Another one with the op-1f. If you midi slave the op-1 to the ipad it scrubs with the logic timeline. Works great! 4 additional hands on tape tracks!
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And another oneā¦ some auv3ās are apparently compatible with the au versions on your mac. I opened a project started on the ipad on mac and I was using FabFilter Saturn 2, which I also have installed on the mac. It opens set as is on the ipad.
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Cool workflow video:
I will have to learn Logic
I think I might be a big fan of the Logic sequencer and how you can easily and quickly resize to see and access your step sequencer, timeline arrangement and instruments and mixer channels from the same screen.
Modstep(?), Xequence2, Helium (combined with AUM) Iāve all tried and loved in concept but ultimately struggled with maintaining an overall picture of what Iām doing and having to constantly switch screens.
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Are you using Lightning or USB-C? A recent iOS update bricked the Lighting to usb adapters. They are working on a fix.
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Is it possible to transfer midi files into logic?
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Interesting, thanks. I do think itās likely to be a dongle issue. I thought it was because I bought a cheap imitation rather than paying Ā£40 for the Apple one, but looks like a bug.
Ah yeah I had a cheap one in the past and it was inconsistent. I think unfortunately this is one of those situations where you have to pay the apple tax 
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I have read that you just drag and drop them to the timeline.
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If you open your files app with the MIDI file you want to use showing and then tap on the three dots on top of your iPad and choose slide over. This will āhoverā the files app over Logic Pro. Just slide the file into a track and it opens it in Logic. I tried this with a MIDI file and it created 8 tracks and all the corresponding instruments in one shot. Pretty cool.
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Peter Kirn has a review up that I found really helpful and thorough:
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Thanks! A bit clunky but I got there in the end!
Read it and found it mostly hype. Even he doesnāt mention the horrible GUI with some of the plugins.
Like how did he missed that or did he see it and just didnāt wanna inform people about it?
I found the Kirn piece useful as a new user to Logic, since itās a pretty full description of all the features beyond the presets and the headline new items. More walkthrough than review, sure.
A few days into the trial (the lessons and some manual reading) now Iām glad to know what kinds of things it can do (and impressed) I donāt think itās right for me and my setup at the moment (esp with Auv3s I like and my own samples I want to use, and hardware to record). But still, will keep an eye on how it develops.
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I find the guis to be just fine. They scale well, everything is easy to find and touch. Itās good to me.
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I just tracked a song into LP for iPad, from a Digitone and Digitakt.
The Digitakt is connected via usb for audio and midi, the DN connected to the DKās analog ins.
It was super easy. I prefer to record in one track at a time with the others muted, so I can also record the FX, but even so, the MIDI sync (Logic is in control) is good, and itās all ready to arrange.
I know that tracking audio into Logic isnāt news, but it works so well with just an iPad and a single USB cable that thereās very little barrier to recording stuff. This has always been a sticking point for me in the past
I also recorded in some longer samples from the DT, and now Iām chopping them up with the new Beat Breaker, which is also rad. I plan to keep working on the song across Logic and the Digis, as going back and forth is so reliable, and they all have their own strengths and weaknesses.
A big thumbs up. Definitely buying this after the trial is up.
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Well you were right. I stumped up the Apple tax and now it works! But as far as I can tell I donāt have the option to choose input channel from my audio device, only output channel? Makes it useless for me if thatās the case. I had thought about swapping my MPC Live for this, but having played around a bit I think the MPC is currently better overall.
Edit. You can choose the input channel in the mixer section. So itās all good now.
Did some experimenting today with some loops Iād chopped up in Koala and exported for a remix I plan to do of Roxy Musicās āif there is somethingā.
Itās quite a slow song bpm wise and not exactly on the grid. I wanted to bring the tempo up from about 79 to 87. Hereās what Iāve learned.
You can drag a sample from Files onto a track. In the Tempo context menu you can āAnalyze Tempoā, then do āApply Region tempo to Projectā which will line up a loop of for example 8 bars to the logic grid. If you open the Tempo track youāll see this will have adjusted the tempo for the bars that egion covers. What Iāve found is that for shorter samples this is a just a single tempo change, but for longer samples it will have lots of tempo changes as the rhythm ebbs and flows. Before you change this, use the Info sidebar to turn on āFlex & Followā for the region. Once youāve done this you can remove all those tempo changes the region applied to the project and set the project tempo you desire (E.g. 87bpm). You can do this for many samples.
What I found when first did this and set a tempo quite a bit faster than the original is it sounded a bit crap. I tried using the new Sample Alchemy in Spectral mode and that does a better job of smoothing time stretching and avoids you having to do the above process to get the samples to fit the grid - it has good recognition of sample tempo and loop length. But something sounds slightly off with that sample mode. It probably will work well for some styles but I felt it wasnāt quite right for what I was doing.
You can also use the Quick Sampler to get samples to conform to the tempo you want but after an hour or two fiddling with this I wasnāt that satisfied with the workflow. Plus I like to have the waveforms of my samples on the track to chop and rearrange etc. Call me old school.
So I persevered with the original method with āFlex & Followā. The trick is to set the right Flex mode. Go to the Info sidebar again, for the track this time, and ensure Flex Mode is set to the best option for your sample. Polyphonic is the default and that works well for the sort of sampling Iām doing where thereās drums and multiple instruments. However, itās well worth setting the āComplexā option underneath which does wonders for smoothing out the timestretching. It turns out after a few hours experimenting that setting was all I needed.
Iām now more than happy with the timestretching ability of Logic Pro for iPad. Now Iāve imported all my loops and got them conforming to the right tempo, Iāll probably convert them to Live Loops to try that workflow for remixing.
I should probably record a quick tutorial on this as itās simpler than Iāve made it sound. Hopefully some useful info here for someone.
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If I wasnāt so into my new eurorack setup it seems an OP1 and an iPad with logic would be the perfect pairing. Portable, powerful.
I need to save up for that Field.
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Thank you and tutorial please!
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