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golemus · Post by **golemus** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:30 pm

If you are on the go what do you think is currently the fastest way to produce a track draft.

I have used Live for years, now I am considering moving from VST plugins to Live's own instruments (Analog, Operator) for faster workflow because I am fed up of VST plugin window management. Then again if I was able to produce tracks faster with iPad and appropriate application I would be really interested to know that.

Lets say that you have 4 hours in the airport and you have to produce pretty much most of the track in that time. What do you think it is currently the fastest tool to do that?

1. i5 laptop, 1280x800 (or 1366x768 resolution, mouse, Ableton Live with built in instruments and effects. (perhaps even Korg nanokey)

2. ipad with Nanostudio

3. ipad with FL Studio mobile

4. ipad with something else...?

5. android tablet...?

6. something else...?

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:34 pm

4 hours

Takes me 4 months.

But when I do produce on the go, it is with a netbook and Ableton Live.

Fernando Carvalho · Post by **Fernando Carvalho** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:43 pm

Laptop and ableton I would say. You know the tool well and all you do there is inside your daw already, that's a big plus.

In the other hand, I couldn't stand create anything at an airport, read something or watch some movies is all I could do there

gamecat666 · Post by **gamecat666** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:47 pm

ipad + beatmaker2 + bunch of samples.

laptop + renoise? (predominantly kbd based - i dont like using laptop trackpads!)

halftone · Post by **halftone** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 1:57 am

i would recommend Loopy HD to record - use Audiobus to record various synth and drum app audio loops into Loopy. I came from using Ableton on PC and absolutelty love Loopy and it's workflow. So simple yet it gets the job done. (it does time stretching well, so you can adjust your tempo easily - no pitch adjustment feature yet - which would be nice)

I think many people use its workflow to record some basic tracks - a couple drums tracks, a bassline, a few pads/textures, a lead line or two - then take these loops and move them over to something like Auria, Beatmaker, Cubasis - any DAW on ipad of your choice - to do proper mixing and arranging (as Loopy doesn't feature any effects or sequencer)

It often takes me about 3 or 4 hours (give or take) to fill up the maximum of 12 tracks in Loopy with various loops of audio. The mixing and arranging (which I've done in Garageband, and more often Beatmaker2 lately) can take quite a bit more time than that - but for just quickly recording some ideas that are well on their way to becoming a full track - Loopy HD works very well for me.

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 2:28 pm

gamecat666 wrote:ipad + beatmaker2 + bunch of samples.

laptop + renoise? (predominantly kbd based - i dont like using laptop trackpads!)

iPad + Beatmaker2 + 22GB of samples.

21 song lineup that's all live play. That's just the start. I create more on iPad than PC lately, then setup the song in Ableton after mostly done on iPad.

On PC I can get the same song lineup with Ableton Live for live play also. Both platforms I'm using a padKontrol, but on PC playing Venom synth as controller for VST and iPad I use the onscreen keyboard.

Beatmaker2 is the best MPC like drum sampler on IOS.

polaris20 · Post by **polaris20** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 4:17 pm

For me, the way I work the fastest for drafts/song ideas is this:

1. Scratch out some drums in GB.
2. Record guitars using JamUp Pro or Ampkit+, then bass
3. Do MIDI instruments, like piano or strings

At that point I do a lot of arrangement and such. Then I bring it into Logic X on the desktop, at which point I usually replace drums, and use different samples for the already recorded MIDI. But often times I keep the guitar and bass tracks as is, as well as an Audiobus-ed app like iPolySix and Animoog.

I find it to be an incredibly fun and productive way of working. The initial process of writing a song is done with the iPad, which I find better than a desktop/laptop. But it's just a high tech way of doing what I did in the old days with a Tascam Portastudio and an SR-16 drum machine. Cheaper too, believe it or not. Each one of those things easily cost more than what I spent on the iPad+iRig Pro.

BMoore · Post by **BMoore** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:02 pm

VST window management on a pc can quickly become equal to app management on an iPad.
And NanoStudio alone is no where near a one-stop solution. For me, mainly because of few sounds, and they are poor.

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