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Touchscreen vs hardware touch
Hi,
I believe many of you enjoy playing directly on the surface of the Ipad. There are good examples where maybe there's no better way (eg Animoog, or others like Samplr or Patterning) but I find myself most of the times needing a piece of real gear to feel the control ( real keyboard, faders, knobs etc).
How do you feel on that? Can you live without real hardware gear? Is it a nice to have or like me a must?
Just curious what do you think about it.
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I like my iPad/iPhone. But I love my guitar
Touch screen has its advantages with the right design behind it; however, in most cases I find it to be extremely fiddly. I appreciate it for what it is, but it's not replacing real knobs, strings, keys and faders for me.
yes, a tablet controlled virtual guitar is lamer than lame - a joke at best.
But I get along with on-screen midi controllers really well and consider them superior to physical dials.
It's easy to dynamically scale ranges and have several controllers act simultanously in a single gesture. Takes some effort to prepare, but after that it's cool.
TC-Data and Oscilab are my favourites.
I like touch screen for drum machine pads, but for everything else physical controls work better. Also the touch strip on push is nice for mod wheel, but its matte and pretty long, so definitely not the same as using a phone/ipad screen
I still can't take my finger off most touchscreen faders or knobs without them accidentally moving just a tiny bit more one way or the other in the process.
Touchscreens are great for convenience and portability, but there's zero feedback at all allowing you to stop looking at it for any sort of accuracy.
I've posted here before the story of my recording beginnings with analog & especially PortaStudios so I won't go into too much detail. In the mid 90's when I began there was very little for aspiring musician/recordists to get hold of aside from Tascam PortaStudios & their derivative competitions versions of them (Fostex, Marantz, etc).
Working on PortaStudios for a few years then doing sessions at project studios with ADAT/mixer set ups gets you very used to the hardware feel. When first working on DAWs on computers I hated the fiddly mouse/keyboard setup but slowly control interfaces with faders & knobs came out and a sort of compromise could be reached...but still it wasn't totally "hands on" because editing, controls not on hotkeys, etc still had to be achieved through the mouse.
The reason I fell in love with iOS music production was that the touch surface offered not just a real compromise but with it came some other cool interactions. I love the hands on experience of touch screen with that sense of movement on faders, sliders, etc. plus using on screen keyboards for editing MIDI rather than always carrying a MIDI controller is very useful.
It takes some getting used to but I love the way the touchscreens have opened it up into new areas. Drawing EQ curves, X/Y pads, instrument simulation (yes guitar on touch will always suck though) and real exact editing capabilities. To me zooming on a region, getting tight on the waveform and surgically getting the exact desired edit is great. Yes it can be done on mouse/keyboard as well but touch screen & iPad working is just so much more intuitive.