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Just a few years back, I only had an iPad with a shed load of apps. As new apps came along, old apps fell to dust. Then my iPad of many years finally needed replacing. I all of a sudden had little to make music with, so added hardware and eventually a Mac and more software. I feel a little less vulnerable to the all eggs in one basket issue now.
I can really understand the lure of hundreds of cheap apps on an iPad, but never again will I have iPad music making only. After buying a few Mac Daws and synths, I’m back to looking at a cheap iPad app fix and after buying some Mac software, the £30 of Patterning looks soooo enticing!
Me too! Been doing a lot more audio tracks in my music. Feels great when you get it just right and it has that one and unique feeling. Also with midi I fall into the habit of adjusting small mistakes too often, when with audio I keep more happy accidents.
On the other hand, Black Friday is coming... hide your wallet!
If you’ve got extra money come Black Friday or before then consider (in the us) donating to a food bank.
Definitely recommend Patterning 3, I’m using it in Live on the Mac, so easy to drag samples across into each slot so I use it as a polyrhythmic sample player as much as a drum machine. Only thing I miss is a randomiser option, but it’s pretty quick to get something going. The free downloadable kits are really good too.
That can cut both ways. Accumulating physical possessions greatly opresses me. Selling them is a pain in the butt. They just pile up, creating clutter that I really, really hate. Then there's the high cost of entry for hardware. I do not enjoy wrestling with decisions of whether I'm justified, will be satisfied with, hardware purchases. It robs all the fun and spontaneity for me. The piles of miscellaneous shit around here that I never use anymore are nothing but an irritation (not the least of which is irritation at my laziness at not clearing it out).
iOS purchases are small pains that I can dismiss as easily as deciding whether to buy a coffee or a hamburger. It's a one-time decision that if it doesn't work out I simply think of as a disposable entertainment expense and put it behind me forever.
I realize that I'm not like the overwhelming majority of people. I feel freedom in it though. My goal is to leave as little mess behind as possible for my survivors to have to clean up after me. Sadly for me, the rest of the people in my life are geared the opposite, so even if I don't collect a bunch of crap, I can't stop them from doing so. 😂
Good idea!
How many music apps is generaly seen as normal or still acceptable?
I have a lot,
But collected over 15 years,
Still have apps like tweakybeat, loopsegue and bebot.
How many music apps have you got?
Haha, this is not the place to ask what's normal, because I think the community here is dominated by people who buy (or at least who used to buy) a lot of apps. It's a bit like surveying a bar before closing time to get an idea of what normal drinking is 😂
I used to buy a lot of apps. I still do, but I used to, too.
Not an outlier haha
The only meaningful way to measure how many apps is normal is by weight in pounds or kilos. By that measure, I'd say I'm fairly average.
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The other thing to consider with music apps is 'app dropoff' or when apps 'turn to dust' lol. I have just over 600 apps on my current iPad and that has stayed between 600 and 700 for many years now. I am still buying apps, but at a much lesser rate now I have a Mac, but as new apps come into the fold, some apps die off. This can be due to redundancy, but sometimes they just stop being cared for anymore and stop working as originally intended.
Some app loss can be quite problematic if the app has become a mainstay and difficult to replace. The annoying ones though are the ones that you don't use all the time and then go back to one day just to find they have been bought by a new developer, but changed in some way and are not usable in the same way anymore.
It took me a while to realise that all software is just a fleeting thing, even much of the hardware is these days. My loverly music making setup today, will not be working the same, if at all, in ten years time. So as with nights out on the town - its the memories you make that you are paying, so use everything while you can and enjoy it. You never know what is around the corner. One app or 1000 - use them like today is your last day on this spinning rock!
Forgot to add: when considering two drum apps, the forum way is that drum apps are like pokemon, you have to get em all! Some will deny this! But you know this to be one of the forum commandments!
Yeah. Last year my bandmate left his ‘travelling modular rig’ here for the summer, a huge monster that took up the whole of our dining room table (his studio rig takes up a whole room in his house). When he picked up the rig from ours, we sat down and worked out how much it’d cost me to put my own together. It was about £4k.
When I balked at the cost, he asked me how much I’d spent on apps, devices and software over the years. It’s much more than £4k.
He then told me how he regularly sells old bits of kit - modules, pedals, etc. for more than he paid for them. So basically his rig had not only cost him nothing, he’d eventually sell it for a profit.
That got me thinking, seriously, about moving back to a hardware setup vs my non-re-sellable ‘virtual’ world of music.
A year later, did I do it? No. Last weekend I bought my 347th delay, and 538th drum app. Because I’m completely incapable of selling the old hardware kit I already have, and a new modular rig would just end up taking even more space. I’m rubbish at all that.
I am looking at buying a new guitar though, because you can never have too many guitars.
The other thing about hardware, but especially guitars, is that some of it is incredibly ethetically pleasing. I can't play guitar, but if I had more money, I would have lots of the really nice looking ones on my walls - they are a pain to clean though!
I wish there was a marketplace for ‘used’ apps.. Anyone interested in ReBirth?
Yeah iOS music is not really that cheap a hobby unless you're fairly restrained in your app and hardware buying. Particularly given how much a 1 or 2 TB iPad Pro costs, if you're buying a new iPad every two or three years, as well as regularly buying apps, you'll end up spending a fair chunk of change (of course, everyone will define what a fair chunk of change means to them, everyone has different expenses and income levels).
If you're not buying too many apps and not changing your iPad too regularly, I guess the outlay is reasonable by most people's standards.
@Gavinski said:
Much as I hate the old 'price of a cup of coffee' analogy, it kinda fits (though for me, more 'price of a pint') my feelings about all this. Whereas buying hardware feels (to me) more like an investment - where the return is paid gigs, re-sale value, etc., buying apps/software is more about having a bit of a treat. A throwaway purchase.
I don't go out much these days, so buying a few apps each month is nothing compared to what I would have spent in the pub on a regular Friday night binge.
Of course it all adds up over time, but again, nothing compared to my previous bar-bill across the same period. And the bonus of course is that I'm still able to use some apps I bought over a decade ago, and recently did a gig solely with an iPad and previously purchased apps.
@Gavinski said:
I would be buying iPads anyway, even if it wasn't for the music. To be honest, these days I'm mostly using them for web browsing anyway.
@Fruitbat1919 said:
My old gear doesn't look aethetically pleasing here, in this old bohemian shithouse - and most of it is out in the shed, piled up and going mouldy
Not even my fishing tackle goes out in the shed!