Gadgetory

in time right technology is always going to advance and to the person who says you know it's not possible to be professional on an iPad and any type of creative everyday lifestyle say okay you're gonna see cuz two years down the line you're gonna be the guy looking to jump in when everybody's ten miles ahead of you and your gig is gone this is Henny the business who needs no introduction but it's worked with the likes of Drake Kendrick the list goes on and I got a chance to hang out with him and see how he now produces all of his music on iPad pro I wanted to be able to create like I was 18 years old again right when I was young I had one piece of gear I had one keyboard and I was like you know the ideas would come quick I'd be in school I'll be in college and be around my boys and we could just vibe and kick it but as you get older as you get more successful you get more here right you get the best of the best and what happens your workflow slows down because now you're just looking for the best of the gear right now you're just looking for the top-notch things and it slows you down and when I initially got on the iPad 4 years ago I wanted something where I could generate ideas quickly back when I first started I was on the iPad air 2 and I was used to beat maker 2 and I was showing a lot of the producers in studio whether it be like polo to dawn or Jermaine Dupri some of the guys that are out there and Atlanta doing doing music where I'm at and word got around that I was making this music on an iPad using a few little devices a little MIDI keyboard and I got a call from the studio five number Tim boom King house right I never talked to my day in my life and you know he was telling me you know how much he enjoyed thinking the idea of using an iPad and always he's always been on the cutting edge of music he's always been on the cutting edge of of trying new things and so he went in my take on it and so we for almost an hour and you know we exchanged information but from there it was just kind of like you're doing something right Justin just keep going just keep going and so that was that was it's another thing to have me like okay this is real this can really work on a professional level today was awesome it was one of the days where for me it was it was transcending moment of seeing the tech that I've been after and the the the career that I've had start to really mesh together and we created some magic rays and fire I know don't leave that out let's go it was just coming together bringing really high in tech with really you know the next level of music and I believe that is with the iPad pro for sure so start it out right I started with the app blocks way that's my my main app to kind of get ideas generated quickly so it's a bunch of loops that I'm going through or I'm trying to find that vibe that energy that so I brought in a mote base and I literally sampled that in two blocks way Rocsi keys and some some pianos you know sample that as well and started building to percussion building the drums and had a good vibe people asked that about the the CMV xkey air all the time it's my 25 key bluetooth keyboard and you know when I first saw that keyboard us like this is made specifically for Apple products so you just it just had that look to it it's been it's lightweight its bluetooth you can put it in your bag right behind your your laptop and the latency right the attacks out feel of it you don't you don't feel any type of issues when it comes to trying to get your ideas out from there we exported that and took the idea and brought it into beat maker 3 and then from there I just I took the the loop that we had we had a nice loop and we brought in you know the legend Ken Lewis and he you know he wanted to see exactly how that could work you know from a mixing standpoint mixing on an iPad and try to give him a few tips try to see if it was real and you know I think if Livi so at the end of the day I think he saw the capabilities I saw you know somebody who's a legendary engineer be able to you know see the possibilities of what I do every day there's two public right I'll pick you and those I put in my arm it didn't even dawn on me the fact that you know if you've been in the era of you know touching knobs and making sure you're getting the right type of mix kind of from from the way you feel it the way you you know you feel the buttons and the knobs and to be able to have everything so tacks out on an iPad yeah I saw I saw it you know is it was like a thing just went off in his brain and he was like yeah this could work I never really thought I would be doing this on an iPad yeah but it but from from your experience it's very much it's very capable right yeah I mean the thing I love about it is is it's all tactile and I come from old school analog you know you have 15-foot mixing consoles in front of you and those have gotten smaller and smaller but I'm still on an analog board and one of the reasons I'm on an analog board is because it's all tactile and I can touch it and you know and work it and get the the feel for that musical connection that you know turning the knobs gives you and moving the faders gives you and it feels like one of the things that I have always disliked about the mouse that's kept me analog for so long is that that tactile experience and being able to look at the whole console and just grab whatever you want to tweak on the fly and to me this is like the best version I've seen so far of that in the box this guy yeah I am definitely gonna be like taking this to the beach and putting the headphones on with the controller and sitting there for hours at a time just making music and the my favorite part is the tactile response of it that I can just scroll around and I can very easily select everything that I want to do and it's and I don't have to use a mouse to do it death that to me I love it might be awesome to see dr. Dre on the iPad right I mean the whole lineage with Beats and Apple and just effective like somebody like him talking about his tactile so to have him see it to have him like okay I can really you know cuz I know he was one of the last to say you know I'm jumping into digital I still with it I still love my tape I still love my 2-inch reels I still love my analog gear but to go full circle and say I can you know I came back so I can mess with this it would be like okay yes like that's the sample of approval from a producer for sure