A few years ago, I started off recording on my iPad with GarageBand. From there, one thing led to another and I ended up buying a MacBook Pro so I could install Logic. No excuses! I now had everything I needed to make decent recordings!
And I still do - but I've reverted back to the iPad. I just don't use Logic often enough to stay up to speed. I'm mainly recording demos of songs, or something I'm working on without my part on it so I can play along, demos of arrangements for the other people I'm playing with who don't read music.
I think the iPad is really great for this sort of thing. I'm even popping earbuds on and recording voice and acoustic guitar using the internal mic and - guess what - it sounds fine for my purposes. If I want to record something suitable for public (I mean paid-for) consumption I'll get a studio and an engineer
I just feel like I dived down a rabbit hole and now I've come up the other side.
Just wanted to share... Does this resonate with anyone else?
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I still tend to use Logic as an overgrown multitrack tape machine and only really scrape the surface of what it can do really, but I much prefer it to GarageBand. I like the idea of GarageBand, and I want to like it, but there's something about the dumbed-down interface that I find obstructive. Having said that, I do use it quite often, but usually for recording clips of a single instrument, or sometimes with a basic drum loop.
There are a few workflow differences between Logic and GB iOS, but I kept at it for a few weeks and now I'm back in the groove and find the reduced choice of options helpful rather than limiting. The choices that it does have are very usable and give decent results for relatively little effort.
Quite. I get the demo going using the internal mic and headphones. If I want to polish it up or spend more time on it, then I'll redo parts using the same mics, audio interface and monitors that I use for Logic. That isn't lo fi at all, by then. But only if it's needed. Mostly, I'm working on ideas rather than tracking my best performances for consumption by other people.
In the case of Garageband for iOS, it is possible to convert/transfer a Project over to Logic Pro for development into a fuller production.
But I've not done it in anger for a while because I'm getting all I want to do done in iOS.
Haven't tried it yet.