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This is the one downside with using Android I have experienced. I came from an iPhone 4 and as an amateur musician I used it to produce music, record ideas on t
by DigitalSea 12y ago
This is the one downside with using Android I have experienced. I came from an iPhone 4 and as an amateur musician I used it to produce music, record ideas on the go and whatnot. When I moved to a Samsung Galaxy S4 (my first Android phone) I was mortified. I grown to love a couple of drumming applications on iOS, when I moved to Android there were a few sub-par applications and they all had ridiculous latency, to the point they were not usable and I had to bust out my keyboard at home to record drums (no drum ideas on the go anymore). You hit a snare in a drumming app and it felt like hundreds of milliseconds of lag, horrible.
It was so bad to the point where I went out and purchased an iPad just so I could have that freedom of recording ideas when I am not at home. The iPad and iPhone offered what sounded like basically no latency at all, I never understood why Android devices struggled (but I speculated and assumed it was how the audio was being processed). I considered moving back to an iPhone, but I love the freedom that Android affords me and the competition, so I stuck it out and kept using the iPad.
I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and while I still notice some slight latency, it is usable again. I can finally jot down ideas when I am away from home using my phone again. Research seems to yield some improvements that Samsung themselves have made to their hardware and software, not to mention the professional audio driver that allows the use of a third party audio interface (great feature by the way). Google needs to make this a priority, because believe it or not a lot of people use their tablets and phones to produce music. We need to fix this.
Music production might not seem like a big deal to Google, but Apple definitely gets it and have from the beginning. The one aspect I miss about owning an Apple device, not enough to make me switch back but definitely a good feature of iOS devices.