iPad Music Making - Apps and tricks for Beginners

Name: iPad Music Making - Apps and tricks for Beginners
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Quickly compose original music with iPad music apps for your videos and films. The iPad Music course — Robb Montgomery

Created byRobb Montgomery

Last updated 3/2021

English

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What you'll learn

Create original music for videos and soundtracks for your films.

Course content

8 sections • 56 lectures • 3h 9m total length

How to take this course0:46
Touchscaper app - Tips for making music4:39
Getting started with Touchscaper music app for iPad1:25
A quick introduction from Robb
Touchscaper app - Chord Explorer6:18
Explore touchscaper’s chord explorer to set a key, choose modal scales, and audition chords for rich progressions. Borrow chords from a relative major and rearrange sequences to craft original music.
Touchscaper app - Instruments12:44
Explore Touchscaper on the iPad to build chord progressions, layer instruments, save scenes, and experiment with scales, chord looper, and ribbon instrument for rich, dynamic moods.
Touchscaper app - MIDI8:41
Learn to connect the touchscape app to external instruments via MIDI, assign and mix virtual synths, adjust master and instrument levels, and explore presets, chords, and micro tunings.
Touchscaper app - Sequencer9:03
Learn to use the Touchscaper app's built-in sequencer to craft drum, percussion, and synth patterns, explore the chord looper, and leverage a probability engine for danceable performances.
Touchscaper app - next steps1:24
Explore touchscaper app to create original iPad music by tweaking synth presets like mellotron, minimoog, Jupiter-8, oberheim, and prophet, while discovering 70s-80s sounds and practical use of GarageBand and Figure.

iPad Music Apps - Getting started5:02
iPad Music - Getting great sounds1:10
Explore fm player and digital daewon from audio kit to emulate the classic dx7. Hundreds of presets offer amazing sounds to explore, with downloadable resources for reference.
Checking in1:27
iPad Music - External keyboard4:31
Discover how audio unit mixers on the iPad combine sound sources, effects, and levels in a three-channel setup, with presets, favorites, and buffer-size guidance.
iPad Music - AUM Controls2:40
Explore iPad music making with AUM controls, adjusting outputs, inputs, and modifiers, and layering effects like limiter, dub station, phase, and EQ to shape instrument space.
iPad Music - Parameter mapping1:21
Learn how to map a single parameter to a quick access control on an iPad synth, select an instrument, enable MIDI control, and adjust voltage control frequency and amount.
iPad Music - AUM Connecting apps3:48
iPad Music - Multi touch controller4:02
Explore multi touch controller workflows by using touch escaper as a keyboard source, routing instruments, adjusting chord progressions, and mapping note ranges to craft musical fragments.
iPad Music - Add an Oberheim3:51
Explore iPad music making by adding an Oberheim instrument, attaching a keyboard, and using multiple controllers and MIDI to shape rich presets, record visuals, and explore sound design.
KB 1 Keyboard controller8:59
iPad Music - Creating Song Ideas6:56
Use touch escaper as a multi-purpose controller to play patterns, automate three sound sources, and build song ideas with chord progressions, beats, and varied synths like Cauldron and Cynth One.
iPad Music - Adding Automation4:30
Design and save patches on the Magellan synthesizer, experiment with its built-in sequencer and cinematic effects, then route iPad synth outputs into Cubase for multi-track recording.
iPad Music - Art is a Process4:51
Explore how song ideas emerge through experimentation, capture snapshots of turning points, and use an audio unit mixer with external controllers to craft varied soundscapes on an iPad.

Mixing the song3:30
Mix drum, bass, and lead parts by adjusting volumes, muting tracks, and applying a subtle pump, then change the global key and record the eight-bar loop as a sample.
EXERCISE: Mix your song pattern and change keys0:15
Export audio3:13
Export audio from the figure app by recording three eight-bar loops in C major, C minor, and parallel minor, then use the audio copy app on iPhone or iPad.
EXERCISE: Setup audio transfers0:14
Share audio4:06
Exercise: Share audio to another app0:06

EXERCISE: Create a project0:07
Intro to music loops7:08
Discover how to build songs with live loops in GarageBand using eight-bar patterns, export audio, and record performances across simple keys like A minor, C major, and C minor.
Pasting music into cells5:18
Copy sound loops from audio copy into GarageBand, paste into live loops cells, and rename columns for C major, A minor, and C minor, then set tempo to 90 ppm.
EXERCISE: Paste music parts0:21
Recording a song5:14
Learn to record and edit a three-part live loop song on iPad, apply basic effects like compression and EQ, and export to LumaFusion for final video.
EXERCISE: Record a performance0:10
EXERCISE: Export audio into another app0:13

Airdrop to Logic Pro X1:25
EXERCISE: Share project to Logic Pro X0:14
Score in Logic Pro X6:19
Transfer a live-loop project from iPad to Logic Pro X, sync with Final Cut Pro scenes, and export the music with video in three eight-bar sections.
The Atacama project in Logic Pro X1:06
This video shows a film score project that began life in Live Loops and was transferred using this method.
The Final Showreel - Atacama desert with film score1:03
This finished film scene shows how effective this workflow can be to help keep you focused on the meaning in music and pictures instead of being overwhelmed by all the advanced dashboard options in the Logic Pro X program.

Requirements

No music experience required.
Have a late-model iPad and the ability to download free apps.
An interest in creating copyright-free music for sharing on Facebook and YouTube videos

Description

Make music with iPad apps and quickly develop new sounds and musical background patterns for your mobile videos that match your signature style and vision.

No musical expertise required
Craft original beats for your social videos
Score music for your mobile films
10 Exercises to build your first song

Learn the quick and easy way and to make royalty-free and copyright-free music for your videos.

Step-by-step tutorials walk you through every step of the process!

You got this!

The lesson concepts for music production are similar to the building of a visual narrative structure that we teach in all the Smart Films School courses.

We use a proven approach that can quickly build confidence and even show you the apps that can be tuned to prevent you from even hitting wrong notes!

The course begins with making mobile music with free apps that can be used for background music tracks for social videos. The course then builds on this foundation to show the pathways to scaling up these projects in Logic Pro X for film scoring.

The example used in film scoring module started out as simple 8-bar GarageBand sketch on an iPad that was then airdropped into LogicPro X where it could be mixed while viewing the scene - just like they do in Hollywood.

The key in this course to start simple and make each project to build on previous skills. You will find that making original music is fun and you will quickly get results that that please your ears.

What are you waiting for?
Enroll now and get started!

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iPad Music Making - Apps and tricks for Beginners

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Making musical patterns8 lectures • 45min

AUM and virtual instruments13 lectures • 53min

Figure music app for iOS8 lectures • 24min

Mix and export audio6 lectures • 11min

Building a song7 lectures • 19min

Advanced features8 lectures • 26min

Sneak Peek: Scoring film music5 lectures • 10min

Final Lecture1 lecture • 2min

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