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> Musician? [..] audio recording Are the D/A converters of tablets really that good? Honest question since I have no idea. From my limited experience, there is

> Musician? [..] audio recording Are the D/A converters of tablets really that good? Honest question since I have no idea. From my limited experience, there is a huge difference between inbuilt ones and something external that sends the converted signal to the 'puter via USB or firewire... or is that just because desktops have a lot more interference? GPU, CPU, the fact that it's plugged into an electrical socket etc... but I imagine a tablet with everything crammed real close together might have similar problems... ? > Photographer? Tethered shooting, library management and rating your shots post-shoot, etc. For tethered shooting I can see how portable instant feedback for persons you're photographing, or things you're photographing for other people, would be super nice. But full-blown library management? Again, I never tried it, but I just can't imagine doing it without a keyboard and mouse, since I need to be able to tweak the RAW conversion settings; pretty much all photos look bad straight out of the camera, so to know if something might be a keeper I need to make at least rough adjustments. That is also a lot more fun (read: less horrible) with a decent CPU... of course, if you're on the road it would be way better than nothing, but for most of my use, I'd rather wait until I get home and then do it better and quicker.

anigbrowl 13y ago
You can get external A/D/A converters, some of which are designed to just plug in to a tablet via a USB or proprietary connector, some of which are designed to house the tablet entirely, eg http://www.alesis.com/iodock http://www.alesis.com/iodock That said, even cheap converters are pretty good. Bear in mind that state-of-the-art analog tape recording only delivers about 12 bits of fidelity.
coldtea 13y ago
>Are the D/A converters of tablets really that good? Honest question since I have no idea. They are good enough for casual use. But you can even get stuff like Apogee interfaces for your iPad with top pre-amps D/A. >But full-blown library management? Not full blown, mostly marking photos from a shoot, flagging, minimal edits etc, before they end up in your main desktop library.

anigbrowl 13y ago

You can get external A/D/A converters, some of which are designed to just plug in to a tablet via a USB or proprietary connector, some of which are designed to house the tablet entirely, eg http://www.alesis.com/iodock http://www.alesis.com/iodock That said, even cheap converters are pretty good. Bear in mind that state-of-the-art analog tape recording only delivers about 12 bits of fidelity.

coldtea 13y ago

>Are the D/A converters of tablets really that good? Honest question since I have no idea. They are good enough for casual use. But you can even get stuff like Apogee interfaces for your iPad with top pre-amps D/A. >But full-blown library management? Not full blown, mostly marking photos from a shoot, flagging, minimal edits etc, before they end up in your main desktop library.