Why not stick with Ableton/Bitwig. iOS is just wasting your time on the long run
edit: since that sounds like some random bashing of iOS, here’s some more explanation. I’ve been trying hard to make iOS work for me, only to finally have to give up. Here’s my experience with it:
- iOS lacks most things that make a computer an easy to use device for people making music. Sure, it feels very easy and intuitive on the surface, but it gets very complicated for basic things like sharing files across devices.
- most software on iOS is focusing on few specific tasks, if you need something that covers a broader range (like a DAW) you are often out of luck. Though there is some more advanced software and many flavours of DAWs, as you have noticed, they always lack many things. After all… since Apple has created a “price dumping paradise” we can not expect anything else.
- A lot of software is very buggy and unmature. Again… what else should we expect due to the nature of the app store market.
- Things that really work effortlessly out of the box on macOS, are not always the same on iOS. getting MIDI to work usually requires a lot of fiddling around, if you run multiple apps and need them to work with each other, this also is messy (sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t, the order in which you launch things sometimes matters… sometimes it’s just randomly not working, etc.)
- personally I find that multi-touch does not work well for anything that has to be precise, which is often the case with musical software.
- the iPad is still a computer, even if a bit of a dumbed-down one, so why not just go with the real deal?
This said, iOS can still work well if you treat the iPad as an instrument and just use it run one app (eg. Samplr is a great one!). But for more complex things, like what you are after I feel that a good ol’laptop will spare you a lot of banging your head against walls.
