iPad Music Apps?

I use a half dozen usbc extension cables rated for data and power, no issues for years now. Good luck to everyone else not burning your house down.

The extension cable I have is rated to 100w.

All this recent iPad thread activity has me eager to sit down today on my current setup and fondle my screens…

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I hadn’t thought of it until I saw your setup, but I could totally use two iPads with an iConnect. One with Koala and my keyboard controller, and one running AUM with a bunch of cool instruments and FX.

In fact, I think my iConnectMidi has three-way audio, so I could capture it all in ableton…

Yeah that’s why I use the Rode. Hosts 2x computers/tablets, then I can run that audio into whatever else - in this case the DT.

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Nice demo sounds in the first 2 minutes of this review video

I have their first one (Thump?) and it’s fun.

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Thump is free, Buzz Zone is $25. I guess $25 is the new $10. [Edit: I was wrong about the price.]

I wonder if that’s a regional pricing error?

$10 over here

Yup, only $10 for me as well in US

Sorry, I was on my iPhone at the time, and it isn’t available for that platform, so I had to find a Web site that mentioned the price. Perhaps I saw a desktop price? On my iPad, it’s $12.99 CAD, so in line with the quoted prices above.

is Logic Pro IPAD on subscription?

I’m (yet again) toying with the idea of shifting my live setup over to iPad, mainly because I want to use Koala and BLEASS Voices which will allow my to ditch some more hardware, but last time I checked it was impossible to slave AUM to incoming midi clock (from my Hapax hardware sequencer). Logic iPad is also the same - no slave to sync there either.

I’ve tried EG Nodes and I really love the interface, but weirdly it seems to only allow one live audio input channel at a time (whether mono or stereo), and I need up-to 16 - ideally with the ability to have hardware effects sends and returns. Is Drambo my only option?

My Behringer XR18 mixer seems to play nicely with iPadOS so that’s a good start.

There are many options.
Loopy Pro, apeMatrix, Audiobus, and Drambo all support MIDI clock in.

Apparently you can also configure Audiobus to receive MIDI clock and send it out over Ableton Link - which can then be used in AUM, if you want to keep working with that.

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Thanks for the advice! I bought Loopy Pro ages ago for another project so I’ve got both that and Drambo to test out.

What’s the go-to app for multi-sampling? That’s probably the last puzzle I need to solve now.

It is, with one month free. It is a really powerful thing on the iPad and very well thought. I have an IPad 10 and no problems at all.

I am not a fan of subscription model on ipad apps - i prefer a one time buy

As they can easily increase the sub fee without any notice and you are committee to pay failing which you cannot use the app

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I’m generally against it as well.

Maybe it works out for Apple overall, if looking at total profits; but I think they really hurt the app store by pushing developers to implement subscriptions over paid apps (with incentives like lowering their cut from 30% to 15% for subs).

It feels like it shifted the market in a way that the ā€œbig appsā€ make more money, and ā€œsmallerā€ apps get left behind.
A lot of people no longer seem willing to buy apps at all, or many of the best options in certain categories (like photography/video) now have subscriptions that cost more in a year than it used to be to buy them outright.

Thankfully, most music apps are still ā€œbuy onceā€ or free to try with an IAP to unlock everything, rather than a subscription; but we’ve already seen some developers abandon the app store - even pulling older apps from sale.

Loopy Pro is about as far as I’m willing to go, with a yearly IAP to unlock new features, but without requiring an active subscription to use the app or anything previously unlocked.

I will never pay a subscription for a creative app/plugin that will lock me out of my own work if I don’t pay the ransom, or if they shut down operations.

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You should also have an eye on this audio interface: https://www.modularaudiotools.com/

I think this is a revolution for modern mobile setups.

Disclaimer: I’m a beta tester.

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Oh it’s been on my radar for some months now, had no idea you were a tester. How’s you experience so far?

Super excited about the posible expansions, also talked with Martin about an ADAT one.