best iOS/android music productions apps

[nowaysj]

So I've heard, and very impressive. Cannot wait until my computer is a 2x4 foot touch interface... Like I CANNOT WAIT!

[alphacat]

Was just reading about how touchscreen technology is about to become so cheap that it'll be disposable - with literal e-paper that can embed videos and shit. Costs $0.25 per square meter right now... which is crazy to think about.

http://gizmodo.com/5909298/dirt+cheap-t ... where-soon

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[Theo Void]

Mainly I can't decide between ikaossilator or TNR-i (tenori on). got 21$ on my iTunes account and they both look awesome.

although I have filtatron, animoog, alchemy player, cleartune. have to say the moog apps are AMAZING, alchemy player is pretty good - but not a full featured synth like the moog apps. and cleartune is great if you want a chromatic tuner that is very accurate.

Go w/ Korg. Trust me, you'll be pissed that u spent $20 on TNR-i. Its utter crap, sounds like shit and is basically un-finished.
Animoog is AMAZING!!! Some other good ones are IMaschine and Reason Figure!!

[Hexd]

I use NanoStudio, ThumbJam, Alchemy, and Sunrizer. They're all really great apps imo.

[legskeattch]

For me, Figure is the best music app... I have tried nanostudio, Fl Studio, and they are too fiddly on an iPhone screen.

Native Instruments iMaschine is up there too!

[Hexd]

For me, Figure is the best music app... I have tried nanostudio, Fl Studio, and they are too fiddly on an iPhone screen.

Native Instruments iMaschine is up there too!

It certainly has potential. But you can only record 2 bars and can't export!

[+verb]

hello! apps i use on my ipad2...

DM1 (best drum machine ever for ios)
Sunrizer (the chords mmmm)
NLog
Animoog
Addictive Synth
DXi
ims20 (filters sound amazing)
arctic keys
imaschine

daws or environments for making music:

nanostudio (the best idea sketch pad)
tabletop (i have sounds that i designed in the app... so do "oh no", "salva", and others)
garageband
rebirth

tools as i call them:

genome midi
lemur (my most used app.... my live setup is 100% custom template + ableton + MBP)
orphion
polychord
prochords
soundprism pro
touchable (amazing ableton controller that lacks any customization features therefore i do not use it much anymore but others do)

things i plan on trying soon...

grain science
iYM2151
steppolyarp
megacutris
csound

cheers!

[alphacat]

Contribute any links you might have to sites with music app news... my favorite are:

idesignsound.com
iosmusician.com
discchord.com

and to a lesser degree (doesn't get updated so often)

spookyzoo.co.uk

[alphacat]

Freebie called "Bass Drop" - and it's actually not that bad. No recording capability unfortunately... but direct line out recording can handle that.

http://www.idesignsound.com/bass-drop-iphone/

[nowaysj]

These guys just posted here in production a couple of days ago. Lagging on my ipadedness...

[alphacat]

TriqTraq...

DOPE.



(re-posted from http://discchord.com/blog/2012/6/7/triq ... l-jam.html)

IMO this is what Figure shoulda/coulda been.

[nowaysj]

I don't know. It is kind of impossible to make figure sound bad. You can make dope little beats with it, but just can't do anything with it. This app seems a little more like you'd kind of have to work at it. I really wish you could arrange in figure.

[alphacat]

I don't know. It is kind of impossible to make figure sound bad. You can make dope little beats with it, but just can't do anything with it. This app seems a little more like you'd kind of have to work at it. I really wish you could arrange in figure.

There's a tiny bit of a learning curve to Triqtraq, but you it doesn't take much effort to get something funky going. I thought the same thing before I got it and it was only the demo above that nudged me to try it, glad I did now. Everything's pretty simple and straightforward once you get used to the flow. It's a good toy to play with when you want to make sounds without necessarily committing to a full song setup and all that. Sound quality's pretty decent too.

After all, what good is something you can make dope little beats on but can't export?

[nowaysj]

Yeah, I feel you. Figure is really disappointing, because it is so dope, but is such a dead end. It is like a demo for something. It is a suggestion of what something could be. The future though, brother, for these kids that don't even know what a saxamaphone is, is bright.

[William Brave]

The iPhone was already around when I started producing. I used sfxr to make a bunch of songs in the beginning. That being said, you're probably not going to make a full song on your iPhone. That's why I like imaschine, it gives me the satisfaction of building a song but it doesn't give me the intimidatingly huge interface that FL and Music Studio give. I also like it because some ideas need that tactile element to flesh out ideas. It also has a recording sampler, with this you can just start knocking on walls and crap and have yourself a found sound beat. Very fun stuff

[alphacat]

That being said, you're probably not going to make a full song on your iPhone.

...Download Nanostudio and play with it for a week and then come back and say that. I dare you.

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This app looks bananas... it lets you design your own MIDI controller interface. Too bad [for me] it's iPad-only:



http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beatsurf ... mpt=uo%3D4

[nowaysj]

Fan that really is amazing. Fuck gettin all these midi controllers. This touch screen shit is the future, and the future is now.

[bassinine]

Fan that really is amazing. Fuck gettin all these midi controllers. This touch screen shit is the future, and the future is now.

the future is already obsolete (lemur, cough).

let's use our ipads - post-futurism.

[alphacat]

Speaking of "dubstep-o-matic" apps...

Who's gonna take one for the team and try this one?

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/smx-dubs ... 27581?mt=8

[Hedley King]

Has anyone seen a useful android app as a sample trigger?- basically a soundboard you can program yourself, perhaps with some effects too? I've got SPC http://www.mikrosonic.com/spc that does Fx/looping imported samples well but annoyingly it puts samples into loops/songs rather than just being able to press the button and trigger them. Seems like a big screen phone or tablet could work well as a kaoss pad type thing but I can't find anything that does it.