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A Little Love note to iOS Music DEVs
I am a tour video / lighting designer. I have been working for bands since 1998, on the road making bands look (hopefully) as good or better than they sound to the audience. In this field there is SO much travel, downtime, where I am sitting around in airports / flying in planes, bussing here and there, waiting for load in, for the band to show up... Leaving me disconnected from home, usual patterns, things...
So for me - while out on the road - to be able to throw on my headphones, plug a midi controller in, and have something to do that keeps me feeling grounded, matching or elevating my mood, using my time productively, and being able to learn / play / compose / write / study so many different facets of music simply, intuitively, with such AMAZING software tools in such diverse offerings, so easily and cohesively linked through interdependent and inclusive environments, AND have it be affordable...
Wow. Hell Yeah.
This is such a great, creative, therapeutic, PRAXIS generation ecosystem (which Paulo Freire defines praxis in Pedagogy of the Oppressed as "reflection and action directed at the structures to be transformed." or my own definition "the merging of thought and action") well worth the wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process)
I just want to extend a sincere heart felt >>
THANK YOU
Thank you so much to everyone who has made or assisted on the creation of an iOS music app... especially those who have put a ton of work into a project you believed in, energy and time that you could have put into some other area, personal or otherwise...
I just want you to know sincerely,
I totally appreciate you.
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BTW - Leaving on tour w Lord Huron next monday. Check calendar dates, if you are a DEV, and want to see a show, PM me, I got you and a plus one!! Those of you who might know DEVs that might like or appreciate this, please feel free to tag your fave DEVs or forward. xo
Edit - also, if there is a better place to place this sort of thing, pm me that as well.
I am a non-iOS non-audio developer myself and I need to emphasize how much I admire these guys. When I tried to write an iOS music app just for the fun, I realised how much work that is, just to get some very simple result e.g. just continuously play sine wave a have single fader with lowpass filter. Now it's easier with Audiokit and available tutorials, but many of these guys often have good reasons to not use such frameworks. So such simple thing can take you days of work to make it properly. Imagine something that's often 100x more complicated, that's incredible amount of work. And it's still maybe just half of the work needed to be done to get your app to the users - you need to sign up as a developer, do all the bureaucracy, submit your app to app store, pass review from Apple, do some marketing for your app, probably make some website, record videos for youtube, promote of this forum... Then you're still not finished, you need to give customer support, fix bugs and people of course will give you a lot of good ideas how to improve the app, so they expect new features in the upcoming updates.
And yet there are people complaining that any app which is selling over $5-10 is too expensive...
I know iOS music devs usually don't want to complain publicly, this is why I am doing it instead of them
This community should realise, that for many devs this is more a charity than a source of income. Given the fact that iOS devs are one of the most wanted positions on the market and you need to be an excellent dev to create solid audio-related app for iOS, they could be making much more money and much more comfortably by just working for some boring big company (and this already happened to some of them).
All we can do to support them (except of showing some love on this forum
) is to:
1. Buy their apps. Even if you don't know if you really need it, the best way to financially support the developer is to simply buys his/her apps.
2. Give a positive review, ideally 5 stars. This helps exposure on app store a lot. Also, never ever give a negative review, only if you really know that dev is a scammer and want to warn other buyers.
3. Make music with their apps and let the world know which tools you used and how awesome they are. Promote the iOS as audio platform to the people that may be interested. Honestly, I am not really following this point, working on improvement
Every time I use iOS music apps I realise that it's a miracle in this world that we can have such incredible things so easily. Thank you guys!
@scottsunn, thanks for posting and the fine articulation of what most of us here believe (I think). I cannot praise the devs and the iOS platform enough. And my gratitude for being able to access, as a seventy year old, this technology that I can hold in one hand, is nothing short of a miracle ( and a creative lifesaver!). That it is so incredibly affordable is a factor for me, but if it was many multiples of expense I would find a way and it would still be a bargain.
I am especially grateful to the folks at Steinberg, and @LFS in particular for the ultimate treasure ( for me), Cubasis. That this DAW can be purchased on sale today for $25 is nothing short of hallucinatory. And the virtual face to face interaction with Lars is a wonderful add on. My other faves are Crudebyte, UVI, kv331, Mark Watt and, of course, the Audiokit team. Their availability and generosity of spirit are truly a gift.
I am mostly a straight ahead acoustic musician, but I know there is a whole other dimension of ios applications that people with greater tech skills can really appreciate and that, in some cases, these devs are on the cutting edge of what is possible and beyond. To find such pure motivation is usually the province of artists, and in this respect these guys are truly altruistic artists with fantastic skill and imagination.
It would be remiss for me not to mention @Michael in this tribute. Who knows where iOS progress would be without his contributions... perhaps several years delayed. A genius who beat Apple to the punch and who then could only follow in his footsteps. And then, of course, he created this forum to give us a communal voice. He is quite the man and all of us certainly know and appreciate his accomplishments.
@skrat, thank you for your opinion as a non iOS user in stating many things some iOS users do not fully get. I hope your insights will help them to a deeper understanding of what is going on here. I was relieved to see I do most of the things you suggest. I am not short on gratitude, that’s for sure.
Scott, thanks again for your thoughtful post and the opportunity for me to add to the appreciation party.
I look forward to reading what many others will want to say on this subject,
Thanks, guys
Yes Boss, I just want to echo your sentiments..
And Big-Up to the Audiobus Forum that house these great people..
Thank you .. Thank you..
In addition to their app development talents, many app developers are able to skillfully navigate the world of app feature requests which can be like herding cats.
Without the great work and effort of these fine and talented iOS music app developers,
I wouldn’t have jack.
And I realize there is all that hardware and desktop software, but I personally cannot afford any of it.