They don't have to. The authorization to use force after 9/11 (that was re-passed more recently) covers any foreign terrorist organizations.
It's a stretch IMO, but that's the way the law has been interpreted ever since.
If some random person in a Slashdot comment asks you how to use Bitcoin to transfer funds anonymously and you help him, that's not a crime. If you know the people you're helping out are ISIL then it's a different story. The Internet is not a magical place where laws don't apply.
I don't give extra points to production equipment for "mass market appeal".
Justin Beiber has mass market appeal, and it doesn't make his music one bit more interesting to me. All I care about is the best tool for the job. And if the job is buying stuff, then the best tool for the job is an iPad. If the job is creating stuff, then you have to look elsewhere.
You can control the mix from the listening point without the need to run a snake, and you can have multiple people controlling different parts of the mix (for example, have a second person set up the monitor mix or even let the performers adjust it themselves).
Yes, the Surface Pro does that, and runs ProTools too. And doesn't need some fancy device that is hobbled without the tablet, on top of that.
The Mackie mixer that has the dock on top for the iPad is a gimmick. I know, because I bought one.
I've been looking for the best portable production/performance setup for decades. Right now - today - it starts with a Surface Pro 3.
Don't forget to also write down that most people don't want a heavy, "tablet" that has poor battery life to replace their PC with, they want a simpler, lighter device with better battery life.
Hey, if you want something lighter, with better battery life, just use a cell phone.
I know it's a shrinking number, but there are still people who want to make things. You cannot make things on an iPad, except purchases.
And by the way, if Apple ever makes a tablet that runs OSX, has a USB port and can run the full version of Logic Studio, I'll buy that baby right up. But Apple seems to have no interest in making such a device.
Do you remember when Apple made the best tools for artists?
Other than for minuscule & specialised use cases, nobody cares that the their desktop replacement tablet is faster than all the other tablets that are massively outselling the SP.
"Nobody cares that their tablet is faster than other tablets."
OK. People don't care that a tablet that costs the same is much faster and can do much more. I'll write that down for future reference.
It's an observation you might not agree with (perhaps because you haven't heard it articulated as concensus) but that hardly makes it wrong; a "proper tablet" in this day and age should certainly *not* require the use of a fan.
Not "wrong", just completely arbitrary.
I don't believe you can have a "proper tablet" without a USB port. That is no less arbitrary. If you don't like the Surface Pro, that's fine, but don't establish some arbitrary criterion by which you pretend it's "not really a tablet".
If it looks like a tablet, works like a tablet, etc.
That's not true. At least for the older iPad with the dock connector, you can connect any MIDI device through the Camera Connection Kit and then play very nice synthesizers like the Moog Animoog or Korg iMS-20. And if the internal headphone out isn't enough, you can connect USB class compliant audio interfaces to get super pristine audio output, too.
I'm sorry, but no professional produces music on an iPad unless it's some Apple promotional thing or a hobby project. The "Animoog" and the "iMS-20" are pale simulations of the real things and cannot touch a VSTi version.
As far as the "USB class complaint audio interfaces" available for the iPad, even the best of them are consumer grade. And there is absolutely no DAW software available for iOS that any professional would use.
The closest you will come to using an iPad in music production is pro-sumer gear, something like this, where you can use your iPad as a remote control for a real mixer:
But even those have lost a lot of popularity, since people have figured out that the iPad just adds a huge failure point, since the mixer doesn't have any real faders of its own and adds an absolutely unnecessary level of complexity.
If you're an Apple fan, understand that I love Macs for music production. I've bought a new Mac Pro every three years since the G4. They're wonderful professional music production computers. iOS just isn't there for serious work yet, and I doubt Apple has any intention of making it so any time soon. They are consumption devices, not production devices.
I hold it as self-evident that Los Angeles (as a particularly egregious example) had a ready supply of fresh water available, or it would never have grown to the size that it is today.
The operative word is "had".
Los Angeles isn't going to suddenly disappear back into nothingness.
Maybe not, but it might become a much less pleasant place to be.
And, if it did "disappear back into nothingness" (which is not what I suggested), it wouldn't be the first time in human history such a thing happened. Man made and natural disasters have reduced many a booming metropolis to something...less. And make no mistake, Los Angeles is in danger of becoming something less than it is today.
There's far too much at stake to let something as trivial as a water supply get in the way.
I just read a very interesting novel by the talented writerPaolo Bacigalupi called The Water Knife which is about just such a scenario.
while I havent gotten a pro yet, pretty much every DJ i work with has gotten rid of their apple products for a pro for the reasons you listed.
Thursday I recorded a blues band outside on Maxwell Street with 4 mics, a little 8channel mixer/interface and a Surface Pro. The workflow with the touch screen is just brilliant. I didn't even bring the Surface's keyboard with me. The guy who was recording the video was shocked at how easily I set up and mixed the sound on the fly. The sound needed almost no post-production at all.
there are millions and millions who bought those and DO in fact want one of these however
I have two surface pro 3's. They're by far, hands down, the best tablet for music production and performance. They run full-blown ProTools, VST plugins, Ableton Live, and the full suite of Native Instruments software. I have USB ports for my external audio hardware and MIDI and the touch interface is delightful for on-screen faders and drawing waveforms and envelope curves.
I don't care if I'm a niche. I love my Surface Pro 3's. Somebody finally made something exactly the way I need it.
You cannot produce professional music on any iPad. All of the external hardware are toys and the music apps are nothing but gimmick.
If it contains a fan, which the Surface 3 does, then it is not a "tablet"
That's a criterion you just made up. Your statement is approximately equivalent to "a tablet without a USB port is not a tablet". Or, "a tablet that runs an actual operating system that can run ProTools cannot possibly be a tablet because reasons".
I have a desktop system without a fan. Does that make it "not a desktop"?
What's a little national sovereignty between friends? Why get all bent out of shape because of a little spying?
Don't think Angela Merkel isn't wetting her beak a little bit in the NSA's sweet sweet data pool. Next time they're all in a conga line up in Davos, I hope a meteor wipes the whole place out.
Cities grow organically based on where people want to live, and where people want to live is driven by more variables than I could possibly enumerate in this post.
Having read a little bit of history, it appears that for most of human's existence on Earth, a ready supply of fresh water is generally very high on the list of variables that drive peoples' decision on where to live.
It doesn't require a government to tell people in parts of California that the game is up for those locations. I don't think they need a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing.
I'm just curious as to when those millions of gallons that are going to fracking are going to start looking pretty nice to those people. When they have to decide between cheap gas for their SUVs and enough water to live, it's going to get very interesting.
I'm with you. I expect a company to be completely transparent about the products they sell, and their business practices. When they are the victim of a crime I expect them to protect themselves.
I'm pretty sure there's more to this story than we're getting at the moment. I'll stay tuned and defer judgement.
I've seen quite a few people make fools of themselves on stage. Some of them hold public office, some are highly respected in their fields, some were just born stupid - and a few were female.
None of them have been forced to resign or even apologize.
None? Would you care to bet whether or not I can produce cases of notable, often highly-respected people who have been forced to resign or apologize based upon making fools of themselves on stage?
So someone who hasn't done something or even been accused of doing something should face serious consequences for saying something offhand outside the theater of work?
He wasn't outside the "theater of work". He was speaking at a conference of fellow scientists and science journalists.
in the pussified world that we now live in
When you say, "we" you should speak for yourself. I'm sorry that you perceive your environment as "pussified". Could it be because you're a big pussy, like most men's rights proponents?
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The guy's name is Glenn Greenwald. At least spell the names right.
Do you mean Mossad?
They don't have to. The authorization to use force after 9/11 (that was re-passed more recently) covers any foreign terrorist organizations.
It's a stretch IMO, but that's the way the law has been interpreted ever since.
If some random person in a Slashdot comment asks you how to use Bitcoin to transfer funds anonymously and you help him, that's not a crime. If you know the people you're helping out are ISIL then it's a different story. The Internet is not a magical place where laws don't apply.
I don't give extra points to production equipment for "mass market appeal".
Justin Beiber has mass market appeal, and it doesn't make his music one bit more interesting to me. All I care about is the best tool for the job. And if the job is buying stuff, then the best tool for the job is an iPad. If the job is creating stuff, then you have to look elsewhere.
Yes, the Surface Pro does that, and runs ProTools too. And doesn't need some fancy device that is hobbled without the tablet, on top of that.
The Mackie mixer that has the dock on top for the iPad is a gimmick. I know, because I bought one.
I've been looking for the best portable production/performance setup for decades. Right now - today - it starts with a Surface Pro 3.
Hey, if you want something lighter, with better battery life, just use a cell phone.
I know it's a shrinking number, but there are still people who want to make things. You cannot make things on an iPad, except purchases.
And by the way, if Apple ever makes a tablet that runs OSX, has a USB port and can run the full version of Logic Studio, I'll buy that baby right up. But Apple seems to have no interest in making such a device.
Do you remember when Apple made the best tools for artists?
"Nobody cares that their tablet is faster than other tablets."
OK. People don't care that a tablet that costs the same is much faster and can do much more. I'll write that down for future reference.
No such thing.
Of course. One is a production device and one is a consumption device.
But it's not the fan that puts them into different classes. It's their relative function.
Not "wrong", just completely arbitrary.
I don't believe you can have a "proper tablet" without a USB port. That is no less arbitrary. If you don't like the Surface Pro, that's fine, but don't establish some arbitrary criterion by which you pretend it's "not really a tablet".
If it looks like a tablet, works like a tablet, etc.
I'm sorry, but no professional produces music on an iPad unless it's some Apple promotional thing or a hobby project. The "Animoog" and the "iMS-20" are pale simulations of the real things and cannot touch a VSTi version.
As far as the "USB class complaint audio interfaces" available for the iPad, even the best of them are consumer grade. And there is absolutely no DAW software available for iOS that any professional would use.
The closest you will come to using an iPad in music production is pro-sumer gear, something like this, where you can use your iPad as a remote control for a real mixer:
http://www.mackie.com/products...
But even those have lost a lot of popularity, since people have figured out that the iPad just adds a huge failure point, since the mixer doesn't have any real faders of its own and adds an absolutely unnecessary level of complexity.
If you're an Apple fan, understand that I love Macs for music production. I've bought a new Mac Pro every three years since the G4. They're wonderful professional music production computers. iOS just isn't there for serious work yet, and I doubt Apple has any intention of making it so any time soon. They are consumption devices, not production devices.
The operative word is "had".
Maybe not, but it might become a much less pleasant place to be.
And, if it did "disappear back into nothingness" (which is not what I suggested), it wouldn't be the first time in human history such a thing happened. Man made and natural disasters have reduced many a booming metropolis to something...less. And make no mistake, Los Angeles is in danger of becoming something less than it is today.
I just read a very interesting novel by the talented writerPaolo Bacigalupi called The Water Knife which is about just such a scenario.
Thursday I recorded a blues band outside on Maxwell Street with 4 mics, a little 8channel mixer/interface and a Surface Pro. The workflow with the touch screen is just brilliant. I didn't even bring the Surface's keyboard with me. The guy who was recording the video was shocked at how easily I set up and mixed the sound on the fly. The sound needed almost no post-production at all.
I have two surface pro 3's. They're by far, hands down, the best tablet for music production and performance. They run full-blown ProTools, VST plugins, Ableton Live, and the full suite of Native Instruments software. I have USB ports for my external audio hardware and MIDI and the touch interface is delightful for on-screen faders and drawing waveforms and envelope curves.
I don't care if I'm a niche. I love my Surface Pro 3's. Somebody finally made something exactly the way I need it.
You cannot produce professional music on any iPad. All of the external hardware are toys and the music apps are nothing but gimmick.
That's a criterion you just made up. Your statement is approximately equivalent to "a tablet without a USB port is not a tablet". Or, "a tablet that runs an actual operating system that can run ProTools cannot possibly be a tablet because reasons".
I have a desktop system without a fan. Does that make it "not a desktop"?
What's a little national sovereignty between friends? Why get all bent out of shape because of a little spying?
Don't think Angela Merkel isn't wetting her beak a little bit in the NSA's sweet sweet data pool. Next time they're all in a conga line up in Davos, I hope a meteor wipes the whole place out.
Having read a little bit of history, it appears that for most of human's existence on Earth, a ready supply of fresh water is generally very high on the list of variables that drive peoples' decision on where to live.
It doesn't require a government to tell people in parts of California that the game is up for those locations. I don't think they need a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing.
I'm just curious as to when those millions of gallons that are going to fracking are going to start looking pretty nice to those people. When they have to decide between cheap gas for their SUVs and enough water to live, it's going to get very interesting.
And if you value thirsty fracking operations.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
But what if we value the next generation and the one after that?
The Mossad don't work for the US. It's the other way around.
I'm with you. I expect a company to be completely transparent about the products they sell, and their business practices. When they are the victim of a crime I expect them to protect themselves.
I'm pretty sure there's more to this story than we're getting at the moment. I'll stay tuned and defer judgement.
Here is what you've said,
"None" as in "zero". What do counterexamples have to do with your statement?
Would you like to change your original statement from "none" to "not all" or maybe "some"? I'm OK with that. Everybody makes mistakes.
None? Would you care to bet whether or not I can produce cases of notable, often highly-respected people who have been forced to resign or apologize based upon making fools of themselves on stage?
Simpler for whom?
He wasn't outside the "theater of work". He was speaking at a conference of fellow scientists and science journalists.
When you say, "we" you should speak for yourself. I'm sorry that you perceive your environment as "pussified". Could it be because you're a big pussy, like most men's rights proponents?