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is it possible to make music on an iphone or is it just too small. I used to do it on my ipad but i don't have it anymore just got me a new iphone11 so is it worth it?
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Also what do i need to hook up my midi controller?
I’m writing everything right now on my iPhone 11 Pro using NS2. Love it. I don’t ever use any controllers, just my fingers and whatever headphones are in my pocket.
I’m still doing everything on iPhone 6S.
Current gen iPhone SE here. NS2, and only external plugins are BarkFilter, MagicDeathEyeStereo, and Barricade. Your iPhone 11 is more than capable of making great tracks! 🙂
If your midi controller is USB Class Compliant, you just need a lightning to USB camera adapter from Apple.
what apps do you guys use? and how do you hook headphones up without latency?
NS2? im the new guy be gentle
Nanostudio 2.
It costs nothing to try: Fire up GarageBand, which is free, and mess around with it. You'll know pretty quickly whether you're cut out for working on a small screen to make music.
If you are and GarageBand seems too limiting then you can always get one of the iPhone compatible DAWs such as Cubasis 3, NanoStudio 2**, and MultiTrack Studio if you're into a more complete production experience, or something like AUM if you're more into just jamming.
As far as hooking up your midi controller? If you connected it up to your iPad then there's no difference connecting it up to your iPhone.
(** not technically a DAW in many people's minds because it doesn't have audio tracks)
There are a few apps like Thumbjam that work exceptionally well -and the screen on even an old 6s Is much more expressive than an iPad. I use mine as a controller - so apps like TC data, Ribbons, KB1, Velocity keyboard, Ribns, Expression Pad ... things that "play themselves" like Piano Motifs or Cykle some of the chord pads like Soundprism and the isomorphic keyboards like Chordion can be handy . .. but anything touch or velocity sensitive gets extra points.
I got by just fine using an iPhone 11 for production & mixing. Some others cringe at the very thought of using an iPhone for anything music-production related. It really depends on you... if you want to, you will. And you would hook up any hardware the same exact way you did with your iPad.
Making music on my iPhone is totally different method than my iPad for me.
On my iPad i use AUM or BM3, but aum on iPhone is hard to do with all the resizing and only one channel per screen page. And bm3 dosent exist on iPhone.
iPhone i use mostly gadget, koala, caustic, apps that are more Groovebox based and ns2 if i need an au host.
Works better for the small screen as things are more accessible.
@jdolecek70 ha, sorry about that. The reason I like NS2 on the iPhone is because it is really laid out nicely. The UI on a small screen is amazingly efficient! Plus the fact that it had everything you need to start writing music with Obsidian (synth) and Slate (drum module) built in. The sequencer and routing are amongst the best on iOS, in my opinion. True it doesn’t have audio tracks, so if that is something you require for your music, it might not serve you as well as it has me.
Okay, now that I'm more awake, I can answer a bit better. @drez basically said everything I would've said about Nanostudio 2, which is my music creation app of choice. I also use Beathawk when I want some world instrument sounds or just to sketch out an 8-bar loop. And if I need to record vocals in sync with what I create in Nanostudio 2, I use Cubasis 3.
As I mentioned, I only use a small amount of plugins and usually only on the master track. MagicDeathEyeStereo is an amazing glue compressor. BarkFilter's Tripleband preset is the secret sauce to liven up a Pop/EDM/Trance/HipHop track. Barricade is the cream of the crop of iPhone mastering limiters. And basically that's what I use on an iPhone.
EDIT: I forgot to mention WoOOT. I usually stick the "Huge 808" preset on a sub bass.
GarageBand band if I need to capture long audio tracks, NS2 for everything else.
Sometimes Loopy hits the spot too.
Just got an alert that NS2 IAPs are 50% off. Good timing on this question if NS2 is the sort of thing you’re looking for.
I've actually started moving a lot of my setup to the iPhone from the iPad. A lot of the apps I use support both platforms. These are the ones I recommend starting out with.
Here's a few videos I did using an iPhone. This video was when I used Groovebox to remake "Everything I wanted"
You'll need a lightning to USB3 adapter for your iphone. Get the original one from Apple. It'll save you a lot of headaches with updated that cause old ones to not work.
I post a lot more content on www.youtube.com/seonnthaproducer Feel free to leave a comment on things you might have questions about.
FLSM (FL Studio Mobile) Is in my opinion the most elegant and accessible DAW on iPhone, not al all the ship in a bottle experience of most DAWs on the smaller platform.
Underrated DAW.
I wish it could host AuV3s.
Thats a thing for a lot of people. For me it’s part of its appeal on iPhone. The GUI is faster than any other DAW on iPhone (or iPad), with a first tier deep feature set and tons of sound design possibilities without having to deal with the less-optimized-for-iPhone-GUI of other (instrument apps) apps. Its seriously faster than any other DAW, on iPhone (or iPad actually)
Plus I personally love self contained workshops like this one. (Not completely self contained, it has IAA for instruments and FX but I only use that on iPad, and only rarely)
It also has actual audio tracks on a timeline.
Yep. I love NS2 but I use audio tracks and clips in every project. Not to mention I find NS2 (and AEM, Cubasis, Music Studio, Garage Band and Gadget) too cramped and requiring too many touches compared to the way FLSM’s GUI gets things done. IMHO the GUI is phenomenal compared to older ideas that borrow from desktop stuff. NS1 and BM2 and the others were the coolest for touch a while ago but they don’t seem as fluid to me anymore