iPad synths & sequencers, how does it fit in the workflow?
Gert van Santen
g.vansanten at upcmail.nl
Wed Dec 19 00:10:06 CET 2012
Op 18-12-2012 17:20, Joost Schuttelaar schreef:
> 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?
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> 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?
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> Or do you just MIDI it up, and record over analog, like an old fashioned hardware synth?
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> 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...?
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> Right now I find that I like to toy with them, but that for making any production I just run AU's in Logic...
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> So what do you do with them? :)
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I think making music with an iPad is not about working with
better synths and better tools than you've got in your regular
DAW. The synths on the iPad do sound more or less the same as the
virtual synths in anyone's DAW, so no big deal. I also don't
think incorporating an iPad in a DAW setup, just for using a Korg
Polysix or MS-20 is so interesting - although it's perfectly possible
I think the whole "making music with your iPad" thing is about:
1. Prepare tracks on the go for later editing in your studio.
2. Going back to a simple(r) setup and produce complete albums
with less gear.
3. Being able to gig and produce "everywhere you won't take your
DAW".
4. And of course jamming and just freaking around :-)
Of course you can make it as complicated as you wish, but I like
the 1 iPad method, 1 mini keyboard and perhaps some guitar, vocal
and analog synth recording.
Oh, Tony, and you don't really need a midi interface - just a
camera connection kit will do, or a mini keyboard with iOS
connection. Don't forget there's the new (and different)
lightning interface in the iPad 4...
That being said, I have not had time at all this year to make any
music, so it's going to be next year, but I'll be combining all
points 1-4 :-)
Gert
www.gertvansanten.nl
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