Okpeople, here's a question, and a loaded one:
Who uses Korg Gadget (ios or desktop) with great results? I guess what I'm going for with this question is this an instrument suite where you could stay in it's closed universe (this does not bother me at all - Reason fan) and obtain equally good if not better results than not staying in it's universe?
I'm really having a tough time deciding about whether to jump on the desktop version and to use it in concert with the ios version to finally focus and get *hit done. I dearly love all of my ios synths but find that the time has come to focus and learn. (I have been struggling with this aspect of my ios experience, and in the process bought Beathawk, Cubasis, BM3, Xequence and tons of synths).
I'm not looking for justification to purchase the desktop version, but looking for honest opinions. The teaser for me is Reason and Gadget - together. Linear, loop based, gobs of instruments - it's all there.
Productive = good.
Sound-wise? Does it compete (for lack of a better term) or rather, do the gadgets compete with other offerings on ios sound-wise? I have yet to record anything and listened outside of the environment of the ipad. I'm probably overthinking this.
Gadget does Ableton Live Project export too. Every Gadget user can get a free, limited version of Live by going to the export menu inside Gadget and giving an email. I think the version you get is limited to 8 tracks.
Even if you don't have/use Ableton, the exported files might be useful as building blocks in Reason or wherever else.
I use gadget a lot, (I'd use it exclusively over any other app if there weren't so many other interesting things available), but actually what holds gadget back is it's IOS 9 era file management. As projects and audio files pile on it becomes more tedious to render out bits and then go hunting for them without a search bar or a means to organise things by directory. The little scrolling windows with truncated names are also carpel tunnel inducing.
Lately however I've been straying away from production and focusing more on performance and Gadget is wonderful because you can quickly swap out instruments, add effects to taste, lay down song parts and navigate them easily (one major avantage over the linear timeline) and naturally you've got so many different presets to choose from. You don't need to use all of them, you'll find a small handful you will want to use over and over again.
Some apps have builtin audio recorders that can record the streaming performance audio. It's a shame Korg hasn't implemented that yet because all kinds of happy accidents can get lost all too easily if you don't set your self up recording sessions into AUM or Cubasis beforehand.
Also, every gadget in the collection can intuitively be custom mapped to your midi controller and it will remember your midi mappings. In other words set it and forget it. No other IOS apps have that.
Leon ! Mr. K is fantastic! Just a blast and extremely well done. Listening to Aphrodites Stepchild and am getting a Vagelis vibe here. I really dig this. I think this is an excellent demonstration (not as it's intended I'm sure) of what Gadget can do. Wow man. You've really got some skills and have convinced me that I'm headed in the right direction.
As for the topic question @kinkujinI I mostly use Gadget only (have all IAPs). Like you said, it helps me to get sh*t done > keeps me focused. I like how I can put an idea down real quick. Save it and come back a week/month/year later and everything is exactly the same, even on another iPad/iPhone (iCloud).
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