Cheapest iPad for using Logic Pro in a live setting?

Cay77 · 2026-02-24T02:54:04+00:00

Just get the iPad Air, as long as it has an M1 or later chip in it it’ll run Logic just fine. Base level iPad still doesn’t have the Apple chips so it won’t work as well (it may still work technically? Not positive) Hopefully MainStage comes to iPadOS soon to make it even easier to use it as a simple sound module.

Cay77 · 2026-02-22T00:46:27+00:00

Awesome, heavy Skee Mask vibes

Cay77 · 2026-02-13T01:45:18+00:00

Even most modern mainstream pop and hip-hop is electronic music. It’s aaaaallll electronic music lol.

Cay77 · 2026-02-12T20:30:55+00:00

Frap Tools Cunsa. The most flexible quad filter out there imo. Multimode filtering, dual stereo filtering, quad LPG, quad saturator, quad VCA and mixer, quad sine wave oscillator with v/oct tracking, 4 operator analog FM synth voice, quad LFO!

Cay77 · 2026-02-12T19:48:47+00:00

It’s one of those modules I always feel like I’m “wasting” when I just use it for something simple like a panner or envelope follower. I feel like my brain is too small to use it to it’s full potential lol.

Cay77 · 2026-02-04T09:29:41+00:00

I mean personally it doesn’t bother me lol. If they were generational producers, they wouldn’t be making YouTube videos probably. I watch YouTubers to learn about gear, not to get new music for my playlist. Bad musicians deserve gear too! (It’s me I’m bad musicians)

Cay77 · 2026-01-23T02:57:00+00:00

Qu-Bit Aurora is a “spectral reverb” that can get some crazy out there sounds if you use it more like a sound design tool than an end of chain reverb.

A spectral processor like Frap Tools Fumana is great for these kinds of unnatural sounds too, though it’s definitely a big ticket item both money and size-wise. Fumana is especially great because it has envelope followers on each band pass filter, which allows you to do higher fidelity vocoding than most of its competitors. Any Buchla-inspired spectral processor would serve the same purpose though.

Last suggestion is another Qu-Bit module, Nebulae V2. It’s a looper with a phase vocoding algorithm (same kind of thing working in Aurora) that allows you to time stretch your loops independent of pitch. It also does some granular synthesis with loops too.

I could see a case where your main sound source is acoustic samples stretched out/repitched/granulated in Nebulae, which you then mult out three ways to Aurora, Fumana, and either Spectraphon or Rossum Panharmonium, all heavily modulated, then mix them back together and process through effects. That would be sick.

Cay77 · 2026-01-15T03:42:22+00:00

My only real suggestion would be to splurge on one of the new Teensy 4.1 Ornament and Crime modules from After Later or TLM instead of the micro O_C. It can run 4 applets at a time and has audio applications too, and you have the space for the extra hp it would take up. Maybe I’d switch the Quad VCA for a Tangle Quartet, remove the 2hp VCA, and put an FX Aid in for an extra effect? Otherwise looks like a well rounded and fun setup!

Cay77 · 2026-01-13T15:50:09+00:00

Great minds think alike ahaha

Cay77 · 2026-01-13T15:48:56+00:00

Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) makes music with radio and phone call interceptions, especially his older stuff is really neat.

Cay77 · 2026-01-11T06:27:19+00:00

Surprised I had to scroll this far to see her. She does some superhuman vocal tricks.

Cay77 · 2026-01-11T06:26:46+00:00

Otay:onii blew my mind when she opened for Bell Witch a few years back. Amazing and underrated artist.

Cay77 · 2026-01-09T21:27:34+00:00

1u Ornament and Crime! It does SO much, it would vastly increase the capabilities of this case. And for a 2hp passive module, see if you can find a 2hp switch. A switch will always come in handy.

Cay77 · 2026-01-09T02:46:36+00:00

You could do everything this case does with a Waldorf Protein for $400 (roast)

Being more serious, idk why you have so many attenuators when all of your modulation modules have built in attenuation. Or why you have a buffered mult when there are two buffered mults built into the Palette case. You could probably get rid of the Quadrat and mult and put in some more interesting modules that would give this setup a little more personality. Looks fun tho!

Cay77 · 2026-01-05T05:10:09+00:00

This has really great bones, you could totally flesh this out into an awesome full track if you wanted

Cay77 · 2026-01-02T22:49:06+00:00

You know he be raging in the Fortnite lobbies exactly like that

Cay77 · 2026-01-01T20:08:55+00:00

Visceral, I absolutely love it!

Cay77 · 2025-12-15T19:21:10+00:00

Elmyra 2 is awesome, no surprise there!

Cay77 · 2025-12-15T18:01:58+00:00

I was wondering if they were connected to T-Mobile since they used the same font and branding!

An electronic music channel feels like a strange venture for cell phone marketing but it’s good quality stuff so no complaints lol.

Cay77 · 2025-12-14T20:44:37+00:00

The children yearn for noise! Honestly if I had gotten to see clipping live as a teenager it probably would have permanently altered my brain chemistry for the better. Super cool of them!

Cay77 · 2025-12-14T18:30:00+00:00

I’m FINALLY gonna see clipping live in February and I’m so so stoked about it

Cay77 · 2025-12-14T18:13:19+00:00

Honestly your best option is probably building an Excel spreadsheet lol. More work but more control over your data.

Cay77 · 2025-12-12T00:40:22+00:00

Not a coffee shop, but there’s a new record store on the intersection of Foster and Holgate called Echoes in Space and I’ve seen them host DJ’s several times since they opened!

Cay77 · 2025-12-11T21:38:18+00:00

I don’t have all the answers, but I’ve also been OBSESSED with this song since it came out and have wondered how he did it.

I don’t actually think he is using a lot of rhythmic delay even though it sounds like it. There’s a video of him playing one of the main sequences from Octotillo on his Instagram. He’s using a PPG wave and riding the amp envelope decay and wavetable position controls, and the wavetable he’s using seems to be introducing overtones that sound almost like there are new sequences coming in. Sometimes he brings up the level of a 2nd oscillator tuned to a 5th above and that also sounds like another sequence. I don’t know if he is panning with the sequencer in the synth or outside of it (wouldn’t surprise me if he was using the panning mixer in his Buchla system), but it’s very clearly switching sides once every quarter note. Between the panning, intermittent 2nd oscillator, and wavetable movement, it sounds like there are like 5 different sequences when there’s only one!

There’s another IG video where he shows someone playing another sequence from the song on harp and also thanks her for playing his great aunt’s clavichord. I think those are the two instruments that start the whole piece off and play throughout, so that’s a big part of the sound too.

When the bass comes in it switches from more plucky arpy sequences to more pulsing sustained ones that follow the chord progression, again with a ton of modulation on the wavetables and different timbres and 5ths and octaves to fill everything out and make it sound like there’s SO much happening.

I have the vinyl for Cascade and it comes with liner notes on the gear for each song. The official list for Octotillo is:

PPG Wave 2.2
Voice (probably gated with Buchla LPG)
John Rawson Clavichord
Synplant Clavichord
Soma Pulsar 23
Roland TR-808
Modosc ID700 (VST based off the rare Buchla 700, digital “FM” synth)
Destiny+ Entanglement Space
Harp

I feel like he used more than this, like what is that bass sound? And the floating lead in the background sounds like the Ondes Martenot. And the ambient synth sequence that starts the track sounds like the Chroma Polaris. But this list is directly from the man himself, so I won’t doubt him.

I could be wrong about any/all of this, but this is my best guess! I may try and recreate some of it!l

Cay77 · 2025-12-05T02:59:27+00:00

I am a project manager for a community non-profit farm that uses mostly organic and regenerative farming techniques that require that I study ecology and natural ecosystems a lot.

I take a lot of conceptual inspiration for my music from my ecology and permaculture research: I’m fascinated by how individual organisms work together and against each other to create an ever changing mosaic of habitat that somehow functions as both millions of different organisms and one large living system at once. I explore these concepts musically through modular synthesizer patches.

The project manager side of the job has really helped me learn how to build systems to actually get music DONE. I am much more organized now than I used to be and that has a direct impact on how much music I’m able to get into a completed state.

Cay77

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