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Best value ever for an app!
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Already a few kind of these threads but there can't be enough;) So after some years with iOS and a bit time with music creating with OSX and trying to combine all these things i thought which would be the app which gaves me the most value over a longer time.
It's ThumbJam! Because it is one of the best midi controllers in the world (if not the best). It let me use 4 different scales at the same time with different keys and different intruments. It has the best midi in/out options for me. Since i can use apps like Music IO, Midimux, Midi LE etc. it's even more useful. Would be to long to list all the stuff i love within ThumbJam but it was my first "real" music app and after all these bugs and new updates and devices it still just works and it even let me connect iOS to OSX in a way i always wanted (with help from other apps).
Thank you Sonosaurus!
Of course there are other apps too but for me the best value for an app is/was ThumbJam!
What's yours?
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Beatmaker 2, although I don't really use it any more. Probably the single biggest impact as far as bang for the buck. Even if you don't use the internal sounds, you can still sample within it.
Three apps - AudioShare, Audiobus and GarageBand. The first two because I use them in pretty much every single music project I do, and the last one because it's the only multitrack recorder I have and so also gets a lot of use.
Worst value (just for balance...) - iMS20. That's not to say I don't like it - actually I love it. I just don't use it much, so for £20 it's not been a 'value for money' purchase. Though this is mostly down to an underpowered iPad 2 that can't run it in an AB chain, so when I finally upgrade it'll rise up the value charts.
I don't use it too often, but I enjoy making backing tracks with Looptastic HD; even though it is not AudioBus or IAA compatible. It creates some interesting beats, basslines and accents to jam over when cut and pasted into Cubasis. I purchased a number of extra packs; which are very good. I wish they would support AB.
I also get a lot out of LaunchPad and BeatHawk for the same reason. Build some grooves, AB into Cubasis, and add leads with the many iOS synths I have accumulated.
I an still new to iOS music making. So far, BIAS seems to have been best value.
Audiobus, Audioshare, MT DAW. Really pleased with the value of most music apps with the exception of a few.
Mobmuplat for me. Totally free and completely opened up iOS music possibilities.
Audioshare, Caustic and Garageban..with those 3 you can make proper songs.
Beatmaker 2 also, if you can stomach the workflow.
I continue to bang the drum for Caustic. If it was my only music app I could make all the music I wanted. My other apps supplement Caustic theses days. Some are put off by the perceived limitations but it does a lot more than you might think. I find the workflow never gets in my way. Very direct and quick for me to get things down. There's a very helpful user community on the Single Cell Software website. The app is the creation of one guy who is very accessible through the user forum. And it's $10. The only thing I would add is it might not suit your musical style but you can figure that out with the free versions for PC, OSX and other platforms.
-figure.
€0.89 when i bought it. Not only an awesome synth on it's own,it introduced me to ios synths. It's very accesible and cheap and it made me wonder if,despise being 36 years old,i could play synth,a life long dream. Now i own the complete Volca range,a Monotribe and a Prophet '08. And a motherload of Ipad synths. Where 2 years ago i didn't know what an oscillator was,now i have read and learned more about music,sound and technology as i could possibly imagine. I'm learning to play keys,program drum machines,play bass lines and figure out how to sequence the whole lot without crashing my ipad and all in sync.
Yeah..go Figure.
My favorite apps are (by far) : Audiobus, Loopy HD, Gadget+Module, Thumbjam and Fiddlewax pro... With these apps, I'm close to have the portable studio I always dreamed of ;-)
FM4: 0.89€ and I love it...
@Blindlemonjello Hard to argue with Figure, especially for you, good post.
What gets used all the time: Audiobus and MidiBridge. I always start with those two loaded. Lately too MiMix.
Gotta agree with Flo...Different Drummer, and I bought it at $50. It's the only music app that I'm in on nearly a daily basis.
too hard to pick just one.
Samplr for me, it has (currently) solved the grave problem w/r/t hating my voice, allowing me to jack up my voice enough that I almost can bear to listen.
Nanostudio-!
I do tend to agree with Thumbjam - came to it later on than most people of the same iPad music vintage ;-) but I use it frequently and it's gooood value. Audiobus, yes. Auria - although pricier than many other apps is still exceedingly good value - esp. even the FabFilter plugins (and moreso when they've been on sale) - and I am using it increasingly, so getting my money's worth. Audioshare. AUFX:* and the Holderness apps, AltiSpace - and - I'd have to add, any of the synth apps that emulate an analog synth e.g. iVCS3 (~ $13,000 cheaper than the real thing second hand :-) ), iMini, iSEM, iMS-20, iPolysix, etc. etc. Oh, and the organ apps from Markus Sigg. Animoog - because - Animoog :-)
I walk around with a studio in my pocket (well, hand at least).
What's not to like? It's all good value! :-)
+1 for ThumbJam:) hard to beat the value of this gem. Bs-16i, Sunrizer, and Gestrument are great values. I am also find TC-Data an essential tool for me. i tend to favor expressive touch surfaces like ThumbJam, Gestrument, and TC-Data. Should add GeoSynth too;)
Based on my use of them Samplr and beatmaker2
Beatmaker2, Audiobus and Figure. You can do astonishing work with just those three alone.
Thumbjam, NanoStudio and Audiobus. "Value" can hold many many different meanings but for the first two apps I'm defining it as "money spent vs features vs time in use". For sheer number of features TJ and NS are hard to beat. That I bought them 4-5 years ago for less than an LP and continue to get tons of use out of them is hard to beat. For me, natch.
AudioBus lands on my list because of how much value it added to so many other apps. Rising tide.
Nice.
ABSOLUT +
As far as apps I get the most use and smiles from I would have to say mitosynth, TC-11 and samplr. So much joy from these apps.
I picked up Oscilab at the intro price ($5, I think) and continue to be surprised at how much depth and utility I get out of this app. Amazing value for a cheap 6-pack investment.
The Moog apps for me. I got Animoog and Filtatron for $1 each on sale and both continue to provide hours of fun, for building songs and for "noodling" around to make new sounds.
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Ah right. Got them for .99 as well. Hard to beat on the cost:quality:later price scale!
Animoog+Filtatron: 0.69€ or was it 079€? me too :-)
for a MOOG!!!
its years ago ;-)
in addition to some apps already mentioned
-- auxy with its midi out, because it makes every synth app more valuable to me
and CMP Grand, while not exactly cheap, it might be the app I open the most (I love that baby grand!)