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I use an iPad primarily for 3 things 1. Music production/performance. The iPad does few things objectively better than Android and touch responsiveness when i
by wishinghand 11y ago
I use an iPad primarily for 3 things
1. Music production/performance.
The iPad does few things objectively better than Android and touch responsiveness when it comes to playing music apps is one of them. There's a 100-400ms delay with Android for some reason. I had heard they'd gotten better recently but my girlfriend just got a Galaxy S5 and even though it's a last generation phone it's unplayable for being on time.
The iPad has a lot of great emulations of older synths and exciting new apps that aren't available anywhere else. Some big names have also made apps, like Korg, Propellerheads, and Native Instruments. Check out iPolysix, iProphet, Animoog, DM1, Auria, E.L.S.A., Beatsurfing, Impaktor, BIAS Amp, Audiobus, Swoopster, Sparkle, Galileo, Thumbjam, Steel Guitar, Arpeggionome, Orphion, Xynthesizr, Glitchbreaks, Loopy, and Gadget.
2. A second monitor.
Duet Display lets me plug in my iPad as a second monitor to my MacBook. This is convenient for coding on the go.
3. Casual laptop use replacement.
About the only thing I can't do easily on just an iPad is code or write a lengthy bit of text. If I bring a Bluetooth keyboard I can conceivably do the latter. Possibly the former but I hear the coding apps are still "meh". But if I travel lightly and I want to read, answer email, check the news, play music, or watch some videos, then an iPad suffices over a laptop, and I don't need a heavy power brick. If I want better speakers I can either use headphones or a Bluetooth speaker. If I want a bigger screen there are converter cables or apps that let me do that.
- stinos 11y agoMusic production Do you write actual songs on it or rather just work out some melody or beat or so? Just asking becasue I cannot imagine doing the former, especially handling sequencer-style ui's on a tiny screen with touch seems problematic.
- kaffeemitsahne 11y agoNanoloop's got this covered, it's adapted from a homebrew gameboy program. Had some fun with that on my ipod touch.
- wishinghand 11y agoDepends on if that's all they know or if they come from a workflow where that's foreign. Or depends on how flexible they are mentally. I use it mostly as my guitar amps, guitar effects, and drum machine. I have a lot of synths on there that I sequence with a separate app or have someone play with at MIDI keyboard controller. My new favorite thing is to get Xynthesizr (sequencer) in random mode but in a certain key to talk to a synth app and have that be a background bleep-bloop thing that is every changing while I do heavy reverb and echo drenched ambient guitar stuff.
- lewisl9029 11y agoDuet Display looks pretty nice. Does it live up to the performance claims in practice? How's the touch input support? I've been looking for similar software for Android tablets for ages but everything I've tried so far were laggy and unstable. I'll probably end up getting an iPad just for Duet Display if it works as advertised.
- wishinghand 11y agoI don't know what the performance claims are but it's a bit laggy. Nothing infuriating but I don't know your patience. I don't even touch on it, my mouse cursor moves onto the screen. It didn't even occur to me to touch it while in second monitor mode, I literally treat it as a regular monitor until I stop using it as such.