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@Vejichan said:
you might want to start another thread, that way more rock drum users will see it since the title of this one is for something else.
Best apps (based on apps I get the most and best use out of):
Gadget
Nanostudio
Egoist
Loopy
Audioshare
iMPC (purely for slicing audio for Gadget)
Animoog
Z3ta
Thor
iMini
Figure
Soprotron
SpaceVibe
Orphino
VoiceJam
ImproVox
Samvada
WretchUp
Sector
Samplr
StepPolyArp
FiddleWax Pro
ProMidi
DJay2
ChordDec
EDIT: Doh.... and Audiobus of course
Gadget without a doubt....what with all the current issues marring the platform as a complete production solution this app gives me hope
Thanks for all the replies! Fwiw, I initially was asking for the few apps you recommend most from any year. But it's cool to see the top picks that came out in 2014. Obviously in a lot of cases, the latest is the greatest anyway.
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@rad3d said:
For me it's definitely worth the money. As a non-keyboard player I really dig the chord-automation feature, which I find unique and working like a charm. The dev is listening to his customers and has already offered some updates which were really helpful.
To any old dog newbies like me who grew up on Doo Wop, Chuck Berry, soul music and The Beatles, the apps I would recommend as of - as opposed to introduced in - Dec. 2014 are the 'traditional' instruments and recorders. Wish I had horn or string sections like these available in 1985:
Thumbjam - Single best investment you can make. The hidden guitar midi controller is worth the price of admission.
Geosynth - A great controller.
bs-16i - A sampler even I can understand.
Music Studio - For me, the easiest, quickest all-in-one.
Flying Haggis - The other guitar amp apps are wonderful. This one is simple and sounds great.
Audiobus - iOS compatibility problems will get ironed out. Incredibly useful.
MultitrackStudio for iPad - Pricey, but continues to develop almost monthly.
Guitarism - When you want to lay down that acoustic guitar track quickly.
Twisted Wave - An elegantly simple single stereo track recorder/editor.
The Sound Test Room - not an app but exposes me to the possibilities of all this new stuff.
Jordantron - Huge sounds at your fingertips.
Obviosly, I lean toward the old-fashioned in the new-fashioned way. I do still buy (and scratch my head at) all the apps you unknowingly talk me into. Eventually I might truly understand the power of midi and sequencing.
It's a brave new world of music creation and it's lots of fun seeing where you folks are taking it. Sometimes we lose perspective. Neanderthals like me would have killed for this type of power and convenience. Wonder where we'll be at the end of 2015?
PS: Yes, I did have to walk to school in the snow 10 miles uphill both ways.
@DrChris said:
I may have to take another look. Thanks!
Gadget.
CsSpectral! Really in love with all the sugarbytes apps as well
Okay, so I voted Korg Gadget above, and I think that's right answer. But I was having trouble remembering which apps actually came out in 2014, since I only really got into iOS apps December 2013/January 2014 to begin with.
So if Gadget is my "1A", then my "1B" vote has to be MultiTrackStudio:
http://appshopper.com/music/multitrackstudio-for-ipad
Actually debuted on 01/06/2014, but at that time it was only a shadow of what it was to become. (Pretty sure the original release didn't really have AudioBus or IAA, which made it kind of laughable as a DAW). Well, it added all the core features in short time, and then continued to add a bunch of other ones in a compact package that might be unmatched by any other single DAW on iPad. It's like a full MIDI editor/recorder, audio track recorder, sampler, SoundFont player, and MIDI controller all in one app, and it actually works on slower, older devices. Auria is sexy, Cubasis is powerful, but MTS has become my go-to DAW.
@StormJH1 said:
Auria is sexy, Cubasis is powerful, but MTS has become my go-to DAW.
Well done Mister Storm. I was surprised that you appeared to bypass MTS
I still think of Auria as a little more than 'sexy', but I can see your viewpoint.
iAntiMovers&Packers
@StormJH1 said:
MultitrackStudio (MTS) would be a fine choice for app and developer of the year. Giel has been working on it tirelessly and it keeps getting better and better. Bias would be my 2nd choice, mostly for their amazing Plexi amp. Honorable mention to MidiSequencer for their app and the huge improvements and features they've added since it was released.
I'm going to add Yellofier Electrified to my list, I'm having an exceptional amount of fun for my £1.49 investment, and with a bit of effort should be able to get some usable tunes out of it.
+1 for the anti movers and packers app!
Audiobus as they continue to make connections and possibilities for creation that otherwise wouldn't exist.
@StormJH1 said:
Interesting; I think of Cubasis as sexy and Auria as powerful.
I think of myself as sexy and powerful, however my own perception may well be false.
OH....
Huge apologies - I think I forgot to add AudioBus in my list. I use it all the time of course.
I think, as others have said, because it feel like part of iOS to be honest - not really an app.
Apple has a "Best of 2014" section in the App Store but I cant open it on iOS 7.1.2! That's dumb. Anyways, so what does Apple think? Does it reflect downloads/sales? Anything form this list actually make it?
My fav app bought in 2014 is Thumbjam. Most solid versatile and useful, awesome support, great sounds. And I'm still scratching the surface I guess
Auria. Without Auria I'd be lost. Thumbjam is the king of iOS apps to me, and I love Samplr as well. But there isn't a project I work on that doesn't make a trip through Auria. Typically it's where I start AND end. I can't think of an app that even comes close to it.
@donb720 said:
I'm with you on the midi and sequencing I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm a youngin! have you found any good basic tutorials or anything that make midi not seem so overwhelming?
@tommygroove OT but I just wanted to pipe in that MIDI isn't all that overwhelming but MIDI on iOS can most definitely overwhelm. It's a bit of a mess. That is only to say, learn MIDI and then learn how to deal MIDI on iOS—they're not the same subject!
Easiest way to learn the basic concepts of MIDI (on iOS) would be in an all-in-one app like NanoStudio, Gadget or Beatmaker. Think of MIDI data as a sheet in a player piano; a sheet where you can to punch the holes yourself. Each MIDI track is a sheet pointed at some instrument. It's useful because you can edit the sheet at any time, adjust the tempo of the playback, copy a sheet to another sheet and adjust the notes or the phrasing, change the instrument the sheet is pointed at... all stuff that's very hard or impossible to do with recorded audio. In addition to notes and tempo, you can also use controller messages to adjust things like velocity, note bending, and instrument specific stuff like resonance or vibrato.
In those all-in-one apps, a track has the editable sheet and it's pointed at an instrument. Tracks have both editable notes and editable controller messages. Done. Then you can start thinking about (well, BM2 only from that list) pointing tracks to external apps. Then you can start to get frustrated trying to use MIDI sync.
Back on topic... If this thread is 'Which app would you first recommend to someone getting into making music on iOS?' it would depend on what kind of music they wanted to make but 9 times out of 10 it is Thumbjam.
@syrupcore said:
Thanks for the response loving these forums! I guess I do understand the basic function of MIDI. I guess what's overwhelming to me is just all of the individual note customization. Also it seems that you need to be a pianist of some sort. I do play guitar but that's an entirely different thing at least for me. I actually do have a midi keyboard but can't see the benefit of that over just programming it yourself for something like drums or if you don't play the piano. thoughts?
@tommygroove It's pretty time consuming to program nuance and dynamics bit by bit into a drum part. For me anyway, unless I'm going for something very electro, it's a lot easier to trigger drum sounds by banging on pads or the keyboards and then correct it via editing if needed. You don't need to be a pianist to bash the snare key. Almost all apps will allow you to overdub MIDI so you can do kick and snare in one pass, hi-hats in another...
Speaking of MIDI and guitar playing and Thumbjam... TJ has a built in Audio-to-MIDI converter. You plug your guitar into your ipad, engage that mode (check the manual) and send TJ's MIDI out to the app of your choice. It's monophonic but works pretty well—you'll love it. Secret Base Design has an app that supports polyphonic guitar playing that's great and absolutely worth the money.
@syrupcore Wow! alright being able to put guitar into midi is exactly what I need! Thanks a lot. I have just started basically yesterday figuring out a good setup and have been interested in the production side of things for at least 5 years but doing things through the pc never made much sense and doing things through the iPad is much simpler with the touch controls so this is all very exciting from years of wanting to do it haha.
Here's the other app, couldn't recall the name earlier. http://www.secretbasedesign.com/apps/midimorphosis
@syrupcore said:
I sincerely wish someone had said this to me so elegantly a long time ago, because it has taken me a long time to come to understand it. Good teaching.