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The cost is deceiving though because they have a built-in cloaking device that makes them vanish without a trace when you need them the most and only reappear after you've ordered another. Eventually you end up buying half a dozen of them ... then still can't find one when you need it.
I stole a couple of my wife’s hair bobble things and tethered then to the end of the headphone cable. I have one lightning+one USB-C permanently attached near the jack. Not lost them yet.
Don’t tell my wife.
I think it’s certainly trending upward, but its hard to say if it’s a cusp? Or if there will even be a cusp… I’m realizing I like the word cusp, lol.
The newest issue of Computer Music Magazine has iPad on the cover.
It also has a Les Paul, those must be on the cusp too. 🙃
Given that the context is guitar samples, I’d say that’s not far from accurate. Especially in the hip-hop industry, the desire for guitar samples is on the rise in a big way. I’m seeing a lot less piano and a lot more guitar among up and coming producers.
I don’t think these are decisions as much as organic growth of the operating systems. iOS has similar roots to MacOS, but Android has roots in Linux, which has never really had much focus on sound.
I’d say that iOS just had a head start because of its origins.
Lol. Cusp, cusp, cusp.
You mean an apple tablet device created with focus on music making? This would be great! With knobs and buttons - like transport controlls universally used by the apps.
Someone suggest this to Apple. They own us this after marginalising musicians for so long 😀
Ha! That's interesting and obviously I like the word cusp too
Take a peak inside that issue of CM -
https://issuu.com/futurepublishing/docs/cmu302.issuu/1
Digital download is $4.99, at least in the US - https://www.magazinesdirect.com/az-magazines/6936419/computer-music-magazine-subscription.thtml
Curious if they're pushing buggy 3rd-party AUv3s, which I recently noticed is happening on YouTube. If that issue gets more users on the platform, I hope CM aren't pushing buggy apps.
Does anyone know if the digital version includes the GBs of samples included with each issue?
Thanks for the lively debate! I think I agree that maybe aside from whether it's a golden age or not, perhaps we are leaving the lawless west behind. This is a bit of a shame if true, as amongst many hiccups and false starts and whatnot we also got some rough diamonds, like the spectrum synthesizer bundle. That remains one of the singularly most impressive freebies on the app store IMO. I guess what we can all agree on, except for maybe Benn Jordan, is that even as is Ios is a powerful and inspiring music-making tool, that, even with the cheapest devices and a handful of very well priced apps we can make amazing stuff, that is audibly indistinguishable from something made on much more expensive 'pro' gear.
For that, we really have the developers to thank for their hard work up to now, and in particular, the one men shows. so @elf_audio, @FredAntonCorvest, @humbletune, @brambos , @igorvasiliev, @yuriturov, @westonfletcher, @DavidHilowitz, @thomasburns, @chowdsp @NeonSilicon @childofthecorndog and @imaginando, thanks so much for your work so far.
I agree with @Gavinski that the iPad and AUM have enabled a sort of experimental and in particular 'fun' niche for us in which timelines and pianorolls can be ignored for more immediate sonic experimentation and creativity. honestly, it reminds me of making cassette 4 tracks back in the days with my band and I like that.
fingers crossed for many more fun years to come.
And of course many thanks to everyone here, all of you are erudite and animated and Knowledgeable and funny!
And to all the streamers and YouTubers @doug @Gavinski @jakoB_haQ, @Hainbach, @perplexon, @eylvy and anyone else I forgot!!!
Yeah it does. You get download instructions in the magazine.
The latest issue is all about a new synth coming out called the TB-303. Which might be on the cusp of something big...
You can also read computer music with an Apple News+ subscription (free for three months for me at the moment) or a Readly account.
Three oh three!? What’s that all about!?
It's official : "Now with desktop power"
Should be “Macs: Now with iPad power” ;-)
Thanks @klownshed for the Readly/Apple News+ tip! 👍
Seems like only yesterday, sitting in Barnes and Nobles looking at the glossy pics in CM, SOS, Mix, Guitarist...
@rs2000 , can’t do guitar… knackered hands but you got the fire right and I was Ok till the battery went on the ipad.
Have to say 36 hours without electricricity puts the state of play on iPads into perspective.
Makes me realise how lucky we are to have warmth, light and shelter, something that vast swathes of humanity don’t have!
You can’t eat auv3s!?
I'm quite like geoshredded wheats.
There is low latency audio in Android but there is no established standard for inter app audio or audio plugins. As I learned from Jakob Haq‘s video about iOS audio evolution, in the beginning it was the same for iOS. Then the pressure from the community, namely AudioBus, forced Apple to take action to be able to take back control of this development and established IAA and later AUv3. And exactly this did not yet happen on Android. Every audio app is an island. Actually there are existing solutions from Linux that could be used, JACK and Linux VST, but neither Google nor DAW manufacturers support it. Even Steinberg didn’t build their own VST interface into Cubasis for Android.
Mobile computing is great but it's never going to "replace" desktop computing, it's designed to compliment it and that's what it does really well. If you've ever tried to use an ipad for work you can see how bad it is for most things.
We're at a time of great creative technology in all forms of hardware and tablets just fit into that expanding ecosystem. Enjoy it for what it can do now. It's great and I wish it was like this when I started with iOS. I don't really want for much at the moment on ipad.
Apple will never release Logic for iPad because it wants to sell you a Mac, why would it compete against itself when it can sell Apple users the same chip twice with different OS on each one? Kerchingg £
Plus Apple is not really a software company, it would much rather other people handled that.
Not sure I agree with that. If the experience was right, Apple would definitely sell Logic for iPad as they could then sell Logic for Mac owners another device!
Apple would rather cannibalise their own sale than let somebody else cannibalise it instead. The main issue is that an iPad isn't the best device for Logic. Logic is intrinsically keyboard and mouse first, and Apple will never release an app for iPad that requires a mouse/keyboard to work properly.
If Logic does come to the iPad people will except compatibility with Logic for Mac. And that's a huge hurdle, Logic is so old it's very complex and sprawling. Logic would have to be massively changed on Mac as well, which would be a huge task and possibly just not worth the effort (a ton of stuff would have to break, there's a load of legacy still in Logic -- The environment is still there with it's Emagic era UI).
It's not beyond Apple to do this and completely start over as they did with Final Cut Pro, but I'm not sure Logic is worth that investment in time to Apple just to get feature parity with Logic on iPad. And if it doesn't have feature parity, there's no point in calling it Logic.
Also, so many plug-ins are Mac only or iOS only, swapping projects between devices will never be smooth.
Also Apple don't tend to release apps for iPad only. All their major apps like Pages and Numbers are universal. I can't see that ever changing, especially as iPhone is the King of Apple products.
GB Pro would be a better fit for iOS.
Laugh of the day. Well played.
Yeah right and "640K ought to be enough for anybody." 😆 Joking aside, I just would not use the words "it's never going to" in a prediction for future IT developments. Actually I do 99% of my computing on the iPad - including music making. For work I have a company MacBook that I must use but I think I could do everything on the iPad if I could just use the extra screen estate of an external monitor.
@klownshed I think you are totally right. Logic must have tons of legacy code and that is very expensive to maintain in the long run. I think that at one point in time they must come up with a modernized successor and this is the chance to make it universal. GB being the base for that is a good guess.
Most of us are on the cusp of bankruptcy after the Black Friday app sales
For work I have a company MacBook that I must use
There you go
For real, help! 😂
Well, but this is only because I must use a company device, either Win or Mac. An iPad wouldn't be a choice but honestly I could do everything I do for work on an iPad. Most of my work day I spend in the browser researching things, intranet, Jira and Confluence, I also use some MS products: MS Teams chat and calls, view MS Office documents or PDF files, One Note and One Drive. I think the only real problem would be the small screen estate.
A tiny share of the market might be happy, but the rest of us will need a proper computer as well.
My point is tablets fit nicely into an ever expanding ecosystem. Touch screens are nice but not best for everything, we've had them for over 10 years now to see it's limitations.
If you ever started doing music for work I'm sure you'd start to shift a large part of it to a computer as the pressures and demands of work mean you'll want to spend less time on the boring aspects of it, so you can have less time working. And yes, want larger displays again.
I really like the ipad but for me it's a tool I can combine wth the others. I'll never want it by itself.