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Workflow
Everyone what is your workflow?? With iPad music and how there are hundreds of directions you could take to create music so I though we should share our processes because not everyone may be thinking straight forward. This way it may give each of us new ideas of things we may not of already thought of….so what is your workflow and your chosen creative processes??
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Best to do is make your own experiments, find yourself answers, because everyone is different.
Also, ready answers will stop your own learning process.
Workflow -IMO- should appear during practise, as result of need.
If you practise scales, and you love the scales as music, you put heart into details, niuances, then you see scales as great arpeggios, better than ready made from arp apps. Then you can record them, or use this knowledge to use arp apps.
But first play these arps scales by your hands, by minute, two, five or more. Try to change key, scale, rhythm, dynamics….
Music will come from hands.
Then you will -IMO- find the answers.
My current workflow is similar to a NDLR session:
AUM + Drambo MIDIFX (MIDI sequencer) + Scaler + Rozeta Arpeggio x2 + Sitala/Slammer/Ting + Synths & Effects
I typically start with a chord progression from Scaler into a piano or synth. All my MIDI goes into Drambo and out to synths, pianos and drum machines. I typically send the same chord progression from Drambo to a piano, pad synth and two Rozeta Arpeggios, one at 1/4 and the other at 1/2:
1/4 goes to lead synth
1/2 goes to bass synth
I use Sitala to play drums as MIDI into Drambo then that MIDI goes back into Sitala or play Slammer or Ting from Drambo. I typically throw in Klevgrand Skaka and Borsta for some shuffle, with that MIDI played and recorded inside Drambo. I send all my AUM channels to a bus with FabFilter Pro L keeping the master in check. Usually this workflow produces a pretty complete sounding 8-bar loop that will inspire me to create a complete song. The parts for the complete song are built and arranged inside the clip launcher in Drambo 🤩
I also have a flow for BM3 and developing flows for Cubasis and my MPC One. My BM3 inspiration usually begins with a sound design session inside Borderland, Spacefields or Fieldscaper. Then I take the recording and play it chromatically with BM3 pads - adding drums and bass line.
I think when it comes to music, there are different roles, like musician, recording engineer, producer.
For musician and record engineer, a pre-set workflow is not needed. For recording engineer the task is (or looks....) pretty simple.
For a producer, on an Ipad, you encounter technical difficulties and problems that you have to solve. Like using a bit of Beatmaker 3, something from Garageband, some AUM app, and put it all together in a DAW.
I think mainly because Ipad and iOS is a closed box system (might be better these days).
I focus mainly on being a musician, not producer. I don't have the ambition to produce a whole track. So I cannot advise about that role. But I do think that "workflow" is a bit an overrated idea or concept.
Maybe I’m weird but I have no set workflow. I change it up on a track by track basis to keep myself interested and spice things up.
Absolutely this ^. There is no one approach. You have to be open to any possible input. Something someone says, a bit of a melody that catches your ear from a TV show, fooling around with beats, sounds, melodies until something clicks, an idea you wake up with. It’s a very organic process. You can’t tie it down to a “workflow”.
This question comes up a lot, and I’m never quite sure what the intent of it is.
I really don’t know that I have a ‘workflow’, as I never feel like I should do anything music related with a predetermined approach. I just do what I feel like doing and that is probably dependent on what instrument or device I pick up.
Apparently you have yet to discover what he ipad can do. Go explore a bit and you would be amazed. IMO the sound quality of iPad apps surpass the rest of the world. It provides us the tools it’s as simple as that but if you lack creativity then that is where the motivation will die
The reason I asked was that the iPad has so many opportunities, I may not of thought of something that could become a real game changer for me. I’m always looking to learn
In that case I would say don’t look for a workflow - just experiment and do whatever you feel like doing on that particular day.
Workflows can be inspiring for some. My current workflow was suggested to me by an accomplished DJ/producer many, many years ago and I haven’t stopped using/improving it. I have been focused on the 80% rule and trying to complete as many songs as I can.
I personally love sound design, so each song I create sounds different. I have spent many years watching interviews and reading articles about workflows and love every minute of learning “how” others work. I am no way a master of making music but I know what works for me. It’s like knowing a few really good recipes that can be altered to create a bunch of dishes!
Load up AUM. Decide on a tempo, a key/scale, and what synths/apps to use and add a drum machine or two.Throw a few midi generators at the different synths and see if something grabs my ears. Curate the parts I like. Expand on / remix the curated parts. Do a preliminary mix in AUM. Listen to the mix. Trim or add as necessary. Record each part. Take recorded parts into Cubasis 3 and arrange/mix. Post on SoundCloud. Post here.
Nice!
I’m very lazy… I have optimized my laziness to a high level of reduce clicks:
Check back for advice on how to fix my mix… “As If…”. My mix is just the Bark Filter, Magic Death Eye Stereo, Reverb of the Month FX strip on my Mix Bus set to record in AUM. It never gets any better than that.
Some will ask what apps are use and a screen shot could be provided or used to generate the list.
NOTE: when I buy a new app, I tend to build a rig around it with my Mix Bus for the recording. Once I used Neon for the recording and it requires a few more clicks BUT it records without needing the AUM Start to be active. It has it’s own record
So you can play an intro and then start the AUM apps like Mozaic scripts or Fugue Machine, etc. and when I hit AUM stop the Neon keeps going for an outro that can be faded in AudioShare.
Good idea! 😆
Nothing else, in the entire world, sounds better than iPad apps?
Every single hardware synthesiser, drum machine, effect pedal, etc., sounds worse?
All of them are inferior in sound?
😲🤣
At home: Drambo, AUM & hardware synths/instruments. Bounce to tape. Sometimes use Ableton.
Portable: Drambo standalone hosting AU synths.
Evaluating in words is useless, and change in time.
Only what we are doing practically is whats is important.
How to compare hammond to Galileo? We cannot.
Galileo is for fun, the same like hammond, which is better and in what?
Depends what we are doing.
I snare love to iPad music production, computer based , hardware based and without elektronic at all.
Mainly I play without electronic and mostly only with iPad.
Yes, computer desktop is here, I like to have under fingertips all virtual music apps (no mouse).
Exactly.
Essentially, I just play with stuff until something interesting happens and build from there. But not too much - less is usually more, and I’m slowly learning not to overdo things.
Combining hardware and software is currently my main focus, but when I’m away from home I just use the iPad on its own. I find starting from hardware produces different results, but still (to my ears) recognisably my music. On the whole I like Eno’s approach of looking at what’s available where you are, and letting that dictate the starting point and direction. Or just being in touch with how you feel on any given day, and taking your cues from that.
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You seemed to have been able to claim, using words, that iPAd apps sound superior to everything else in the entire world.
Bold statements indeed. Especially that words are useless. Kind of makes the concept of this whole forum useless as well.
As others have stated, sticking to a regimented ‘workflow’ is a rather boring idea.
The closest thing I have would be starting points such as templates, or favourite apps used to spark ideas and experiment.
Yeah, for me it’s “starting points” but sometimes I go off my normal paths too. I feel like maybe this gentleman meant that iPad is the most powerful… which in some ways may be true “pound for pound”. I personally feel that iOS is by far the most powerful modular system especially when I factor in apps like AUM, Drambo and Loopy Pro. It is so easy to connect almost everything as well as hardware. I’m a hybrid guy myself so I cannot agree with the notion that iPad sounds better than anything else because that is opinion and my opinion is that analogue is too lovely for digital to even come close… beautiful distortion!
My workflow is; Korg Gadget for rhythm and sequencing internal and external synths and bring it all together in Apematrix, then add fx and shit, recording everything in Apematrix with Paul’s multitrack recorder, overdub more fx, re-record. In my digital environment I tend to lean towards a more old fashioned way of working, as that’s what I did back in the 90’s when I bought my first hardware, just hook everything together and record stuff, lofi, have fun.
Midi generators?? What do they do? And how do you use them??
Just stating my opinion. The key words here are “My Opinion” sounds like to me that your are trying to take a2aymy right to have an opinion. No thanks
I couldn’t find audio session in the app store
What is apermix?
Well it’s a bit like AUM, but then on a grid where you can connect your IAA / AUV3’s and so on. You can make all sorts of quick connections like parallel or serial fx for example, like hardware, pulling and connecting plugs from one device to another. And it has this great LFO automation for (almost) every parameter on the apps you bring into Apematrix. Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/apematrix/id1378343729
Apps like Riffler, MelodyBud, SnakeBud, Riffer, ZOA,etc. You usually input a scale and key and the app randomly generates notes depending on how you define certain parameters
Agreed! I don’t use hardware much anymore but it definitely changes the way I approach things when I do use it.
1000%. I feel so stifled trying to work the same way over and over again. That’s one reason I prefer software. When it comes to quickly changing synths, samplers, drums, effects, there’s no comparison. A dozen different reverbs at my fingertips.