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Better multitasking in iPadOS 16
Now that is good news:
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Gurman is kind of hit or miss on his reporting these days because I think Apple fired a number of leakers. We’ll see if he’s right or not soon enough.
Logic…
Calculator… 😉
If true I wonder how an improved multitasking would look like on iPad. Surely not like floating windows on Mac..
Hmm… a polyphonic calculator could be just what the world needs.
If they make this into overlapping windows that are resizable, there's going to be lots of confused apps. That's essentially what happens with porting a program with Mac Catalyst and things can get confused. It's similar running some iPad apps on AS Macs.
If they do add features in the area of multitasking, it's not the UI that needs the work first. They have to take the limitations off background tasks, interprocess communication, and file system access. I'd also like it if they would remove the restrictions on JIT and compilers. If they do those things and don't even touch the UI, then the iPad could actually be "Pro."
Wolfram Alpha. I forget macOS even has a calculator installed. I mainly use iPython for calculator duty on the Mac. It would be pretty cool if they would bring the old Grapher app from macOS to the iPad. I still use that thing all the time.
But we still can’t select which audio interface input & output to use when multiple interfaces are present, audio interface, hdmi, internal or even a fricking usb-turntable!
My guess is we’ll never get a proper audio & midi control panel for iPadOS…
(Got so pissed off when I tried to record some stuff from a USB-Turntable and can’t even use the built in speakers on the iPad for monitoring because the chip in the turntable is an in/out device and hijacks the speakers).
The hardware may be ‘Pro Level’ but is crippled by iPadLameOS…
Agreed…the audio device issue is particularly scandalous in iPadOS
Third parties drivers for audio is allowed with iPadOS 16 so it may change.
I could not agree more. The audio interface switching is a pain. I am getting a constant ticking sound when plugging a headset into the audio jack of my iPad 9. The reason for the ticking is iOS probing for a connected headset. This would not be needed with the option to choose the interface manually. And Apple for sure won't fix this because they want me to buy a new iPad (without audio jack). Last but not least not to forget the crippled browser engine developers are forced to use (no Web MIDI API for example), no open source OGG / Vorbis codec support, and and....
I'm hoping for Rogue Amoeba's Loopback and Elektron's Overbridge. Not necessarily in that order.
Yeah, but we're talking 100% class compliant audio devices which are directly handled by CoreAudio.
The turntable in question is this...
https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/at-lp120xusb
The idea was to hook it up with the iPad to record some old vinyl and maybe even use the iPad as a speaker for checking the content of the records prior to recording it using just one cable...
There is no problem doing the actual recording but I can't play it back using the iPad speakers without disconnecting it since the CODEC used in the device is an In/Out device and iPadOS is well, I'll spare the cussing 'not so Pro' when it comes to certain things.
Another WTF moment is that if I hook up an HDMI monitor it will 'hijack' the Audio Output even if the monitor has no built-in speakers or headphone jack.
Technically the iPad can select which device to use otherwise it would not be able to prioritize the device that is last connected and where Core Audio sends the output but since we have no control over Core Audio on the iPad at system level it becomes a pita...
On the Mac it's a matter of going in the the Settings -> Sound and select Input & Output device an boom, done...
And considering macOS Mojave tries so bad to mimic the iPadOS experience this could equally well be an iPad screenshot
Maybe iPadOS17 or something LOL.
Cheers!
I might be able to work around this using a USB-C HUB and connecting the Apple USB-C -> 3.5mm dongle after connecting the turn-table and this should in theory allow me to monitor using the headphones...
@samu yes agreed and you it may work as all depends on the order you plug in your audio devices think I had the same problem with a to monitor trying it.