making music with an iPad

I made a quick little Steve Reich-y thing this morning and concur, Esion is fun and really easy to pick up. Thanks for the tip. Now just get it to plug into AudioBus!!

^ that looks fun!

I had swung back to PC for music making and was kind of starting to regret the money I'd dropped on gadget, module, etc, but last night I finally dug into getting audio sources from the ipad integrated with Ableton via Studiomux, and once it's set up it works really well! midi going from the PC to the ipad (so I can use controllers that don't rely on a bluetooth connection) and audio going from the ipad to the PC--it's neat, like an outboard VST.

I can't yet get patterns from Gadget into Live easily--I know you can save a gadget project as a Live set, but I'd like to be able to just play the patterns in gadget and "record" them into a midi clip as they arrive in Live.

i'm basically just killing time until Nanostudio 2 gets its iPhone version

So if I wanted to record an iPad (mini) directly into my DAW/interface, is a dock the only way to go?

Even then...I'm looking at the Focusrite iTrack dock, and it seems like everything is designed to record into the iPad, not out? Could I use the stereo monitor outs to record the output?

I know I can just send audio files to Dropbox, but that's super laborious with my setup (bad internet, and an offline studio computer).

Nope, the solution I described above using Studiomux only requires a USB cord. With macs it's even easier, no third party software required I think (but I don't use a mac for music stuff so I'm not sure)

Oh amazing, thanks! I had assumed that was just for midi. I'll definitely give it a shot.

And of course you could just run the 3.5mm jack from the ipad into one of your interface's audio inputs, but (and I'm no expert, but I'm given to understand that) you'll probably lose some audio quality compared to staying in the digital realm

Revive!

Apple was selling refurb 2019-model iPad Pros at a cost effective enough price so I bought one. There is no way I'm going to make it through quarantine with the wounded iPad Mini 3 I've had forever. Anyway, this has completely revolutionized my recording process to some degree but enough about iVCS 3. Anyway, what's the cool stuff now?

people are going crazy about Drambo

The Moog Minimoog app was and might still be free for the pandemic - it sounds great for a vintage emulation with some bonus features (polyphony, looper)

Drambo is a lot of fun, and based on what I'm seeing people do on youtube and other forums, seems to have limitless potential, but... aside from some ok-sounding generic synths sounds that I could have made just as easily in Zeeon, I'm feeling a little bit clueless about how to do anything awesome in it.

I made most of this in Beatmaker 3 on an iPad (not the live bass though). I recorded Nord into it for the Rhodes, and used Sunrizer and another AU synth for the other bits.

Eventually dropped all the stems into Ableton to finish, though, and got a couple of analog synth tracks and Ultranova stuff for the coda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIVoQG1bg1w

got a couple of analog synth tracks and Ultranova stuff for the coda

from a friend.

got the ikaossilator app on my phone and it’s super fun

buying this today based on this article. The dev’s other apps are great especially Tardigrain.

Damn, that makes me want to try incorporating an iPad into my DAW workflow again, even though I know it will never happen

i bought a hi-spec iPad Pro last night and i think it's gonna be a game changer for my music making. holy shit, so fun to jam on this thing.

so far i've got Novation's Blocs Wave & Groovebox, Propellerheads' Figure, Patterning 2, Sugar Bytes Drum Computer, and AUM to mix them all up.

Tardigrain looks very cool.

btw, speaking of incorporating iPads into the DAW workflow, I bought TouchOSC as well, and set it up to communicate with Ableton... Seems like it could be very useful, but I couldn't find any readymade Ableton templates around the web, so I'll probably have to make my own

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnVbx-3U7zU

I bought all five of them too. They’re a steal.

Logic Pro for iPad announced. There are some cases (like EQ curves), where a stylus/touch interface would be really helpful.
https://www.apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad/

Right now you can get the entire Moogerfooger effects suite as one big bundle for $40. Kinda worth it

https://apps.apple.com/us/app-bundle/moogerfooger-effects-bundle/id1701612243