Do you think that mobile music has made creating music with desktops / laptops more difficult for you? Or is it just me?
Has mobile music made life more difficult?
I've found that these days making music using desktop systems (Logic, Ableton etc) is not as easy as it used to be, and I think it is down to the number of mobile applications that I use and have got used to over the years. I think partly it is the immediacy of mobile music that I love, and the fact that there are very few laptop / desktop applications that offer me the same kind of immediate satisfaction.
Do you think that mobile music has made creating music with desktops / laptops more difficult for you? Or is it just me?
Do you think that mobile music has made creating music with desktops / laptops more difficult for you? Or is it just me?
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10 years ago I got into trackers (mostly ModPlug). Over the years I toyed with apps like FL and Ableton but I never could get into them. They just seemed so complicated and overwhelming. Eventually I settled on Renoise with a handful of VSTs -- but then I got my iPod touch and bought apps like SunVox and BeatMaker. The thing I like about apps like these is that they're so simple and uncluttered, like trackers were back in the day. The only music apps I have installed on my notebook anymore are SunVox and WAVosaur. I'd never touch anything like FL or Ableton ever again (I still think Renoise is awesome, even if I don't use it anymore).
Imho it is more difficult. Production in Logic is a breaze (with the right controllers that is).
Mobile music reminds me more of the groovebox age, where you hook up many machines to a mixer and then tweak them one after the other.
On the other hand: working with sunvox or bleep box lets you produce on the couch… ;)
Nanolo, tweaking chained effects is fun! The effects chain in Renoise was one of my favorite things about it.
One thing that is still very difficult on mobiles is adding effects to samples. SunVox has modular effects built in, and BeatMaker has a few effects, but there's no dedicated WAV editing app for the iPhone/iPod that lets you apply a wide range of effects.
Even if someone made such an app, you'd still have to load sample WAVs from your computer, tweak them in the app, put the edited samples back on your computer, then load the samples into SunVox or BeatMaker. It's a real pain that apps can't access a common filesystem on the iPhone. ioLibrary helps a bit with this, but Apple will probably decide its against the dev terms and force it out of apps that already have it :(
Mobile music has been some icing on a DAW cake, for me. There is no way I would try to do in-depth work on my mobile. Its fine for doodling around, or capturing ideas when I am away from my home studio. But when its time to get down to it, I go to my DAW (Logic Pro, hardware keyboard, mics, guitars, etc).
Yes, the bigger setup is mucho more complex and it takes a lot of time to learn to use it, but I find the mobile apps to be too limiting, and the ergonomics (screen size, data entry, etc) are too restrictive. But, I suppose it all depends on what you are trying to do. They both have their place.
Don't get me wrong, I use a lot of music apps on my mobile. They are the main reason I bought an iPod Touch. I also really appreicate the posts and enthusiasm on this site -- I read it every week.
Oh.....and I love using my iPod Touch as a wireless remote for Logic Studio and Mainstage. That's cool.
I love using mobile music making stuff, and you'll still catch me out and about with a Zire 72 with Bhajis or Sunvox. I know that people have made some cracking music using Bhajis and other mobile stuff, but for me when I'm out and about and I create a little melody or loop and I'm excited about it, all I'm thinking is "As soon I get home I'm gonna get you into Ableton..." My version of Ableton is getting kinda old now, but for some reason it seems to be the final destination for all my pocket gadget noodling. I guess we all have our ways...
Still love the Palm Sounds blog! Merry Christmas!
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