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Anyone have the ipad app orphion its tons of fun and can be great for ipad sets!!!

Not to slag the whole make-music-on-a-iPad thing, but has anyone actually done anything meaningful with one of these yet? There's a burgeoning market of guitar appz 'n goodiez but everything I've seen so far looks like a solution looking for a problem.

Styles Bitchly wrote:Not to slag the whole make-music-on-a-iPad thing, but has anyone actually done anything meaningful with one of these yet? There's a burgeoning market of guitar appz 'n goodiez but everything I've seen so far looks like a solution looking for a problem.

I dont know actually i know that paper diamond uses touch osc but thats only to control live. I have really just been trying to not record and just have more fun with music lately more than anything!! do you use an ipad?

Styles Bitchly wrote:Not to slag the whole make-music-on-a-iPad thing, but has anyone actually done anything meaningful with one of these yet? There's a burgeoning market of guitar appz 'n goodiez but everything I've seen so far looks like a solution looking for a problem.

they made a gorillaz album on an ipad. it was more like "oh wow, they did this on an ipad" though. it wasn't amazing but if you like experimental stuff it's interesting. it's called The Fall.

This guy makes music entirely on iOS devices and no computers involved in the entire process: http://smitematter.com/about/

"While no one can be sure who was “first”, I do know I was among the first very few who took this way of making music seriously. It has become my favored platform to express myself and compose music using only these amazing devices, and apps, and nothing else. I don’t use any computer aid."

...there are lots of crappy audio apps out there....

but some are simply mindblowing!!!
....and serious instruments!

the ipad is a music instrument if you know where to go with it...

orphion got only ONE sound......but this one sound is soooo expressive to play that the musical possebilties are endless....

animoog is a synth you find nowhere else....

samplr is a sampling app that brings life into any piece of audio as i i've never seen it before......

expression....it's all about expression.....
since i got an ipad i started to record a lot more again......

and nowhere else you find so much daily new inspiration for some small bucks than here....

everybody who disagree simply does'nt have one.....

delicioso wrote:I don’t use any computer aid."

The iPad isn't a computer? IOS isn't an operating system?

DJjoeB wrote:

Styles Bitchly wrote:Not to slag the whole make-music-on-a-iPad thing, but has anyone actually done anything meaningful with one of these yet? There's a burgeoning market of guitar appz 'n goodiez but everything I've seen so far looks like a solution looking for a problem.

I dont know actually i know that paper diamond uses touch osc but thats only to control live. I have really just been trying to not record and just have more fun with music lately more than anything!! do you use an ipad?

Yes, I own an iPad, but quite honestly, it's gathering dust. I just find it too limiting and it can't compare obviously to a good laptop. I even thought that it would be a good alternative to a Kindle but that's not the case. I'm not into the whole "app" thing either. Another thing - the gadgets you have to buy to make an iPad work with a lot of the music apps I've seen are rather expensive and delicate....not really suitable for industrial strength "out in the field" usage either. Also, I hate being led around like a barnyard animal and I don't like the restrictive set of boundaries which Apple puts around all of it's stuff. I'll just stick with my laptops which are robust and a known proven commodity - besides, you can almost get one for the same cost of an iPad these days.

Styles Bitchly wrote:

DJjoeB wrote:

Styles Bitchly wrote:Not to slag the whole make-music-on-a-iPad thing, but has anyone actually done anything meaningful with one of these yet? There's a burgeoning market of guitar appz 'n goodiez but everything I've seen so far looks like a solution looking for a problem.

I dont know actually i know that paper diamond uses touch osc but thats only to control live. I have really just been trying to not record and just have more fun with music lately more than anything!! do you use an ipad?

Yes, I own an iPad, but quite honestly, it's gathering dust. I just find it too limiting and it can't compare obviously to a good laptop. I even thought that it would be a good alternative to a Kindle but that's not the case. I'm not into the whole "app" thing either. Another thing - the gadgets you have to buy to make an iPad work with a lot of the music apps I've seen are rather expensive and delicate....not really suitable for industrial strength "out in the field" usage either. Also, I hate being led around like a barnyard animal and I don't like the restrictive set of boundaries which Apple puts around all of it's stuff. I'll just stick with my laptops which are robust and a known proven commodity - besides, you can almost get one for the same cost of an iPad these days.

ok but i think you are wrong here (not to be a jerk) but the ipad and a laptop are both completely different things where as the ipad can be limiting "sometimes" not always though, like it is said before there are many great apps like animoog and orphion and as long as you have an external sound card or mixing board you can record the ipad right into your D.A.W. with a 1/4th to 1/8th jack which is what i primarily do and the only gadget that i have bought is the ipad camera connection kit to connect my mini midi keyboard to my ipad which is more fun than anything. Hope this changed your mind a little and you should try out orphion which i think is free unless you want to make your own layout and if you start liking it get animoog which is i believe $19.99.

I use iPad and iPhone all the time for sketching out track ideas on the go, but for completing finished tunes I find it pretty slow and tedious compared to a laptop. Yes you CAN do it (and I have), but for my uses it's just easier to chuck the raw ideas in Live to do the arranging. Because for me the iPhone is just so much more portable for things like this, I rarely use the iPad anymore for music making. Loads of fun messing about with djay on it at last minute parties though

Styles Bitchly wrote:

DJjoeB wrote:

Styles Bitchly wrote:Not to slag the whole make-music-on-a-iPad thing, but has anyone actually done anything meaningful with one of these yet? There's a burgeoning market of guitar appz 'n goodiez but everything I've seen so far looks like a solution looking for a problem.

I dont know actually i know that paper diamond uses touch osc but thats only to control live. I have really just been trying to not record and just have more fun with music lately more than anything!! do you use an ipad?

Yes, I own an iPad, but quite honestly, it's gathering dust. I just find it too limiting and it can't compare obviously to a good laptop. I even thought that it would be a good alternative to a Kindle but that's not the case. I'm not into the whole "app" thing either. Another thing - the gadgets you have to buy to make an iPad work with a lot of the music apps I've seen are rather expensive and delicate....not really suitable for industrial strength "out in the field" usage either. Also, I hate being led around like a barnyard animal and I don't like the restrictive set of boundaries which Apple puts around all of it's stuff. I'll just stick with my laptops which are robust and a known proven commodity - besides, you can almost get one for the same cost of an iPad these days.

I would try a jaw harp.