borderlands right?
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Yes but last update 3 years agoā¦
as long as it works like it ever did I can endorse it. Just checked their IG and they last posted 5 weeks ago. I donāt think itās one you can expect frequent updates from but itās definitely worth a swing in my opinion
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I donāt know if thatās your cup of tea, but try Idensity. I scored couple of feature films with it making tension ambiences from my piano recordings. I often used it ālive to tapeā while playing piano along film playback. I got some stunning results with it. Itās also an auv3 host 
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Looks amazing. Will have a look!
I can also recommend Spacecraft. It has something different going on (two streams of a sort of granulating arpeggiator), a gorgeous interface, and works beautifully with live input in Aum or similar.
Otherwise a +1 for BLEASS Ganulizer mentioned above. It is simple, but really great and very easy to use.
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What are people currently using for multitracking/DAW duties in the iPad?
(Iāve just redownloaded Logic but already feel opposed to it as an Ableton user and for the subscription modelā¦
I feel like I should dig into Loopy Pro or Beatmaker 3, but Iād be interested in hearing peopleās thoughts.)
From my admittedly mild exploration, AUM seems the most straightforward for integrating lots of other apps and having a DAW like environment.
Lots of people like Drambo and it is definitely good, but doesnāt work for me (a bit too fiddly and too much to learn)
AUM plus Koala multi-out, and some effects, goes a long way
I use AUM already as a recorder, but it lacks a consolidated timeline/song mode (I know thatās possible to put something within AUM, and thatās maybe what Iām looking forā¦).
Cubasis is a good alternative to logic
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I got Auria years ago because I thought I wanted a DAW on my iPad but it turns out that I really dislike timeline based music, which AUM helped me realise. I essentially create sequences within Koala (or sometimes Atom or Polybeat or another MIDI sequencer) and then just play them, dub style, recording either the individual AUM channels or (more usually) the main output. Iām not sure how well supported Auria is these days, but it was impressive when I tried it and if I wanted to drop my AUM stems into something thatās what I would probably choose
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Yeah I get what you mean. I tend to hate piano rolls and arrangement views so even in Ableton Iām going as all in on sequencers as I can.
This is only relevant if you like Koala I guess, but you can sequence a hell of a lot in there by just adding patterns onto the end of patterns to build one song sequence.
I havenāt tried other DAWs though. I looked at Logic but had an overwhelming sense of Mehhhh. Just instantly awful looking and feeling as an Ableton Live user.
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Cubasis is good. Could be better (lacks tempo tracks, for example), but still good. Itās what I use with outboard gear (as opposed to Drambo when Iām only using the iPad).
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Beatmaker 3 is the only iPad daw in which I was able to finish songs
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Itās all timeline based, just whether you want to look at it and see it backā¦ 
I really like AUM, and Koala like I was saying yesterday, and usually work by playing parts in and one-shotāing them at the beginning of the seq.
If Iām working on a track and wanting to complete it, it usually ends up in Ableton for me and I do the last bits there, so Iām ultimately looking for an iOS alternative for that final processā¦ Iām ok with stemming out from my iPad and going to my MacBook if I donāt find a good solutionā¦ the advantage of that is that I can concentrate on the iPad as a creative tool/ideas generator.
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Yes, I feel like BM3 is the one I should dig into and get over the hump withā¦ I think as an MPC and SP404 user Iāve always been put off having to learn itā¦ and Koala is just genius when it comes to intuitiveness, etcā¦ but itās on my radar.
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Yeah, thatās the conclusion I came to. Ableton is too good and too powerful not to use, but I mainly use it for the final step.
In a classic 90s hip-hop analogy, iPad tends to serve as my MPC2000XL whereas Ableton is tracking it out in the studio
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If you enjoy the Elektron workflow Drambo is definitely the way to go. I find it to be the most flexible and experimental and playful of all the DAWs and Grooveboxes Iāve used on iOS.
In order of use Iād suggest:
Drambo - for that Elektron style Step sequencer workflow
BeatMaker 3 - Maschine meets MPC on the iPad
Koala Sampler - with the new SP 404 mk2 integration and features itās amazing (no brainer if you love the SP way of flowing)
Ableton Note - because well you can get your clip based sketches into Ableton to finish
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To which Iād add:
Loopy Pro - for live-looping-plus-audio-clip-launching workflows. Itās a beast already and if they ever finish the MIDI clips feature itāll be legendary. But meanwhile you can run LK or Atom 2 or Drambo inside Loopy Pro to get your MIDI loops on.
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Iām about to go away for 2 weeks, and my travel kit is going to be my iPad and SP404mk2 (with a Novation Launchkey Mini too)ā¦ so Iām looking forward to digging into the SP/iPad capabilities.
I was going to take my iPad and Hapaxā¦ then 4.04 dropped.
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