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I have to say Gadget as well. I've always worked with linear DAW's like Logic, which is why I bought Cubasis on the iPad. Pattern based sequencers never really worked for me - until Gadget ;-)
I fell in love with it right away because it just seem so intuitive with a very polished workflow.
Now I'm just pissed a Korg for not fixing the glitches on my Air 2 and for not adding the audio tracks they promised when they released Gadget over a year ago :-(
But still an awesome program!
Impaktor also blew me away, just amazing tech.
@Rustik
If you mean "which app do I use to record into?" - you need be aware that Gadget isn't really a full DAW in that sense and you can't directly record anything into it. It doesn't have any audio tracks - just pseudo-midi tracks for playing its own synths and gadgets. The only external audio you can get into it is via 5 second max wav samples (pretty much as many as you want) into the Bilbao gadget (an IAP) or a 10 seconds of audio for slicing in the Abu gadget (another IAP)... which you can then trigger in Gadgets piano roll (and manipulate in some pretty cool ways).
Is this process a pain is the ass? Yes it is.
Bit other than that Gadget is a beautiful thing and it's workflow (and not having to start anything more than just Gadget to quickly work on a track) makes it worth it.
I use Audioshare to record other apps into mainly - and then do lots of slicing with it's nice 'snap to beat' function. Then I bring in samples Gadget and few bars at a time.
TURNADO!
Thought it was more of a DJ tool and for live performance but I was wrong!
It is probably my favorite app (besides AudioBus since it gives turnado it's power), if it was a female I'd drink it's bath water haha
@RustiK
StepPolyArp is the only sequencer I know of that uses a layer of abstraction in between the notes sent.
Instead of specifying an absolute note, notes can be instead called by numbers 1-7, or by next-previous-first-last-same. This enables Roman numeral-style naming of chords.
With this, the same SPA pattern can sound differently depending on the chord sent. (Try using it with its sibling ChordPolyPad).
Further, if all of the rows are set to zero transposition, and steps are stacked vertically, and lines are set to different midi channels, then chords can be split into chord/melody sets across different instruments, all playing in harmony. In this way, the concept of rhythm can be separated from melody and chords.
Still more, chords sent can be filtered by key and scale live, which completely changes the feel of the sequence.
Short story, it's a really open system that connects all the dots for me. It's like a prism that splits light into a rainbow-!
not enough gets said about the quality of the analog synths in gadget- I have owned many virtual analogs- soft and hard- but Dublin and Phoenix BURY most of them- especially at the low and high end- and the smoothness of the filter cutoff-
That's good to know @setIA
I'm really enjoying creating bass and sub bass in Dublin. There's a fair bit you can tweak compared with, say, Miami which starts to sound a bit samey after a while (IMO).
Phoenix I need to spend more time with. I seem to gravitate towards Helsinki and Chaing Mai more for leads and pads and stuff. And Keiv actually.
Without question audioshare! It was always a good App but I never expected it to be as important and frequently used as I initially thought I would
+1 at Audioshare. I needed it for one thing and it became the audio hub of my iPad musical life.
Auria. I never expected a simpler linear DAW would spark so much creativity for me last year.
For me it must be: Yamaha AN2015 - the synth integrated in Yamaha Synthbook!
As Doug said in his video: this is really something special!
So fuckln' great sound! And, combined with a lot of hands on controll you can make reallt fat and wooisy pads and leads! Really really love AN2015!
Audioshare, Audiobus, Turnado, and before the current update: iFretless bass + guitar. Everything else either does what I expected it to, or doesn't (steady Monzo, remember everything is awesome on here), but those are the five that gave me more.
I'm enjoying Dedalus at the moment though - that's doing a bit more than I thought.
For me,....iVCS3, for its sonic (and visual) quality,...Q: Is there a better analog synth than iVCS3?
Turnado, for FX, once you dive under the hood
Different Drummer for its strangeness...playing with Waves...
But I don't count "tools" like MidiBus, AudioBus and AudioShare that make it possible to keep it all together
The thread title asks which 'app' has most far exceeded what you expected, and they're apps so that's why I've included them. I couldn't make music without them, and was surprised how they completely changed the way I use my iPad for music so they had to be included in my list.
Thanks for clarifying that... LOL
ThumbJam and Alchemy...I had no idea what was under the hood when I first picked up these two phenomenal apps
How many keys can you press at once when playing a synth?
What synth apps do Gadget synths most sound like?
What is gadget most like in usability? Beathawk?
Would you get Gadget or Nanostudio for an extra music making app? I went and grabbed the $40 Itunes card due to this thread's support for Gadget.
Gadget is a dream, watch some YouTube to get a sense of what it's like, but ultimately it's a self/contained world midi-wise. Nanostudio on the other hand, is very customizable, more like a traditional DAW, and accepts multiple channels in which makes it a great multitimbral module. Both sound top-notch
I have Cubasis, so I am looking for straight efficiency in putting together music without all the haggles.
By any chance, have you used Caustic?
What is the primary difference between Caustic and Gadget? (I know there are threads, but, I want to ask so I can potentially ask a follow up)
Thanks so much for your opinion and assistance.
Caustic is much more like Nanostudio, but I find the UI a bit janky. Some people swear by it tho. Caustic vs Gadget = same comparison vs Nano. I should mention tho that both Caustic and Nano are universal, so you can put them in the phone too, whereas Gadget isn't, it's iPad only. All the apps sound grrrreat but if I had to pick just one it would be Nano for ease of use. Oh, by the way Caustic comes on Mac-Windows-Android-iOS, and Nano comes on iOS-Mac
Alchemy, limbo status notwithstanding. One of my first iOS synths and one of the few apps I bought without seeing much in the way of demos. Perfect for ex-metalheads who know very little about synthesis. Honorable mention to M3000 - I had high hopes but never would have guessed how much I've ended up using it on my tracks and demos
Still Mitosynth for me. It can handle sound sources like no tool i'm aware of (even all of my desktop synths can't and any samplers i know of). I learned also a lot trough this synth in general to program other synths. I would pay a f..... 200€+ for this as AU. Once you put high quality samples into it and make great use of the gridcore...... amazing. This is the only iOS synth which beats even the fat Omnisphere and Alchemy in some areas when it comes to creating very unique evolving soundscapes and pads (especially when i ad some external reverb on top). It's also great for creating sound sources for other tools and hybrid synths as well. Damn i love this thing
+1 and it's universal like GrainScience, these 2 together = Omnisphere killer on iPhone...
Sliver and Voco (though I wish they would expand on this)
i dig tera synth. tweak the sounds to try to get the perfect cool synth sound. it totally blows my mind.
There are so many cool stand alone synths on iOS - (Thor, Sunriser, Animoog, Tera, FM4 etc. etc.) but sadly they generally sit unused on my iPad because there is no particularly satisfactory way (yet) to bake them into a project on iOS. I don't like rendering to audio, and I don't like having to set up and struggle with midi and audiobus/IAA chains every time I start a session. So I use internal synths in Gadget (or occassionally nanostudio) and just sometimes make one shot effects and stuff in 3rd party synths - which seems a shame.
I don't like having to set up and struggle with midi and audiobus/IAA chains every time I start a session. So I use internal synths in Gadget and just sometimes make one shot effects and stuff in 3rd party synths - which seems a shame.
Same.
cv
Agreed ----- 100%
My brain works fast and melody conversion from mind to reality is fluid.
The non-sense and unpredictability of I.A.A. & A.B. are tedious for some. It is a matter of the style of how each of us work. That said, there is something about the process of tech navigating to music production. I am not really a piano roll guy either - I just play the parts. That also plays a role.
THANK YOU BTW TO EVERYONE WHO SAID "GADGET"
Got it last night. Everything I wanted but didn't know existed. It does everything right that is lacking in the otherwise tedious process using individual apps and transfer means.
I use audiobus all the time though (normally to chain an app into audioshare) - for recording and effecting synth samples / FX / vocal samples etc...
I just do it more to prep and process samples before importing into Gadget, rather than for chaining all the synths together 'live' in the composition process.
So AB is definitely invaluable...
I'm too limited with track numbers and CPU performance to really use Gadget to create finished tracks. I have to use GarageBand to build tracks via AB
No doubt -- Audiobus critical.
Audiobus perfect for Gadget. Especially to run into Cubasis.
It is more the Cubasis thing that causes my creative juices to be squeezed to the limit.
Back to topic -- Gadget is my favorite purchased app for surprise and what I was looking for.
Sometimes, it will be nice just to have fun with music instead of an excessive degree of technical modifications and adjustments.
I appreciate all the recommendations for Gadget. The Audiobus forum has proven itself in a major way. Cudos