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I'm holding off on getting the new iPad Air 2

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  • The iPad Pro is just a rumor at the moment. Personally, I'm fine with my iPad 4 until it is a reality. I'd rather have a small iPhone and a larger iPad.

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  • Slowly getting settled in here. Ended up getting the 128GB since 32 was never enough on my iPad 4.

    Compared to my 4, sound comes out of the Air 2 sounding like a resonator acoustic guitar, which is annoying. Haven't had time to work on anything yet.

  • Can you try the performance with Auria???

  • @serosin said:

    I think for the majority of Air 1 owners making music, the risk isn't really worth it to upgrade to the next model

    It's a more complicated decision for current owners of generation 2 or 3 ipads - some questions being:

    "will this be a better experience given the limitations here on the growingly obsolete device I already have? At the moment, would it weigh up? Investing money in an ipad Air 2 with month/s long downtime before it functions the way it should?"

    About a year ago I purchased an Air 1 because my previous ipad 2 really wasn't coping anymore, regardless of OS issues. No regrets, it was a giant upgrade for me.

    The current situation is tricky though.

    Those with ipad 2 and 3 could upgrade to air 1. That's enough of an upgrade as it is. The tricky bit is how to get air 1 that's still on 7?

  • @AQ808 said:

    Slowly getting settled in here. Ended up getting the 128GB since 32 was never enough on my iPad 4.

    Compared to my 4, sound comes out of the Air 2 sounding like a resonator acoustic guitar, which is annoying. Haven't had time to work on anything yet.

    When you say "sound comes out", do you mean through external speakers/headphones/monitors or the built in "speakers"?

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  • i've ordered mines and I can fall back on my miniR if I need to. I feel theres not much point in hanging back as it'll just be a bigger jump when 7.12 becomes obselete, so I'm going to crack on build on what works in 8.1. And I cant resist the bigger bump in spec

  • @Sinapsya said:

    Can you try the performance with Auria???

    Can you give me an idea of what you're looking for and I'll set something up. I have all the plugs except MB and Overloud.

  • @supanorton I'm sure Aq808 means iPad Air speakers as that's how my air 2 speakers sounds

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    @supanorton said:

    @AQ808 said:

    Slowly getting settled in here. Ended up getting the 128GB since 32 was never enough on my iPad 4.

    Compared to my 4, sound comes out of the Air 2 sounding like a resonator acoustic guitar, which is annoying. Haven't had time to work on anything yet.

    When you say "sound comes out", do you mean through external speakers/headphones/monitors or the built in "speakers"?

    Built-in speakers of course. It would be very hard to tell in an apple store with the amount of noise usually going on in there, but at home its a different story.

    It generally sounds overdriven and resonant compared to the 4, especially when the volume is near halfway.

    This is definitely a result of the thinness/lightness wars.

    That said, the resonance does give you an impression that the sound is coming from the center of the screen when you look at it, rather than from the side of the 4 which had the potential to be muffled if you put your hand on it.

    You can't really muffle this one the same way since the resonance rings through the device itself, and the vibrations on the back of the device from audio were surprising to me.

    I assume the original Air shares this however.

  • As for Auria, I've not tested with plugins yet but it's still choppy when zooming & the tracks completely disappear at times but come back when you Touch the screen again :(

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    @AQ808 said:

    @Sinapsya said:

    Can you try the performance with Auria???

    Can you give me an idea of what you're looking for and I'll set something up. I have all the plugs except MB and Overloud.

    How about this:

    create a project with just one empty track (44.1),use Saturn.Pick the"crispy fats"preset (drums)as in the pics.This is a very hungry one.32-34% on my Mini Retina.You can try"HQ"mode if you like.That's skyrocketting on my device then (134%) :)

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    @higs said:

    As for Auria, I've not tested with plugins yet but it's still choppy when zooming & the tracks completely disappear at times but come back when you Touch the screen again :(

    Really??That is indeed very very disappointing.Also because the Air 2 has not only more Ram/CPU but also MUCH more GPU power than any other device but still the same(old)retina resolution.Zooming/scrolling at least SHOULD perform way better than before.Meh..

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    Here you are Crabman:

    The first constantly shifts between 21-25%.

    The second does one cycle between 100-104% then 100-109% then repeats that sequence.

    Whoops, did it as the first track of a four track. Let me see if that makes a difference.

    Edit: No difference.

  • @Crabman, true, I remember when I got the air 1 I was excited but the choppiness was the same as the iPad 3! & this is the same as the air 1 so god knows what's going on

  • sounds like its the way Auria works unless its better on some devices and not others?

  • Guys.... graphical zooming performance has almost nothing to do with raw CPU power these days because it's all dependent on GPU and how the interface is implemented in software.

  • @AQ808: Thank you. Interesting. That looks like about a 30% increase for audio processing.
    What about RAM. Is it really the double performance compared to the Air. That 2GB available means not that we have access to all of it for audio. Would be super awesome if you could do some heavy RAM test.

  • @Sebastian: Mmhhh.. but especially the GPU is way faster on the Air 2. I also thought that "metal" can use gpu and cpu for graphics. But i'm sure it would need an update anyway for take advantage of this.

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    @AQ808:thanks,yeah looks like the difference without the 3rd core.Not THAT much of an improvement but ok.Hoping that Auria will get 3 core (and native 64 bit) support.

    @higs:in the same boat,was really hoping to ged rid of the sluggish edit screen but nope...better on my Mini Retina (than my previous iPad4) but still there and annoying.Rim always said the waveform drawing is responsible for this.But at least with this monster of a GPU (Air 2)i start to doubt now...

    Auria would be (AGAIN,the 3rd time) my main reason to upgrade the iPad...

  • @Cinebient: GPU power was not the only factor I mentioned...

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    @Cinebient Yes, please come up with a test that would crush your device and I'll try to replicate. I didn't get enough sleep and am still importing things from my iPad 4, so I barely have a few brain cells available at the moment.

    Problem is, Auria is not showing 2 GB of ram so it's possible Auria hasn't been programmed to take advantage of it yet.

  • @Sebastian ah ok thanks for the input

  • @Sebastian: Ah, i see.... thank you!

  • @AQ808: Sadly i havn't loaded most of my apps on my Air now since it's another (replaced) device under warranty and i would need days to download all again.
    That Auria doesn't show 2GB is strange. Maybe the second ram chip is not available for third party.... who knows?

  • @crabman yes that's what Rim said to me too.
    Auria too was the reason for me to upgrade, I just want the smoothness :)

  • ...And it's also sluggish with completey deactivated waveforms when working on a bit bigger projects.

  • If you have Gadget, you could try running Gadget while running Auria.

    That ALWAYS crashes my Air 1 after about 30secs. I suspect because of the RAM requirements of both apps(?). And I've heard others say the same thing.

    Be interesting to see if it's any better on the Air 2.

  • When I put some apps & some music on the air 2, on my MacBook pro in iTunes it was showing I have 5gb free, I only put about 25gb on it & it's a 128gb iPad!
    Called Apple they told me not to worry about it as the iPad was showing 90 something gbs free & there a few bugs their working on.
    It did get sorted after a few hours though by its self

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