Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
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Thanks for reminding me about this
I make tracks with just ipad but I also have hardware setups. I have a torso t1 and small modular and an opz with microfreak. I also have ableton with a Launchpad pro mk3
All give something different but ipad is probably the thing I use most
All iPad + guitars + microphone (I guess guitars and microphones count as hardware?)
It's totally possible to make final mixes and masters on the iPad IMO.
iPad with midi controller hardware
As a main studio DAW?
Yes.
This isn’t including my instruments, microphones,
external compressors and external audio interfaces.
Thanks! 😊
Sunrizer.
Kaspar.
All the Icegear synths.
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I was 100% complelely iOS only since 2010 or 11 .. now i am completely non-ios and non-desktop fully hardware only since september 2021
No speaker there AirPods.
1200$ for an iphone just so I can send a bazillion texts and emails and only use 15min/month of phone calls while not running the apps I need? No thanks apple. You can keep it.
So I guess I really went 'all ipad'
I am mostly guitar oriented these days, and for writing music I like a linear songs structure the most. I use Band in a Box on a desktop to create a backing track, and then I move this track to my hardware recorder (Zoom R8). On this device I add the guitar.
But since Black Friday and X-mas sales I have bought me into Cubasis and THU and a lot of other stuff, I can now create linear tracks on the Ipad itself (or move the BIAB track to Ipad), and record my guitar om the Ipad.
Sometimes I create on Ipad a pattern based techno jam just for the kick, but I never write a real track in this music style, because I think this music style is saturated already (I know I sound like an old man...)
When I am playing guitar, a desktop with a big screen distracts me, an Ipad is a lot less intrusive, just a little silent device on the background.
The beauty of Band in a Box is that it can generate guitar solo's in different styles (and variants) for a self written track, that helps me building my own solo's, it's like a private guitar teacher.
So long story short, I try to use the desktop as less as possible.
All iPad here, no other hardware except for a pair of headphones...
100% iPad with some spells of hardware since the dawn of iOS music.
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Also much smaller batteries on phones.
NO IM AT THE CINEMA
Mostly all iPhone with some iPad. In addition to the guitars, basses, mics, MIDI keys that I plug into the interface.
I found sitting at a desk or laptop to make music to be decidedly unpleasant. YMMV.
I have to say a blend, but in the studio, I'm 90% iPad. I use Cubasis for most of my recording and pretty much all softsynths for keys and drums. I do have a Microfreak that is permanently connected via a TriplePlay MIDI pickup to my guitar - but that's the only hardware. If I need to do something that can't be done within Cubasis on the iPad, I go to Cubase on the desktop. Most of that is vocal tuning, so not often.
I've actually stopped using my iPad as much as I did when I first got it. It still gets used for FX, Samplr, Drumcomputer, and Audiolayer, but overall, I find interacting with physical hardware much more enjoyable. I really want to love working with Drambo due to my love of Elektron sequencing, but I've realized that the touchscreen only takes me so far. I still love my iPad and all it has to offer, but I've realized that it will never be able to replace hardware or a PC/DAW for me.
I could go full iPad IF:
1. FLStudio had a better app that was closer to the desktop version. FLM is pretty crappy, overall.
2. I could find a good MIDI controller that would do bidirectional communication and brainless mapping to controls (like Novation's old Automap or the way the new MPC series work).
3. iOS had a better file management system that allowed for easily syncing samples across apps. It sucks that when I add a new loop to my custom sample pack, for example, that I need to add it to every app that uses that sample pack.
All ipad for the last 2/3 years. My Mac blew up and I moved to the ipad. Only recently I have I managed to hook up my Lauchpad, mic etc thanks to a usb hub part of a Christmas present, and wow it has opened doors.
10% iPhone and 90% Macbook. Just invested a lot (read: too much) in several Spitfire Audio libraries to further working on my orchestral/edm style. I have one last NS2 tune that I was working on and was going to migrate it to MacBook but its not worth it. I like the tune enough as is (not really complete, but what ever is ), just need to upload it. I think I will start building more stuff in Drambo on my phone to use on the desktop.
I’m actually about to release a mixtape of a bunch of old, rough tracks so I can let go of them and stop dwelling on them. Maybe that’ll help?
Excited to see what developers will do with a foldable phone. I have a 4th Air right now but I’m planning on upgrading to the M1 with 1 TB. I use samples a lot so would love to not worry about storage.
I have a few Beepstreet and Yonac synths but Sunrizer and Kaspar are 2 I haven’t tried yet. I’d love to one day though. Have almost all the Icegear stuff though. Kronecker is my personal favorite of the bunch.
Exactly what happened to me. My Mac died so I moved all into the iPad until I could get another and then I just never got another. Fell too in love with the iOS workflow.
I’d say those count. I count my guitars with my hardware as well. I don’t play as often as I used to but I love sampling and looping some guitar parts and mangling them to oblivion.
I’d say those count. I count my guitars with my hardware as well. I don’t play as often as I used to but I love sampling and looping some guitar parts and mangling them to oblivion.
Thanks for the answer! I’m curious, what would Samplecrate offer over audioshare and the native files app? I see it mentioned a lot but haven’t taken the dive on it.
Was only using it for mixing and mastering. I’ve recently changed the music that I’m making and have simplified things such that I don’t need the extra processing power anymore. And I’ve always preferred the flexibility of having as much on my phone as possible.
100% DAW features. For stuff like synths, samplers, etc, iOS is great. But professional quality DAWs, not so much. Also, the connectivity of ipads is abysmal. Really bad. In fact I’d rate that as my #1 issue with ipads. I could forgive everything else, but the constant dongle / connection issues are intolerable. Especially on a $2000 device.
I’ve been 100% iOS since I bought my first iPhone (3G), where I discovered Nanostudio 1, which got me back into music after a very long gap (nearly 20 years). Got my first iPad (3) in 2012, then an iPad 6th gen in 2018. Since I got an iPad, I rarely use the phone for music. And I’ve been all iPad until a few weeks ago, when I bought myself a Korg NTS-1, and then the Moog Studio 3 package deal (DFAM, Mother-32, Subharmonicon). It’s all MiRack's fault… So I’m now hybrid iPad/hardware. I do have a Mac (Mini), but it’s used as a media/name server and not for music making. I find I have the most fun using AUM and avoiding linear DAWs. The hardware is an extension of that urge to just plug stuff together and jam or create generative systems.
It could. i guess I just like that I have twenty year old projects on desktop that I can (and sometimes do) enjoy loading up and seeing what I can do on them now. i would like to do that with iOS but unless I export them as stems for desktop they are inevitably doomed to die forever on iOS. Platform is too flakey.