[bigyabai]

Most people I know that make music on an iPad only use it for specific plugins or MIDI apps. They bounce the stems out to WAV and then mix/master it in a full desktop DAW.

You'd go through a lot of unnecessary suffering trying to do a professional mixdown and master on iPad.

[dhosek]

A musician friend used to actually do recording with garageband on an iPad. I use mine for sheet music a lot and even sprang for the external foot pedal for page turns. There was one rehearsal where I didn’t have a chance to scan everything in advance and was playing from printed music for one song and I kept stepping on the pedal to turn the page and nothing happened.

I’ve not done it, but it seems it could be a good alternative to a laptop for digital synth stuff.