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I was excited with the atom workflow, but this is insane! Thanks for sharing Dylan!

A few years back, I became convinced that using my iPad was the direction I wanted to go for everything, and I was still using Windows on a laptop at the time, mostly for work (CAD, and later, IT-related work I was doing for Microsoft, at the time). Since then, continuing with my love of tablets, I have a Chuwi Ubook tablet running Windows 11 (with my old favorite, Acoustica Mixcraft for music production), and a 7th gen iPad on which I use a number of apps, including Garageband, Cubasis 2, Audio Modeling's SWAM instruments, etc, and, oh yes, AUM, which I'm just beginning to use. I don't have Ableton and have never used it, and, until I saw your video,I had never heard of LK. But, I'm intrigued with the idea of trying it out and, to unlock it completely, $41 + is not a bad price, these days. Only yesterday, I encountered this idea of using AUM as a DAW, which I'm not entirely convinced of yet, but it's starting to make sense. Heck, at some point, I might even get Ableton, to run on the Chuwi Ubook. Where the Chuwi is concerned, I'm planning to get a 20" monitor, connected to the Chuwi via HDMI, which, as clunky and cumbersome as it sounds, is still much cheaper than investing in yet another Windows laptop or desktop, which would take me right back to where I was years ago, and I don't want to go there.

Thank you so much for your kind words Dylan. This was a great video man, I completely get why everybody keep telling me to check LK out. Keep it up! 👊🏼😊

I love coming back to the AUM & LK pairing. You described the power of that pairing so well. Thanks for the tip on saving in both apps. Great stuff here.

Excellent video! Just picked up LK on Friday and couldn’t figure out a few things that you just covered! Excited to get to work with this. This is going to make AUM into even more of a powerhouse and possibly a complete modular DAW solution! Cheers!

Really good content, I am trying to incorporate the tactile touchscreen iPad world with my Ableton world. Another great thing about iPad apps is that they are usually far cheaper than VSTs!

Nice video. First time I'm hearing about LK.

Well, I just stumbled onto this by accident and this is genuinely amazing. One stumbling block for me though is the arrangement process within iPad.

Great video! We are very excited to see LK being featured. There is something we weren't expecting though. LK should restore the state perfectly upon AUM project opening. Can you please contact us? Thanks and keep the good work!

Got this app last year January I think never used it till now. It’s quite powerful

🤟👏 DUDE, I’m so with your train of thought. I went down an AUM /LK rabbit hole today!!

Shouldn't the image be the other way around, with LK at the forefront and you in the background? It's hard to focus on the most useful information on screen.

I loooove this video. You really show your passion for iOS music; it’s really energizing, thank you.

Just came across your vid by chance. Good stuff man! Thanks for it. Super great explanation of how to use LK. Appreciate it.

I actually came here via imaginando’s prompt on their video, this was an insert video at the end of their MIDI control vid. On ipad, I struggled for over a year, not short of anything but tech capability on a PC. What was partly the issue was that I refused to ‘give over’ my PC fully to music production. In other words, it seemed that by the time I had installed and routed everything correctly for Cubase 9 to work, my PC no longer worked as it did before, for normal use, which I need it to. The other aspect, related to this, is the surprising lack of youtube content explaining in detail, how to get a music production PC up and running, pragmatically. After a year, and the only thing I had to show was one lousy bass guitar recording, I gave up, and in desperation, went rooting around the much-derided alternative of GarageBand on an iPad. ‘Toy’ was one word used I heard. But I pressed on, I wanted my problems to be music problems not technical ones. And the iPad has in fact about 85% delivered on that aim. I think the epiphany was discovering that iOS plug-ins were of quite a high quality - some of them - and this has blossomed over the three years I have been on the platform. It was possible to record entirely ‘in the box’, then Apple kicked it out of the park, by making ‘drummer’ choices, not just giving a set of drums or even patterns, but enabling a baseline drum pattern and editing/fine-tuning thereafter. I have to credit therefore, Pete Johns with providing the utterly ludicrously basic guidance I needed, to get my tracks to the point they could be released. I then used the only guy’s advice on ‘aggregators’ I could find online, and went with CDBaby. I have my reasons, and it is nothing to do with them being cheapest (the absolute best value aggregator, had some difficult things they did to their users/artists). Pete was just starting out really on the toob, but he had enough vids on iOS iPad GarageBand that I knew I would get there. He went on to release an album recently. I wouldn’t dream of mastering anywhere but the iPad. I used a mouse recently when Apple made that facility available and that was WEIRD. I just like and prefer touchscreen. I have to recommend - your vids obviously - but also imaginando the developer’s vids, because they really do proper detailed, pragmatic sound design, using their own frankly brilliant DRC synth. I have not purchased it yet - because I purchased Moog’s recently and it’s made a dent in the wallet - but theirs is sufficiently different, and they pull you through HOW to do sound design IN THAT SYNTH, which I appreciate. So, a purchase is imminent. Take care, keep well, thanks for the vid.

Thank you, finally I joined the perfect circle, Aum + Lk + kb1. You are my hero!

Great video! This is such a underrated app and workflow. The midi controller support is great too. I use this with my iPhone and it’s such a powerful creative environment.

AUM and Rosetta Sequencer suite are my favorites. Also Audioshare and Ableton Link.

super excited to know this work flow， it save me from the idea to purchase the expensive op-1 field.❤

Thank you!! So many options just became possible after watching your video ))) Life is good 😊

Yesss! Thanks for this man! I’ve been waiting for this for a long time... I’m a ModStep guy and I’m way into AUM. This is perfect.

Hey dude! I just wanted to say thank you for this video. I’m about to dive in to LK and then make a video about it for my channel. This served as a great introduction.

Thanks for the tip. I tried this last night after watching this video and had a lot of fun. A very nice work flow!

oh man, I did always took LK as controller dedicated to Ableton “box” only, that’s fun :-)

Of course, even if you're not interested in Ableton, there is a myriad of iPadOS compatible DAWs you can substitute seamlessly with the iPad, and using AUM can still be a part of that. I've been following Doug Woods' videos (The Soundtest Room) and he's very much into using AUM with everything. So.....

A fantastic introduction, just what I was looking for... Really excited by the possibilities of this app, and covering those minor quirks with saving was a great touch... :)

This is incedible! Thanks Dylan for the video, I’m just starting with my ipad music making and still trying to work out my workflow.

Dylan thank you you just save me lot of time and money with this. I looking for this solution for long time. LK is big suprisse to me!

great video, looking fwd 2 more

I like the chord generator feature in LK. I recently got Scaler 2 for iPad and I'm planning to get the PC version for the Chuwi, as well.

This is an amazing workflow!

Excellent tutorial👍😊

Great info, thanks!

excellent video. To be honest, AUM and LK are not the most intuitive apps even for experienced users. Videos like this make it clear how things work, what to watch out for, and how to make some noises!

Isn't it exciting how many possibilities there are with iPads and apps. I have suggestions for you to explore. There is no right or wrong. There is just various options for fun. Try running Korg Gadget outside or inside of AUM. Then load some synths In AUM. I recommend Magellan 2, Kauldron, Synthmaster One, and Drum Computer by sugar bytes. Use Gadget as your midi sequencer with instances of the Taipei gadget sending midi out to the synths. You can also use as many instances of gadgets as you need. The sequencer capabilities of Taipei are great. You can assign CC's to knobs in Taipei. The gadgets in general are incredible. I see the excitement in you. Just have fun, because there is a lot of it. Don't rule out things because if you are at all like me you will say this very often: "WOW, I didn't know you can do that! I have to try it." One thing to try is the multi-out ability of several apps. An example is that with Drum Computer, you can send each drum to a different lane in AUM so they can use different audio unit effects on each drum. It's insanely versatile....and, above all....it's fun.

Great video Dylan. I’ve been through a similar journey with these devices. I’ve owned Ableton from its release but never really finished any tracks with it. Always found a mouse and keyboard not very inspiring. I originally had a mpc 1000xl and a Roland keyboard and made a load of songs but found the sequencer difficult on a tiny screen. The iPad has renewed my passion for music making but it’s still frustrating as I can’t find the do it all daw. I love the simplicity of AUM and I’ve just download LK which is brilliant. It even works with my Novation Launchpad X straight out the box which means I can trigger the clips just like in the launchpad iOS app. I’m also into beatmaker 3 which again is a great daw but has its problems and I’m not sure I like the sequencer. The AUM and LK workflow coupled with the Launchpad hardware is quite a good set up and AUM has a great sound to it. Pity I can’t trigger the file player within LK but maybe I can - just can’t see a way of doing it. I suppose I could jamm within AUM, then record each channel as a file which could be loaded into cubasis to finish the track in a more conventional way. I was also interested in your comments about MPC live - what didn’t you like? I was tempted myself especially with the newer retro colours and built in monitor speakers . I still the think the iPad has better potential and unlike the mpc live it can be renewed with apps and doesn’t go out of date. The mpc live has also loads of ports that I just wouldn’t use. I’d prefer a stripped back version and maybe use the iPad as an audio source for synths etc. Your more recent video sums it up - logic for iPad. Plus I’d like to see both reason and Ableton bring something meaningful to iPad. For me it’s all about the right DAW now for iPad. The money I’ve spent on unused apps and synths (far too many) plus the iPad. I probably could have bought a MacBook and logic and maybe serum or an mpc live and a decent hardware synth. These £15 apps all add up. Especially when they don’t have all the features of their desktop equivalents.

Thank you so much! This just change the game for me!

I think it’s the only video that covered recording on LL that I found. Still on iPhone it gets tricky to do it

Thanks for this idea mate! Good work. Greets

Roland Zenbeats has a clip mode and you can load Auv3 instruments and effects.

Dude, I’m a ableton head.... and I been pretty much getting in to I paid production.... this is a game changer, basically , It is Ableton on steroids... instance to have Ableton instruments, we have AU and Apps as instruments....even, way cheaper than paid for Ableton

Have you tried Camelot Pro? I use with AUM and love it. Best Regards and Best Wishes!

That’s crazy! Thanks for sharing 👍

I think my head exploded, but I’m excited.

This looks useful thanks. I wish I knew what you were clicking on though, as "Shift" doesn't give me "Add Track", so maybe you're using an external Keyboard or something? Once I work out what you were clicking on, this will be very useful indeed.

The Loop Builder app by James Navarro now has multi out ounce the dev builds in a bit more stability its gonna be a great app for looping audio along with KB-1 for midi.

It would be very interesting to see how you use LK (still within AUM so you have all your other synths and drum machines) to sequence external hardware.. 👍

Great demonstration!

Great workflow.

I love the potential in this setup. I realize I’m just starting on the path you outlined here a year or more ago…and I’ve seen some of your more recent work which seems to be more launchpad/Ableton centered. Did you evolve away from this approach…or are you using various things at different times? Many thanks for the helpful content.

thanks bro

Wow, your song is actually very nice..... 🎶🙂

Hi :) Very intriguing. One thing though...is there a way to record automations with this setup?

Thank you very much for sharing this. I was looking for a workflow like this and this video has just made me purchase AUM and LK apps. Would you know anyway to export what you’ve done in AUM to Ableton Live, so we can continue working on the desktop after initiating the project on the iPad. I’ll do some research on that and let you know.

Thumbs Up ! can you map LK midi for live performance for different knobs in ableton ?

Excellent, thanks.

Nice! Thanks!

i feel the power!

If they only added automation that would be a game changer

So coooooooool, thanks for sharing this 🙂

Hi Dylan great stuff with the LK! Congratulations mate! I need a help from you if it’s possible! So if you are a guitar player doing some covers or some type of rock music how we should do our session in LK and be able to have fills when we switch scenes? Hope you can help! 😉🙂

Awesome video, I say keep doing ableton stuff too! I’m also very interested in mobile music production. Of course nothing beats a desktop/laptop experience but this can be a fun way to be productive on the go........ or in bed lol

This is cool, but did you check out Drambo?

Have you tested your Launchpad Pro with LK & AUM? Curious whether the sequencing and clip launching would be supported

And it's free! 😲 I wish I'd heard of LK earlier

Hallo! I'm an AUM user, I just bought KB-1 and I'm starting to like it (playing siths/samples, tweaking stuff etc...). I just watched this video (thanks a lot, btw!!!), tried the free LK version, and I have some questions I hope you can answer. - I'm sure I need purchase the matrix to unlock it an to use it with the ableton like wflow you showed, but I'm curious about my necessity to unlock other features like chorder, keys, pads or XY. For all this stuff I can just route midi from KB-1 and spare a few €€€ this time. Do you think it will work? - Can one record parameter automations in clips?

Great video BTW, thoroughly instructive and engaging , easy to follow (|✓even for a tech ignoramus like myself.....)

I’m trying to integrate sounds from my iPad instruments into a Mac Ableton workflow, do you have any tips for that? Other than connecting a usb interface each and running the outs of the iPad into the ins of the Mac?

I have a couple of musician friends who want to be able to record and produce (to a limited extent) themselves, when they ask what setup to get, I tell them an iPad plus an audio interface. Its the way to go. I think laptops are a minority use-case for portable computing.

Dope bro! I'd like to know for sure if this could work in a live setting with 2 piece band, bass guitar and electric/ acoustic. Any way I could hook this up to our SoundCraft mixer?

Hi enjoyed your video, I’ve been using LK in AUM as a setup for live performance as well as using AUM to record into Cubasis 3, mixdown then master in Final Touch. On a slightly related question Using Ableton Link in the above live setup what would be the best way to mix multiple iOS devices through to one set of speakers as Alberton shows in their Link videos? Link allows AUM to control the start of LK which helps recording.

Hey this is great and I’ve made your suggestions my main setup - rather than crash prone Cubasis etc - but I’m curious; is there a way of triggering a file play in AUM via LK? Like if I have an audio file for a chorus and one for a verse could I trigger them at the appropriate time from LK being the conductor?

Hi can anybody help? No sound on my android except for the tempo, but i am getting the signal for all the midi track

Need a help on AUM seaboard… I want to midi with fixed velocity how to make it.

We agree that we can’t record in the matrix with other LK modules like the chowder, right? Or I’m missing something?

I fail to see what this can do that modstep was not able to, already 10 years before!

I need to get AUM for iPad, my income is sporadic , and Every time I am paid, I put off getting it , and consequently I'm always stuck using GarageBand, (for what it's worth, GarageBand got me going in music, but I'm ready for something different ..)

Thank you for the video. Do you know if it send program change to external gears?

Ok trying to follow you. Do I need to buy every module?

what about recording automation to parameters lanes (inside lk I mean)?

Can I use this for loop community?

Is their a cheAper option than aum

Is it possible to midi learn within LK? Means - can i use my Launchpad Pro to launch the matrix scenes?

I don’t understand what you are doing when you start up something in aum and say ‘none’.

can we import a midi file in LK ?

So is this limited to 16 tracks of MIDI from LK or is there some way to get more? Say, if I wanted to build an hour long set it's a bit too few, although it's enough for a song or two.

Interesting video. Is it possible to import audio samples into Lk

Any idea if since LK has Ableton link built in would I be able to use via Ableton Link to control MPC Live or Akai Force? Thanks

but you cant record audio into the clips only midi?

Can I use my windows pc with my ipad to do the same thing or not?

Question since all these are add purchase, which are you recommend to purchase?

But can you warp?

Man, you can do the same in Mod Step app of Beat maker 3

I dont understand how to control things like rusimaker noir that have their own “sequencer” and just start and stop with aum, using LK. Can you give any advice?

Can you warp audio in LK?

So, can you run ableton on ipad independently or you still need ableton link with pc?

Great video thanks. I’m an ableton Live user on my MacBook Pro but want to transition to IPad Pro. I’m a sample based producer. Is there a way to load audio clips say from .wav files so you can chop/loop/warp samples? Is this possible?

About recording a sequence with a keyboard, you say at around 6:05 “it eluded me for a while”. It’s certainly eluding me, even after watching your video!. So not intuitive. Could you slow down there or maybe explain how exactly you’re doing it?. I’m monitoring, can hear the notes, can see the notes p, but they are erased on every pass of the loop... frustrating. Thanks!

sorry but stand alone is way nicer to use than software like Ableton just not even comparable. It is harder and more time consuming but way more rewarding.