Oh and another thing, who in the hell uses a tablet for anything professional in terms of music or video production? Oh I know you will find one or 2 examples of "professional" work as proof of concept, but the truth is a touch surface is to unreliable to do music live, and to constrained to be useful for high end video.
I would encourage a new composer on a budget to start with an iPad, and challenge them to fill it up with software using the $5,000-$50,000 they just saved. Go nuts--you'll never exhaust the budget!! I've created sounds that have suited my clients needs very well, using the following iPad apps:
--Cubasis: a pro workstation on you iPad. Are you KIDDING?!?! Amazing.
--Cubase IC Pro: Use the iPad as a control surface for the big, expensive Cubase/Nuendo.
--MorphWiz: No bad tones with this synth by Jordan Rudess. Beautiful interface.
--Korg iMS-20: Analog synth emulator de LUXE. I've gotten 45,000 hits on my YouTube tutorial for it, too!
--iKaoscillator: Can't make a wrong note here. Just touch the screen, get a groove. Korg has such great tones, always.
--Animoog: Yeah, I could have used the _real_ Moog, but this one is different. Tricky interface, LUSH, motion-filled sounds.
--Symphony Pro: Notation software. Beautiful.
I also like to jam with:
--OnSong: Keeps track of my hundreds of jam charts. Thorough, useful software, worth every penny and more. I project the jam charts from the iPad to a big screen, so's everybody can read 'em and see the chords. Invaluable.
--Mugician: For some reason, even as a keyboard-challenged guitar player, I can play riffs on this interface and jam comfortably. The notes are laid out like stacked bass strings. It's related to GeoSynth and Cantor, but this is the one I seem to have the best success with. Buy 'em all. They're cheap, and we need to support these geniuses.
And I have a blast tinkering with:
--Mixtikl: I think I'll be able to use this one to create one of my holy grails: perfect predictable yet ever-evolving ambience for napping.
--GarageBand: Yeah, I'll admit it. I've used the "smart instruments" in a pro production. Once. Is it cheating when it sounds perfect in context? You tell me. I also use it to sketch quick backing tracks for songs I'm writing.
Other:
--Hex OSC full: I invented this hexagonal keyboard layout myself when I was in high school. Dad took me to see a patent lawyer to see if we could make money on it. I never got a chance to fiddle with it 'till this app came out, but they didn't _quite_ get the key touch or tones right. SO I'm still wondering if it makes for a good instrument.
--TouchOSC, MIDI Touch, V-Control
--GuitarAtSight, BetterEars, NailThatNote, etc. Ear training, sight reading apps. A little trip to boot camp never hurt the Fat Man. Maybe I'll get good at this stuff someday.
Audio sucks dog poop. Cannot run multi-stage signal processing loop without dropout or stuttering latencies. Oh. Try and locate/change "Default Audio Device" in the crippleware Microsoft Tablet UI. Or in the traditional "Control Panel". I spent more than 10 minutes trying to accomplish this once-simple actin on a Win8 tablet, last week - with the assistance of an MS employed consultant, no less!
Also this "tablet" uses 60 percent of advertised storage capacity for just OS binaries!
Shitty 100 USD Android tablets that have crap spyware apps, completely unsuitable for any of the cool stuff you can do for music production or video on the premiere tablet platform?
The money saved from dismantling the MIC will not be spent on the "crumbling infrastructure". Any money saved will go to welfare projections or pork-barrel projects.
Welfare Queens, like WalMart and McDonalds.
The rest, skimmed into "services" and "outsourced functions".
RIght. Because political opposition to Israeli oppression can ONLY be a symptom of "antisemitism". Therefore, Israel is benevolent and just, otherwise you are a RACIST.
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Oh and another thing, who in the hell uses a tablet for anything professional in terms of music or video production? Oh I know you will find one or 2 examples of "professional" work as proof of concept, but the truth is a touch surface is to unreliable to do music live, and to constrained to be useful for high end video.
From the same day:
http://features.slashdot.org/story/14/03/02/2041246/the-fat-man-george-sanger-answers-your-questions-about-music-and-games
-----IPADS. So many possibilities, sooooo cheap.
I would encourage a new composer on a budget to start with an iPad, and challenge them to fill it up with software using the $5,000-$50,000 they just saved. Go nuts--you'll never exhaust the budget!! I've created sounds that have suited my clients needs very well, using the following iPad apps:
--Cubasis: a pro workstation on you iPad. Are you KIDDING?!?! Amazing.
--Cubase IC Pro: Use the iPad as a control surface for the big, expensive Cubase/Nuendo.
--MorphWiz: No bad tones with this synth by Jordan Rudess. Beautiful interface.
--Korg iMS-20: Analog synth emulator de LUXE. I've gotten 45,000 hits on my YouTube tutorial for it, too!
--iKaoscillator: Can't make a wrong note here. Just touch the screen, get a groove. Korg has such great tones, always.
--Animoog: Yeah, I could have used the _real_ Moog, but this one is different. Tricky interface, LUSH, motion-filled sounds.
--Symphony Pro: Notation software. Beautiful.
I also like to jam with:
--OnSong: Keeps track of my hundreds of jam charts. Thorough, useful software, worth every penny and more. I project the jam charts from the iPad to a big screen, so's everybody can read 'em and see the chords. Invaluable.
--Mugician: For some reason, even as a keyboard-challenged guitar player, I can play riffs on this interface and jam comfortably. The notes are laid out like stacked bass strings. It's related to GeoSynth and Cantor, but this is the one I seem to have the best success with. Buy 'em all. They're cheap, and we need to support these geniuses.
And I have a blast tinkering with:
--Mixtikl: I think I'll be able to use this one to create one of my holy grails: perfect predictable yet ever-evolving ambience for napping.
--GarageBand: Yeah, I'll admit it. I've used the "smart instruments" in a pro production. Once. Is it cheating when it sounds perfect in context? You tell me. I also use it to sketch quick backing tracks for songs I'm writing.
Other:
--Hex OSC full: I invented this hexagonal keyboard layout myself when I was in high school. Dad took me to see a patent lawyer to see if we could make money on it. I never got a chance to fiddle with it 'till this app came out, but they didn't _quite_ get the key touch or tones right. SO I'm still wondering if it makes for a good instrument.
--TouchOSC, MIDI Touch, V-Control
--GuitarAtSight, BetterEars, NailThatNote, etc. Ear training, sight reading apps. A little trip to boot camp never hurt the Fat Man. Maybe I'll get good at this stuff someday.
--I just heard great things about Twisted Wave.
It's a valve-amp simulator/modeller. It'll blow your mind. Swap valves, add values, go crazy and build the amp of your dreams.
I built an Ampeg Flip-Top ++ that turns my bass into WALL OF MOTOWN live, when going direct to PA.
Now THAT's a good use!
Audio sucks dog poop. Cannot run multi-stage signal processing loop without dropout or stuttering latencies. Oh. Try and locate/change "Default Audio Device" in the crippleware Microsoft Tablet UI. Or in the traditional "Control Panel". I spent more than 10 minutes trying to accomplish this once-simple actin on a Win8 tablet, last week - with the assistance of an MS employed consultant, no less!
Also this "tablet" uses 60 percent of advertised storage capacity for just OS binaries!
Microsoft: The little, flat box, full of fail.
Every lug a laptop on stage, and fiddle with it, on top of an amplifier cabinet or KB rack?
An iPad clipped to your mike stand is full of WIN.
"Bias" is the name of one of my indispensable music performance and recording applications. :-)
From Positive Grid.
Don't believe.
There is NO Posix userspace on Android.
Posix kernel land is locked/limited.
Why does it take 16 GB RAM to compile the Android tarball? That's some BEAUTIFUL community inclusion!
Shitty 100 USD Android tablets that have crap spyware apps, completely unsuitable for any of the cool stuff you can do for music production or video on the premiere tablet platform?
No thank you.
All useless activity can be represented as another useless activity, ie: games.
Production and capacity for actual labor?
How do you gamify wisdom?
Just dispense a peanut every time someone says something wise. Duh.
Then come here, now! Here's YOUR peanut, Boy!
I WISH that it were true.
That would mean there'd be 85% of daily tasks, I could ELIMINATE forever from my life.
WANTZ tehze CHUCKs, with ZIP on SIDEZ!
SoyUseless. :-)
The money saved from dismantling the MIC will not be spent on the "crumbling infrastructure".
Any money saved will go to welfare projections or pork-barrel projects.
Welfare Queens, like WalMart and McDonalds.
The rest, skimmed into "services" and "outsourced functions".
The free market is a thief's paradise.
Of Planet Earth is near completion.
The rest can be sub-contracted.
Paul Revere used to butter the milkmaids with his baby-batter.
Philippides, the courier of Marathon used to drink too much, and then screw the serving boys.
However, they are NOT discounted as messengers.
That's no moon. It's a space station...
I haven't bought an actual postage stamp in US or UK since....
Maybe 2001?
F8ck the Jobs.
I WANT the JAMES BROWN stamp!
NSA already tracks your car.
"Silkroad."
RIght. Because political opposition to Israeli oppression can ONLY be a symptom of "antisemitism". Therefore, Israel is benevolent and just, otherwise you are a RACIST.
Nice racket.
How Israel treats Palestine and "occupied territories" is the moral equivalent of European colonists sending smallpox blankets to the Iroquois.
You believe this Democrat/Republican shell game? These are just the corporate proxies. Nobody is opposed to anybody, they all play for the same coach.
Go back to 'Jersey... Bet yo momma wears a wig.