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Do you use a desktop computer with your iPad? (POLL)
Curious how many people in the forum are using PCs and Macs with their iPads to make music.
- Do you use a desktop computer with your iPad?76 votes
- Windows PC32.89%
- OSX Mac30.26%
- Linux0.00%
- I use additional iPad(s) only6.58%
- I use just one iPad for all of my music30.26%
Comments
Used to be desktop only (back in the early 2000's)... then got out of music. Got back into things again 2.5 years ago when I received an iPad for xmas. Got a new Macbook this past fall and thought "Great, I can start writing songs on ipad and use the laptop for finishing up/tweaking/mastering" Never done that yet - and don't plan to.... ipad all the way!
Can't see how it's possible not to have to use the the iPad without an external device of some kind. The physical storage in an iPad is rubbish for serious work of any kind, hence the need for iTunes! ;-)
Back in my day we had a 40meg hard drive and thought we were cyberpunk gods.
I'm assuming we're not counting device backup and file management.
Wow @JGY....can I use that to promote my in home care biz? ;-)
Be my guess. I would suggest that she's the ideal demographic Counselor.
Have a Windows machine with Cubase 5 on it but don't use it. Maybe I'll give the new Reaper a whirl. The video stuff is intriguing.
Bwahaha!
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For a while now I thought not using a Desktop daw in the music process was simply ludicrous, poppycock, balderdash even but after commiting to the ipad more and more exclusively I find the old addage of being more creative within limitations certainly rings true. four simple apps recording at once in realtime into cubase is actualy kind of liberating compared to the sometimes daunting infinite sequencing possibilities of the desktop daw. That being said... totaly looking forward to Auria Pro... 8) That may be the nail in my bye bye desktop coffin.
Every time I go back to my desktop I feel so much more capable, but then I get tired of the poor ergonomic situation and slip back into unfinished ipad fragment-making.
Use mine with my MacBook Pro all the time. Main reason I got my iConnectivity iConnectAudio4+. I think of the iPad as both a source of inexpensive sounds and music tools I would not otherwise buy as they are too expensive and I'd rather spend that money on real instruments. I also use it as an instrument on its own, i.e. ThumbJam, iFretless stuff, SoundPrism, Logic Pro Remote Instruments, etc., they all work better in multitouch for many things.
I would have no problem using my iPad without a Mac, I rarely update, sync, or use my laptop for anything beyond backups and I make extensive use of iCloud, DropBox, Box, Google, etc. for extra storage. I may switch to iCloud backups soon. I use apache on my MBP and tools like AudioShare, GoodReader, or the stuff built into the apps themselves to move stuff around. Apache on my MBP, Safari on my iPad, and OpenIn are pretty fast and simple for me. Much faster than the double syncing required by cloud tools. There are a ton of other tools I use, it really depends on my mood and what I feel like playing with. All this is good because iTunes sync to iOS makes me vomit even though I've mastered it and no longer have issues other than nothing in the UI makes any sense.
Also prefer to do simple recordings and such on my iPad, really prefer the the AudioBus separate app workflows into Auria over doing everything in Logic Pro, especially the Guitar sim stuff and editing MIDI, multitouch is much faster and more flexible IMHO, though not all apps get it right. Have my fingers crossed on Auria Pro, please, please, pretty please get the MIDI editing right for multitouch.
I do keep my iPad with my 24x7 and usually have it setup beside my MBP when I am using the MBP. I do not use an iPhone, use my IPad to send and receive both calls and texts. Keep an Android in pocket for backup out of the house. Never use it with a computer at all except to charge at time.
When I make an iPad track, I use nothing else but an iPad because I enjoy the challenge and I like to prove that it can be done on just an iPad. I also make music using Cubase/Reason and have done for many years on desktop but I do not claim any of these tracks to be made on iPad.. In fact I cant wait for my new desktop because I will midi the iPad to be used like a sound module.
I only use my laptop to import/export samples.Just uninstalled reason and ableton because i never use it anymore since i bought an ipad.I only use my pc for backups.
Let me simplify my above comments, I see the iPad as better and some things and the MBP as better at others, I prefer to use each for what they are best at. I could survive with just either device, however at this point in time I's choose the MPB if I only could have one device, but the iPad is quickly catching up and I can see a time in the future when I'd prefer the iPad as long as I can no longer write code. If I was able to write code again the MBP would be the only choice for me.
My DAW is on my Mac but most of my synths, etc are on the iPad. I like MIDI data so after lining up my sounds instead of recording audio, I sample the iPad synths, drums, etc into Kontakt and keep the original MIDI track. I'm using a iConnect Audio 4 so there's no signal degeration between the iPad and the Mac.
I'm too used to using the desktop to fully migrate and I've got a lot of great music stuff on it and I can move files to and fro far easier ! It seems hard to believe, but in this modern world some of us still have very slow broadband connections, so USB ports are still really handy !
for whatever reason I can start & finish an impromptu synth patch way faster on ipad than on my desktop. I open up Rapture on my PC and lose 4 hours tinkering with distortion settings.
I would love to use Logic X on my Macbook Air together with my iPad but I think Logic would not run well on 4 GB RAM. Sadly I'm stuck with this on the Air and Logic is too much money, for just trying, if it is ok. So - iPad only. But all in all, I'm happy with it, especially since the open beta of iConfig for the iConnectAudio is online.
I should point out that I’ve been using Linux since 1999 and a few years ago gave up ever hoping it would sort itself out and become a viable desktop OS instead of such an outsider. I’ve always been Mac based long before Linux, went through mostly linux-only usage about mid 2000’s and now back to dominantly Mac based with Linux only a tiny bit of my life now. I continue using Linux either as a server, or more recently, the OS on Raspberry Pi 2, which is a nice return, and most gratifying seeing thousands more people struggle with it.
I’ve used Linux for music, for about a week, about twelve years ago when I was becoming 100% linux only. Rosegarden was the thing I settled on, and if I had continued I’m sure I’d have been satisfied with what Rosegarden offers — it really is pretty good. I just didn’t have any music to make at the time, so it didn’t continue.
The Raspberry Pi is a nice little toy. I'm not that much into Linux, so it is a little hard, to find a way to get the things done on it. A lot of googling copy/paste and trial/error. I've made a little Robot-Tank with it together with an Attiny for putting out PWM for controlling servos with a proper timing. Realtime seems not to be a strength of Linux.
IPAD X 2
IPHONE x 2
PC
USE IPAD X 2 AND IPHONE x 2 AND PC
Why do you think that is?
Do you think it is the mouse & keyboard?
Do you think its the accessibility of the many files and usability?
I have to tell you , I can put together a tight piece on PC NANOStudio in 30 minutes.
But couldn't do the same on an IPAD in such a seamless manner.
The ironic thing is that I think IPad music will actually grow and pass out PC/MAC DAW and VST as TOUCH SCREEN PC's improve.
I have touch screen PC and it is really nice with touch screen and keyboard and mouse.
Pretty much the same as me. I love the speed and workflow of the IPad but love arranging, mixing in a DAW. However I do spend way too much time tinkering in Ableton. Yesterday I spent an two hours mixing drums and quite frankly I don't even know if they sound better than when I started lmao. I have to check back again today when I get home and have fresh ears.
I have the iConnect and it works flawlessly but sometimes I just like using the iPad standalone outside with some headphones.
Interesting reading all this. I started on computer software and have literally over a thousand dollars of plugins (not proud of that). I now find that my music is much more bland on the computer, much more experimental on the iPad. I used to have racks of synths and samplers but sold it all after being out of work and breaking up with my girlfriend at the time, it was so hard to sell that stuff but I had no money
Stuff I had to sell:
Ableton, studio one,
Mpc2500,
Mpc500,
Eps16+,
S1100,
S900,
Akai s612,
Korg R3,
Ensoniq asr-x,
Ensoniq dp4+,
mixers,compressors,electribes,patch bays, etc
The only one I couldn't bring myself to sell was the roland vp9000, the only one I truly miss is the akai s612
The iPad gave me a virtual playground in my lap, and I'd rather have samplr than any of that gear now.
I enjoy making music away from the computer these days, even if it's more difficult at times.
I was looking at the Zoom R16, I might get one someday. It let's you multitrack record your gear like a computer without the distraction. When your happy with your track, pop the SD into your computer and do the final mixdown in a DAW
The R16 would eliminate all the multitracking inside the iPad, and let me just jam over a looping track, layering up to 16 channels of audio. Pretty cool stuff
The iPad, especially with Nanostudio, is nice for musical sketches that you usually wouldn't achieve with a desktop DAW. But the iPad as controller - is the Eldorado for performing mighty VSTi's.
Yah to me it is kind of a game at the moment. Also i spend so much time commuting that I may as well get good at it so that I actually look forward to the commute and can make the best of it. Heh, even walking down the street now with ipad and headphones like a big geek.
I'm writing mostly EDM music on both IPad and PC Laptop with FL Studio.
I find sketching on FLStudio much comfortable than IPad sequencers apps.
I still don't have an interface, however I plan to connect the IPad to the PC, where PC will drive the IPad via Midi and the IPad will output audio into the PC.
The IPad will become a powerful VST along the other wonderful VST I already have.
I have many music apps, covered with dust as I feel producing on my IPad not fun anymore.
Perhaps the connection of these two will make all these Apps shine again as the day I bought them,