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Have you recently ditched “All IOS” for a desktop PC DAW or the combination of the two?
Logic Pro excluded because it’s such an obvious choice for Mac ...I’m looking at you, Reason because it’s got something SO IOSey about it ...I like Mixcraft for its simplicity and Studio One seems good also...And now FL studio’s “All Plug Ins” version is just $399.00? Oy....
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Not recently (I’m currently besotted with particular iOS workflow) but I have done this many times.
I’ll open one of my desktop DAWs, see the amazing power and features and wonder why I’ve ever used anything else. Then I’ll open up something else, etc.
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If I had a mac, I'd just use them together, but as it stands I'm ios. All my good stuff is on iOS. But ableton is on desktop 😭
I have ableton and a few decent VSTs but mostly for making loops to put in my sampler... my laptop has a shit trackpad tho which is the main reason I don’t use it more for music. Next thinkpad maybe my useage will increase
I just got a Maschine last week and no looking back. Once BM3 gets some updates with automation fixes I will probably try arranging Maschine stems in there but more than likely I will do it on desktop in Samplitude. If I end up commuting again I will certainly be back to BM3 though.
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but I did recently ditch All iOS for a mix of 15% iOS / 85% iPadOS.
I travel between maschine and Mixcraft. I also have bitwig, but I am not convinced. After messing with some daws ios forcing myself to make complete tunes on it, I now us it more as a loop sketchpad or as pure sound module for my desktop. I ditched the idea to make complete songs on the iPad.
I still use it occasionally but I’m mainly on the iPad
I recently got a Chromebook that supports Android so I rebought FL Studio Mobile. Using it with a mouse and (especially) easily-accessible storage has been eye opening. I've barely opened iOS FLSM since.
I am most creative with apps inside AUM on my iPad, and have a choice there of devices I could never afford as VSTs on desktop.
However, I do have Ableton Suite running on an ancient MBP, (I got the suite chiefly for the Max For Live, as there is a world of wacky community made free M4L devices out there, like Mozaic on steroids), with a cheap as chips Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and the lovely Apple Cinema Display. I am slowly learning to use Ableton, and I am working towards a workflow there where 90% of that good creation stuff takes place in AUM away from the desktop, which is then used more or less exclusively for timeline and clip arrangement and mastering, as these tasks I find fiddly and buzz killing on the iPad inside Cubasis or LK..
Atom 2 I hope is going to fill in the final missing piece for me re dumping both Audio stems and midis from my AUM composing sessions across, and I am hoping for some good away-from-the-computer synergy between the iPad as sample source and the recently revamped Ableton mimicking Akai Force which I can hook up to it, and, via it’s auto sampler, ‘synth jack’ my small collection of hardware. Here’s hoping for a good Black Friday deal on The Force.
With the UK heading for the European exit door in January, I can see the price of overseas music tech going through the roof here in the new year, so it’s now or never for a big ticket item like the Force.
I use both.
I have an iPad Pro 11 and a 2011 MacBook Pro 6gb ram running a hacked version of Catalina (runs really well).
What really blows me away is I can use my iPad to output midi to my Mac!
The Reaper daw is installed on my Mac too and generally find this easier to write music with rather than using my iPad.
Using BeatMaker 3 and Reaper together seems like an ideal workflow for me - generate and copy samples between both systems using iCloud.
In 2015 I went exclusively iPad for music, because of the convenience, price, and portability of the setup. I was able to do 1-2 hours of music making every day during my commute. I used Nanostudio, then Cubasis 1, bought a bunch of AUv3s, then switched to Gadget for a few months. Since 2017 I've been pretty much glued to BM3, but I have also used all the other DAWs released since.
Since working from home in March this year, I had less reasons to pick up the iPad, and slightly gravitated back to desktop DAWs. After a trial period of my shortlisted DAWs Reaper, Live, and Bitwig, I eventually decided to buy a Bitwig license and also keep Reaper around for mastering duties. Following this, I allowed myself a temporary burst of VST purchases, but I've had to curtail this (at least until Black Friday). It's no exaggeration to say that desktop plugins are still at least 4 or 5 times higher than iOS equivalents.
However, in recent months I have been pulled back into the world of iOS music to help beta test a few key new updates and apps, so it's Bitwig that is gathering dust currently.
The combination of both is really the best for me and iOS apps are mainly used as audio source.
Its mainly about that i cannot find a DAW on iOS i really feel comfortable with these days and even more all the unique FX i really "need" for my kind of music which simple not exist in iOS yet. Last but not least i use these days at least 50% acoustic sounds/sample libraries compared to synths. In the past i used about 95% just synths. Here is iOS also far behind and so i have no other choice. Otherwise i do not care which system i use. It is just all about the tools i think which works best for me. Then things like great spatialization are non-exist on iOS as well. I did not care about this but it get more important now while i began to understand it more and hear the difference.
I was quite happy with NanoStudio 1 on a 3.5" screen in the past but things changed. Now i also much prefer a computer keyboard as midi input instead of glass or even my Seaboard Rise, lol.
That said, there are still a lot very unique and wonderful iOS music apps which cannot be replaced by anything else.
I like to use iOS to get ideas going, and to play with ideas quickly whenever I feel like it.
I have to find time to sit down and use Logic, whereas I can be playing with BlocsWave 5 secs after taking my phone out of my pocket.
I like to start ideas on iOS then when I’ve got the bones of a tune, take it to Logic to finish it.
With iOS I can make music, or just play, any time I can find 10 minutes. Like picking up a guitar. Logic is conceptually, to me, like going to the studio. I have to have time.
iOS frees me from time constraints.