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I respectfully disagree with that. There are a few quality producers who use iOS in their work. It isn't up to par with desktop yet as a potential replacement but it's enough to be integrated in a professional studio. Varg from Northern Electronics has released entire iOS albums and that is a respected label. There are others too including Richard Devine and Jordan Ruddess
Not too long ago plugin tech was almost stillborn on this very forum. Plugins are everything on desktop. Because they work.
The best consumer implementation of object-oriented assembly ever created. It was strange to see the pushback here.
The average musician still doesn’t know it’s possible on iOS now, and actually it barely is.
The latter is the only one I'd be interested in for now.
I already own many great synths, and unless one will be created that combines features from different ones or introduces useful new features, I'm more than happy with what I'v got.
I think that the market for software synths shouldn’t be as big as people think it should be.
In the analogue days of the 70s and early 80s where the amount of synths was a fairly short list, new synths were not every week, and amateurs could save up and buy one of them, some people could afford some of them but even bands wouldn’t buy all of them.
There wasn’t really a perception that if only you had a different synth all of your music would be far better. Quite the opposite – the assumption (quite false actually) was that it is a synth, therefore it can synthesise any sound imaginable (as it said on telly before we even got our first synth). Why would you need so many synths, (or even more than one) given that we could also multitrack onto reel to reel.
The other thing I think is that the iOS synth market is populated highly with people who were hardware synth owners but got jobs and married etc and never actually went heavily into doing music on a computer with something like Emagic or Digital Performer, and just did other domestic things instead. Then iPads came along and they’re all back in the game, but they’ve skipped over that whole computer software sequencer plugin thing completely.
Yes, you can make it work.
Like you said:
"enough to be integrated" is enough for "few quality producers".
I'm sure those who found their right tool for the job on iOS would be happy to invest more money, but the main market remains to be the "give me some fun for the price of a coffee", I mean every second person I know call themselves a musician of some sort
E.g you can buy Arturia collection for 499 (currently 249, and quite often on sale) where you get more than 20 synths... price wise it's on pair with iOS prices, but you get way more for your money - basic things like session recalls, file sharing, upgrade path etc.
It is improving though. 2-3 years ago we barely could run two apps in sync, reliable midi was a myth etc. But I think these threads became frequent because our expectations are obviously higher now given the capacity of current iPad/iPhone models, while the software side of it is still limited by iOS - App Store, set of standards for basic operations, file management, etc. And lets be honest, in some cases it's simply a poorly written app.
I'm confused as well, if I should invest much more time and money in the whole iPad/iOS thing. While it's improving thanks to many dedicated devs, I think to bring 'peace' some fundamental changes needed, and devs can't do much on that front, and I can't see Apple giving up on one of their biggest cash cow just to please some professionals, in fact they have actually done the opposite in the past decade.
Or we can just shut up and use the tools already available, but that won't benefit devs either
I don´t mind either way.
What i like to see is people mastering any app and by showing it they inspire others.