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Anyone cleaned up their old apps recently?
I have mostly spent time sat at the piano or other instruments just playing for pleasure rather than recording, but recently looked at my iPad and thought it was really cluttered with apps I don’t use.
Today I went through and deleted about 50% of the apps on it and only kept ones that I can imagine me making music with quickly. I’ll see how it works out, but the iPad just feels so much cleaner now.
Going through them all I realized there were so many that I’m extremely unlikely to use.
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Nope. Got several hundreds, pretty much all of them installed.
Everytime I try to do that, I end up coming across some cool looking obscure app that I forgot I owned. Usually I reinstall it and proceed to forget about it and never use it. Then it gets purged next time.
It’s like a vicious cycle time sink.
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Been there so many times, which is why I decided to do this. There were a bunch of cool things I haven’t used for some time, but there were a lot I thought were just not going to get much use.
I figured I can always reinstall anything I find I want to go back to.
A bonus is that it’s much quicker to find things when browse for AUv3s.
I used to do the music app clean a lot with having over 900 of them. I currently have 590 on my iPad.
Don't do it anymore because I now use my iPad as a 'box of sounds' and record into my DAW on my Mac. I have 100 folders in AUM with multiple saves in each. I have been building these sound sets up for years now. So, if I delete any music apps, I could be deleting apps from my AUM saves.
I do understand the therapeutic nature of a good arrange though!
I think this is a strange one - I’m never quite sure what is for the best. When I’m using my latest iPad I’m often feeling overwhelmed with options - when I’m on an older iPad with fewer apps I’m thinking ‘l could do with more options here’. Getting the optimal balance is tricky.
On the subject of AUM I often find myself wishing that it had an option to list your apps by genre, I think this would help. I’m sure this has been mentioned previously once or twice. Could this be revisited as a possibility if enough people were up for it @j_liljedahl?
I have 933 apps installed. Can anyone beat that? A lot are not music apps though.
Can AUBE do sorting like this?
Yeah, I bought Fabfilter Pro-R2 and Pro-Q4 and deleted Pro-R1 and Pro-Q3, deleted Patterning 2 and Groove Rider 16 cause got Patterning 3 and Groove rider 2 … didn’t had any particular track tight to the older versions.
Then occasionally if I get really redundant or poorly designed apps I get rid of no probs.
Yeah I use AUBE to sort my apps. It has a built in iOS keyboard that you can use to help organize while searching.
Part of the reason I did it was that I would spend more time looking for sounds than I did actually making music.
Having hundreds of instruments and hundreds of effects was not helping, and I think I’m easily under a hundred of each now.
I don't have the choice problem due to good time management.
I have time when I make sound sets in AUM.
When it comes to time set aside for making music, I choose a set number of those sound sets I've made earlier and use them to start a track. This way I'm quick at getting tracks started.
I then add or take away tracks as I revisit that track on a new session. I may add a few new sound sets, or just rearrange etc, but starting on a new session, im hearing the track with fresh ears and can revisit older tracks this way too.
I rarely think of my iPad as having infinite possibilities at once now, as the few sound sets I choose virtually make the track happen.
My PC kind of got this way, a totally packed system and at times I feel I am drowning in it. Not so much the plugins and options but mainly past projects/sample fodder etc etc. Every time I get on it I feel distracted with things I feel I should finish and keep working on, often just browsing my old tunes, arranging them into new groups to play off each other and get overly wistful and nostalgic in the process too. Not all bad mind you but not where I want to be right now. I want to be where I was around 15-30 years ago just banging out a whole new project from scratch with a new vibe/direction and not be looking back and getting distracted by past projects so much.
Soooo...
...I just set up my second work computer (better machine anyway) with a super clean install, vital mixing and fx plugins only. Not bothering with any desktop libraries/synths etc. either. Going to just use iPad as an instrument / groovebox and record/mix/edit on the fresh desktop. But yah my iPad is pretty packed with a heap of random plugins but for this project I don't mind as I will just randomly load up synths/grooveboxes etc and just quickly play and record out stuff to cleanly arrange and build up tracks on the new desktop purely as audio, no midi exports, not caring to preserve projects on iPad. If I do end up commuting again though and am severed from desktop I will likely clean the iPad up and experiment with the various hosts again.
Definitely desktop too. I uninstalled a bunch of things from my MacBook, the prime culprit being Native Instruments - I used a few of the plugins, but barely any at all. Cleaning up meant that I focused more on a smaller number of plugins that did the job just as well, if not better.
I’m tempted to clean out old apps on my iPad, but I’d rather get better at keeping up with my staples. I’m trying to get some Logic, AUM, Drambo, etc. templates with my favorite Audio Units so I can just keep everything and reach for something experimental when I need it.
Yeah, it's on the (huge) list of feature requests
The idea is a tag system for any nodes, so you can make a "Favs" and a "Good for dub" or "Best Synths" etc..
That would be very useful! So, here’s hoping.
Unfortunately, 965 music apps only, apps in total I don't know how to know. There are some peeps here with well over 1000 music apps only. Such a mess I (and others) have made, but it is what it is.
Constantly. Limited iPad storage, working off 2 daws, I prefer working with audio, i hate freezing, I sample things, I have apps I use all the time that are big storage users and have found if I don’t keep about 15gb clear I have issues with cpu.
So yeah, constantly deleting apps. Ok so a lot of apps don’t take up much space. But I also have that many it makes a difference. Plus I find it stops my choice paralysis and helps me focus on learning and using apps I do have. I have adhd, I have learned over the years that new and shines doesn’t mean better…no I haven’t, but I have learned it now means deleting something I use and if I use something a lot, then what replaces it better be quicker, easier, better…or shinier than any diamond rhianna has ever seen.
Previously this was how I got my apps:
(Who am I kidding, I’ll probably go back here again.)
yes. 64 GB is just 64 GB – so i keep only GR2 / BAM / Drambo, a selection of AUv3s and a selection of drum one-shots.
my second iPad is 256 GB so i can keep everything.
Delete everything, then start a new project, only installing what you need when you need it. Never visit Loopy Pro forum again. GAS solved.
But seriously, it's a good move. I'm due for a clean up. It's been about a year.
I’m thinking it’s something I should do more often, and it’s made me start playing more than fiddling with apps that aren’t getting me anywhere fast.