Why does android/touchdaw suck?

well my Androi based phone(ATT avail z90 something or other) wont download a lot of "andriod" apps, and I cannot update the OS.

My Ipad, OTOH, is a gracious host and downoads and runs almost everything.I just installed a SetList App that sends midi program changes to my live keyboard rig, and has boxes for notes,lyrics, chords, etc all for $3.99.

No , your not stupid. When you purchased your tablet is was state of the art for what I was capable of doing.

It is actually quite ironic, the Apple thing.  They got their start contra MS being "professional", at least in music/video (tho I guess they were also marketed as "friendly").

Today, their strength is in consumer-friendly products and ganging them all together.  Like the iPad and my wife's iPhone via the "cloud" (my, what an amorphous term that one is).  She had to buy more cloud storage because of all her photos/music.  But I am impressed about how smooth the iPad is, tho I don't want it to do much - read a book, browse imbd to figure out where I've seen that actor (or more likely, a cute actress) who is on the tv, light weight stuff like that.  We'll see how well it works if I try to control SONAR w/ it once other programs and bluetooth gets involved.

Android seems like an apple wanna be, but it is an ugly sister.  my phone works fine w/ android and does smart phone kind of things - appts. and mapping as well as, you know, making calls.  I know part of my problem is the fact my tablet is older w/ an older version OS.  Viewsonic dropped it once it didn't take off.  I need to write them a nasty letter about how if the tablet would have worked I'd have been happy to buy their android monitor combo - a large touchscreen that you can use w/ your computer too..

Basically , I'm too old to be learning a whole new way of doing things.  I think I lost my edge when MS went to vista.  I just want things to work but I want to put things where I want them - not where MS wants you to.  I would like to have all my SFZ files/samples in the same place because, you know, it might be fun to drop a Rapture sample into DimPro without going through mouse contortions and having to remember where the same kind of files must be stored (according to Rene) in order to keep MS happy.  It is pretty easy to remember X:/samples/sfz/cool sounds.  And I don't want to dig into the registry.  Just like my car, I can work on it, but I prefer not to.  And I don't want to open the hood to switch gears.

I bought the stupid g-tab mostly to control SONAR - which it won't do after spending mucho days messing w/ it.  It won't even download the program.  I had hoped to use it in lieu of a laptop but it won't word process even tho I bought the programs to do that - it is large clunky type that doesn't even approach MS Word look or functionality. 

I guess I'm stuck waiting for a cheaper MS tab and a large touchscreen for music. So their evil plan worked to get me to spend more money, hope replacing experience.

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I had the same problem, Alan.  I bought a Coby Kyros Android ICS and Play would not recognize it at all.  I was told I had to "root" it in order to get Play to recognize it.  and of course if Play doesn't recognize your device you can't download anything!

and I never could get it to "root" either - even though I tried several times with diffeent methods.

so I finally gave up - gave in and bought an iPad.  'cept I spent more than $500 on it...I got the 64G gen 4 with cell carrier - brand new.

and even though I have NEVER been an apple person, I LOVE this iPad!  it just works.

I just bought a tablet.  It ended up being an iPad because I needed it in a hurry for a trip, but I would have gone with a Google 10" Nexus if I could have gotten it in time.
 
I mostly love the iPad.  This display is absolutely stunning and it mostly works in a very intuitive fashion.
 
But then there's iTunes.  What a steaming pile!!!!  I hate this software more than any thing else I've ever encountered (at least in the category of mainstream stuff that is widely used and should just plain work in a completely obvious way).
 
But it's great having a tablet.  It's cool to surf the web from the comfort of my living room couch.  I was originally just going to buy an e-reader like a Kindle.  But I took a look at what I wanted to read on it and the list included a lot of huge PDF manuals, so the 10" screen became an issue.  But for PDFs, the 10" table is brilliant!  Ever checked out how big a pile of printed documentation there is for Kontakt, Reaktor and SONAR?  I've got all that and more on my iPad.  It's marvelous and I'm finding the time and energy to read this stuff now that it doesn't involve a massive, unweildy binder to cart from room to room.  Highly recommended for documentation addicts like myself.
 
 
Edit: While we're on the subject, does anyone have experience using your tablet as a SONAR control surface?  I thought I read where there's a fairly inexpensive app that can be used with a variety of DAWs.

find and download the touchdaw apk.. a google search for "touchdaw apk" should find you a source... if you have a download folder in the tablet, put it there via usb, or if you cannot do taht, email it, then download the attachment.

look in google play, or amazon for the app "easy installer".. this is an app that will install .apk files on your device... download and install this app.

open easy installer, it should find or you should be able to find your download folder and select the touchdaw apk.. and it will install it.

cant write any better instructions than this... its been months since i did this on my friends kindle fire...

hope it works...

Mystic,

thanks.  I'll copy that.

dmbaer, there was a flurry of threads a while back, but most of the interest was in android/touchdaw.  There are a couple of people using iPads I'm sure - I'm surprised they haven't chimed in.  I've got one so I'll try to track it down, along w/ putting touchdaw on my old andriod and trying to get it to midi w/ my music computer.  More things on the list to do ... sigh

Let us know what you come up w/ - I imagine Reece will be on the controller prowl too.

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there's like 3 different versions of AC-7.  which one is best for use with sonar?
 
nevermind - I just need to read the descriptions!

cool - thanks David!

You need to check if your Android version is even compatible. Some aren't.