Hi all
I will be travelling a lot in the near future and I wish to use the time on the plane to create drum and other sounds that I can use for my OT and AR.
At the same time I am also looking for a DAW software for iPad. Often, Auria, Cubasis and FL are mentioned… what would you recommend?
The focus is not on song writing but on creating new drum sounds (e.g. by layering, equing, compressing, etc)
Thanks
not sure i understand ur focus is: u mention making sounds for later AR import. a DAW would rather make sense if u want to control AR via midi, and sample and arrange AR recordings.
some recommendations for generating drum sounds and loops
elastic drums: havent got it yet, capable drum synthesis for sure.
and i ll surely get the waldorf attack ipad version when its out
Thanks man! I just edited this: The focus is not on song writing but on creating new drum sounds (e.g. by layering, equing, compressing, etc)
a few thoughts:
i would recommend also asking this question at forum.audiob.us, as that’s the most active forum on ios music apps i know of.
audiobus and iaa have come a long way in the past couple of years, but in my limited experience, it will save you a lot of grief if you start by focusing on self-contained apps. lots of these exist, but as far as specific recommendations, maybe let us know a bit about what kind of music you want to work on or what kind of sounds you want to make. (i find some apps lend themselves more naturally to certain styles and approaches.)
One app you should look into is Impaktor.
It uses microphone input as an impulse for creating all kinds of percussive sounds.
Two multi-FX apps that are great for mangling sounds are Turnado and
Flux:FX
I recommend Gadget. You can make your sounds or complete songs right in that app and it sounds pretty good.
SeekBeats is a great ios drum synth. Tons of parameters to tweak, and also has interesting scene like status saving that works a lot easier than the rytm.
Korg just released the M1 for ipad…game over. 
As far as what the OP actually asked for:
Waldorf Attack is coming out on iOS any day now.
The best DAW for your uses is probably Auria. I have Auria, Cubasis and Fl. Auria sounds the best, and the effects are very good. But it doesn’t do Midi so I use Cubasis for that, but may not once the Auria midi upgrade is out.
I really don’t like FL mobile at all, and I love FL Studio. I was really disappointed with it.
For drum synthesis I like Elastic Drums and Stroke Machine.
Yeah, bought this today. I’ll probably get the in-app purchases too, for the expansion packs.
Korg Gadget
Elastik Drums is pretty cool, but I’ve never done more then faff around with it. Probably more to do with me then anything else.
Countersigned.
I basically only use Korg Gadget (sometimes audiobussed into Sugar Bytes Turnado for laughs), though I have about a dozen other apps.
Really? I should pay more attention to these things, always was a bit partial to Attack, though I never ended up grabbing the Rack.
Stroke Machine has a pretty powerful drum syntthesis engine. A drum sound design playground, short of a virtual modular like Audulus/Zmors Modular/etc.