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Ultimate G.A.S Killer
After buying the Ableton Move, I had practically stopped using the iPad, but I kept searching and thinking about changing my setup—wondering what I needed in terms of portability, inspiration and flexibility… until I discovered the solution to absolutely everything.
M4 Pro 14”
This is an absolute marvel, and it blows every other solution out of the water. Don’t hesitate for a second—there’s no device on earth better for taking your studio anywhere, with insane power. I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now, and it makes you forget about everything else.
I moved all the gear I had in the studio, set it up for my kids in the studio/playroom I have for them, and reduced everything to the Ableton Move + MacBook Pro with Ableton.
This is the prime of production.
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I bought Move following the crowd. Then I realised I wanted everything from it and turned back to my pro M1/LP/Drambo set up. Then I found a cheaper Move and bought it again and after a month or so I sold it again.
I found that I get excited about owning the next exciting thing when my rig does all I need and keeps evolving daily. Move or others are set solutions that will get incremental updates but they’re out of your control.
The only minus of most iPad set ups is , they’re not one box solutions, unless you use iPad only with no controllers dangling off it.
I don’t know what software you use on your m4 but my pro 11 m1 is at 50% cpu and I feel like I’m already out of ideas how to make it sweat. I mean, it’s all I need. Synths, drums, vocoders, harmonisers, midi and audio loopers, effects. It’s all running together glitchless and at low latencies.
It’s a bit of a buzzkill for the new toys on the market but they truly feel like comets at this point in time for me. Time to make some music.
Ah, I just bought this tiny M-vave thing, it’s wireless and great! 😌
Congrats on your M4 BTW!
Snap! I’ve just bought a 14” M4 Pro MBP specifically for music making, and upgraded to Live Suite v12.
I don’t have a Move (yet?), but my iPad integrates perfectly via IDAM for sending audio and MIDI into the Mac.
Great little laptop, just the right size for music making, and ridiculously powerful.
Not sure about GAS killer though, Fors Devices have been getting my cash instead!
GAS killer? But it’s not a guitar…
+1 the m1 is gonna be well kept without DSP problem for years and years…god bless that m1, they really knew what they were doing
And congrats on the m4!
I also liked the idea of the move but I think Ableton push might be a better move on the iPad m4
You’ll be set for another 10 years with that thing
I planed on buying a M4 macbook but suddenly I find myself playing banjo in a punk rock band and start getting into guitarpedals. Talk about GAS 😵💫….
Yeah, just when you think you bought the last one you always find another one that you need.
Right now I have an EQD Hizumitas and a Digitech Freqout on my shopping list.
Whether the MacBook is a good machine or not is practically secondary. The elephant in the room is how powerful Ableton is—simple and complex at the same time, its modularity, and how you can just do a quick jam with it or spend hours and hours diving deep into it.
I’m using the iPad less and less, and I think this is going to be the definitive blow. My iPad’s use will become minimal, mainly as an instrument with some apps and little else, I fear.
Congratulations on the new laptop!
For me, the iPad is good as an instrument and sometimes as an effect processor. If I used MIDI all the time, did clip launching, I could probably just use an iPad for all our tracks (Grooverider v2!). But we almost solely record audio and I never found the iPad host I enjoy that has everything we need to work with audio. Logic for iPad is the closest but I found it buggy and kind if irritating in use. It's just as easy to open the Macbook (M1) and record into it. Logic is solid on the Macbook and my Macbook battery lasts longer than my iPad battery.
I agree 100%.
For me, the iPad/iPhone and apps have never been in the same ballpark as desktop machines and apps.
Both have their strengths and I wouldn't want to miss either of them.
The ultimate GAS killer is being poor.
GENIUS ALERT !!!!
LOL! 😂 Facts!
For me, the ultimate GAS killer is AAS (app acquisition syndrome). Though I'm very well-versed on which apps I already do have, I can't lie. I'm always on the lookout for some new plugin to use for Ambient music (and music in general). 😂
I think GrooveRider 2 will change that.. we wait..
We shall see. GR-II does seem like it'll be amazing, if for nothing else an NS2 replacement. (Especially if GR-II can automate AUv3 effects, which sadly NS2 does not.)
Whatever Grooverider 2 is capable of doing, it can be done in Ableton with much more complexity, far more power, and much greater agility, without the quirks that any workflow on the iPad tends to have.
Don’t think NS2 has ‘patterns’.. something about patterns in building music that seems so creative..
If Drambo can do AU automation.. hope GR2 will..
I have not seen GR2’s ‘JUMP’ feature in Ableton… might be a M4L thing.. plus, Ableton is not build for touch…Ableton is great.. but the iPad is so intimate.. we will see..
Such as NS2 missing audio tracks and proper effects plugin automation. 😂 And I heard from someone GR-II will not have audio tracks (at least as of right now). If GR-II does have AUv3 effects plugin automation (as well as automation for synth AUv3 plugins), it'll definitely be a few steps ahead of NS2.
Live has it all to be fair - from clip launching, automation, audio tracks, midi tracks, effects racks, etc. So many electronic musicians, from EDM artists to Ambient artists, use Live. It's definitely the complete package for my purposes were I to purchase a laptop/desktop.
This said, iPad-wise, Cubasis 3 has most everything I need for my current purposes (except a proper drum rack, but hopefully something like Groove Agent will be added 😂. @LFS please let Hell freeze over and make it a reality!)
I hope GR-II will do AU automation too. That'll give it a leg up on NS2 by far. And yes, I love using patterns when buildling music. These days when building patterns (at least in Cubasis 3), I make sure to set the length of an instrument's MIDI clip at an unusual length (maybe 3 and a half bars, or 9 bars, etc) and loop it to build my Ambient music. Then the next instrument's MIDI clip will be a different unusual length so that they don't really sync up except maybe once in a great while. Rinse and repeat for each instrument, freeze the tracks, and edit further, and suddenly I have a piece of Ambient.
If it works for you, awesome!
However, I rather like the integrated touch-effect-music nature of certain things on an iPad, or even using it as a midi controller/instrument for my desktop. Of course, if the m4 had a touch screen, that would be great
Maybe it’s just me, but laptops are also still a bit fiddly without a mouse, even with the mac’s great trackpad. Having to carry around a laptop, a mouse (and finding a surface for it) and something like the Move, all at the same time, seems to defeat the purpose of portability a bit.
I used to make some tracks on my macbook while commuting, and it was nice to have a full DAW along - but it still felt cramped because of the relatively small screen and lack of input methods.
Granted, that was in FLS, but it seems it would be the same in Ableton - speaking as a Bitwig user.
If you’re using it stationary, then forget everything above. I’ll just wonder about the flexibility and extra power afforded by an actual desktop instead, sacrificed at the laptop altar.
Hey, it’s a cool device and it does a lot, but universal GAS killer? Those are big words
My M4 Pro 14” MBP is just one inch wider than my 13” Air iPad. The newer Macs are lighter than earlier Intel’s, so portability isn’t much different to carrying around the ipad.
Ableton on a 14” screen is no worse than Logic on a 13” ipad, Live comes with a massive bunch of options for generating MIDI, so despite having a new Launchkey, I find myself just using the laptop on its own.
I’m sure it’ll be a great app, but there’s nothing on iOS bar Logic Pro that can hold a candle to Ableton Live.
Sometimes the limitations are what make great music.
It mirrors my experience with the M1 MBP.
My previous MacBook was Intel powered and it was not a good computer for music. It got really hot, was unreliable and the battery life was appalling.
It also took ages to wake from sleep.
So I found myself turning to the iPad for music. Which was fun but I wasn’t actually very productive with it… at all.
Then I got an M1 MacBook Pro and it all changed. It had practically all the benefits of the iPad - instant start up from wake, runs cool, battery lasts ages — and I got to use Logic which has always been my DAW of choice literally since it was first release and had ‘Notator’ in the name and was MIDI only!
My productivity has massively increased since I got the MBP.
Logic Pro on a Mac is it for me. I have no need for anything else.
Before that I always used Logic on desktop Macs but getting married and having kids meant I no longer had a studio space. It took the MBP for me to be productive again post kids lol.
I’m very much Mac first and have been since the 80s.
One huge benefit of using Logic for me is that I can easily collaborate with iPad musicians using Logic for iPad. Being able to share projects back and forth has been fantastic and has resulted in a number of tracks I’m very proud of and enjoyed making immensely.
I'm sure it can be done. But in your image all your tracks are empty. The vastness is indeed inspiring. I need to give Apple my wallet now.
Whatever works, eh? I couldn’t imagine comfortably producing more complex music on a small screen, but I love using Gadget or cobbling together generative patches in AUM/Apematrix on the iPad.
Edit: the ipad also works great as midi control surface linked up to bitwig via network.
The 14” MBP screen is bigger than my 13” and 11” ipad Air’s, and as Live is very tightly optimised for laptop use, I can get more detail and visible tracks than I can with any iOS DAW or beatbox, including Gadget, Cubasis and Logic.
For me it’s a perfect balance and use of appropriate tools for the job - iPad for playing instruments and jamming, with audio and MIDI either imported or pumped directly into the Mac for easier arrangement, and more options for sound editing.
Best of both worlds 😎
New Logic Pro for iPad massage update expected in May…Who knows what Apple AI will bring..Also I agree with @jwmmakerofmusic …As soon as Cubasis gets Groove Agent and a Sampler track, the debate is over..
Congrats on the purchase!
I’m sure the M4 MacBooks are amazing, and many of us are aware of Live’s capabilities, but it lacks one important feature… touch!
I know it now also runs on Macs, but IMHO, there is nothing that compares to using Drambo on a newer M series iPad Pro. This is not to mention some other apps like AUM and Loopy Pro.
I’m glad it killed your gas though! I’m sure it will give you many years of reliable service, and now there’s nothing stopping you from making some amazing music, which you should have already cranked out a whole album by now right? Please post a link to your stuff here when you get a chance.
I’ve been having some serious GAS over some other things, in particular a new Fender HSS config strat with a maple fretboard. I currently own only 6 guitars, and there’s always another one out there that I just have to have!
Another one would be a nice Martin or Taylor dreadnought acoustic. Gonna need one of those please!
Then there’s hardware,
I always dream of building a nice eurorack modular synth setup, but then I think about the money I’d have to cough up… ughh (Perma-Gas)
Then there’s all these amazing hardware synths, like a MOOG One, Matriarch, Muse, etc. And then all the other brands like Roland, Korg, Dave Smith/ Sequential, UDO, even Behringer has some stuff coming out that I’m always Gassing over.
This isn’t even to mention all the Elektron groove boxes and everything in between. Seems like there’s always something!
Don’t even get me started with guitar pedals 😅
Anyway, not trying to piss on your parade, all that really matters is that if you’re happy and content with it, and if that’s the case, we’re happy for you!
@klownshed
Yeah, after owning Live on my Windows desktop PC for years, I think if I ever did buy a MacBook, Logic would be my first choice.
Actually making music.. the ultimate gas killer?
But muh gear?!
But muh spaceship console. Or. But muh influencer cred.