If you had the chance to meet a musician and show them an app….

Gavinski

Hello again Seonn, hope you're well 🙏

I'd show them AUM, also Koala, and basically any of the apps tailored to the touchscreen, things like Borderlands. Even though that would give them a very inaccurate picture of the current sad state of iOS app development, with so few apps released now taking advantage of the touch interface.

Prog1967

If he was a musician/composer I would go for Scaler and Piano motifs for inspiration and Geoshred for playing also maybe some Igor Vasiliev apps to show how far/weird it can go (Glichscaper/Fieldscaper)

Qmishery

I'm still morally traumatized by the day when I shown some violing playing girl from Brazil a Thumbjam and she said "that's not music".

Though that was during a break when we all were in language school, so I couldn't showcase it better.

senhorlampada

@Qmishery said:
I'm still morally traumatized by the day when I shown some violing playing girl from Brazil a Thumbjam and she said "that's not music".

Though that was during a break when we all were in language school, so I couldn't showcase it better.

I see music snobbery overshadows even our typical Brazilian warm embrace of welcoming

wim

@michael_m said:
I can’t imagine what we might have done with an iPad loaded with apps.

I always wonder about that assumption. Is music getting better over time with the ever increasing availability of apps and production tools? Or was it better back when the tools were extremely limited? Is it just nostalgia that keeps me thinking that the outbreak of insane creativity and musicianship in the 50's - 70's is something that hasn't even come close to being repeated since?** I don't really think so. All I see is musicians (myself included) losing their edge.

I feel like when making music was actually really, really hard work, the results were far superior to what we see today. I think it's supposed to be hard, and that true creative breakthroughs come from that struggle. I think we're breeding that out of ourselves. (It's fun though. 😎)

Just my too cents. Having never produced anything worth a damn other than to entertain myself, consider that a non-qualified opinion. ✌🏼

(** I suspect it's not just nostalgia as no matter what generation I talk to, I find over and over kids who love the same stuff I did as a kid.)

seonnthaproducer

Good apps, thanks so much for the recommendations.

Where it gets interesting is that would the artists of before see an iPad as a musical tool, or a toy?

@wim - Good music has longer staying power. The bad music usually are forgotten. And you’ll always find fans of any genre.

@Gavinski - All good, thanks man. Yeah AUM is definitely a solid one. Definitely the Beatles would have loved AUM.

michael_m

@wim said:

@michael_m said:
I can’t imagine what we might have done with an iPad loaded with apps.

I always wonder about that assumption. Is music getting better over time with the ever increasing availability of apps and production tools? Or was it better back when the tools were extremely limited? Is it just nostalgia that keeps me thinking that the outbreak of insane creativity and musicianship in the 50's - 70's is something that hasn't even come close to being repeated since?** I don't really think so. All I see is musicians (myself included) losing their edge.

I feel like when making music was actually really, really hard work, the results were far superior to what we see today. I think it's supposed to be hard, and that true creative breakthroughs come from that struggle. I think we're breeding that out of ourselves. (It's fun though. 😎)

Just my too cents. Having never produced anything worth a damn other than to entertain myself, consider that a non-qualified opinion. ✌🏼

(** I suspect it's not just nostalgia as no matter what generation I talk to, I find over and over kids who love the same stuff I did as a kid.)

I’m not saying that with an iPad it would have been better, just that we would have done things very differently.

I agree that simpler tools are sometimes better, but the reality is always going to be that it’s not really the technology or instruments available but the inspiration and how well musicians collaborate.

Sometimes I think the best material I produce is the most spontaneous (often with out of tune instruments and bad timing).

wim

@michael_m said:
I agree that simpler tools are sometimes better, but the reality is always going to be that it’s not really the technology or instruments available but the inspiration and how well musicians collaborate.

Sometimes I think the best material I produce is the most spontaneous (often with out of tune instruments and bad timing).

I think what I'm saying is I often feel things getting easier and easier is sucking some of the life out of my own creativity. Not that I'm willing to give up my lazy boy toys (as evidenced by the ever thickening coat of dust on my guitars). 😉

gusgranite

I don’t know if the little droid is a musician but it would be R2D2 and I would show them Bebot.

wim

@gusgranite said:
I don’t know if the little droid is a musician but it would be R2D2 and I would show them Bebot.

Be sure to tell them to "get a room".

michael_m

@wim said:

@michael_m said:
I agree that simpler tools are sometimes better, but the reality is always going to be that it’s not really the technology or instruments available but the inspiration and how well musicians collaborate.

Sometimes I think the best material I produce is the most spontaneous (often with out of tune instruments and bad timing).

I think what I'm saying is I often feel things getting easier and easier is sucking some of the life out of my own creativity. Not that I'm willing to give up my lazy boy toys (as evidenced by the ever thickening coat of dust on my guitars). 😉

For me it depends on what I’m in the mood to play, and still play piano way more than anything else. I’m sure I pick up guitars more often than an iPad too. Maybe it’s just that I have never let an iPad become my main instrument, but I think that just makes me enjoy it more when I do use it to play music.