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It’s the little things…..that drive me wild (thanks Alice)
Just having a little outlet for therapeutic reasons….
iOS music making is wonderfully cheap, easy to transport and keeps going from strength to strength…and then there’s those ‘little things’…
Like finding a song inducing sound, that you can’t transfer as is to your DAW of choice because the AUv3 does not carry edited sounds over from the main app….
Or using wonderful apps like EG Nodes and AUM to create hundreds of ideas, only then to face the uphill struggle that is then recreating those ideas in a DAW that lets you continue or forces you to set those parts in stone by having to use audio stems….
Or spending an age sorting out your audio files into neat folders in different apps you use, then having to spend an age using the files app to transfer things to Logic….
Or apps that just have hiccups like transferring the midi from gadget to Logic, only to find the Sydney AUv3 changes patch at random intervals, or Stringlab playing up in Logic when it works fine in every other host, bar seemingly having screen size issues.
I’m not meaning to pick on any particular apps, or developers. It must be near impossible to get everything you produce to work with everything else. I’m not even having a go at Apple, as while I don’t love everything they do, iOS music making is wonderful. It’s just all theses little things drive you wild by the end of a day. Yep first world rant over….therapeutic out-letting accomplished!
Feel free to outlet here. It won’t change anything, but it is better than bottling it all up.
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I've since long stopped trying to build a 'Lego/Franken DAW' using multiple apps and settled with LogicPro for iPad as the main hub.
I probably will too eventually, just need to get to know it better first (been using it about a week so far). I do find apps like Nodes and AUM just so easy to get things going. Hopefully once I’ve invested more time in Logic, it will gel a tad more.
That is roughly where I said enough is enough.
It's 'easy to get going' with just about anything but once you wish to take things further it becomes a struggle.
LogicPro for iPad is far from perfect especially when it comes to its Live Loops/Looping and In-Depth Audio Editing but for the majority of tasks it ticks most boxes I need to tick for of my use-cases and I feel super calm when using it.
What Is important is to not focus on the tools but what works for the stuff that one wants/needs to do.
I se what you are saying and agree for the most part, it’s just that focus on a tool is probably what’s needed as opposed to focusing on more than one tool. I have no doubt I can get ideas going quicker on tools like Nodes, but there comes that point when the frustration of then moving to a tool that gives the scope for continuing becomes too much of a grind - I only do this for fun after all.
I might try to set up some templates in Logic that give me various starting points I can knock up in Nodes or AUM easily. That’s the thing with Nodes, it facilitates that ‘I wonder what will happen if I do this’ sort of mentality, where as that fleeting idea is often lost by the time I’ve set something up in Logic to try.
As I say, hopefully more use will help me get quicker with Logic and the set up time of Nodes will be less advantageous than the greater scope that Logic gives me.
Handling files ( e.g. samples ) is still a big pain i.t.a.