New member BerlinFx

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Hi @jwmmakerofmusic for all your advices. I got AUM and Audioshare.

I bought when it was release Rymdigare so got it but not in my minimal setup so need to use it more. but on my testing folder. Very good dev and from anotherworld thanks to remind me to use it both on Cubasis and AUM. This is this kind of app that make iOS music very more advanced than desktop one.

I follow your advice and I study now Velvet and the 2 free apps.

You need really to have a look at Fluss the new granular app collaboration of Bram Bros ( very good dev team) and hainbach as you seem like me to be fan of hainbach and his approach to the root of experimental.

https://apps.apple.com/be/app/fluss-granular-playground/id6443472888

Will give you my feedback on each apps you advise me

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Thanks for the link @tyslothrop1 there some contents to watch.

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Hi again @jwmmakerofmusic I valid Baby audio apps you advise it is really an incredible deal for free and very solid apps do the job perfectly. Since the beginning I follow the dev of Baby Audio as there are among the best dev and I bought their top app and you cannot be wrong with Baby Audio.

Wonderful app that I use from Baby Audio and is far more than unique (far more than a reverb ) is Crystalline, is it a tool that even professional producers are happy to use. Pricey but worth any penny.

https://apps.apple.com/be/app/crystalline-baby-audio/id1609936795

Velvet is very good , thanks for it and for @sonosaurus app it do a great job for ambient style.

HotStrange

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@BerlinFx said:
Interesting questions from @jwmmakerofmusic . Before being interested in iOS music , more fun and creative I was using Logic Pro on a MacBook, I use it less and less as I was fed up of desktops style like many that spent part of their life doing jobs in a computer during long office hours even if as dev I was on PC not Mac.

Now I see. Yeah, PCs (at least Windows PCs) tended to be less-than-stellar, at least for my usage. The only good thing about Windows was FL Studio Proper (back when FL Studio was Windows-only, although it's been universal for quite some time).

I am not a iPhone guy as screen I iPhone screen is too small for me and my eyes using my IPhone SE only to call , send sms old style. My iPhone for iOS music is limited to Koala , very nice app.

Man, you can't go wrong with Koala. It's a superb sampler app. I've made a couple beats in it, but where Koala really shines for me is the ability to create live Ambient within it!

So I am definitely an IPad Ios music guy very selective on apps.

I'm a bit of the opposite I admit. I'm an iPad iOS music guy, but I have a whole bunch of apps in my toolkit. Some apps I haven't used for months because they don't fit the genre I currently produce. Some apps gather virtual dust when I become bored of them.

I am more on a Daw workflow at the moment and wanted to go at least for jam to AUM, I am a noobs on AUM and need to invest in time and learn from you so I should ask silly questions or basic questions.

Ask both basic questions AND silly questions. There is no such thing as a stupid question mate. You do have Audioshare, right? It works in tandem with AUM since AUM records directly to Audioshare. ( @j_liljedahl is definitely one of our heroes! He crafted both apps.)

Last summer I produced nothing but Ambient of all sorts of flavours from experimental to tonal and everything inbetween.

On IPad I am in the process to use 3 Daws to keep one between Cubasis3 , NS2 and FL studios, not so easy as when I select an apps it is for use it a long time so a dev or dedicated dev team that updates , fix bugs to be sure of stability and to use it for a longtime.

I love and use all three of those DAW apps. Now NS2 has no audio tracks, and the dev is dedicated to bugfix updates but that's about it. NS2 is great for producing Lofi and EDM and beat-based genres, but it isn't really conducive for producing Ambient if you wish to use long field recordings.

Cubasis 3 is the most DAW-like app on iOS next to Audio Evolution Mobile. (I have precious little experience with AEM, so I wouldn't be able to guide you with using that one.) I usually use Cubasis 3 to craft VERY long Ambient pieces when I am crunched for time, lol. (Although I prefer to produce my long Ambient pieces live in AUM, but as I said, when crunched for time, I "cheat" and use Cubasis 3. 😂 ) @LFS and the crew are always on top of things.

FL Studio Mobile is completely underrated and overlooked, but it has so many features in it. Now I admit I've yet to produce Ambient in it, but its reverbs are sublime as well as its other effects. It just keeps getting better and better and better.

My apps on iPad are solid states like a tank I got many apps on test ans stock but my minimal set up for music creation is for synth Moog D and Moog Model 15 , Fluss (granular) , Factory and Aparillo. (Got 8 other synth in testing including modular miRack.

I need to get Factory. I keep hearing nothing but great things about it. I think I have Aparillo but never played with it yet. For shame, Jim, for shame! (Yeah, my name is Jim. )

Drum section is limited to EGDR909 (Elliot Garrage )
Effects section is selective too from music and Dev point of view (it was my job) : Gauss , Blackhole reverb (eventide) , crystalline (Baby Audio) , Alteza (FAC)
EQ : Fabfilter Pro Q3
Creative FX : Fabfilter Saturn 2
Compresseurs : Fabfilter Pro C2 and Barkfilter
MIDI : AUM ( on test Mozaic and Rosetta)
Sampler : Koala and Segment (Elliott Garrage)

This is my small set up

You have an amazing selection of apps, ESPECIALLY all the right reverbs needed. However, I would suggest a handful more apps to look into. The first two cost money, the other two are free.

First, I would suggest getting Rymdigare. It's a creative fx, but it's just so unusual and wonderful and marvellous! I haven't used Rymdigare in Cubasis 3 (at least not yet), but it's one of those apps that just begs to be fiddled with in a live AUM setup.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rymdigare/id1571187848

And Velvet Machine is another app I'd suggest for your Creative FX. I don't know how to describe it really. In a way it's like a reverb, but then again it isn't. It blurs audio and follows an adjustable volume envelope. Maybe one of the other mates here know how to describe it better than me since I'm not always good with words as I am with producing music, lol.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/velvet-machine/id1534554750

One free app I will suggest you use is PaulXStretch. This is one of my "bread and butter" apps that I simply can't live without when it comes to crafting Ambient. ^_^ It takes audio and stretches it, pitches it, does other creative things with audio, etc, and it's free. You have @sonosaurus to thank for that one.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paulxstretch/id1619014008

And finally, Pitch Drift to add subtle "tape warble" effects, and it's also free.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pitch-drift-baby-audio/id1659406720

Hope this helps mate.

Some great reccs here. Especially PaulXStretch. It instantly became an all-timer for me.

AlterEgo_UK

Hi @BerlinFx and welcome!
I have visited Brussels many times as it is where the head office was for Europe in my old job. Now I am retired I spend more time making music of many different kinds, (solo and many collaborations) using iPad, guitars and, more recently, Mac Mini.

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Hi @AlterEgo_UK thanks for your welcome. For a Home Studio Mac mini is a good choice to consider indeed.

ervin

Welcome, and thanks for further strengthening the Belgium squad. 👊

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Hi @Erwin so I am not alone living in Belgium ?

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As iOS music set up is not only about apps I try to be selective in my choice of gear and to add more answer to @jwmmakerofmusic

As I follow the guideLine of the mobile iOS music acid test to go on the road with home studio in a backpack I choses not to have a sound interface and monitors but what is a reference in headphones : Bayer dynamics DT770.

I Hope that never Apple will suppress possibilities to use cable headphones and use these headphones all my life.

For the keyboard it is Arturia Micro Lab , do the job and so clever guess where is the cable as on the my photo you got the keyboard and the hidden cables love it.

And a novation lauchpad pad to jam live or create .

Even if I add my second IPad a old Air 2 to remote control Logic Pro X and the thin MacBook Air M1 with Logicpro X

All fit in a backpack.

cabo

Hi from Berlin, BerlinFx

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@cabo said:
Hi from Berlin, BerlinFx

Hi @cabo great to have Berliners here too

krassmann

Welcome @BerlinFx !! We are several Berliners here in the ABF. I'm actually thinking about setting up a monthly or quarterly meetup in Berlin. Maybe that would be something for you... And don't miss out Superbooth May 11-13 in Berlin, it's such a nerdy fun place to be.

drewinnit

Greetings from another (wahl)Berliner 👋

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Thanks @krassmann and @drewinnit . I will not be in Berlin in May as actually I am more in Belgium but @krassmann ifyou do a quarterly meet up In Berlin Im interesting. I don’t know if you can create a DM group for Berliners ?

rvr

Hi. Why you dont work anymore?

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@rvr said:
Hi. Why you dont work anymore?

Hi @rvr this is a too personal question , better to stay focused on music talk

knewspeak

Welcome @BerlinFx it’s like a Berliners meet-up here, on this thread, the more the merrier

tyslothrop1

Greetings to the Berliners from the province, home of Kraftwerk and Neu! Don't know, if I got that right "Grüße aus der Provinz" is what I meant to say...

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Thanks @knewspeak

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Even the DT770 headphones is a Berliner.

FastGhost

@Gavinski said:
Welcome! I spent a year in Leuven many years ago, many happy memories of Belgium!

If you remember Belgium you weren't really there.

bygjohn

Hi @BerlinFx , glad to have you on board. There’s a huge amount of experience and talent among the members here, and like others have said, no such thing as a silly question. @jwmmakerofmusic ’s app recommendations are spot on. I can recommend MiRack as long as it fits how you want to work. I love it, others hate working with modular synths. The nice thing about iOS is that there’s a tool set to suit everyone, pretty much. And it tends to be reasonably cheap to find out what works for you and what doesn’t.

Gavinski

@FastGhost said:

@Gavinski said:
Welcome! I spent a year in Leuven many years ago, many happy memories of Belgium!

If you remember Belgium you weren't really there.

Lol, well, that might apply to a bachelor’s weekend, but I was there for a year, studying, so had to keep a modicum of control on the number of Chimay Blue’s I had on the regular, haha

FastGhost

I finally had my first Westvleteren 12 last year, it was indeed pretty special.

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Thanks @bygjohn

Gavinski

@FastGhost said:
I finally had my first Westvleteren 12 last year, it was indeed pretty special.

Oh yeah.... Amazing stuff

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RIP Ryuichi Sakamoto , it was a creative source for me in music unique by its approach of experimental music. I am listening all this week an hour a day his music composition not only the famous one for famous movies.

israelite

Greetings from Berlin

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Thanks @israelite

drewinnit

I didn't realise there were so many Berliners here! @krassmann a meet-up sounds like a great idea