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Are you still an appaholic?
I haven't bought a new music app in a couple of months. The first year of Audiobus cost me a lot of money but not that much recently. I pretty much have everything I need or want now. Most of it never gets used. Who knows what the future holds, though?
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Yeah, i wish we could sell used apps at a reduced price..
The last apps (not only music) i bought were Christalline and Final touch.Quite ok for an appaholic i guess.
I'm buying fewer, but always still looking for new gems. I do think hard about whether it's something I'll actually use though, before purchasing. I have enough apps that are super cool but that I don't use.
Yes, but I won't buy just anything. I restrict myself to well reviewed apps on sale.
I want to reach a point where there's no app left on my wish list so I'll only make purchases when something new and interesting comes out. Not quite there yet.
Appaholism is out, the new vogue is app anorexia.
I buy far less apps these days. I try to do a bit of research first - and Doug's soundtest room videos are great: i often disagree with his unswervingly enthusiastic assessments, but he demo's things so well that you can pretty quickly tell what's genuinely innovative and exciting and what's just crap disguised with a gimmick.
I haven't bought any for ages and I still have iTunes credit! I also have a strict policy of only buying apps on Sale. I still don't own Thumbjam, Cubasis, Crystalline or Earhoof. I did however buy Looptical on sale and regretted it.
Yeah, mostly saturated with apps at this point. Recentish were crystalline, sliver, double decker and caustic. Nothing except
Sector and AB2 upgrade for several months before that.
I'm still looking for the drum machine holy grail and will always be interested in effects but otherwise I'm pretty well equipped! I need new hardware and more time in the day more than anything else.
Thumbjam is always on sale. Most good apps are, really. It would not be unreasonable to pay 50-100 dollars for thumbjam's sample library alone.
@firejan82 said:
I'm there. I can't name anything I'm missing right now. That doesn't mean I wouldn't jump on a cool app if one rolled along, but all of my creative needs are being met with the current stable of apps I have. In fact, I mostly just use Auria, iFrettless Bass, Thumbjam, CMP, BM2, and Drumjam.
I have been a (knowing) appaholic since just before the new year, but it is cooling off, in part because I have most of what I need, and also due to space limitations on my devices. I've actually been "comfortable" with my appaholism because it supplanted a notably more expensive hobby, which was modifying guitars and buying effects pedals. Even if spent $30 or $50 a month on apps (which I'm less likely to do nowadays), that's considerably less than the cost of a single pedal or guitar pickup, in most cases. Not a perfect rationalization for disposable spending, but it works for me
The problem (and the expense) of iOS music is that it's piece by piece. I've "played music" for something like 20+ years, but this is the first time I've ever been interested in recording anything (still for my own amusement). But with recording, it seems like you can "always" do it better. You have to pay for the $10 instrument app, plus $5 for effects app, then $5 for the app that connects it all to your $20 DAW. And of course, I have MULTIPLE drum apps and synths, etc.
A lot of people echo what @syrupcore said about certain apps being worth 5x or 10x their price. That's undoubtedly true, but the fact the remains that you may have to buy 5-10 apps to find the ONE app that rises to the top and gets that use. For example, when I bought DM-1, I thought it was the end-all-be-all of drum machines, and I would just use it every time I needed a beat. It wasn't until I learned about and tried other apps that I saw the limitations of it, and now DM-1 probably isn't in the Top 10 of my "rhythm app depth chart". But that being said, if I ONLY had DM-1, I could absolutely use it to make music effectively.
The only purchases I really regret are the ones that end up being almost totally redundant with stuff I already have (Arctic ProSynth), or apps that end up being glitchy or difficult to use on my devices. To a lesser extent, I"ll do something like grab the SugarBytes effects apps on sale even though they don't run great on my older iPad and don't necessarily jive with the type of music I like. But they are cool products that are unique from other apps I have, so they may be appreciated more at a later time.
I have pretty much every good music app. Not even joking. Pretty much the only ones I don't have are Thor (I have reason 7 though) and quite a few of the midi sequencers ( I use my iPads as synth modules for my computer mostly). Lately I have been slowly but surely deleting apps one by one until I'm left with a select few that I really love. Samplr is my favourite app, and I also love and have all the korg apps. Gadget and caustic are both incredible. I've deleted BM2 but there's a new one coming. I would have to take 6months off work to really understand and utilize all the software I have on my iPad.. It's incredible how cheap and accessible it is, but it's easy to end up in my situation (not enough spare time and a daunting selection of apps). Hence my culling regime, and I've stopped buying apps also. Only exceptional ones now
Many sticks are needed to shake at the many, many apps I have. Partly because of the sheer childish joy that so much cool stuff can be mine for the fiddling with. However I am coming to two points of realization; I need each day to be a minimum of thirty hours long moving forward and, in the end, you still need to just sit the fuck down and write a good tune.
I'm still waiting for a good lap steel guitar app that is audiobus compatible for making some decent country tunes.
Iv slowed down a bit.I think iv got most apps I'm interested in.But every now a then I get the urge to buy something.I think oscilab will be my next unless something else comes out that I have to get.
I quit smoking recently which liberates about $6/day and causes an urgent need for distraction. Keep 'em coming, I say
Still curious about iFretless Strings which seemed to be in the works at one time
@cheesesteak said:
pretty much this
Like most of the other respondents, my app-buying has definitely slowed up to a large degree (kind of sad, since I enjoy checking out music apps); but I've definitely reached something of a critical mass. I have yet to acquire a useful understanding of most of the ones I have now, so I have plenty of homework to do. There are still a bunch I want to look into, due either to favorable commentary from forum members or that they're AB compatible. Also, using an iPhone limits the available apps...
I'm a reformed game app junkie. It's easy to get sucked into the rush of getting new apps all of the time just for the thrill of having something new. When they were on sale it made them even more tempting. I was buying stuff at such a pace that I wouldn't even have time to play some of them. One day I just realized maybe games weren't really my thing at all, or perhaps my free time would be better spent doing something more productive/creative instead. I deleted every single game off my iPad and haven't looked back since. It was an expensive lesson.
Music apps by comparison aren't coming from a nearly limitless pool. There's a finite number of them and fewer of them that are probably worth owning. I'm still looking for sales on stuff, but I do my research before I make the purchase and do buy even though they may have limitations. It's refreshing to have fewer apps and the ability fully explore their potential. Limitations don't have to be barriers and sometimes lead to new discoveries because they force you to try something new.
Modal pro, tc-11 and glitchbreaks in the last 2 months. That's nothing compared with February/March period when I went on a spree. Now I feel I'll give it a break until MPC Pro, BM3 and maybe just maybe Oscilab if it ever shows up. Other than that looking forward to impaktor 2 but that may take some time. Time to make music and enjoy the summer and, I was forgetting, write my thesis
I go through spurts. Mostly buying apps when they are on sale. I bought a lot earlier this year when a lot of effects apps went on sale. I also don't want to buy an app that I will just delete unless it's under $2. I do tones of research before I buy as well.
There are a few more apps I want but I need to figure out my workflow first. With 2 toddlers, a wife, dog, a house and a full time job time is limited so I need to figure out an easy workflow that I can get setup even if it's only 5 minutes.
I think a bunch of us are recovering from the crazy appoholism of last year.
"I need each day to be a minimum of thirty hours long moving forward and, in the end, you still need to just sit the fuck down and write a good tune." --What he said!
I was never crazy about buying whatever was new or on sale, but even compared with my usual restaint I've been buying less lately. Like someone said, I got a lot at once during that huge sale period laat year, and quite honestly I'm pretty happy with what I have that's stuck too.
I'm less concerned with apps these days than I am with say IAA and Audiobus getting 24bit support. The tools are there to use, I just want the ways we connect them to get better more than new apps.
I haven't picked anything new up in a while. I have a short wishlist of things I'm considering though.
Yes, I enjoy exploring the creative ways developers have come up with to allow us to make music. It's all about indulging in an addiction that's enjoyable and not self destructive plus I enjoy being able to support good ideas the developers come up with for us. In general we get incredible value for our money.
I used to be pretty bad. I'd buy every cheap piece of crap and not so cheap piece of not so crap going. The problem was, I didn't really know what I was looking for. I was confused massively about how to get the sounds from 1 thing into others and was massively ill informed.
A few things changed. The first of which was gadget. I was able for the first time to 'finish' a tune. A tune I was pleased with. It changed how I worked, I understood stuff a lot more. I understood daws more. It released me from garageband and the stuff that limited me and allowed me to buy auria with some confidence that I'd learn what i was doing.
I also started watching tutorials, going on forums, visiting sites like discchord, music radar and absorbing everything I could get that would make me better at what I want to do.
So now I buy on sale and buy only what I think i will use. I still cave and go omfg I have to have this its only £1.99 but I'm getting better. I'd rather save and buy 1 really good app than 10 shit ones.
For me the number one reason I NOW buy the majority of the IOS apps I use, and don't use, is potential workflow and app integration. I've cut down on buying every synth or drum machine that's released. I do however still buy things like DotMelody or odder apps like Poly or TC-11. To me they are things that free me up like Figure does to "think (or just do) different". I haven't found the perfect DAW, and I've tried almost all the ones available on the iPhone, so if one comes out I'd likely by it.
If I was to be completely honest though, my spending has cut down due to the fact that most musical IOS apps are now only on the iPAD.
Hello
just another addiction. Lost count a while ago (addictions that is). There are worse. Like
hardware LOL