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Hi @RustiK thanks for asking.
I make slightly left field beats based drum and bass and breakbeat type stuff I guess. Have dabbled with a bit of more house type stuff.
Almost always start to finish in Gadget but bringing in lots of audio samples from other apps and combinations of apps.
However I just posted my first piece (link to thread below) where Gadget was just a part of it and it was created in Auria. The reason is I wanted a very long evolving pad created with Animoog that would have been a nightmare to have had to chop up and put into Gadget in 5 sec chunks!
http://forum.audiob.us/discussion/7802/experimental-track-using-animoog-orphion-thumbjam-gadget-sessionband-audioreverb-into-auria#latest
They've been said before but for me it would be Thumbjam, Guitarism and Gadget.
Back on topic, I wanna add:
Impacktor - just mind blowing how that thing works and can sound. I wasn't expecting that.
Figure and iKaosilator got me into the whole thing at the start
Samplr - obviously
Loopy - is beautiful
Animoog - is so much fun
Photophore and iVCS3
Photophore because it just has a beautiful rich sound and iVCS3 as it is so much more than a sci fi noisemaker once you get to grips with it
@RedSkyLullaby If there was a thread What you hope you could be blown away by with a bit of luck/hard work/instruction I would have iVCS3 on there. Eats away at me.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 Still love that track you referred back to. Listened to it again this afternoon. Interesting that you mention it not taking you very long....love it when that happens.
Auria. I bought it on the first 50% off sale. I never thought I'd mix as many things on it as I have.
Recently, gadget. After scoffing at it initially, I'm realizing how cool it is. A collection of simple, awesome sounding synths. Just exported my first set of stems to auria today. Too bad I had to use ifunbox to move them, but still, not hard at all.
@JohnnyGoodyear IVCS3 took a while and you never feel in full control of it. I worked through it by trial and error. Wish this set of 3 vids had been around when I started though, if you have iVCS3 and have not seen these they are worth checking out
@RedSkyLullaby Thank you. Very kind.
EDIT: OK. Don't know who the woman is narrating the tute, and I have to say she scares me a little, but in a good way and THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED. Straight forward, two minutes and thirty seconds odd and brilliant. Thanks again.
Not overlooking the incredible Dream that Audiobus made possible, which makes them get the obligatory and well deserved nod, of course...name another app that exceeded your expectations more than Thumbjam. There are so many that deserve mention. Samplr, etc... But Thumbjam not only blew my mind the day I bought it, it STILL has treasures that blow my mind to this day. It's like it was built by an alien. I can't imagine anyone out there who owns the app that would say any other purchase they ever made had such a return on their investment.
SunVox: Due to the nature of trackers, you can do stuff with SunVox that's not possible with other sequencers. Making the meticulous edits you often hear in breakcore and IDM, for example. Plus, the modular nature allows for awesome flexibility.
KORG Gadget: On their own, the synths in Gadget aren't really anything special. But Gadget's workflow allows for very quick and easy building of evolving sequences. Virtually any parameter can be automated with ease.
Animoog: Paid a dollar for it years ago and it's still my favorite synth app. I never get bored of it.
Audiobus
Caustic <- the coder is a genius.
Nanostudio <- the coder is a genius.
Sunvox <- the coder is a genius.
Korg Gadget, Cubasis, Auria, Sugarbytes apps, ... and a lot more !
Fiddlewax pro, awesome sketchpad to get your idea on track quick and simply. It just works awesome! Super awesome dev too.
Z3TA- my main workhorse synth for playing live worship with the church band. Pure lush strings, pads, organs with Leslie, just my main synth cause it sounds pure Pro!
Sunrizer- backup workhorse synth. This beauty has saved me many times when Z3 acted up. Specially when Z3 stopped working cause of the Y2K bug.
Sunrizer amazing analog sound engine with thick pads and huge octave strings came thru and saved the day.
ROCK DRUM MACHINE- This thing just gets me rocking now even more with the amazing song mode.
AURIA and Cubase my main two DAWs. Cubase has that cool analog synth microlouge that I will be using live. Auria, pure pro mixing and final product.
Audioshare- Essential must have. The best, nough said.
ThumbJam- incredible and full of surprises. It works and I'm just waiting for someday for it to have Soundfonts support and a mixer to put diff soundfonts into and play them live.
Oh yeah, I forgot iSEM. I initially didn't get it, thinking it was too "80's sounding" for the purpose I needed it, but after imini stuck another big fat E on a tune in Eb, I came home from the gig, downloaded iSEM, and was absolutely floored at how good it is. It's been played on just about every gig since then, only exception is if my ipad is running the PA, and then I use sunrizer on an iPod touch, which also continues to amaze me. So, together that's $15 worth of synths that have done at least 200 gigs with me. I'd say that's value!
Springsound – I thought it would be a mere quickie experimental curiosity but it proved a lot more substantial than that, and always full of positive surprises. It threatens a huge time-sink ahead in actually learning the models properly, which I haven’t time for at the mo. I understand physical modelling from my VL-70m but hang on — a synth made out of interconnected springs forming combinations of driver and resonance? I can see that, yes, but what immense complexity.
And those copper balls designed in a 1995 3D program.
I love SoundSpring.
iPhone too.
Thanks @JohnnyGoodyear
If you like it I suspect it was the high quality ingredients. Animoog, that Steinway soundfont and double bass and drums from sessionband Jazz. Interested in if you thought the gadget internal sax was credible though?
It is ironic that the same app could provide such a religious experience through sound for some while for me they provide the soundtrack to the darkest places and corners of my mind. I guess Heaven or Hell, music gonna be playin'!
I will check out Fiddlewax based on what your other apps were-leading me to think your tastes are similar to mine in several aspects.
On my first IOs-device, (an iPod3g) I was totaly blown away by Nanostudio. It is so clever designed an arranging with it feels just right.
Nanostudio - given what it does and when it came out - is pretty astounding, I agree. It gets so much right.
For me it just needs MidiOut (surely not that difficult) and proper audio tracks. But then exactly the same could be said about Gadget.
Looking forward to seeing what Nanostudio 2 brings...
Xewton's Music Studio. Started using it back on iPhone 3GS back in 2010 still being regularly updated
Things I didn't expect when I bought it include MIDI. ,Audio Track Recording , User Created Instruments etc etc
So fair to say it has hugely exceeded initial expectations
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 said:
Yes, credible enough. Old story, once you isolate that (or anything) you concentrate and fabricate and prevaricate as to the exact timbre/flavor, which is not what the 'normal' listener is doing. I think the sound is fine. Was wondering if ifretless sax might be better, but really? Even if it is, would it make a difference to the listener? Good piece as mentioned, want to watch the Homeland scene it would accompany
Thanks again. Anything internal to Gadget is a million times more convienient than using another app. So my rule is becoming:
Orphion. Picked it up for free ... but found myself making a complete track with it.
I love Orphion. I have track with a kind of Orphion bassline that's central to it - which i'm just finishing.
You can make it sound so organic...
EchoPad -- When AudioBus was first released, I grabbed EchoPad to plug into the AB EFX slot. There were not a lot of choices back then and I had no real experience with effects beyond reverb, so I had no expectations...none at all.
Hahahaha! Hahahahaha!!! Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!
I was blown away! AudioBus and EchoPad plus anything else, was -- and is still -- incredible.
I had no idea that Gadget was such a full spectrum platform.
I hear you and can read between the lines. WAYYYYY too much time spent battling "technical" stuff when you just want to make music.
Gadget is something I really need to think about. What do you use to record, gadget or a DAW?
StepPolyArp. I learned all I needed to about music theory on it. Indespensable.
How so? What allowed this app to do this as opposed to any other?