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For smaller devices like iPads it works great and i think multi-touch is super great but if you connect a keyboard to it or using larger screens it is slow and unhealthy to use. So iPads as tablet and a notebook for anything else is good for me.
However, if Apple brings macOS on a big tablet and make it multi-touch friendly it could be good.
But a tablet won‘t replace a midi keyboard or notebook ever since it‘s just a different thing.
The bigger the screen beyond 14-15“ the more i wouldn‘t use multi-touch or even a tablet.
So the 11 and 12.9“ are nice to use.
Maybe a 15“ iPad would be still small enough to be mobile and big enough for more complex tools and workflows.
Some things works great and fast but if i just do the same things i‘m almost always so much faster on non iOS devices in terms of music creation.
But i also see a lot good things and workflows on iPhones and iPads like direct sampling with the good included mics and resampling.
A good musician can do great things on smartphones, tablets, computers but why limit yourself to one thing.
Of course if it‘s enough....it‘s all fine.
Maybe in a decade we all using Behringer hardware synths since iPads costs 10 times more
@Beathoven @brambos
Sure but none of those means Pro(fessional) and it’s hard to defense the new pricepoints when you can’t manage properly basic features as text/sample range selection or performance gone for GUI got high in cpu priority level over background audio.
It’s not only replacement as motorcycle to car. It’s like Apple sold them as trucks (it can run full photoshop!) when it can’t handle 3 tires properly without wreck... not from hardware side which day by day is getting better but from iOS getting worse in critical process.
To you perhaps? I think the iPad Pro has quite some pro-level features and is cheaper than similarly sized professional Wacom tablets etc.
I disagree. Maybe they didn't match your expectations, but that's not necessarily their fault. The cpu-throttling business they need to sort out, but overall they're really doing great stuff for creatives with the iPad range.
True, but you can do quite the same with a notebook and trackpads (even multi-touch with force touch) as well and a notebook keyboard is for me a lot more tactile for midi input as touching on glass.
You actually can do more in real-time at the same time on a notebook like on iPads without adding any external gear.
Jamming around in Animoog is nice and some other tools are great but i yet have to see and hear a good performance on an iPad in real-time where a chromatic keyboard is used.
There are a few but it‘s more a 2-3 notes inside a scale random play.
Maybe these tablets are the future but that might be the end of more creative tools and the beginning of more and more casual music apps like all the crap games in the app store.
Yes IMO but also the target they are trying to convince. None of my professional designers friends had made the change from their wacoms yet. I was advicing them over the years and even affinity did a great job but again mouse and keyboard plays a role for them. Maybe the next macbook pro they buy will be a iPad pro. Let’s see...
Again these aren’t only my needs. iOS10 match them but the iOS11 wreck them and iOS12 still not bring them back. You are failing seen me as pure hate on tablets... I told you the last day “I’m starting hate Apple for wreck iOS” and that’s not only from my monolithic approach which is the common in professionals (one tool for each duty) it’s Apple itself recomending new mac minis for professionals like me instead porting Mainstage to iPad, pro or not. So themselves doesn’t trust or it’s not the roadmap yet. I expect almost two more iOS iteration before full logic on tablet (iOS or not) and I hope be wrong but it isn’t my business anymore.
Also prices must raise to be professional-like to revenue developers.
I talk about actual professionals but Apple seems pointing to new ones more similar to prosumers. Maybe it’s iPad Pro(sumers) instead Pro(fessionals)
Biggest issue with a laptop is that you have to use a MIDI controller if you want to play a virtual instrument. On an iPad the whole thing is self-contained, you can play on the touch screen. The iPad is far more immediate for writing any kind of music. Look at the virtual instruments in Garageband, I use that bass guitar interface to write bass lines all the time, and it's really good. You can't do that on a laptop.
There isn‘t even a full blown browser for on an iPad.
Not true at all. I almost never use one. I would need one for my iPhone or iPad more often!
I think often people are just not aware of what is possible on some devices (iOS and desktop).
So how would you do note input on the laptop - and what is the equivalent of the GB bass guitar?
Answered my own question: with the typing keyboard. I've never tried this so can't comment, how does it compare to using touch-based instruments?
It's interesting that you say you never use the touch instruments, because I use them all the time, it's actually relatively rare that I connect up a MIDI keyboard. I think the touch instruments are pretty central to the iOS experience, but it goes to show that everyone's different. I know that I would really miss the immediate and tactile way of working if I was to switch to using a laptop.
Like i said often i use my macbook keyboard and trackpad. Most of the tracks i posted here were made this way (plus imported iOS sounds as well of course).
+1
I’ve written more songs on iPad in the past 2 years than I did the previous five years on desktop. I wouldn’t try solo jazz piano on the GB keyboard..but it’s surprisingly accessible for comping chords.
I loved the time spend making music on the ipad, love the BM3 workflow, love the quality of some apps, and love the price (comparing to pc/mac plugin prices) but the file management killed my vibe..
If apple really want the ipad to be a music production powerhouse we need stuff like regular external hard drives
I also use touch instruments (as i can do via my trackpad with software as well but limited to 4 notes) but they are mostly usable for 1-2 finger playing for me. But others may perform much better of course.
I felt really in love with some iOS apps like Animoog and so but there isn´t any tactile feeling on glass for me and so even a computer keyboard without velocity works much better here. If i need more i indeed use my Seaboard Rise which works on iOS and mac.
Apps like ThumbJam are a godsend as well and i also liek to use it as midi controller for Kontakt libraries etc. My iPhone with 3D touch is of course much more advances as iPads (if you don´t need more than 5 inputs at the same time).
It also depends on the app but a lot apps are not made for performance really and just waste GUI with not touch friendly virtual keys. But each device has it´s pro and contra. There are a lot things working better on a touch screen for me as well as there are things working better on my macbook in terms of midi input, drawing automations, switching instruments, holding a chord while at the same time changing parameters etc.
there’s no “full blown” browser on SSL AWS 924 either 🤔 😂😂😂😂
Yes, because it´s as good as an iPad for internet
Internet is overrated as evidenced by this here thread. 🙉
And how do we access this thread...
Forget to mention one past experience where I was playing live looping on my iPad3 gen on the sun when I get prompted by “Heat Warning” and iPad disconnected itself and that’s it. Very professional and trustable yes yes... but hey! How much live performers will need to play under the sun? Probably only myself yes yes...
So no, it’s not suitable for true professional use outdoors where an old arranger or any laptop will keep working better or worst but working. That was a warning but fool of me I kept the hopes and go for mini4. Beautiful liars at Apple...
How performs latest iPad pros under heat sun? I know Spain is hot but I remember go hot even indoors at some gigs with my old macbook C2D but never stopped working.
Now I’m curious.
Touche´
I feel quite relaxed in this Debatte. 😎
For me the iPad is not a replacement for a proper computer but it comes closer and closer.
I work as a Pro in IT and I live in the Windows and the Apple World. I use Thinkpad’s W-Series, MacBook Pro’s and iPad Pro’s also for music and photography work.
Honestly, I really enjoy to work with the iPad even with the limitations it may have.
Now I manage around 80% all of my daily computer work just with the iPads. For 20% I will turn on my powerful workhorses.
Honestly, this System here on the photo is powered by an Thinkpad W-530 includes 32 GB Ram, 3 internal SSD’s, Ableton Live 10, Push2 and some Native Instruments gear. The Software is top notch, EWQL, Spectrasonics NI everything is fine...
Please note that I didn’t played a single note on the system within the last six month... 😎
I really like the way to make music were I ever wanted to do it. I love the mobility and yes, I love the tactile feel to touch instruments. I really don’t care that my iPad isn’t Ableton Live. Yes the desktop is maybe more powerful but I have much more fun touching my iPad instead sitting at one fixed place to be productive.
I also love the idea “Less Is More”😊
Finally we all know that we CAN produce nice music with the iPad already! There is always a workaround to manage the limitations...
P.S.
For photography I still use my computers. To manage 50.000 photos in Lightroom is just impossible for an iPad even when it calls a PRO... 😎
If I need pure computer power and special features I will go with my big computers, no question.
Anyway, I’m relaxed and I can wait. I will look forward what Apple will do in the next years. The iPads comes closer and closer. I think in the near future I will not need a big computer anymore.
For me personally, as a musician and professional audio engineer, the iPad is chock full of really unique and creative ways of making music. Where it falls down when it comes to 'replacing a studio or laptop' is still in the management of what you create.
If you're a modern digital media creator, be it music, video, photography, whatever, at the end of the we are all producing digital files, that's how our content is made "real". Our output are files we need to access for sharing, refinement, creating deliverables, further editing, archiving, collaberating, etc. Managing all those files we need to access daily is where iOS really falls down and differences between professional and enthusiast become more apparent.
There's a lot of potential there, and I have a feeling Apple are slowing leaning us off of working like that with iCloud and the new Files app. But in the short term there's just too much management of the media files themselves that's tedious in a professional capacity on iOS. Some day. Not today though.
Now, off to play with KEW some more