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Are You Practicing Minimalism? If So, How So?

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  • sveinbjornsveinbjorn

    Yes.
    It varies.

  • BenBen

    @Wyvern said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @Wyvern said:
    I'm in the process of moving so almost all my gear is packed up. However, I'm going to limit it to an iPad, Minilab 3, headphones on the hardware front. Software will likely be NS2, CB3, Drambo, and a few synth and FX apps. I've just got ButterSynth so want to learn that. Need a couple of drone apps though. Any recommendations?

    Edit: also using a trackpad, which I find easier to use than a mouse for music making.

    Does the Minilab 3 have a headphone port or are you having to use an interface?

    Not sure, I've never looked. I've got an iPad 9 and use the headphone port on that.

    Sadly no dedicated headphone out on the MiniLab 3.

  • raabjeraabje

    I have a lot of bits and pieces in the house, that are not coherent to each other. Like midi controllers, audio interfaces, a multi track recorder, guitar pedals, multiple tube amps, guitar multi efx, ipad, apps, etc. My focus is playing guitar and trying to get better with that.

    My wish is to get rid of all this gear, and buy one piece of equipment back that could do it all. But I haven't found it yet. Maybe the new Zoom recorder with the build in synthesizer comes close.

  • lasselulasselu

    Don't know if it's minimalist but my music making equipment is an iPad Pro and a pair of Sennheiser HD25 headphones...

  • GavinskiGavinski

    I'd call that minimalist enough! Doffs cap! >@lasselu said:

    Don't know if it's minimalist but my music making equipment is an iPad Pro and a pair of Sennheiser HD25 headphones...

  • JeffChasteenJeffChasteen

    Yes.
    Ways.

  • royorroyor

    Sure.. 🎵No phone, no lights, no motor cars.. 🎵 🤣

    • Guitar straight into amp..
    • Writing drum patterns using ONLY Kick + Snare..
    • Using only my iPad and a set of Sony MDR7506 headphones.. nothing else external..
  • lasselulasselu

    @Gavinski said:
    I'd call that minimalist enough! Doffs cap! >@lasselu said:

    Don't know if it's minimalist but my music making equipment is an iPad Pro and a pair of Sennheiser HD25 headphones...

    :)

  • SamuSamu

    An iPad with Headphones and a bunch of apps is minimalist enough...
    ...I've started to enjoy using the HD280Pro's a bit more more lately as they isolate the outside sounds quite well and are not as fatiguing to listen to as the MDR-7506's especially when listening at louder levels...

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    @Gavinski said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @Gavinski said:
    I have a lot of apps, but I consciously strive more and more for an iPad only workflow where I don’t rely on external keyboards, midi controllers etc. And am definitely - and consciously - going through a, for me anyway!, enjoyable phase of actually applying some minimalist principals a la Reich etc to my noodlings. I also Iike to keep my setups a bit simpler than I used to, working with fewer instruments etc, though things still get quite complex on the midi setup end at times!

    I’ve been doing the same over the last couple years. Almost all my actual music is done entirely on the iPad. The hardware I rarely reach for and even then it’s mostly for fun. iPad + midi controller is the optimal setup for me.

    I’m curious, are you using only the on screen keyboards to play? (Outside of sequencing of course).

    For regular midi, yes, using Xequence keys set with velocity response to be lowest at the bottom, highest at the top, usually quantised to a particular scale, and always with the sustain slider loaded when playing pianoteq. For mpe stuff I still sometimes reach for the Seaboard. I do need to start using my nanokontrol more though, because it is really handy to have some physical knobs or sliders to tweak while recording live, even just so as not to have to constantly move things around on the AUM screen.

    Xequence Keys is my go-to midi controller on iOS too. It’s a really really great app. I like Velocity Keyboard a lot too though. And the new Beat Pads app is handy as well.

    I’ve been eyeing a nanokontrol for a while just for that. May cave and finally get one. It’s Bluetooth right?

    Bluetooth yeah!

    Thanks! I’ll have to grab one. I see them pop up used for really cheap all the time.

    The fact that you need to reset the faders on all these kinds of controllers every time you reopen an old session where you used them, if you have used the same controller knobs in a different session since, is why I don't really use them. Every time you go into a session you'll have to remember which knobs do what and make sure that their position reflects the position of the knobs as saved in your session, before you start performing. Quite a pita.

    Oof that’s definitely a bummer. Maybe I should just hope AUM gets multislider view eventually 😂 is there an app for that? I feel like I remember Blue Mangoo making one but I’ve never used it.

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    @Ben said:

    @Wyvern said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @Wyvern said:
    I'm in the process of moving so almost all my gear is packed up. However, I'm going to limit it to an iPad, Minilab 3, headphones on the hardware front. Software will likely be NS2, CB3, Drambo, and a few synth and FX apps. I've just got ButterSynth so want to learn that. Need a couple of drone apps though. Any recommendations?

    Edit: also using a trackpad, which I find easier to use than a mouse for music making.

    Does the Minilab 3 have a headphone port or are you having to use an interface?

    Not sure, I've never looked. I've got an iPad 9 and use the headphone port on that.

    Sadly no dedicated headphone out on the MiniLab 3.

    Bummer. The Minilab looks really cool though! My old bandmate had the original (and now the 2 I believe) and it was great the few times I messed with it.

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    @dendy said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @dendy said:

    @Jerry said:
    There are a ton of definitions and personal boundraies to a "minimalist" approach and I'd like to hear where you all stand. Maximalists are also encouraged to share as I love to hear about the insane workflows people with a ton of resources can create.

    Definitely, i am keeping list of my music apps i have installed on my iDevices as small as possible .. up to 8 synth apps, around 16 fx apps .. one (or at currentl momenr two daws, cause inam evaluating posibilies to switch to othwr one) and that’s it..

    regarding hw it’s not that minimalistic but it’s less than inhad before - syntakt, digitakt, digitone and small (2x niftycase) modular - that’s it ..

    I’d love the Syntakt some day. I loved my Digitakt/Digitone combo but ended up selling them. The Model Samples and Cycles is enough for me for now though. I don’t have space for something that big anyway.

    Will never ever sell DT/DN/ST :-) I rather sell my iPad lol .. until i will be not starving, there is no chance i sell DT/DN/ST :))

    Definitely don’t sell! I probably miss those 2 more than anything else I’ve sold. But the Model series will keep me satiated 😂 I don’t have the space for anything bigger as it is. But man the DT and DN are just fantastic. Is yours the “box” or the keys version?

  • Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredrWrlds2ndBstGeoshredr

    @AudioGus said:
    Doing as little work in my job as I can and offloading it to AI, so far so good!

    My brother!

  • JerryJerry

    @Gavinski said:
    I have a lot of apps, but I consciously strive more and more for an iPad only workflow where I don’t rely on external keyboards, midi controllers etc. And am definitely - and consciously - going through a, for me anyway!, enjoyable phase of actually applying some minimalist principals a la Reich etc to my noodlings. I also Iike to keep my setups a bit simpler than I used to, working with fewer instruments etc, though things still get quite complex on the midi setup end at times!

    I've really gotten into Gadget and Cubasis for this. No reason to leave either app once I'm sat working.

  • GUBGUB

    Like so.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @JeffChasteen said:
    Yes.
    Ways.

    Most on-point comment of the thread hahaha

  • Milkyway1980Milkyway1980
    edited June 2023

    Yup, got my self a Synthstrom Deluge 3 days ago, and i am loving it. Kinda Ableton live in a box + ipad, great minimal combo on the go
    One of cool parts, it has a linear arrange mode, so you can compose song after done jamming (or do both for performance)

  • LinearLinemanLinearLineman

  • heshes
    edited July 2023

    I feel kind of "minimalistic" when I'm just playing piano. When music-making on the iPad I think the overly complex Rube-Goldberg-machine-esqueness of it is half the fun.

  • qqqqqq

    I've tried to strip-down my music setups to only be a few pieces of gear. This is important for me as I like to do all my arranging live, so only have a few things I'm interacting with makes that possible.

    I also do this because I have a tendency to try to make gear do things it wasn't really designed for, so having less gear means my setups aren't unstable.

    This does mean I have a tendency to have a few different setups going at once, but having iOS as a part of all my setups makes it easier to switch between them.

  • jo92346jo92346

    @LinearLineman said:

    +1

  • StargazerStargazer

    I'm attracted to the idea, have been for many years, but I don't exactly excel as a practitioner. Doing pretty well in terms of material things, but information is my bane — it's so easy to collect and imagine you get around to read/watch/use/listen to it one day.

  • GeoTonyGeoTony

    Today I will be mainly reading the first word of each post…

    To be read with a certain voice in mind… the first episode of the fast show was shown on the telly last night 😊

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