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Pitchfork - The 8 Best Mobile Music-Making Apps You’ll Actually Use
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-best-mobile-music-making-apps-youll-actually-use/
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You can't expect someone to do enough research to be the experts most of us are, but that is a very poor representation of iOS music even from an amateur standpoint. This is like someone getting an iPad, going on a mini-spree at random on the first day by viewing the fluctuating top paid charts, and then listing his/her top 8 of the bunch at the end of the day.
Haha. I was gonna try not to hate but I felt that this list was pretty poor as well. But maybe it’s a good look for the community in general? Who knows. But my list would be a little different.
There's no such thing as bad press, I guess. But fake news!
@oat_phipps said it best.
I suppose the article should be taken with a grain of salt. This list does contain a couple of gems such as Oblique Strategies and Audiobus and Ruismaker Noir and Beatmaker 3, but it's HIGHLY subjective. For instance, I actually use Beathawk, Nanostudio 2, Auria Pro, Audiobus (for the apps that don't connect natively to my Bluetooth headphones, lol), AUM, Audioshare (not just for storage but also file conversion!), Multitrack Studio, and Gadget now that Korg fixed the GUI. This doesn't even include the plugins such as Rozeta, FAC and Klevgrand, nor synth plugins I use within AUM, nor even Gadget-compatible apps. However, this is what works for my personal workflow. This isn't what works for everybody.
(Also for the record, N-Track Studio 9 is awful, at least for me. I bought it at $29.99, tried it out, found the wav I exported had several glitches as if it rendered the final product with buffer underruns intact, and successfully returned it to the appstore for a refund.)
Oh Pitchfork. You used to be the coolest. I remember around ‘98 when you told me all about The Dismemberment Plan, The Fall, Red House Painters, and a bunch of other bands I probably would never have heard of were it not for you.
Now though, all your reviews seem to be for “mixtapes” by Lil “insert nickname here”, and are written by attractive young people with bad tattoos who seem to like to pretend that Taylor Swift makes great music.
Still, seeing Audiobus and Ruismaker Noir get shout outs in a Condé Nast owned publication is pretty cool.
Perfect!
🤣
It is just 8 apps, and they were trying to cover Android apps as well.
I had no issue with the iOS only apps on that short list.
It was the 3 that were iOS/ Android that I thought were suspect.
At least they didn’t promote a bunch of subscription apps that no one around here uses (like the AppStore tends to do).
ehm.
Since when is one considered a “bunch”?
Besides, I already called out that cross-platform app as suspect.
So, ehm yourself, bub.
Ruismaker Noir is in there! That’s cool enough for me
And beside that, I‘ve seen worse lists... even on Apple’s own App Store curated stories
No kidding, lol. And they sure love to lean towards the subscription apps more than the single-payment apps.
It’s a nice list.
There! A positive comment about someone’s article from one of the most non-hating forums on the web. I’ve done my job.
The sad bit for me: still referencing "The Fall", 8 years later. We need new example releases. Everyone log off right now and get to work.
Right and it wasn't really much of an iOS album. It was written and recorded mostly using an iPad but arranged and mixed in big bucks studios.
I didn't think that list was too bad. BM3, Audiobus & Ruismaker Noir with some Oblique Strategies would be a great recommendation for somebody new to iOS.
I agree that this is list is not that bad - at least first 6 apps in that list are very much used by many AB forum users .. so no reason to hate ..
@brambos congrats for placement, well deserved !
Ok ok, it was just a little tiny bit of sarcasm
See my text above, i actually don't think it's bad list, saw lot worse lists ..
I scored 1 out of 8 😚
Good list tbh.
Wtf?
Doesn’t mean it would be MY list...
I agree. The only questionable item (imo) is N-Track and I'm presuming that was included because it's cross-platform. If you already have BM3, seems a waste of a slot. And I'd prolly suggest Vatonator over MV-08 as a one-off drum machine just because of the number of sounds that ship with it.
Anyone that stops at 8 Apps doesn't belong here. Anyone that recommends stopping at 8 Apps is talking to the "rubes". It's 2019 already. What year was it when you when you bought that 8th App?
Does iTunes show that sequence of addiction in the purchase history? Yes it does. For my number 8 it's AudioBus 2 in 2013. Before that I was trying to stick with free apps.
AudioBus made the IOS App market function, IMHO. Hard to imagine today without it's contribution towards pulling apps (and developers) into stable networks of functionality.
It's like the TCP/IP of musical interoperability.