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Funny you should mention MIDI keyboards. Many musicians are now seriously using iPads to play music. For a good example check out ProjectRnL on YouTube. They us
by kisielk 15y ago
Funny you should mention MIDI keyboards. Many musicians are now seriously using iPads to play music. For a good example check out ProjectRnL on YouTube. They use a bunch of apps, some developed by Jordan Rudess (keyboard virtuoso and keyboardist for the band Dream Theater) that let you play things you can't easily play with a conventional keyboard. He managed to replicate a lot the features of the Continuum Fingerboard (an expensive "continuous keyboard" controller) with some iPad apps. The main thing missing is, as you stated, pressure modulation. I'm convinced though that something like that will be coming to tablets not too long from now.
- aphyr 15y agoI think the tactile response is important. I see the ipad falling at the extreme end of the response spectrum: glass, unweighted cheap keyboards, weighted keyboards, cheap piano, Steinway. Reconfigurability is important, but I suspect that expressive performance is improved by that interplay of position and resistance.
- kisielk 15y agoIt depends what you are doing, if you just need a keyboard then I think your ordering makes perfect sense. However, for an expressive instrument to be used as a sound synthesizer, I would definitely put it well above any inexpensive keyboard controller. The cheap controllers don't offer anything good in terms of tactile response anyhow, and suffer from expressive limitations. Take a look at some YouTube videos of GeoSynth or MorphWiz on the iPad for some examples. If the iPad also had tactile response it would surely be even better, but even now it surpasses most offerings.