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Touchscreen vs Keyboard and Mouse
I like the touchscreen better because it feels more organinc when playing music in apps like ThumbJam. I also feel it responds faster to user input when editing. Which do you prefer for music making?
- What interface do you prefer when making music?19 votes
- Touchscreen100.00%
- Mouse & Keyboard0.00%
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I prefer a combo of both. I'm not a fan of on-screen keyboards.
I mostly prefer the tactile feedback of a keyboard, but in most cases, a touch screen for controlling for instance 'a software synth' well that's better than using a mouse, trackpad on the desktop. Even touch screen desktops don't feel right yet, not just the UI, just feels like the screen should be flat on the table/desk.
@CalCutta said:
Do you mean you prefer the ones you click on?!!!
I actually prefer an ESP-based keyboard, but I'm a clicker, too.
Depends entirely on the interface presented. Applications with intricate details are generally best handled with a mouse, though I appreciate how UI has been reimagined to fit into a touchscreen paradigm - sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. Overall, though, incorporating true playability into the mix via touch changes the way I approach composition.
Touchscreen and keyboard is my chose. Thats why i love this keyboard case for my Ipad Air. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JR6Q76Y/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I forgot to say you can use a external musical keyboard controller. Everything else is done on the touchscreen.
@mgmg4871 That looks cool. It's a good point you can also use a third party keyboard for typing. My only problem with that is it makes the iPad bulky and cumbersome to use.
Lol. It was actually a bad joke, but I do like it for navigating thru the internet and typing. It works well as a stand also.
Well you CAN use it with Double Decker!
I had a desktop setup in the late 90s - got out of music in the mid-2000's - then got back into music making on my iPad about 2 years ago. I picked up a MacBook Air recently (mostly for my daughter to use for school) - and thought I'd use it to do some music production - I tried a bit ... But using the touch interface on iPad was a much much more rewarding experience - I found going back to a mouse and keyboard very unproductive and no fun. So I'm strictly using iPad for making music. I would like to go back and perhaps do final mixing/mastering on the MacBook someday - but for a hobbyist like myself the iPad is all I require
Have not used a mouse in over 25 years. Was getting beginning Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in the late 80s and had to switch to trackball. Hated touch pads (as a mouse) on laptops for years an carried a track ball with me everywhere. Got my first Mac with the new glass touchpad and instantly switched to using an Apple Magic Touchpad at home.
As others have said, two different things, for playing music touchscreen hands down, for editing tracks you could argue for either, but I'm partial to touchscreen, for writing a ton of text, mostly programming in my case, I want vi, a keyboard and a cursor, don't even need a mouse.
With regard to touch screen 'Musical Keyboards' Thumjam is pretty hard to beat, the midi that lies beneath is staggering as well. In the more traditional keyboard design bs-16 an oldie but Goldie, that ones really expressive for a touch screen keyboard.
I voted for Touchscreen...but to be honest, this isn't accurate, because it depends on the application. For 98% of my music creation I do prefer a more tactile approach, but for fine tuning I really want and need a keyboard and mouse. I'm at my most creative with hardware and iOS, but when it comes down to the nitty gritty of EQ and dialing in a sound or getting a mix right, I want the most specific tools available, and that usually means a keyboard and mouse. Dicking around with knobs doesn't quite do it.
Depends on what I'm doing - for some tasks the touchscreen is perfect, and quicker than a mouse. Other times it's clunky and a hinderance.
Both Touchscreen and Keyboard; Piano type keyboard that is...uhm, what mouse?
Touchscreen is ideal for apps such as ThumbJam and the iFretless series.
Onscreen piano keyboards are rarely useful I think, Animoog's blades being an exception.
As for typing keyboard, to my surprise I found typing on the regular onscreen keyboards on my iPad both convenient and fast...and then there's Swype...!
Mouse and cursor are the main reason why I find it impossible to go back to Ableton and/or logic.
Yup. Cursor. Even sounds Dickensian.
@JohnnyGoodyear lol Dickensian. That's funny and true.
Ableton Live is awesome so i make it work but i use a trackball, the old type of mouse effed up my wrist a bit. I'm thinking of getting Air display so i can use my iPad as a second monitor and have the best of both worlds.
@JohnnyGoodyear said:
I did the thing people like to abbreviate having done when they didn't actually do it.
@Accent said:
So long as that last line is virtual knobs, this captures my thoughts with precision.
Aye, virtual knobs. I'd rather draw in my automation with more precision.
Also, I'll second using a trackball over a regular mouse. Much easier to use.
I can't decide, because i use a touchscreen desktop (PC) for internet and a laptop for music (production) both which i use a mouse for. I find the touchscreen PC very uncomfortable to use, being upright and facing me, and it can't be moved around like an iPad.
With an iPad, the thought of using a mouse has never entered my head (and never will again). I love my iPad, the touchscreen, the portability, the apps. Therefore i like both, sorry. Maybe i'm old fashioned, or just old !!
@RUncELL said:
It sounds like if you have a touchscreen PC and an iPad the touchscreen wins.
I prefer a small midi keyboard like the aqueous over tapping on the touch screen, but when I want portability over everything I'm fine using the built keyboards in most apps.
Maybe for a best of both worlds 'Tuna Keys' tactile and touch!
@mkell424 said:
Touchscreen for iPad wins..err, hands down
What we now need are touchscreen controller keyboards (like the Haken Continuum, only cheaper and more portable) to make better use of synths like Wavegenerator, Animoog, Nave etc..
bump because of the movers and packers spam.
@Tarekith said:
When it comes to note input, I definitely prefer using a midi keyboard over trying to play anything on the touchscreen with any accuracy. The touchscreen keyboards are nice to getting a sound going, but I find it an exercise in futility to actually play something with them.
What is the Aqueous, btw? A quick search only led me to some sort of auto part.