BeatMaker 3 4+

Best beat app on iOS if you ask me, more complex then any other.

the limitations mostly exist in us, this app is the closest thing there ever will be to real heaven!

bm3 is my go to sampler and sequencer. there are other apps that work well too, for me they dont compete, they work very well together, Nanostudio 2 , Gadget, all the Audio Units and IAAs you have so much more power at your fingertips than the legends had when most of humanities top classics were made, for less than the cost of an ipad you can support independent devs around the world to make a living and have the best most powerful workstation to ever fit in your pocket!

if you take the time to ask the internet the things you dont know, and stay committed to learning this app, if you really learn it in your muscle memory , this app will take your sampling and song writing anywhere you wanna go.

below i list my setup which is not a bunch of new expensive gear, most is durable, and each piece was carefully selected most have multipul functions. you could make music fine with just bm3 alone and most class compliant midi controllers will work fine but at the minimum i totally recomend an interface, ( somthing that charges your ios device and gives you good inputs and outputs, and midi, you need good headphones or speakers, a controller with transport ,16 knobs and 16 pads. and a separate midi keyboard, a synth can double as midi keys....

in my studio i have two ipads networked with icconnectivity audio+4 interface going into a 12 ch analog mixer going to hardware...

midi controllers are a beatstep, and qnexus for alll kinds of midi fexibility and they take up zero space for all they offer. ultranova brings it up to a full size piano or / fx processor/ synth, then add the hardware or soundsources..... one of my favs is my kp3 , I have some old drum machines and samplers, guitar, bass etc, bm3 is at the center though

i have a laptop coming into the mixer via a line6 audiointerface with guitar preamps but this isnt turned on all the time. I am primarily in the ipads and i usually only use one at a time BUT and that is big but, I have the setup this way for some good reasons. my cpu is never maxed, my devices run cool, and I have redundency, if one fails I move on without a pause. its the best of both worlds, its not in the box or out of the box, its just powerful and flexible.
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for the train.....
i have a nanokeystudio bluetooth keyboard and a bose minisoundlink , i do not use its bluetooth unless im only doing step sequencing, i carry one of the 6way mini jack splitters and 2 sets of headphones and the usual adapters for connecting to a mixing board or sound or such...

Sorry, this is a useless daw as long theres no midi export...