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Which apps helped spark your musical growth?
Normally a midi planner/arranger but Koala/PaulX has absolutely got me humming right now. Have you guys run into apps that changed how you think about playing/creating? What was your aha moment with them?
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Piano Motifs.
Four apps probably fall into that category for me.
1) AUM: got me well away from linear DAWs, into something much more modular and live jammy. I’d got part way there with Audiobus, but AUM took me just that essential bit further, and being able to record directly without additional software removed yet another barrier to spontaneity.
2) Gauss: lets me do lovely phased “tape” loops and Frippertronics type long delays. Also introduced me to Hainbach, which took me down a whole other rabbit hole.
3) Mononoke: introduced me to expressive controllers, which I find much more inspiring than trad keyboards. I took to it like a duck to water on first play.
4) MiRack: took me to a whole new place. It seems to work the way my brain wants to. Breakthrough was watching Dean from Electronisounds’s introductory series on it.
So I went from feeling everything had to be structured and programmed to something much freer and more spontaneous, which rekindled my interest in early electronic music and instruments.
I seem happiest moving between improvisational and generative stuff, setting up systems which either play themselves, or can be played once set up.
What would you say made them hit for you guys? For me Koala let me suspend my judge brain and just add noises to the mix without thinking too hard. The retrospective record on loopy pro looks fantastic for improv.
Really thoughtful response. Thanks for sharing. I have had a really similar journey. AUM really changed everything for me and I feel like more of a musician than a producer now when making stuff. Which is how I prefer things, as someone who just plays and records live when I'm not making electronic-based compositions.
Piano motifs is like having a collaborator that composes in instinctively different ways. After 30+ years of writing, I tend to follow similar paths when I compose. PM makes me write differently, try the path that I wouldn’t naturally take.
For me it has been GeoShred, Animoog, and Velocity Keyboard controlling SWAMs. This class of app is a new instrument that has never before existed. I call it “screentar”.
Dorico. Made me work on composition more than I have in recent years.
Definitely Scaler 2 👍
It’s got me thinking about song structure and how to be interesting.
Scaler has been awesome for me. I have good theory and composition chops but it’s great for getting outside my usual way of thinking and putting chords in more interesting places rhythmically.
Right on! For me who is not theory strong, it’s fun to try different chords together then play them in interesting ways 🤩
Loopy Pro has been immensely helpful to me. I have found it to be helpful for practicing, spontaneously capturing ideas, fleshing ideas out (and experimenting with different arrangements of parts), and recording.
NanoStudio 2 and
Koala together with Aum
AUM was huge for me particularly when I started with CC’s, lfo’s, and complex midi routings, etc..
And I totally forgot to mention how great integrating custom controls directlu into the work surface has been for interacting with effect parameters...especially for ambient work
StaffPad for improving my compositional abilities by having such a great ability to render a score and Loopy Pro for the fastest route to nailing guitar parts using the fantastic retrospective recording.
Drambo and AUM everyday and always. 🙏🏼💗
Ditto!
Ditto!
Making multiple tracks with nothing but ikaossilator really honed my songwriting/arranging
Could you say more about your process? I used to love that app and just haven't used it much over the years. But this post got me interested... The idea of being focused and working on arranging is compelling.
I think it’s safe to say my desert island five is:
I could make music for a lifetime with these five!
I get what DB909 means... I think with the simpler 'standalone' apps I used to be more productive.
iKaossilator, Dot Melody, Figure, Pixitracker, Fingerlabs Bassline (no longer available- a 303 thingie) and DM1 for example. I would just create stems with them and export, audiocopied to Garageband for some time. Later it became BM2.
There I could take the segments from these apps (generally just 1-3 of them maximum), and put them on tracks and arrange.
The following step would be add additional instruments from the DAW itself (GB or BM2).
Took some time transfering stuff, but keeping it simple with just a handful of app options made me focus on squeezing more out of them
Loopy Pro all the way. Before its launch I felt that it shouldn't ship until midi looping was included. I couldn't see using something that didn't let me go back and edit midi performances.
It didn't take long until I didn't miss midi at all. The freedom to spontaneously create and then move on, with very little looking back has improved my creativity, my spontaneity, my chops, and my sense of satisfaction. Instead of endless tweaking and fixing, I just do another take if I don't like what I have. Very quickly my ability to repeat what I hear in my head and get it down cleanly skyrocketed. The results are more natural too.
I've used Atom2, LK, and Drambo for midi in Loopy, but tbh it's not always satisfying unless I treat it almost the same as committed audio.
I never thought I'd say it, but I almost have mixed feelings about midi looping coming in the next year.
Oh dear. My wallet, @wim 😭
You said all the right words. How'd you know?
AUM + Mirack. Also Drambo. These really accelerated my music making over the last 2-3 years I need to use Loopy Pro more but really a great workflow changer as well.
(Skip to the bottom for the "brass tacks".)
Well, going far, FAR back during the pre-iPhone days, I started cutting my teeth on music production in MTV Music Generator for PC. (Yeah, there was a PC version, not just a PS1 version, lol.) Then I wanted to get something better than MTV Music Generator, and thus I purchased FL Studio 3.x on my laptop (around the time it stopped being Fruity Loops but still used "lego blocks" in its timeline and had that weird steampunk aesthetic). I developed a lot of my chops in FL Studio.
On iOS, I got into Gadget when it was first released and started furthering my growth as a musician. Four years later in 2018, I was able to produce something decent in it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/itc1bo6jvhdb8gv/Netta - Toy (JWM 'We Love the 90s' Remix).mp4?dl=0
Even though it's a remix of a fun song that sounds like 90s Sash!, I had a lot of fun making this.
Then NS2 was released in Dec 2018/Jan 2019 (can't remember which), and at first I didn't get on with it. Then in March 2019 Korg redid Gadget's GUI to the point it hurt my eyes (the GUI has since been improved), and so I got into NS2 and started producing some amazing stuff in it. I've churned out more tracks in NS2 than any other app.
In 2021, I got into Minimalism, and once again Gadget to the rescue.
Early last year (yeah, 2022 was last year lol), I fizzled out creatively. Then in May of last year, I had GAS for the OP-1F, which led me to Koala. Koala is where I started to produce live Ambient, but it wouldn't be until I used AUM that I truly dove into some pretty damn interesting Ambient productions, including "I Shall Guide Thee" about Anubis leading a soul into the afterlife. Ah, the "Summer of Ambient 2022".
Then I had a short stint with EDM in NS2, but I didn't really grow as a musician. But I got into Lofi in November using Koala once again. Then I transferred what I learned into NS2. But I grew more as a Lofi producer from using FLSM than NS2 and produced my favourite Lofi EP "Lounging in Another World", inspired by Nicolai Lockertsen's masterpiece "Cocktail".
Now I'm back to NS2 for the time being as I can use Splat-to-Clat in it.
Brass Tacks regarding iOS apps that helped me grow as a musician...
Gadget, NS2, Koala, AUM, and FLSM!
Koala and AUM for sure.
Pure Acid
Borderlands
Gauss
AUM