CDM gets the scoop on Akai's Synthstation 49, but what I want to know is, what is that app?
Oh, and by the way, ths SynthStation app is still on sale at $1.99. I wonder if there's a universal coming to support the new hardware?
iPads at the Apple Store
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Now i would consider this. By the time it comes out hopefully more app will support it.
What is the app? Maybe another SynthStation in the cooker?
i think this kinda defeates the purpous of MOBILE music, not trying to be rude or anything, but like if ur gonna carry all this around why not cary around a laptop? there more powerful anyway......
With regards to the above post, I think it would mean a lot of power while still being pretty portable. Would also take the heat off a laptop if used side by side too.
As for that app, I hope it's a free update to the current Synthstation app which has plenty potential but is a bit fiddly and somewhat lacking in some areas.
Keep us posted, PS :)
@swalker133
I agree 100%. But maybe DJ's and other performers wanting to use their iPads live may find this method of portability easier.
Original SynthSatation for iPhone 3G/3GS only (what the...) was a joke.
Now this shows up and I am really considering buying one... :)
@swalker133
Absolutely, laptops are more powerful, more expansive and cheaper, but the iPad looks so shiny!!, its mesmerizing... :)
But seriously, iPad owners are a known good market for this kind of products. Musicians and computer users don't buy into this kind of costly and limited accessory, instead they buy MIDI/USB keyboards and controllers. They're better quality, more versatile and cheaper, and you don't need an app that "supports" them to use them, they work with every software.
iPad owners who just spent over 700$ on a basic computer with only 256mb of ram won't mind investing even more to get accessories for their new toy, especially when standard accessories won't work with their shiny iPad.
"..basic computer with only 256mb of ram.."
...which happens to run 6-tracks of heavily processed sound without a hiccup.
You iPad naysayers really crack me up. If building a more responsive and intuitive tablet that performs better and runs for 8-10 hours w/out even getting warm was so damn easy, why hasn't anyone done it yet? I mean, HP had one on the burner w/ a W7 touch overlay and 1GB of hard-wired RAM... can you imagine what Pro Tools would be like on there? My G-g-g-generation!!!
You're trying to apply old standards to a new frontier. 256 MB of RAM doesn't sound like much, because you need at LEAST that much to run W7 by itself!! Then, toss in the added processing requirements of a touch overlay... you get the picture. You fail to grasp that the iOS is a MOBILE OS, not merely a "phone" OS. It will run anything that's coded for it, without consuming all the machine's resources. That INCLUDES rich, PC-class DAWs. Look what's available already!!
I defy you to show me a video of someone on a sub-$700 portable that is running anything CLOSE to 6 tracks on a DAW, without popping and hanging, and heating up like a grill @ Friendly's during the breakfast rush.
Oh, and the Fairlights that Gabriel used on "Security", and Kate Bush on "Hounds Of Love" had 64kb of system RAM.
One last thought, clipped from a post that I was obliged to write, after a similar "musician" obtusely bashed tablet-based "toys".
"A Moog was a "toy", as far as longhairs were concerned, and look where it got us.
A toy piano, a tin can.... hell, even a side of beef (Scott Walker, anyone?) can be used to create a brilliant and innovative piece of music, just as the most "professional" equipment can be used to create the most simplistic and diluted piece of un-listenable crap.
Don't be surprised when someone creates a full album's worth of amazing, visionary music w/ nothing more than an iPad and Nanostudio; something that makes you want to throw all your "professional" equipment out the window."
I only hate ipads untill I get one....,
@Icepulse said...
"...which happens to run 6-tracks of heavily processed sound without a hiccup."
My 5 years old laptop can run 16 tracks of heavily processed sound without a hiccup, and in 24-bit 96khz quality, and it costs me less than 800 bucks at the time (Acer).
"tablet that performs better and runs for 8-10 hours w/out even getting warm was so damn easy, why hasn't anyone done it yet?"
Motion Computing has been selling them for years, but nobody noticed them.. oh except doctors who have been using them for years and a lot of graphic artists (they do costs a lot).
"can you imagine what Pro Tools would be like on there?"
I guess you haven't seem the Indamixxx running Pro-Tools video...or ever used Pro-Tools or Cubase on a Tablet (I mean, you are asking "can you imagine").
"256 MB of RAM doesn't sound like much, because you need at LEAST that much to run W7 by itself!!"
This is a lie. When you use W7 for a DAW, you should disable a lot of services that you don't need, especially Aero. Then you can use W7 to record a few tracks with effects. Its not going to be the fastest, but it will work without clicking.
"I defy you to show me a video of someone on a sub-$700 portable that is running anything CLOSE to 6 tracks on a DAW"
Youtube is so full of them I shouldn't even have to find one for you.
"Oh, and the Fairlights that Gabriel used on "Security", and Kate Bush on "Hounds Of Love" had 64kb of system RAM."
Yes, and the International Space Station only have a few megs of ram. But the question was : is there any other 700$+ computers you can buy today that only has 256mb of ram? I find it funny how you're comparing a 30 years old sampling synth to the iPad?
"clipped from a post that I was obliged to write, after a similar "musician" obtusely bashed tablet-based "toys".
So there, you are saying it yourself that the iPad is a "toys".
Now, did I ever said using toys was bad? No, I even made a post here about that earlier. Toys are fun!, but they're toys. The Ipad is not a computer, its a console. Computers works with every peripherals, consoles only works with peripherals made for them.
Lets see things for what they are and not put them on a pedestal. Sorry if I offended you, I understand you like you iPad, and so do I (yes, I do own one).
I was just noting how the iPeople are a special market group who spends more money than the rest of the people, just look at all the existing iAccessories.
@Icepulse
"That INCLUDES rich, PC-class DAWs. Look what's available already!!"
Sorry but there's just nothing that compares to Cubase, Live, Logic or Pro Tools or anything Native Instruments has done. And there's only a few that equals Bahjis Loops for PalmOS.
But don't get me wrong, there is lots of nice apps on IOS, I find the best ones are those who makes a creative use of the touchscreen and accelerometers. My faves are still Bebot and Thumbjam, the newer Synthmate is great too.
Wasn't IOS supposed to be based on OSX? Why didn't we got ports of the best OSX DAW's since then?
Since taking up Tai Chi I have found that I am less easily drawn into such futile discussions. You are both right and wrong.. Like Yin and Yan you need each other's argument to be at one. So get it on!
We are in changing times.
most discussions seem futile when I am not involved,
but once in it I'm in it, no matter what about
@Anonymous the Tai Chi guy
http://xkcd.com/386/
"We are in changing times"
Time changes all the time, I can never get my clocks to stop changing :D
We really do need a forum!
Although.. I'd need at least two user logins, one for the contentious prick and the other for the righteous arse.
The Tai Chi thing was a lie. Way too early to have garnered a perceivable benefit ;)
@rondema
"I'd need at least two user logins, one for the contentious prick and
Or simply use two different Anonymous accounts, that would make things even more interesting :)
Are you having heated discussions with your own alias?
:D
or worse
back up your own arguments
"yeah he's right"
( and awesome)
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