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When a colleague or friend says …
… show me something musically cool you do with your iPad (or phone), what do you show them? This person may, or may not be a musician.
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Bebot and spacecraft
Borderlands Granular
Samplr...
Tc-11
Cat Piano.
Have a jam session with a MIDI controller, guitar, bass, mic, a second iPad, a practice amp and a speaker all working off of an iPad Pro, audio interface, and one outlet. I need to find a battery operated amp to be 100% untethered from the wall.
If I don’t have all that crap with me I pull up GeoShred. Musyc 2 has been a fun one lately.
Auxy Studio. My reasoning is, despite it being a subscription app, it's one of the most dead simple apps anyone can get into for writing music. Plus it can go deep.
Real world example - my girlfriend wanted to start producing beats on her iPhone, and I pointed her to Auxy Studio. She got the hang of Auxy Studio within a day or two of using it despite having never produced a beat of her own before outside of, say, using audio loops.
All of the above.. and Koala.. get them to make a noise or sing a note.. tweak + sequence it into a groove.. add fx.. Addictively FUN!
This is my go to. A coworker brought their guitar to work once so I started jamming with them on TC-11 and it was great. I wanted to quit that day and start busking fulltime with them for real. They weren't having it.
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A quick tour in Korg Gadget
Anything that will record their voice and play it back at different pitches or backward
I’ve actually shown them Riffler
When my daughter was younger, we used to have fun with some app that did some simple fx, like reverse, over recordings. We would try to say a sentence in reverse, then reverse it and see if it sounded like “normal”. Worked more times than I thought it would
It can take a few tries, but a catchy loop in Ableton Note is probably the easiest way to show someone how to get down. Obviously a carefully curated Koala setup can also do the same but I like the randomness of a new Note session...
Anything generative is good. The Lumbeat drummers are a good showcase, though a bit convoluted to quickly set up.
That was going to be my original answer, but I went with Auxy Studio since it's super beginner-friendly.
But not gonna lie - Korg Gadget is definitely impressive with all its synths and such. Very powerful app.
Drambo for all of the opposite reasons posted here thus far. I like people to feel confused, intimidated, and for me to be seen like a genius, even though I’m just pulling levers behind a curtain.
I agree, very powerful. I’ve watched a video of Auxy Studio and the UI seems very user friendly.
It is.
As I said, my girlfriend took to it damn near instantly. She originally wanted to use Garageband to create her own beats without using loops, but got stuck. (She is a beginner after all.) Once I showed her Auxy Studio, bam! It was like an extension of her brain!
For speed maybe Koala, how fast you can quickly record some vocal sounds, or miscellaneous hits from items around you, import a few drum hits, make a quick beat, sequence patterns, add fx, etc… its easy to manipulate any audio in various ways, it’s quick and intuitive.
update - gadget as mentioned is another good introduction, to quickly use several synths, record and sequence some layers.
For more in depth showcase, open a daw/host project you have worked on with multiple apps, midi, audio, fx, etc…
For the touch screen factor, maybe something like samplr, borderlands granular, musyc 2.
+1
I showed Drambo to this guy at the park and now he won’t allow his daughter to have play dates with mine 😔
Samplr, TC-11
Same here
I have tc-11 but don’t use it. Don’t know why.
Love samplr.
Yellofier or Figure. Both are quick, yield interesting results and don’t require a lot of music knowledge
Different Drummer. We don’t want this scene getting too big…
Or xynthesizer also is easy to understand.
I start strumming guitarism.