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Aside audio tracks… I also wish sampling inside many of these DAWs is easier than it is 🤣
BM3 is about the best for sampling its self, and recording audio inside itself.
Logics cool though that you can record internally.
There was a time I had a sampler with 128megs of ram (reasonable amount for mid to late 90s) and I had no Audio tracks… it kinda worked fine but longer loops would occasionally go a touch out of time.
but there was never a “no… you cant just sample it whilst twiddling knobs, thats not possible… its 2023 now, not 1998.”. 😉
It does seem a basic/defacto standard electronic music technique can be very chore-some in most IOS daws.
In their defense, I grew up with sequencers without/before audio (Cakewalk Pro, only MIDI) and learned to make music using MIDI and samplers that could only hold a few seconds of audio.
To this day I never use audio tracks, and a sampler with more than 30 seconds of sample time feels like a luxury. It's just not something that has made it onto my needs and wants list because it is another music making paradigm.
I literally wouldn't know what to do with audio tracks*
(* so stop asking me to make a DAW
)
Are people asking you to make a DAW? That sounds horrible. Not that you’d make a horrible DAW but the process sounds like a massive PITA lol
Also you know if you took the time to make one those same people would be wondering why you aren’t making any more synths and why you’re spending all your time on that 😂
I certainly haven't flooded back to Cubasis. I'm surprised anyone has TBH. I find Logic's note editing, song arranging and automation to be leagues ahead of CB3's painful, fiddly, frustrating work flow. Just inserting a few bars at the beginning of a song was a major ball-ache in Cubasis. Done in a few seconds on Logic...
That said, however, I would flood back if a new version of Cubasis successfully tackled these (for me) show stoppers. I'm still missing CB3's 'no-nonsense', clean UI. Logic feels like it's trying to force me to use it's built-in loops and instruments by constantly launching its browser page thingy without me asking it to.
Lars will probably pop up in a few days to proudly announce a new version of CB3 with a better metronome and tunable drum sounds for Classic Machines IAP
You know you can disable that browser auto-pop-up when creating a new track right?
Just set the defaults for each of the track-types to match your preferences.
I usually start with clean tracks without the browser.
After that it's just a matter of tapping on the instrument + and search for an instrument.
Search is also something desperately needed in Cubasis since well, forever...
What would make me even slightly consider giving it another go would be a fully fledged Cubase Sampler Track.
For now I'm really enjoying using the QuickSampler and DrumMachine designer in Logic Pro for iPad.
Sure there are things I miss in LogicPro for iPad like easily re-assigning a midi-tracks output to another track.
And retain original midi-channel settings when importing a midi-file.
There are limited work-around for this but nothing beats a simple re-assign track-output and pick any of the existing tracks.
(This way it would be easy to use the built-in multi-timbral Apple DLS plug-in to play midi-files using sound-fonts, the default is a 2MB gm.dls by Roland which is included in the iOS/iPadOS & macOS since forever).
But yeah, I'm not 'flooding back' to Cubasis...
I made a micro-DAW for Windows a long time ago. My design objective was to apply the simplicity of the original Hammerhead to an environment that allowed hosting VST plugins.
It was an awful lot of work, and I'm not going to do that again for iOS with all the shit that people are expecting to be in a DAW these days
Oops! Sounds like I should do more learning and less moaning
Man I’m such a sucker for the 90s design aesthetic. But yeah I don’t blame you.
I wouldn’t mind an app with this visual language though 😉
In the Greg Hendershott, Ron Kuper, Morten Saether, Noel Borthwick days? ?
Yes! Back when the panic button still had Munch’s The Scream on it as an icon
So did I. But then I also eventually got an 8 track reel to reel synced up to my MIDI only sequencer and could then record ‘proper’ bands too. And then tried my hand at playing guitar (which i can still only manage in the most ham-fisted of ways).
Once Logic got audio tracks I never looked back. Was happy to ditch my AKAI sampler (although still love my old Ensoniq — hated the UI of the AKAI even though the EPS16pLus just had an alpha numeric it was a much more creative device for me).
Now I use audio tracks all the time for things I would have had to dig out the AKAI for. Bounce little bits, loop em up, chip them, reverse them.
Record dozens of fx tracks like granular and huge reverbs and then use them as instrument tracks — take the fx out of context from the audio that you as sent to them, chop them up, mould and manipulate them in ways that’s not easy if it’s not an audio track.
And I absolutely love the feature in logic (borrowed from Ableton perhaps?) where you can take some audio and drag it into a track to make a new sampled instrument out of it.
Anyway. It’s all good. Everyone has their own way of doing things and those ways are correct. Even when they’re wrong ;-)
But still had a ton of fun with Opcode Vision (midi only) with my ensoniq and some ROMplers.
Haha. How about asking you to make Ruismaker for Mac instead?
Quite honestly I haven’t even heard about trickling back to Cubasis, let alone a flood. I think the thread title is hyperbolic rather than a literal comment.
I mean there’s a handful just in this thread and proportional to how many went form cubasis to logic and now back to cubasis, it’s probably more than a trickle. I went back to C3. Didn’t gel with logic at all. Definitely hyperbole in the title though.
Yah I bought a pricey (for me back in the 90s) Yamaha A3000 sampler and while at the store threw in a little curious looking computer program called Samplitude. Within a few months I was kicking myself for buying that big bulky sampler. Long live audio tracks!
Yeah, an extremely untruthful title to this thread…
Everything is perfectly clear - if you want the overall best DAW on iPad, that’s Logic Pro, and, everyone with knowledge about this topic should see this clear…
You boys & girls that complain about the workflow, hey, it’s like tennis - if you can’t play tennis, don’t blame the racket… 😂😂😂
Tell that to John McEnroe!
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NS2 was my lesson not to buy an app for its promises.
Such a shame... but without audio tracks it is useless to me. I need to be able to monitor multichannel audio from hw.
Not in the flood zone personally.
Haha gosh that was a great era
The title is hyperbolic for sure but saying workflow doesn’t factor into enjoyment or productivity is clearly ridiculous.
Logic Pro for iPad is superior to Cubasis 3.x - can’t be more obvious…
Sure, I’m pretty irritated on Apple on their progress to fix annoying things in LP4i, but, in current status, Logic Pro is still the king & queen on this platform…
Because if you like it then obviously it must be the best. In the world. Ever.
Anyone else who doesn't see that is simply fooling themselves.
I'm tryin' to imagine out what it would be like to have that kind of ego. 🧐
... but more thinking you must be pulling people's leg a little. 🤷🏼♂️
Cubase 4 can forget about it without a 'Live Mode'... Sorry...
Remember that well!
I'm more into volleyball myself where there's multiple people on the team (i.e. using multiple apps). 😉 I mean, I'm not denying Logic is a top quality app, and I did enjoy trying to use it and the sound quality it gave me, but honestly I can't be arsed playing tennis. I'm used to the workflows I'm used to mate, stuck in my ways.
I don't even bother with CB3 as a production suite, only as vocal recording studio and a mastering environment. I used to use NS2 the most for creative endeavors, but I'm finding myself drawn to Koala as my main creative tool for the past month and a half. Guess I'm more into the "DAWless workflow" as the kids say. Not due to the DAWless workflow being "the cool, new fad", but because I just want to use an environment that makes sense to my brain.
Logic Pro is no threat to Cubasis. Cubasis is no threat to Logic Pro. Same for Zenbeats, AUM, NS, Loopy Pro, etc. I feel like there’s enough room in this market for each of them to succeed or fail on their own merits. The one thing I think Logic might do if Apple puts some thrust behind it, is grow the overall market in a way that could benefit Cubasis, Zenbeats, etc. Like how having a Starbucks show up in your town can actually improve the fortunes of other local coffee shops.
I see a lot of threads around here where people get defensive about their DAW of choice if they see another one being praised. But everybody’s workflow is different, and no tool will serve all use cases best. Some want to do multi-track audio recording. Some want to draw MIDI notes. Some want to work in a tracker. Some want to do live looping or clip launching in various forms. It’s all good.
Yeah, I don't understand why people become defensive over an app. It's just software at the end of the day. Use it, don't use it, use it in combination with something else or not. Whatever, lol.
@wim :Because it’s not purely a LP subject
Yeh, I know, as I think I made clear. Still bugs me tho. 😂
Exactly. Boggles the mind why some certain people get so defensive OVER AN APP lol. We all have our own workflow but some just don’t get that I guess 🤷🏻♂️
I agree with you though. There’s room for all of them and I’m thankful we have the options.