Producing at Work

[OfficialDAPT]

is it not possible for you to get a bare bones laptop on the cheap and slap ur daw, a couple of essential sample packs and a handful of essential vsts e.t.c.?

I'm on the verge of doing this, I've had a really big vibe for setting up a mini portable studio for the sunny days/friday evnin pints e.t.c.

Why do this when I could save $200 and spend like 10 to 20 bucks on a decent phone sequencer. Sure, the laptop would run a normal DAW but it seems incredibly inconvenient to me.

[Shock Rx]

Have you thought of those daws that can run without being installed? You can download it at home and put it on a thumb drive. No downloading or installing, just plug in and run the daw app. .

How would this help for android or iphones?

Not directly unless you have programming skills... However you just said you couldn't dl anything, not that you couldn't run any apps. Just an idea that I thought could be thrown out there.

[OfficialDAPT]

Have you thought of those daws that can run without being installed? You can download it at home and put it on a thumb drive. No downloading or installing, just plug in and run the daw app. .

How would this help for android or iphones?

Not directly unless you have programming skills... However you just said you couldn't dl anything, not that you couldn't run any apps. Just an idea that I thought could be thrown out there.

Ah I see what you are saying. Tbh though the computer there is way too shitty to handle a DAW. It can barely run firefox and microsoft outlook without freezing up.

[wub]

Sennheiser bass buds are decent for the money, although certainly not ideal.

I use Sennheisers buds at work, they do just fine (not like I'm going to be doing any sub work at the office anyway )

[OfficialDAPT]

Sennheiser bass buds are decent for the money, although certainly not ideal.

I use Sennheisers buds at work, they do just fine (not like I'm going to be doing any sub work at the office anyway )

how much money were they?

[wub]

I got these;

http://en-de.sennheiser.com/mx-470

You can probably get them for under £30. Perfect for basic audio work at the office, and also double up as my MP3 buds on the way to/from work.

[Mr_Frost]

can anyone recommend a decent audio recording app for android? I'm looking to record melody lines and composition ideas quickly when inspiration strikes. also wouldn't mind something quality enough to record some decent audio samples. some of the nail guns at work would make a nice drum sample.

[OfficialDAPT]

can anyone recommend a decent audio recording app for android? I'm looking to record melody lines and composition ideas quickly when inspiration strikes. also wouldn't mind something quality enough to record some decent audio samples. some of the nail guns at work would make a nice drum sample.

It comes with a voice recorder which can be used for anything I'm assuming.

[nnny]

Forced to chill in the office as I missed my bus. Hate my office being in the middle of nowhere, next bus isn't for a few hours and I can't get a lift.

Time for some sample digging!

[glottis5]

sometimes i bring my drum machine to work and dick around for a while. i don't really like producing on my laptop, so i don't really do much beyond trying to figure out synths at work. my job rules. i'm at work right now actually

edit: producing music on a phone sounds... interesting. can you hook up a midi controller to a phone? i tried the alchemy demo on an iphone, kind of neat but trying to play melodies with a touch screen is a colossal pain in the ass

[Bournio]

I use Sunvox on my tablet. I've not really used another tracker before.

What I did was to download it to my pc, since it's free, to see if it was for me, before paying for the app.

[Njamimars]

Anyone tried that FL Studio app on their Iphone?

[alphacat]

sometimes i bring my drum machine to work and dick around for a while. i don't really like producing on my laptop, so i don't really do much beyond trying to figure out synths at work. my job rules. i'm at work right now actually

edit: producing music on a phone sounds... interesting. can you hook up a midi controller to a phone? i tried the alchemy demo on an iphone, kind of neat but trying to play melodies with a touch screen is a colossal pain in the ass

Yes. AND - with totally acceptable latency to boot. There are some cool multi-controllers too. Keys and pads and x/y controls. My entry in the current Sample comp was done 95% in Nanostudio on iPhone. I crank out songs faster on my phone because I don't get sidetracked with overcomplicated fx bussing or fancy automation tricks.

Re: FL studio - don't bother. It's not the same. They bought a half-abandoned early DAW app called Xewton and slapped a couple new pseudofeatures on it. It has since had a bunch of updates and still gets much less love than Nanostudio or even BeatMaker2 (who stole their MIDI view from Nanostudio.)

This is a good summary: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=361403

[Sparxy]

That SunVox looks sick! Going to get it, well worth a go with the headphones when im sat on the shitter

[outdropt]

Actually i do produce at work sometimes.... When i work from home =P

[nnny]

Highly disappointed there are a lack of decent apps for android. Would love to be able to work from my phone. Sadly an iPhone is out of the question.

[Johnst]

@Alpha: I fucked up my little midi keyboard, and have been struggling with automation/creative automation ever since. It was awesome for being able to just attach things to the knobs, set a loop, and fuck with them to see what I could get out of it.

I'm getting an iphone soon though (for free! yay upgrades!). What I want to know is... Are you telling me that I could get an app that's just a bunch of knobs so I could do manual automations and stuff again with my phone?

That sounds spectacular.

[alphacat]

@Alpha: I fucked up my little midi keyboard, and have been struggling with automation/creative automation ever since. It was awesome for being able to just attach things to the knobs, set a loop, and fuck with them to see what I could get out of it.

I'm getting an iphone soon though (for free! yay upgrades!). What I want to know is... Are you telling me that I could get an app that's just a bunch of knobs so I could do manual automations and stuff again with my phone?

That sounds spectacular.

Yes. And - there's more than one of such apps. And - some of them are highly user-configurable.

PS: Nanostudio is half price today.