![]() ![]() Occasional crash aside, FL Studio on the iPad is a great way to make beats on the go. With 130-odd instruments and about 99 tracks the app is no slouch and you can easily piece together little musical sketches then take them back to your PC to finesse them. ![]() It would be nice to see a little more control – especially with regards to mixing levels on individual tracks and fx automation – but then again this is running on an iPad so there will be certain limitations. You can limit effects to certain tracks or apply them across the board. There are also some built-in FX – nothing crazy but some reverb, filter effects and amp distortion type affairs. The piano roll interface is however, needlessly fiddly and the need to confirm each note drawn seems a little silly. There is a keyboard interface so you can play loops live and a traditional piano roll editor so you can draw in notes – or edit live performances that may have been a little sloppy – perfectly forgivable when you’re playing keys on a touchscreen. Of course man does not live on beats alone and FL is replete with a number of synth leads, pads and basses. Based on vintage exciter circuits and advanced dynamics processing, Fresh Air lets you add just the right amount of brilliance & shine to your mix in simple. FL studio comes preloaded with a number of kits, all of which sound ok (I was a fan of the foley kit), so you are free to change up your style. Obviously a more tactile surface would be better for this sort of thing – sadly Akai’s LPD 8 doesn’t seem to work with iPads – but it’s easy enough to knock out a simple loop -or even a more complex one with a bit of practice. There are also drum pads where you can tap out a beat -much like an MPC. If you’ve not used a step sequence before it’s pretty straight forward – it’s more or less a grid with various drum sounds along the side and you can punch in where and when you want snares, kicks and hats to appear. The Bluetooth connection was causing my music to skip every now and then and the iPad was within a meter but I honestly dont trust any Bluetooth and was. The familiar step sequencing grid presents itself to you and you can punch in a simple drum beat and get to work. So when FL Studio was released on the iPad, I was more than a little curious as to how they would capture the magic of creating beats on the fly and more importantly – would it kill my iPad in the process? And how does it compare to GarageBand?įiring up the app takes a good 10 seconds – much, much faster than it ever took back in my PC days, but a noticeable wait on an instant gratification post-PC device such as the iPad. Record, sequence, edit, mix and render complete songs. I remember many long nights hunched over my battered Vaio trying to piece together beats and pieces, whilst my poor laptop struggled valiantly with the multiple tracks, FX and plug-ins that I heaped upon it. Create and save complete multi-track music projects on your iPad, iPhone or Mac. Chances are, if you’ve dabbled in beat making on the PC at any time in the past ten years you will have stumbled across FL studio – or FruityLoops as it used to be know as before if became too cool for itself. ![]()
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