozen rack effects units. Mixer. Add a class compliant multichannel usb interface and iPad could do that. Add mics as needed. And we were using a car load of amps, instruments, and pedals, but that is genre dependent and much of that could even be done in the iPad now.
Is it all the same quality? Hell the effects, some of the modulations and reverbs are better. Some of the analog saturation might not be 100% there, but you could get close. In other ways, you could top that studio had, mixing is now capable of being noise floor less, ad converters, even el cheapo, are better.
So heck ya, I could make a pro recording on an iPad.
But, Im not gonna.
Because all the above is so much easier on a desktop. And ive got racks of sweet outboard gear, amps, etc. that are hard to top. Maybe some day.
In the meantime, it has been a total boon to my productivity.
We are building beats, basslines, iOS synth parts, midi parts for external synths. Working on it on the move, on the subway, for example. I just added an iPad synth over a guitar, bass, drum, vocal piece, because... Id made a perfect patch while sitting on the couch watching some educational thing with my neice. Ive got a few analog hardware synths I could use too, but theyre a bit uncomfortable to sit with on the couch.
The hardest thing about making iPad music for me, is only really being able to control one app / synth at a time..
With hardware I can get everything going and get my hands all over the gear to make changes in real time... With iPad it's a lot more challenging.... But you can deff make excellent recordings and music all from the iPad... Workflow is everything and it takes time to develop one or many that works the way your mind thinks...
If nothing else you can record all yore synths and apps into Ableton or whatever if that's more effective to your approach, but loopy and cubasis all within the iPad make it entirely possible
Quality music doesn't come from iOS. It comes from the musician.