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Yeah, you can get Animoog for the iPhone, but it has to be 4th gen, or newer, and I have a 3rd gen. 😡

So much for a bird in the hand 😆

*edit – I thought cantor was the same for some reason, but it looks like it doesn’t have the iphone 4 restriction. guess I got them mixed up.

At this point, in a audio production environment, I think they are highly useful as controllers. Think: Lemur, or any number of DAW controller apps. If you’re heavily into software synths, then having an iPad with Lemur is probably a revelation for you.

I personally like having DAW transport control on my iPhone. It simplifies self tracking of acoustic instruments for me. Of course, there are a multitude of other options available for this, but I already had the iPhone, so all I need to do was dl the app and set it up.

As for using a pad as a standalone multi-track recorder, I don’t see it. I use my iphone to record ideas and jams, etc., which it truly excels at (with the right app), but nothing more. The hardware isn’t there, yet and neither is the software.

I think, there would need to be a software paradigm shift, along with the necessary hardware advances, in order for a pad to truly revolutionize digital audio production. Developers would need to consider the full implications of what touch tech has to offer and design their audio platform around that.

Anyway, I’m curious to see what Fritz does with Podium.

@The Telenator wrote:

Respectfully, I have to disagree with Frits about how big pads will be. There are still healthy numbers using desktops and Vista, although less each few years. Could it be that some of us actually prefer laptops? I’d really like to know if most people think pads are the best thng since sliced bread. Sales of iPad seem to be more flat recently.

Time Traveler, I keep asking around but never receive any intelligent answer. Okay, then, so off to record reggae. Please tell me why a pad is needed to do this. Why would a good laptop be any less able to go mobile? And with its far greater storage for all those big reggae WAV files, it would do a much better job of it? Nobody can explain why a pad is supposedly such/any advantage or so necessary.

My best laptop is just under 5 pounds, 500 Gb of disk space, a 15.5 screen which is not too big and ungainly (makes for easy viewing in HD besides), and closed it is under an inch thick. In its soft case it fits in any knapsack or, gee whiz, right under my arm carried! I’m still thinking this pad thing is just a fad. My trusty laptop is plenty mobile and portable.

So, can you explain what feature(s) of pads makes them so much better? Again, what am I missing in all of this almost lemming-like behavior I’m seeing here and there?

In general; direct manipulation of multiple on-screen objects– simultaneously –seems like a pretty significant advantage to me; a closer mating of the physical world with the virtual world. If it’s not the future, it’s only because someone, instead, figures out how to project and manipulate virtual, 3d objects in real space.

Can you imagine directly manipulating a 3d chunk of virtual audio with your hands? The thought of it kind’a freaks me out, but I like it.

As far as recording, it may be a while before a touch-pad has the computing power for serious audio work, on its own, but give it time. At any rate, it doesn’t mean a pad can’t be taken full advantage of, in tandem with the full power of a desktop, since the real advantage is in the interfacing.

Anyway, that’s my, ever devaluing, $0.02 on the subject. 🙂