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A letter to my iPad
Dear iPad,
I know I have let you become lonely of late. I know that I used to show you more love and fondness. I would like to say thats it is me, to make you feel better, as in all things, it is more complicated than that.
When first we met, our relationship seemed full of passion. All new and shiney. The creative juices just flowed and sweet music was made from every touch. As with my SP404 mk2, you dared to be different! You were the naughty. You were the black sheep of music making tech. People didnt quite 'get you', but you surprised us all at every turn.
As with all things....you changed with time. You matured. Those fast nights of finger drumming apps. Those parties of my fingers on your amazing touch apps. They all remain, but they are no longer how you want to be seen. You see yourself all grown up, dressed up in your best Mac suit. You no longer revel in your wild side, but seek the approval of your peers!
I still love you....I really do! I just dont feel it when I see you trying to pretend you are the same as my Macs. I do not feel the excitement of your grown up apps! I fail to see how your lack of i/o, poor battery life and ditching the headphone socket makes you more grown up?!
Do not get jealous that I take my Macs out far more than you. You are still unique and I will take you out now and again, while touch apps are still permitted!
I do hope we remain friends
Yours (occasionally)
Fruitbat 1919
Comments
Ha ha, brilliant!
Similar vibes here for my poor neglected M2 Air.
Since the new entry fee for LP4i is now £130 per year - and if you stop paying you stop playing - desktop is rapidly becoming the safest place to spend my hard-earned hobby cash. So today, my money goes to the insanely fully-featured Pigments 7, for the very reasonable one-off price of £84.
Thanks
Yep, while I still like my iPad, I rarely buy anything for it these days. I did borrow LP4i for a year when it was cheaper, but that was my one and only subscription at the time and now my wife has only Amazon Prime for cheaper postage costs - simply not doing subscriptions for the most part these days - the line 'for only the cost of a coffee' is rediculous in a reality of multiple subscriptions!
I do buy my Macs on interest free credit (although im aware they sneak some in on the prices anyway), but for the most part, I just buy when I have the money or I get free stuff offline. We have a couple of thousand films on DVD and BLURAY, mostly free from people giving them away! All my software is always bought in sales - I have so much that its no hardship to wait for lower prices.
Enjoy Pigments....its really good!
Love this 😎
For me when iPad was really good at being an add-on to an existing setup, I really wanted it to be the whole setup. Now it is able to be the whole setup, I only really use it as an add-on to an existing setup (MPC Live 2 + a few Roland Aira compact’s and a couple of Novation controllers. 🙂
Main uses for my iPad these days are
The iPad still getting a lot of use, but not necessarily how I thought I would be using it a few years back.
My iPad read this and became jealous at how much use yours gets
I’ve also found it great in all those roles. It slots in well with a Mac using IDAM. I’d personally add “touch controller” as a use for things like GeoShred, TD-Data, and Surface builder. Surface builder in particular is great for offloading some controls.
It's very nice, the MPE is good too. Only danger now is that 'Shop' button that appears when I open the browser...
Missed that.....shhhh
So I been in this forum since 2017. Thru the years I have a seen so many posts of members of this forum publicly breaking up with their iPad. Some of the vulgarly leaving the forum others sticking around to keep exposing their displeasure.
I really don’t get that! It’s really weird!
Do people in Elektron or OP-1 forum publicly breakup with their device ?
Many great artist like @jwmmakerofmusic , @Svetlovska , @GeoTony , @richardyot , @LinearLineman create regularly great music on iPad. (Sorry for all the other great iOS artist I am forgetting right now) Even I manage to create a couple songs per year.
If the iPad does not work for you, move to something else. There is no need to tell grandiosly everybody that the iPad ecosystem did not match your work flow.
I been meaning to say this for a while. It is not particularly targeted at @Fruitbat1919 but he is the drop that made the glass overflow.
It was just a cute and harmless little post. Why read so much drama into it?
Yeah, it’s always good when there’s some levity around here. Definitely don’t need to take everything so seriously.
I did say it was not perticularly aimed at fruitbat. He was the final drop.
And tell me it’s the first time somebody does a grandiose breakup with the iPad?
I made sure I was not rude. Just expressing how these post weird me out.
Lol. 😂 I mean, the post is a little corny, but harmless.
I can't say I haven't felt the same about a few of those "I'm leaving the platform" posts over the years. They've felt a bit like people who have some insecurity that causes them to need to have everyone else agree with them in order to feel right about themselves. I didn't see this one as anything other that light hearted. It reminded me of how guilty I feel these days when I walk past my guitars hanging on the wall gathering dust. 😎
The iPad never let me down. Maybe it says more about the user than the device. It doesn’t have to be critical of the iPad if someone is more creative with something else. Btw, I didn’t read the OPs post but it sounds like he wears just having some fun.
Sometimes you just need to vent about it. I’ve been there.
if your main goal in making music is to annoy your cats, as mine is, an iPad is far easier to follow them around with than a desktop.
One of my cats has been obsessed with watching me play Musyc 2 on the couch. She likes the bouncing balls with the sound.
That's adorable.
I enjoyed @Fruitbat1919's post but I can definitely empathize with what @ecou said too.
WOW.....just WOW!
I’m a linear DAW guy who likes a bit of hands-on control so Cubasis on the iPad does everything I want and in a way I like. Recently I had cause to open a project in Reaper on the iMac and I hated it! Using a mouse seemed so clumsy and disconnected.
Each to their own though, I think the important thing is to use whatever gets in the way least when you’re trying to write or play. I get where @ecou is coming from but @Fruitbat1919’s post was fun. We all need a laugh to get through the heavier shit that’s going on
I just never in a million years expected to wake up this morning and find such comments on a harmless joke thread like this. I know any joke has the ability to offend someone, but this really made me kind of....well I will probably be best to keep the rest of that comment to myself.
@ecou I'm all for everyone expressing their own opinion, as long as its not political agenda pushing, but you actually could have addressed your concern to myself to gauge my motives to see if they did hold any resemblance to the thing that annoys you so. I am no monster. People can talk and discuss things with me!
Instead of discussion though, your piece comes across to me as the offer for others to come and join in 'a bit of a kicking'. Posting a list of names like that and using passive aggressive comments at the piece while still claiming its not 'particularly' targeted at me, all seems a little disingenuous to me.
Agree. Love the hands on nature of the iPad...lierally hands on....love all those wonderful apps that are aimed at using touch gestures to make music....we all know the ones.
The iPad used to be a cheap way of getting into music making, compared to desktop alternatives. It also used to be where you’d find all the new crazy, cutting edge stuff.
Neither of these things is now true.
Maybe having a light-hearted discussion about it on a highly visible public forum, might encourage those who have a say in such things to reconsider the direction in which things are going?
Worth a shot, don’t you think?
Why? It’s a discussion board, not just a place to sell people stuff.
I think people need to look at context more often.
While this post may have triggered some similar thoughts to things not liked in one person, making this tribal - iPad vs whatever is rediculous if you know my postings here.
Yes, I now 7se my Mac more, but I still post regarding all devices, thats why I put it in the hardware section.
A guy asked about DAWs for a PC. I commented with hopefully helpful suggestions. I hate PCs
I regularly post regarding iPad apps if I can help others...im no expert, but ive been using my iPads and apps since 2014 and I have learned a little!
I regularly post concerning my thoughts on hardware...of all kinds, as I genuinly like to hear other peoples constructive opinions and I just like shooting the breeze with those few people that still like to chat on here about all things music making.
Some here I would probably consider friends, if such a thing can really exist online.
See context. Its easy and kind of cheap to just lump my post in with others that have moaned about this or that, but that kind of only works for creating drama and has little to do with having a laugh with an online community whom all love music making shit of all kinds
Yes and if not, its fun to chat about such things anyway
Quite. There’s people on here chatting/complaining about the weather, AI, personal health issues, gaming, ICE, Trump, Musk…. I mean, this thread is discussing iPad vs desktop music making. I’m struggling to see the problem 😆😆😆
Yeah I can quite easily dish the dirt on my Macs and their annoying habits, foibles and idosyncrasies too! At least when I delete an app from my iPad, I dont have to book in an hours free time to find all the rogue files that are scattered in a million places over the hard drive! Lol
To be honest I was just passing time with what I thought was a little humour. Never claimed to be a top comedian!