Re: BEST iPad Apps for LIVE LOOPING

[TripleOhNine <3x09@carlsonarts.com>]

Regarding Per's suggestion for using an iPad as a controller surface, there are some folks who are using iPads to control church organ voicings wirelessly in this way, and it should be pretty easy to adapt it for live looping use I would think.

For using iPad on a wireless network as a controller surface, there's an app called Desktop Connect which discovers computers on a wireless network. It also includes support for Easyconnect which is supposed to work over the internet via a googlemail account and is free.  

There's another iPad app called Air Display which displays your computer's screen on the iPad so you can control it in real time wirelessly.  I guess I could use this to display Mobius on the iPad, and then have touch-screen capability to control it!  Man, I've got to get an iPad.  I could walk around with it rather than using a pedal or the computer's keyboard to build my loops.  I'm concerned about latency working through a network, though.  

There is also an app called TouchOSC which you can use, which has a corresponding desktop app for OS X or Windows.  You can create a layout of your own with "switches, faders, LED's, etc." to use as a MIDI control surface.  It supports muti-touch and sweeping.  Here is an example of a layout that was created to allow controlling a church organ, which can be pretty complex with all of the stops, manuals, and so forth involved.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11042821@N00/5953445348/ 

Has anyone used these for live looping, and if so what has been your experience?  Thanks.  

Michael Carlson (TripleOhNine)

Michael Carlson (TripleOhNine)

On Dec 14, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Per Boysen wrote:

You wouldn't chose the iPad for gaining processing power, so it might
as well be as good to focus on using it as a controller? Just the
other day the Lemur iPad app was released and according to what early
adopters say on the web this app now rules for touch screen control on
a budget (referring to original Lemur price tag). I have not tried
much of this myself though, as I prefer controllers that you can play
without the need of gazing at them.

If you want to use iPad apps that also process audio the challenge is
to get good quality audio into and out of the iPad. The Alesis Dock is
a piece of gear that does target this issue.

Finally, if you want to play around with the built-in audio ports you
may have to stand crappy fidelity for live input real-time processing
or to chose not to work in real-time. There are apps that can render
high quality audio files that can be exported, but to me that feels
like going back to 1995 when we first did that on ReBirth (not a very
intuitive work-flow as you need to plan ahead well)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen



On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:28 PM, van Sinn <vansinn@post.cybercity.dk> wrote:

Rick Walker wrote:

I've been lent an iPad2 to use for a while.

It's a new world for me and I'm really enjoying learning

what's out there.

So far,  I have added   FL Studio Mobile HD, the Kaossilator Pro,  the

amazing SampleWiz and MorphWiz,

the Filtatron Moog synth app and the Animoog app.

I was wondering what other apps people have discovered that

they can highly recommend for apps to augment one's

live looping performances, specifically.

Thanks, in advance for your expertise and recommendations.

yours,   Rick Walker

This begs a question: How much processing (and as such which ipad version),

is

needed for (mostly) looping?

I can't see looping requireing that much processing power - of course unless

really mangling the tone, which I won't be doing.

--

rgds,

van Sinn