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How do you play your iPad/iPhone apps?

[Deleted User][Deleted User]
edited May 2015 in General App Discussion

After i explored the touchscreen i loved it really and do still for editing etc. but i began to play real keys and like it a lot more now since i learn it slowly. Animoog & Co via touch screen is super great but for some reason i find it a lot more joy now to feel a real masterkeyboard with polyphonic aftertouch and real knobs. I was myself surprised that i could get more expressive sounds out of it even as a non keyboard player or pianist.

How do you play your iPad/iPhone apps?
  1. How do you play your iPad/iPhone apps?28 votes
    1. Via the integrated touch screen
      42.86%
    2. Via a masterkeyboard
      39.29%
    3. something else....
      17.86%

Comments

  • MartygrasMartygras

    20% from a master keyboard. (weighted, no aftertouch)
    50% from an EWI (electronic wind controller)
    25% from e-drums (TD-9, HPD-10, HPD-15, Trapkat)
    5% from the touch screen interfaces. (Animoog, Glitchbreaks etc.)
    Wanting to add a control surface for program changes and additional sample launching etc.

  • High5deniedHigh5denied

    I'm a guitar player, I still haven't decided if a master keyboard would be useful, or beneficial for me. (that would be a midi Keyboard correct?

    I just play on the screen and have quite a lot of fun doing it. Mostly using SoundPrisim Pro/electro to control the synths. And some others.

  • eustressoreustressor

    I'm about 80/20 favoring playing on the glass or behind the glass (sequencing) over my old Alesis, mainly because I'm a terrible keyboard player.

  • SpookyZooSpookyZoo
    edited May 2015

    @Cinebient It's 50/50 glass v keys. Yet there's something really pleasing about learning to play a song you wrote on piano, on the ipad. Soundprism in particular is great for this. It feels like an achievement when finally learnt, since not having the feel of the black keys makes the faster runs much harder.

    You may have seen this vid, but this is a good example of the above for me.

  • EarsinnEarsinn

    90/10 touchscreen/masterkeyboard. Most times I create simple gadget-tracks with nothing connected. Since I have a Iconnect Audio 4+ I can keep all the stuff connected to it and only have to plugin the lightning-cable so the relation will change, I suppose.

  • High5deniedHigh5denied

    @SpookyZoo, that was a great video. Cool song, thanks for sharing it!

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]

    Nice video. Yeah, there are some interesting things possible witz touch screens for sure.....

  • WillWill

    Depends on the app and what I'm doing. MIDI keyboard by default. Animoog and the like, on screen keyboard.

  • firejan82firejan82
    edited May 2015

    I do both. I like to play instruments like electric piano with a midi keyboard but half of what's great about Animoog is touch screen stuff like the poly-pressure and the polyphonic glide, and you can't do ThumbJams continuum mode with a standard midi keyboard. I would use the midi keyboard more if I had one with more octaves, knobs and faders and if I had more skills but I would never stop using touch screen for certain things.

  • drelbs23drelbs23

    About 85% screen 15% keyboard. Not sure how to factor in time spent running my guitar through Tonestack/JamUp/Bias/etc.

    Thumbjam and SoundPrism are my most commonly 'played.'

  • ErrkaPettiErrkaPetti
    edited May 2015

    For me I combine different way to play...

    Todays session with Korg iM1 as this picture:

  • ErrkaPettiErrkaPetti

    Hmm... 1 MB limit... Had to fix that first...

  • ProtoProto

    Thumbjam and Soundprism are also my favorites.I only use a keyboard if i want to assign some faders or drumpads.I love creating music by touching the screen since i discovered apps like Samplr, Soundprism and Thumbjam.

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    edited May 2015

    Yes, ThumbJam is really an outstanding app since the beginning. I use it mostly as additional midi controller now. For me it's THE classic music app and it's still one of my most useful apps on my iPad. All the scales and midi parameters. One of the few apps which you can use as multi timbral instrument too. Sonosaurus is a legend ;)
    I'm sure we see also more keys and touch based hybrid controllers in the future too.

  • SpookyZooSpookyZoo

    @High5denied Thanks.

    Obviously for apps like TC-11/Data, Orphion, Animoog, Earhoof, Bebot etc, it's all about the glass.

  • Matt_Fletcher_2000Matt_Fletcher_2000
    edited May 2015

    I have a small midi keyboard (and a bigger one actually) but rarely bother to get either out.

    I tap out bass lines and little phrases on the gadget keyboard, then tidy up and tweak in the piano roll.

    Increasingly I've been using TC-Data (my own patches) to play longer solo parts. I've figured out a way to get it to quantise and play rhythms and arps and stuff. I love it.

    Have also used StepPolyArp, thumbjam and Poly a bit into gadget and other apps.

    Then a few drum midi apps like DrumJam and the 2 Yamaha music studio and drum apps - which send some interesting midi.

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