Teardrop - Massive Attack - Recorded live with an iPad, 23 Apps and a Classical Guitar

For this song, I am using a lot of Apps...
I will show you all the Apps I am using to play this song live, all the Apps I am using before and after to play this song...

(a link to the keynote and all the presets I am using is also available at the end of this post)

iMIDI Patchbay / iRig Blueboard / AUM - Audio Mixer / modstep (Sequencer & Sampler) / Amplitude / Amplitube acoustic / AudioReverb (2 instances) / Kosmonaut (2 instances) / FAC Chorus (3 instances) / Maxima / StepPolyArp / bs - 16i / AUFX- Space / Auddly / Band Manager / Audioshare / Midi East Drummer / Groove Rider GR-16 Soundscaper / Rough Rider / Magellan (check out the part 2) / iCab Mobile

Tap an App icon to jump to the App Store

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iCab Mobile

The first App I am using is iCab Mobile..
icab is the best web browser! Much more better than all the browser available for Mac OS!
I am using it to download videos from YouTube.
Here the acapella vocal of Elisabeth Frazer
Here is the link:
​https://youtu.be/l7iCmLoFoyA

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AudioShare

AudioShare is a Must Have for musicians.
A files manager (Audio / Video / zip / MIDi Files ), a file converter....
It’s also an audio editor with a snap to grid feature! This is awesome!
Because Teardrop has been recorded with Drum Machine it was really easy for me to split the voice into several part....
I also use AudioShare to save all my files (backup) when I finished to work on a song

​Here are the link of the all the audio vocal files I am using to play this song
​Verse 1 https://app.auddly.com/au/cSWvBLHIhzTofXLKoPXTQWIda54d48pA
Chorus 1 https://app.auddly.com/au/cl2OJUgyKuvtK3VdOCkcm0A4EayujY4o
verse 2 https://app.auddly.com/au/og3OfRvUCCXJvxXcgEqxPx0F0YYkFk7C
Verse 3 https://app.auddly.com/au/og3OfRvUCCXJvxXcgEqxPx0F0YYkFk7C
End https://app.auddly.com/au/2RGQz68pZ5HiorlCQsC5gdXmAmIHBPqo

I only have one wishes for AudioShare (because I am a very old man....)
​A bigger or the ability to zoom a waveform while editing

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Magellan

I love Magellan!
One of my favorite synthesizer... (it’s not one, but 2 synthesizers with this App!)

But because of it, I had to change the way I am playing a song live...
I have a big problem with it...
I am using 2 pedalboards (12 Steps and Blueboard) but impossible to set the input MIDI channel into Magellan...
So, when I am playing a key with my 12 steps pedalboard, Magellan plays....
Because of this I had to sample my Magellan parts and send them into modstep.
Here are the links of the Magellan parts
Intro https://app.auddly.com/au/cp1uxVWm9jpr7IqKKJTNxodELq12xjcN
Verse https://app.auddly.com/au/uBC3BY4ltBlcd96ATy8QUxtX1j8q34xr
Chorus https://app.auddly.com/au/Qz0ry8TWEpVpKbUgXFgPyxyMKCzEzCut

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iRig Blueboard

This is the App link to the Blueboard pedalboard
It’s a IK Multimedia App...
It means for me that the MIDI setting options are too much minimalist...
The pedalboard is cool, not so expensive compared to other but the lack of an AC adapter is really annoying...
The cool things is that you can plug 2 expression pedals.

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iMIDI Patchbay

With it I can load the adequate program of all the compatible Apps I am using to play a song...
Here, Mid Eat Drummer, StepPolyArp, bs-16i
I use it also to split my 12 Step pedalboard in zones (3 max) or to change the playing octave....

Note that another App from the same developer can do a lot of things too...
Perhaps even more...
It's Midiflow...

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AUM - Audio Mixer

I guess that you all have this App...
If not, jump right now to the App Store to get it!

The +++ of this App is that you can control it with other App or external keyboard..
This App is perfect!!
But because I love it and need it so much I would like to have more....
A Midi learn feature (Mute / Un muted) for a bus send.....
The Ableton Link Start a top feature too but I guess that is is on the hHH e way.....

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SoundScaper

1 App playing sound

This App is really awesome to create textures, Drones,....
You can import your own audio files....
Automation.....
Just awesome!
Here I am use a Demo preset.
The App starts playing when I play AUM (IAA start and Stop)

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Groove Rider GR-16

2 App playing sound

This is my favorite Groove Box App like.
The sound quality is so awesome!
The App is really easy to use...
I have only 2 wishes which is the ability to name a preset and to export it (backup)

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Mid East Drummer

3 App playing sound

A Lumbeat App!
I don’t know for you, but for me, I am I am starting to work on a song, I always launch a Lumbeat App...
So awesome!
They are much more than Drum or percussion machines!
You have someone in the App!
It’s crazy!
The jam mode is awesome, everything is awesome!
There are a few lite version of them in the App Store, so if you don’t know them, try it!
​It will change the way you use to work!
Here I am using a factory groove and sound preset...
(check out the keynote at the end of this post....

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modstep

3 App playing sound

modstep is a kind of Ableton for iOS
It’s a MIDI sequencer, a sampler, and synthesizer.
It works with scene that you can recall as you like.
I am controlling it with my 12 step pedalboard.
I am using 2 Sampler tracks, 1 for the Magellan and 1 for the Vocal.
I am also use 3 MIDI track to play the Tubular bells (bs-16i), the Bass (StepPolyArp) and the Drum (break / built in program)
The MIDI learn feature is really great and allows!
I only have one wishes in a future update: Undo and Redo

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Bismark bs-16i

3 App playing sound

A Must Have too...
It’s a Soundfont files player.
16 tracks, a Mixer with a delay, a reverb and a chorus
Why a Must Have?
Because you can import your own Soundfont files into this App and there are a lot of Free packs on the web...
So, It’s an open expander....
​Top!

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