#Mac vs pc for music production 2016 software

Thanks! It's nice to hear the iPad stuff booming out of my Orange bass combo, I'm just trying to get Logic and (when I get it) Mainstage working with the two controllers. On Windows it took a lot of effort, but I did finally get there.Įither way you go, good luck and have fun playing live! On iOS, I hook up everything through an iStudio interface and stuff simply works.

#Mac vs pc for music production 2016 software

I came to iOS from hardware, but more recently I've been exploring desktop music software and found that it is a big pain in the backside to get things working. It's easy advice for me as I have two workstation keyboards and a synth - all with midi. My Edirol seems to be obsolete as Roland have abandoned it, so could happen to other devices.

Works well if you don't need too many apps open for a set as the synth itself will do all your bread and butter sounds well said: You can use this to change the sounds being used without changing too many app midi settings live. Each one set up to move to a different set of midi channels which you can set your chosen apps to. You can also use the stagesets as presets. You can use 3 of the 4 midi out zones with the iPad and keep one for the built in sounds then if an iPad sound goes use a slider to bring in the keyboard sound straight away. The Casio PX5s is a cool gigging solution to use with an iPad. He also recommends using a sound generating keyboard as MIDI controller for a real and true backup system. A good friend of mine runs sound for a couple of bands we were talking about iOS and how much you can do and how great and powerful PC/Mac software is and he reminded me that in a live setting, you'd better carry a backup PC, or second (or 3rd) iPad or whatever, 'because software will fail more often in a live setting than in the studio.'