NOT ENOUGH LOVE FOR VIVIDTRACKER !!!
Really awesome PT style tracker in which you can make your instruments with audiopaste and then save a mod and continue it on your Amiga or PC !!!
(you need a dropbox if you want to easily transfer songs, samples and etc !)
http://www.vividtracker.com/

Cubase and fruity loops both  have an iOS daw. spendy though. never messed with nano too much but I love sunvox as the only real tracker option. honestly dude i found the apps I like by jail breaking my stuff, pirating all the music shit I could and then purchasing the ones I like so I'm not dependent on being on a jail broken device. and don't forget about audio bus , it sends sound from one app into another, which means you can play with a tight synth app, send it through an effect app,  and then send it  into your daw. I feel like if your only using one app on iOS your not doing it right, it's about using all the ones you like together.

and check out SMPLR / SAMPLR too. that really rocks; designed perfectly for the touch interface. Less powerful that nanostudio, and certainly no DAW, but its a bad-ass sample sequencer that blows nearly everything out of the water. Its a playable recycle in your hands.

listen to the people promoting Nanostudio, it really really rocks. Its pretty much the only DAW I can get along with on iOS. Most of the best apps I find to be smaller in scope; iElectribe is an amazing drum synth, sir sampleton is a cool little casio sk in your pocket. There are plent of great synths, midi sequencers, but only Nanostudio has the DAW vibe really going on. I agree with herr_prof in that I really dislike drawing the notes out in it, but I just record them in real time using the screen or a plugged in midi device. If you jailbreak the ipod you can use midi devices on it also (camera connection kit only works on ipad, stock; get a decent midi keyboard and an audio interface plugged in and you can really nearly replace your PC)

Try nanostudio, the best daw on iphone, the iPad version is great too.
You can export on the Idevice and use a PC too.
It is not a chip instrument, but you can do chip on it.

iSequence is the best. just save often as it crashes inexplicably sometimes. it also has MIDI out capability (if you buy the iMidi add on). You can also bounce entire track to WAV, it has really smooth easy to use automation and a excellent sounding filter. even the sample packs you can buy are pretty decent. There is even a chiptune bank, but if thats all you use its gonna be hard to make really unique, authentic sounding chip tunes.

The company also makes Sunrizer which is a killer synth. It's not a DAWs though, so I have logic pro send MIDI out to the Sunrizer via iMidi and then record the output back in thru my Komplete Audio 6 as a incoming audio track. Sunrizer has a user-created preset library that is insanely huge and professional. I could spend hours looking thru those.

Here's a track done all in Sunrizer.
https://soundcloud.com/beatscribe/phoen … cate-empty

This one is Sunrizer and iSequence and I think one logic pro choir sample sound.
https://soundcloud.com/beatscribe/phoen … deep-space

never really clicked w/ ios music, but it seems like the people whose stuff really impresses me tend to be rly into nanostudio

I really hate using the piano roll on nanostudio on my phone.. it just never clicked for me. Id love to see a ios version of something like numerology with big easy to use grids, which is why im lusting for an iphone version of gadget, so I can export on a pc.

I 2nd Nanostudio. It's probably the most powerful / flexible. You can export audio in various formats, and also transfer files (including samples and MIDI) over FTP. There's a free windows version also. It has a great synth engine and effects that sound nice.

That said, I end up spending more time with PixiTracker 1Bit because it's a lot of fun, and very casual.

A lot of people swear by NanoStudio.

Sunvox

Yeah, same. I used iOS nanoloop for a while but I much prefer the GBA version, so once I got a gameboy micro I pretty much stopped using my phone to write music!

I havent found any daw I like that runs on the iphone to be honest.

PixiTracker looks like a good one! I'll definitely do some research on that one. Thank you!

Korg Gadget looks like it would be perfect, except that it isn't available for iPhone, only iPad. I'd would definitely prefer something that works for both because a lot of the time I don't have my iPad or it's too bulky to use discretely at work. I'll definitely check that one out though! Thank you

Korg Gadget