Best Apps For Making Metal Music
Socorro Henson
I would like to make "electronic" Metal Songs on my iPad.
That means it doesn't has to be a real guitar - a synth with distortion could maybe work, too...
Do you have any recommendations for apps on iOS?
I own already Jam Maestro and Geoshred Pro..
And for the workflow... Its probably the best to use some of these apps together with Cubasis, Auria, BM3, Gadget, Blocs Wave or somehow with AUM / Audiobus? Havent worked yet with longer Audiosamples on iOS.
@oli said:
And for the workflow... Its probably the best to use some of these apps together with Cubasis, Auria, BM3, Gadget, Blocs Wave or somehow with AUM / Audiobus? Havent worked yet with longer Audiosamples on iOS.
Audiobus with aum on the output is a great combination. I think you will also need AudioShare to have all your audio end up in one place and from there you have many export options. These 3 apps are not the most exciting but essential for a smooth iOS workflow on my experience.
I am into recording Metal (guitar) on my iPad a lot too and i own all drum apps that have metal drums built-in. Personally i find the best metal drum patterns and convincing sounding metal drumkits to be in Drum Session. Run it through AB or AUM and put a nice compressor or maximizer on the drums like Rough Rider or Maxima and it will sound really tight and punchy. Rockdrum machine is great too and X drummer has great metal drum patterns as well but i'm not as thrilled much about the kit sounds. DrumPerfect Pro got some good metal drums and patterns too.
A lot of synthwave guys seem to come from a metal background and bring that sensibility and style to electronic music. Check out Perturbator and Carpenter Brut. Might give you some inspiration. I believe they mostly use classic synthesizers, plenty of them available on iOS..
I appreciate that almost everyone here will have absolutely no interest in this kind of noisy music but I felt compelled to post this, mostly due to my sheer amazement of what a simple iPad is capable of making.
The bass midi Is exported to Gadget from jam maestro and run through Madrid. I use a custom sound and lower the velocities on the entire track to add realism and get rid of the clicking noises on the higher notes. I then feed it to AUM and mix through Mamoth to get a clean sound I like. Then I feed the clean sound through tonestack bass fuzz setting and I think it sounds fat as!
Drums midi is exported from jam maestro to drum perfect pro. (It took me a long while to create a midi map for DPP in jam maestro to enable the two to link correctly but got there eventually. Personally I hate DPP pattern editor!) I then add a bit of swing and humanisation and run it through their Harvey metal kit. I then export each stem individually as a wav file.
Really interesting idea here. When I had a guitar, I could try and play simple riffs (powerchords only. that's what I can do ), but on iOS I struggle a bit with that. Gonna try it like you did. I'm a bassist by nature too
I create a particular genre of metal called Goregrind. Most songs are from horror films and the film is often sampled at the start of the song. It is not uncommon for the samples to be longer than the actual songs. Weird I know. But it takes all sorts!
More of a mainstream metal fan personally, but I totally appreciate what you have created here. Love the intro and while I'm not well versed in the genre, this sounds like authentic Goregrind to me. I don't think metal gets much play in the IOS world so keep it up! The more there is, the better!
Nicely done, and a fun listening. The drums, like michael_m points out are a bit off and that's a bit strange as you have the best iOS app there is for them (imo). Also, I think it's better to upload to SoundCloud so you can present the song directly here and skip the download part. Probably miss a few cause of that...
@Pxlhg said:
Nicely done, and a fun listening. The drums, like michael_m points out are a bit off and that's a bit strange as you have the best iOS app there is for them (imo). Also, I think it's better to upload to SoundCloud so you can present the song directly here and skip the download part. Probably miss a few cause of that...
@FesteringMike said:
I appreciate that almost everyone here will have absolutely no interest in this kind of noisy music but I felt compelled to post this, mostly due to my sheer amazement of what a simple iPad is capable of making.
Keith Kahn-Harris is the author of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge, and Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity. Here are his ten favourites slices of Israeli metal, punk and noise.
The best-known and most successful Israeli metal band globally. Orphaned Land play progressive metal with influences from Arabic and Mizrachi music. They try and promote coexistence through music, toured with the Palestinian-Israeli band Khalas, and have fans in other Middle Eastern countries. While they sometimes skirt close to the nave and even orientalist, they are pioneers in their field.
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