iPad Music Apps

Nice! I always dreamed of something a bit like this!

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This is a great idea from them.

Drambo is the best groovebox app on IOS, but a lot of people find it intimidating or aren’t really interested in the modular aspect (myself included).

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Fun !

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Downloaded this morning and found it to be instantly fun. Looking forward to spending more time with it - thanks for the tip!

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What was the snag?

Hi! (II love your app, the drum sounds, that delay and reverb are so fantastic!) When I open Battalion in OTOO, the first trigger via midi makes a loud sound (like maybe every sound at once?) that also seems to clip and cut out. There are other minor things that seem funny with preset loading and AUV3s within OTOO, which I attribute to bugs-on-release on their end. Thanks for asking, and feel free to DM if I can be of help in sending a log or screen recording or the like.

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Does it have audio input, can I ise it to process my ST for example? Does it sync to external clock?

Nope. See edit to post above.

I’d like to start using the synths on my iPad to create samples that I will export and use in hardware samplers. Last time I tried using Cubasis but found it so tedious to sequence a synth in there. Can anyone recommend an app that is enjoyable and not tedious to sequence with?

Drambo
Groove Rider 2
Logic Pro
BAM

I like them in that order but all good.

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Thanks! Drambo seems to be the most popular app for electronic music these days so I think I’ll try that first.

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miRack https://mirack.app/

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Garageband ios is free and incredibly easy…

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Aum environment and loopy pro (which exports to dropbox). Sample and sequence whatever from there into that combo.

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Didn’t know Garageband could sequence external ios synths, so far it looks like the best / least tedious option for that purpose. Thanks!

It’s actually really, really good. You can’t record automation easily but if you move parameters at the time of recording it all gets baked into the midi clip. Then you can load up auv3 effects to add sauce.

Dawn beat and SAND are two other simple options

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I was mainly thinking about sequencing 1 synth with midi but this has given me the idea that I could sample variations of 1 synth patch into Loopy pro, perhaps with different rhythms, sequence those samples and export the sequence of samples as 1 audio file to be used as 1 sample in hardware. Thanks!

This looks so good for sound design, think I need it, thanks!

i’ve found an elektron machine (sometimes torso t1) sequencing ios apps via the AUM environment to be an endless well of inspiration. a handful of native ios/auv3 sequencers that I have used and enjoyed include: audiomodern’s riffer and chordjam, fugue machine/fugue machine rubato, and the bram bos rozeta suite (great if you are into xox/303 style and more)

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Which of the Electron Machines did you choose?