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iPhone ////. How or do you use it for music?
Hello all!
So please no offense to anyone that uses a phone as their primary means of making tunes. But since I am old AF and can’t see what do you all use your phone for? Reason I’m asking is sometimes I will just have my phone with me and want to do something productive. What are some tips or ideas to create something on phone and be able to transfer it later to iPad.
Thanks.
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I keep around 9 music apps on my iPhone at a time. I begin most songs in Cubasis 3 on my iPhone using my favorite AU’s. Then I’ll transfer to my iPad to finish them up. I also jam on Endlesss and some grooveboxes to have some fun and generate some ideas.
I actually just bought AEM and GR-16 to try and expand why I do on my iPhone. I like it because it’s so accessible. I always have my phone in my pocket or on the couch/chair/desk next to me.
Xequence. Universal apps. This used to be BM2 for me but recently got CB3 so I can use that if I’m interested.
But my workflow is mostly Xequence so it is easy to tap out a couple notes, copy/ paste and then adjust. Pitch, velocity etc for the midi stuff so I can focus on the audio when it counts.
I also use it as a “practice amp” for guitar sometimes. I have an AUM template saved that I can use on both iPhone and iPad. Quick and easy and not too many cables. I found even in a pinch the CCK + Rocksmith cable works good enough (but only audio through the phone speakers).
I have a full page dedicated to music apps on my phone, with a 9 app limit for the following categories: Drums, Strings, Synth, and Effects. The effects limit is fast and loose sometimes but I have most of the TB effects to shoot back and forth if need be. This also helps me identify my favorite apps, though admittedly some are only on iPad.
Blocs Wave.
Took me a while to get into it but what a work of genius of an app -- from light 2 minute dabbles to 6 hour deep dives. Not such a huge fan of Launchpad but it's undeniably a good platform to transfer loops into for performance/synch with external hardware.
One thing I recently figured I could use the phone for is storage. My iPad only have 64Gb (so has the iPhone SE 2020) and I have deleted and moved things around in a desperate fashion to not overload the disk. I now deleted pretty much every music program on my phone except for some recording apps and loopers, AudioBus, AUM and AudioShare of course. So, now I transfer samples to the phone and it's so easy to just airdrop back over to the iPad what ever I want to use.
Also, and this is real fun: I connect the phone to the sound interface, both channels on my Focusrite Scarlet and can thus record anything in stereo, from YouTube, or another app or the web. I've seen many people want apps, I do have e.g Blue Mangoos Tube player, for it - but this is so much better. Quality is okay.
I just figured I gonna try to record some loops into Blocs, from the otherwise rather boring app AudioCopy which I just downloaded to my phone (deleted it from iPad over earlier mentioned space issue). We'll see how it goes.
I do not, to answer your question, use my phone to create music since I got the iPad.
Cheers.
Blocks does not have icloud sync right???
Not exactly answering your question (again) but I just airdropped samples from phone to iPad, from AudioCopy to Blocs. Supercool and so far it got most right. One Shots are not so easy as Blocs want you to set both tempo and number of beats. Bought some from the Loopermasters sale now that I gonna just transfer to Blocs.
EDIT: It's quite a tedious task as you can only drop one file at the time - which has to be classified, but, also very rewarding. Recording directly into Blocs is a bit of a nightmare but this: smooth as butter. See if I can transfer next step to Launchpad also, never done that.
The whole production, including mixing and mastering on the old iPhone 6S, because my pockets aren’t large enough for iPadOS.
I started not long ago on a 5S (can hardly believe it now), and got so exited over the whole concept. A very nice person lend me money for an Air 3, still paying it off
I pretty much only use my iPhone instead of my iPad these days for music tasks. I stick with groovebox types apps, like ummm... Groovebox, Figure, Auxy (back in the day before it went subscription), etc. Even Garageband is nice and useable. Something I can easily sketch out ideas on to expand on back in the studio.
My advice is keep it simple and just focus on capturing raw ideas. Trying to do complex sound design and detailed mixing can get especially tedious, so stick to broad strokes instead of the finer points.
Also, the iPhone is GREAT for capture field recordings to use later. I frequently will use Audioshare to record something cool I hear to transfer to my other music tools later.
I made this on an iPhone SE 16GB by the way:
AUM with a really nice Indian resonator app called Samvada (I think?) and a big Kai Aras reverb, then we kept overdubbing ethnic instruments into an obscure Shure dynamic mic. I was surprised how it good it sounded in the end. Video was made in iMovie too!
do you import you sounds
into it? i don’t think you can record from other apps via audiobus can you?
@Tarekith :What screen size do you have ?
@onerez - I find Zenbeats, Drambo, GrooveRider, Garageband, and NanoStudio pretty usable on iPhone, and all transfer easily enough to the iPad.
GrooveRider and Drambo (in that order) are the easiest and most fun on iPhone, I think.
When I was riding the train to work every day, I was sketching out song ideas on iPhone. Towards the end, I started using SunVox.
Then I got a job that was only a 10 min. bike ride away so I didn't use the iPhone as much for music.
Then the pandemic happened and we were asked to work from home. So I haven't used the iPhone for that as much since.
Drambo is great as my portable au host for sure... usable on iPhone 7 though a bit cramped, but it’s still in my hands all the time and that’s a huge deal in the end
wait.... your old like me.. can you see the phone. 😂😂.
Thanks guys for the tips.
Done with an iPhone 8 Plus while waiting for my daughter at a doctors appointment. Ripplemaker, Rozeta suite, AUM, Cubasis 3 , Eos 2, Dubstation , LumaFusion, Bluetooth Shure 215’s...all in my pocket. I’m amazed by it. Best tool for the job? The one you have.
Currently on a 12 Pro, but I've been working this way since the 6 or 7 probably. Heck, not too different from Bhajis Loops I used to use on a Palm TX at the end of the day.
Example:
All day long. Fingers to fat for playing, but I'm always walking past a building site and recording the Mexican guys singing along to the radio or thinking of a line and shouting it out in the car.
@Tarekith : Boy, that is SERIOUSLY impressive ! I was asleep on Auxy. Perhaps I need to give it a good consideration!
All my universal apps I have installed on both devices and predominately work in AUM if I find myself somewhere without my pad. I use my phone for sampling sounds and recording sounds straight into AudioShare and airdrop them to my pad to start working there... I guess the answer is my phone does the simple things my iPad handles the more difficult work. If I need anything else, I hit up the my bro in our team who has a studio. Haha
I have an iPhone 11 promax and an iPad Air 3.
Thinking this time next year I might have whatever apple drops at the end of next year. These devices handle things just fine for now fingers crossed
I use a few iPhones for music - a 5C to run the original Nanostudio because it’s still a beast of an app, one old SE for field recording and making videos, another old SE for sampling and instrument processing, and recently a 12 mini for sampling, beat making, and video recording (the mics are quite impressive). Everything I record can be easily shared to my iPads for use in various apps or just for editing and finishing.
There are several universal apps that make the iPhones great production tools. I highly recommend having AUM, Brusfri, AudioShare, Koala, Group The Loop, Nanostudio 2, Grooverider, GarageBand, and LumaFusion on every iOS device.
I used Gadget on my iPhone 8+, it works very well in upright portrait vertical mode.
I record hardware synths in when I’m doing real things and if I’m out and about on my phone I usually just play with factory sounds.
Often when I have a bit of time in the studio too, I’ll use the factory sounds to throw together quick ‘canvasses’ for writing over or jamming. This is what I love about the app most — can open it up, compose a short section and have a wicked jam in the time a singer nips out for a break.
Examples:
.. I have tooooons more clips like this with Blocs Wave on various recording media that I didn’t even export from the devices yet — is just sooo easy to throw together cool sounding stuff.
If I use any material in a track I usually transcribe the parts later and play them on different instruments. The foundation of this track was a Blocs Wave loop but I converted the drums and other instrument parts to different iOS synths and sampler patterns:
Very productive little app!!
Grooverider GR16
NanoStudio 2
Koala is really good on an iPhone.
If straining your eyes is an issue then the only apps I have with a fisher price interface are DM1, Filtatron and maybe Animoog. Not popular apps (I love them) though. Creative restrictions are always a good thing I think.
I can do practically everything musical on my iPhone that I do on my iPad. It’s just... smaller.
Thanks to airdrop, going from one to the other is mostly very easy
I've got 5 kids. They smash the shit out of their phone screens and upgrade to newer models constantly. I'm good at screen repair...
I have an iPhone 4 and 4s which I primarily use to play music when I sleep to drown out my tinnitus but I also have an Akai Keystation that turns old 30 pin phones into standalone synths.
The other devices - iPhone 5s, 6, 6s & 7+ - are all full of music apps, but my favourite things to use are Koala and Patterning. I tend to use other apps as sample sources, recording intro Koala via AudioShare or AUM, make patterns within Koala & Patterning and then sequence them inside AUM. BT controllers (LPD wireless, Roli Lightblock M and MicroKey Air) are fun with iPhones.