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Nanostudio/drum jam or iMPC pro
If I could talk my wife into letting me buy an app. I have been flirting with buying nanostudio but never pulled the trigger. Everybody seems to love it as long as you realize it's limitations. Also drum jam looks good. I have DM1 but hardly use it. I need a good drum app.
It seems like iMPC pro would be a good replacement for DM1 with added features.
So would you spend $12.99 while it's on sale for iMPC pro or get nanostudio for $6.99 and drum jam for $7.99. Although drum jam has some IAP that I would want to get as well.
I'm leaning towards iMPC pro since I think I might actually be able to complete something with it instead of messing around with a bunch of stuff in BM2 and never getting anything finished.
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Have you considered Different Drummer?
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id525272276?mt=8
I will look into different drummer. I have also considered buying the IAP audio import for launchpad and recording parts of a song and using launchpad to perform the different parts. That would help with ideas for arranging a song.
If you like to mess around in BM2 but never get anything finished, you might want to try Nanostudio while it's on sale just to see if that works better for you.
+1 for nanostudio. I'm also guilty of not finishing much of what I start on ios apps, but Nanostudio keeps me focused. Two summers ago, this was my first NS track. I'm no drum programmer, so this should demonstrate how usable it is.
Based on your other thread about not finishing songs, I'd get Nanostudio as it seems that lots of people actually get stuff completed in it. Obviously, I love the app but you should know going in that while you can make any sort of music in it it really is geared toward electronic music. It doesn't have audio tracks and doesn't come with a collection of traditional instrument sounds. You can record audio 'tracks' as samples but it's a workaround.
@iansainsbury said:
I like it, especially its constituent parts (maybe a hair more than the whole thing), some of which are particularly fine.
Your point about completion in NS is often made and not something the OP should underestimate (I doubt they do, just saying etc).
i say go for the impc pro, you already understand the drumsampler workflow, the problem is that bm2 makes that workflow super suck, but the impc is (not!!!!!!) bm2, and you will actually be able to complete songs with it. the workflow is completely different, it's sequencing and building a song in a drum sampler the way it's supposed to be and pattern based.
I say if money is tight then don't buy either. Save the money for the most-have app that will come along. You'll know it when you see it - no need to ask others about it.
Nanostudio was an awakening for me. Highly recommended.
And personally I love Drumjam. I vote those and skip iMPC pro. Drumjam is just super easy, fun, and the yield is great and vast with the effects and pads. So, so fun.
Never blame you poor performance on the tools.
^^especially the IOS keyboard lol
Fair enough, but also fair to say that the wrong (or poor) tools can inhibit or compromise the performance, however fabulous you are....
I'm pretty fabulous on the triangle.
@JohnnyGoodyear said:
Totes.
If this is still an open question, I think that all three apps are quite different. If you want an automated drum loop generator with some cool and unique instrument samples, you can do some neat things with DrumJam. NanoStudio has a sampler, but it's an older design and while I'm not sure, I don't think it's nearly as ambitious as what iMPC Pro is trying to do. I just picked up iMPC Pro, and while some people have the pitchforks out about what it doesn't do (and some of the glitchy stuff), I'm generally happy with it so far.
The thing about iMPC Pro is that it's kind of a blend between a drum machine app like DM-1 and the sequencing/effects portions of Gadget or Caustic (though not necessarily as fluidly as either). It's not exactly clear to me that iMPC Pro really does anything that couldn't be done previously in other apps (or perhaps a few apps combined), but you're paying for an interface and some good options for live pads and sequenced playing.
go with cubasis...one stop shop
i agree with storm j, I don't even get the comparisons, only one of them is a pattern based drumsampler. if that isn't what you want then def stay away from impc pro
@JohnnyGoodyear said:
I agree but you are comparing tools that are pretty powerful already. I've finished several projects on bm2 but I'm pretty sure that if I was inspired enough I'd find a way to finish them on mpc pro or nanostudio and cubasis. The thing is that audiobus gives us such flexibility that any of those will do the job brilliantly within AB.
I only made my comment because I've seen too many kids with hundreds of pounds of equipment getting lost in what that equipment has to offer. Let's not forget that most of the truly great stuff gets conceived in the heads and hearts and is inspired by life and not machines. Machines are only tools and we already have an amazing plentifulness of them. Just felt like @gmslayton was saying that bm2 caused him not to finish his songs while in fact it was him not finishing them.
Thanks everyone for the comments.
It is my fault that I'm not finishing anything and not BM2 or any other app for that matter.
I guess I'm just searching for that magic workflow. I have 2 toddlers so at most I have 5 to 10 mins of free time at any given time. So I'm looking for something I can get stuff done in a short amount of time.
I know songs and inspiration will come so I need to stop focusing on trying to write and focus on playing and enjoying the music. Then the songs and the workflow will come.
I wasn't really comparing iMPC pro with drumjam or nano studio. Just for the se price I could get iMPC pro I could basically get the other 2.
You might want to look into Figure, or revisit it if you already have it. The first line of it's description is "Got three minutes and want to make some music?" =P
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id511269223?mt=8
Nanostudio is the app that I always seem to use to get things going quickly. And garageband for general songwriting. Then I can polish or redo what I did in nanostudio later, although much of what I do in there seems to stay.