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Which instrument app(s) convinced you that you could make ‘proper’ music on iOS?

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  • RUST( i )KRUST( i )K
    edited November 2019

    @TimRussell said:
    For me, as a relative newcomer, it was Funkbox, closely followed by NeoSoul Keys Studio and Moog Model D.

    iOS is not system, it an instrument for me.

    Essentially each iOS device I have is an instrument.

    One is a looper w Fx(AUM/LOopy HD/AUdiobus)a
    One is a synth called either Animoog, GeoShred, or Piano of some sort (and all Sugar Bytes apps)
    Another is a performance/ granular device(Borderlands/Samplr)
    Audioshare, Audiocopy, and Twisted Wave are requirements as well.

    I also use Twisted on the Mac.

    I find this the most productive way to use iOS for me.

    I often compose and assemble loops in Cubasis.

    I use Blocs, Triq Trac, and iMashine or jamming Ideas on iPhone and often export things back to iOS device or to Mac to use on hardware.

    That's just me.

  • klownshedklownshed

    iOS has been instrumental (no pun intended) in enabling me to get back into music after having kids kicked my band (and all other music making) into touch. They literally stole my studio just so they could, you know, have a bedroom and stuff. Outrageous.

    Anyway, I've been using:

    GarageBand
    NanoStudio 2
    BlocsWave
    AUM+Rozeta+Atom

    a lot recently to make loops and jam out song ideas.

    I've used the following instruments a lot:

    All of the Ruismaker drum AUs
    Lorentz and Kronecker by Iceworks (Icegear, whatever they're actually called ;-) -- Lorentz in particular is a favourite
    Viking Synth

    FX wize, i freakin love K7D. It's my favourite fx au at the moment. I also like all the Audio Damage plug-ins a lot too (but they seem to make NS2 have fits).

    and a few other bits and bobs. I have lots of other synths but I find it's the Ruismakers and Lorentz' which have so far made it into nearly 'proper' music.

    Also deserving of a mention are DM-2 and iElectribe. I don't tend to use them so much within DAWs or as part of arrangements (iAA - Yeuch! ;-) but make lots of little loops and stuff with them which also make their way into my loops for the future folder (actually lots of folders all over the place to make it hard for me to find stuff).

    The closest I get to finishing a track on the iPad 100% is with GarageBand. But invariably everything still ends up in Logic.

    My biggest 'secret' is BlocsWave. BlocsWave is awesome. I put all the stems and loops and things I make with GB, NS2, AUM etc into Blocs and Blocs on my phone is my single most used app. I flesh out loads of little ideas in it and some make it to full length tracks that I might even let somebody hear one day.

    The last track I 'finished' started off life bouncing between NS2 and AUM and eventually into Blocs. I played around with it in Blocs a lot, jamming out way too many ideas, and then exported all the loops again from blocs (neatly arranged and already time stretched to a new tempo) and imported those into Logic on my Mac which is where I added vocoder and some other synth bits. I did record the 'vocal' for the vocoder bits on my iPhone too; No need for my 'real' microphone for a vocoder ;-)

    Although it ended up in Logic, it would never have got there without iOS. All the main ideas started on iOS.

    I've also spent loads of money (relatively) on apps that I thought would be great but I never end up using for various reasons.

  • cloudswimmercloudswimmer
    edited November 2019

    In the beginning like others it was Nanostudio on an iPod touch in which I made a composition that sat unrecognizable with my computer DAW pieces .. but it was obviously limited. It wasn’t till last summer when the earthquake here in the Los Angeles area ruined my big work surface where all my computers and monitors sat causing me to completely disconnect and move everything into temporary storage while I searched for some new studio furniture that I really started to learn Cubasis, Auria Pro, Audiobus, AUM, and started buying the top tier synth and effects apps that I realized I was writing, arranging, and producing just as well if not better than I have for decades on my computers. I still haven’t replaced that furniture and the computers are still in storage .. partly out of laziness .. but more and more I see less reason to even bother setting the computers back up with my iPad Pro’s, RME and Apogee interfaces, and growing collection of AUV3’s. I haven’t been this excited since I discovered Opcode Vision for my Mac SE30 lol.

  • MulticellularMulticellular
    edited November 2019

    @McD said:
    I'm still not convinced I can. But the examples from others prove it's possible.

    Historically, iGrand, iLectric for iPad, SampleTank.

    Ya. I actually can't but that is stylistic. Like I do more rock and similar so recording audio there is no point in the mobility since I'm going to be in the studio anyway for the amps, mics, vocal booth, treated room and all.

    IF I did more electronic I could really do proper music in a few - Korg Gadget, Modstep, Xequence (except it doesn't have tempo changes so couldn't use it for everything).

    The sound sources for electronic seem totally up to task to me at this point from Ruismakers, to Factory, Tera, Sunrizer.

  • Paul16Paul16

    @MonzoPro said:

    @JohnnyGoodyear said:
    Audiobus.

    +1

    Before that arrived it was mostly noodling on single apps.

    +2

    Audiobus was the first thing which enabled bringing it all together rather than just having a bunch of sandboxed sound makers

  • LinearLinemanLinearLineman

    @Samflash3 that was fantastic!

  • mjcouchemjcouche

    @Samflash3 Do you know which app he is using for guitar? Doesn't look like Garageband but I could be wrong. Awesome video

  • Samflash3Samflash3

    @mjcouche said:
    @Samflash3 Do you know which app he is using for guitar? Doesn't look like Garageband but I could be wrong. Awesome video

    You know, I never actually checked the apps that they used. I remembered back in the day when someone told me it was GarageBand but I just did a search after your question and none of them actually used GarageBand. (Slightly disappointed, but oh well)

    The guitar app they used was iShred. Looks like it's no longer available. Here's the full list -
    https://www.gottabemobile.com/atomic-tom-app/amp/

  • JohnbaJohnba

    Audiobus

  • mjcouchemjcouche

    @Samflash3 wow the iShred thing must have been very recent. I thought I saw it on the recommended apps just the other day. Thanks for digging this up

  • AudioGusAudioGus

    @TimRussell said:
    ‘Proper’ music = anything you feel proud of

    Never touch the stuff.

  • frthcomingstormfrthcomingstorm

    I think it was Borderlands Granular.

  • encenc
    edited November 2019

    delete

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    Despite using music apps since I first got an iPod Touch in 2011, I started completing serious tracks once Nanostudio 2 was released.

  • LittlewoodgLittlewoodg

    I bought MiniSynth, iSequence, studioHD, IMS-20, iElectribe, and SunVox in the first 2 weeks of getting iPad (#1, 2010). My mind was blown and has stayed that way since

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