Tablet apps

A few things to check out...
Korg Gadget 2... totally integrated, lots of cool stuff... though it'll draw you into their other apps if you want all of the plugins
GarageBand... quite solid, and free... absolutely worth messing with if you want to start without investing much money
Beat Maker 3... if you like the MPC experience... this is pretty much a must a have iPad app

Not DAWs... but I'd also suggest checking out
Audiobus 3... great for routing audio/plugins/fx around
Koala Sampler... really great and fast sampler
L7 Looper... if you're looking for a looper this is a great piece

Thanks for the reply NearTao!

Gadget def looks cool but I already have waaaay too many synths as it is. I do mess with GarageBand on my phone. It really is great and exports projects almost perfectly to desktop GarageBand or Logic. I was wondering about BM3... I loved BM2.

I used to use Audiobus 1 and 2. I checked out 3 as I was wondering about the advantages it had compared to inter-app audio. Looks like I'll be making a purchase.

Koala Sampler looks cool but it has a killer function, that is, importing audio from a video file. By starting a screen capture while Spotify is playing, then importing that over to KS, effectively makes KS a Spotify/ YouTube/ etc etc sampler. Are there any other apps that have that function? Does BM3 have that function? I didn't see it in the manual.

I bought BM3 last night and I agree it is a massive upgrade from 2. I haven't messed with a MPC style workflow in awhile so it will be a nice change up from Logic.

Lampdog wrote:Nope, avi, mpg, mov, all are greyed out in ipad “files” and can’t be used. BM3 won’t even show them in the Dropbox list and constantly searches for files (I had only vid files in dropbox, no wavs.)

Thanks for checking!

It looks like Koala Sampler is p special then. Thanks for rec NearTao!

I’m debating on getting the korg M1 app but unsure if I want to wait until my new computer and get the triton vst which comes with the wave station, which I have on iPad, m1 and a few other vsts. Or just get the app now. It’s only like 20-30 bucks.

Anyone here have or use it?

For Korg iPad apps... it's worth waiting for sales... they do a 50% off apps about two to three times a year... so if you can be patient... it's worth the wait. Not sure if they have a sale going on now... but over the holiday it definitely was on.

AudioKit Pro just dropped LE05:Digitalism 2000 + AUv3... another Limited Edition app, on sale for $2.99. Sounds brilliant from the patches I checked out. If you're looking for something new definitely check it out

So I caved and got the M1, first impression is that it does sound good but they presets are drenched in effects. Good sounding effects but I really don’t want a hall reverb on every patch. Once you take it off most sounds seem pretty basic. About to take it for a spin with my effects and mixing board.

Hopefully it grows on me some but the first impression wasn’t as strong as the wave station. Trying to consolidate my setup.

Oof, BM3 is crashy af. How do you guys deal with it? Are you all just constantly hitting the save button?

I was checking out other apps and came crawling back. I'm just going to have to put up with it and start being aware enough to hit the save button after each step in my process. There really is nothing in the app store quite like BM3.

With that said, I am tempted to experiment with some kind of Cubasis 3/ sampler AU combo. Anyone try out Reslicer or AudioLayer?

Cubasis has such a great UI layout. It's a shame that the Minisampler is what it is.

With Audiobus and setting apps to be in the background... you can route midi and audio around like crazy...

I haven't used Cubasis, but I'm willing to bet that you can do some really crazy audio routing between that, Audiobus and Reslicer...