iPad synths & sequencers, how does it fit in the workflow?

[Joost Schuttelaar]

Last weekend at Gert's, we were talking about all these cool new synthesizers and tools like the iMPC for iPad. One thing I've been wondering quite a bit, how do people use them?

VST's back in the days were just a synth engine plus some controls, but apps like the iPolysix and iMS20 have multiple synth voices, drums and a complete sequencing environment. A bit like Rebirth back in the day. You can make a simple track with the app. But does anyone do this?

Or do you just MIDI it up, and record over analog, like an old fashioned hardware synth?

Or audio over WIFI? Or export wave date (copy paste) from the sequencer in the synth and paste them into a bigger DAW, like GarageBand or...?

Right now I find that I like to toy with them, but that for making any production I just run AU's in Logic...

So what do you do with them? :)

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Joost Schuttelaar
The Hague, NL