Apple iPad – The Future of Music Production Technology?
Last night saw the announcement that many of us music tech geeks have been waiting for…Apple launched the iPad. The net had been rife with speculation about this new bit of kit and in the music world everyone was talking about the capabilities of using the iPad as a tool for music production.
A lot of people where hoping that this latest Apple product would be a full computer, just with a touch screen, that way you could use the touch technology to control your favourite DAW in ways never before possible, however does not seem to be the case. The iPad seems to be a bigger version of an iPod Touch, which might not necessarily be such a bad thing.
First of all not being a computer means that the iPad does not have a lot of USB/Firewire ports and does not have a lot of RAM, thus your not going to be able to install Pro Tools and take full advantage all of your plug-ins. But what we can take great advantage of is the ability of the iPad to easily and directly download and control all your favorite music apps! Think for instance about the use of one of the many great synth apps out there, they work pretty well on an iPhone so on a bigger scale with more depth of control we could easily see a range of music production apps on the iPad being integrated into a professional production set-up.
We’ve already seen quite a few plug-in developers making apps for the iPhone – latest in line is Spectrasonics – if the iPad is a big success we could see an explosion of cool apps that work standalone or integrates with our DAW’s. It could end up being like using a Lemur without the price tag that comes with it – iPad is only $500. Or what about something like Novations Automap feature?
Multi-touch is still a relatively unexplored area when it comes to music production and mixing, often narrowed down to soft keys. Its not that we need to get rid of our beloved faders and knobs, I want them too, but a multi-touch screen could be a great compliment to any current set-up.
The only gripe I’d have with the iPad is the lack of ports, but with the ever expanding range of high quality music apps out there its hard not to see the massive amount of potential that Apple’s latest offering has for the world of music production. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for the iPad and how it is utilised for making music, keep an eye on the blog as I’m sure that there will be a few posts on this topic when the other music tech geeks get there hands on Apple’s latest!
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It would certainly have been nice to have a optical out on this thing, but since the iphone doesn’t have one either, I guess it’s not too terrible. I definitely see this as a great, cheap tool for on the go music production or third line midi device for DJing. Depending on how fast the processor is, you could have a very large amount of devices in one or heck, with an update, a completely software based player interface(think of having a Pioneer CDJ-1000 interface on the screen that with the touch based setup can mimic the device perfectly.
Alot of bloggers aren’t too happy with this new iPad.There was too much hoopla about it and alot blogers got turned off.Quite frankly, I actually see lots of the cool potential of this device. Third-party apps for playing tunes, games, papers and magazines and books, all kinds of awesome stuff, but they just didn’t really sell it properly (aside from the books). It looks kinda unfinished
I am all in all looking forward to the Apple iPad, and I am amazed to see what sorts of gamez and applications will be developed for it. I just don’t grasp some of the nitpicky criticisms in this website. Size of the bezel?? Damn!
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Rumor has it that Apple will loosen up its iron-fisted rule for the iPad-app store. Clearly, it needs to do so. Is it only a rumor or is it true?
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im loving the ipad personally. what do you think of it now? was it upto your standards?
Lol did you hear in regards to the guy shedding the prototype of the model new Iphone lol Apple should Pwn him straight away.