Speaking of iPads, Alaska Airlines is currently evaluating iPads for use by pilots. I am not making this up. They'd replace printed navigation info.

They're only evaluating it for now. Personally, I am re-evaluating my choice of favorite airline.

picked an iPad 2, and Garageband is surprisingly efficient and inspiring..don't sleep on the tablets

bitflipper


Speaking of iPads, Alaska Airlines is currently evaluating iPads for use by pilots. I am not making this up. They'd replace printed navigation info.

They're only evaluating it for now. Personally, I am re-evaluating my choice of favorite airline.

eBlue

Psychobillybob


Just to get back on original topic I got the AC-7 core app and an ipad this last week and I can tell you it worked seamlessly, not a hint of latency issues on my wifi I use around the house for internet access, it wasn't even a dedicated wifi router anywhere close to my machines.

With the ipad screen resolution and the way the AC-7 app is programmed I cannot see ever going back to hardware controllers again

Just curious...are you using AC-7 Core with X1a? I haven't been able to get it to work. The MIDI driver app sees the iPad, SONAR sees the MIDI port and seems to be able to detect when I stop the driver. However, I am not able to get SONAR to communicate with the app on the iPad. After setting up a 'Mackie Control' control surface, it just show's as 'Connecting...' in SONAR.


-e.B

eB,  I don't know if this is the case for you, but when I boot up Sonar with my BCF2000 in Mackie Control mode, it also says "connecting" until I load a project or template.
 
 

Brandon Ryan [Cakewalk
]

A1MixMan


Brandon,

Not to get personal with you or any Cake employees, but could you guesstimate the ratio of all Cake employess who own an I-Pad to those who don't?

I would really love to know the answer to that. I am still considering buying one.

Hmmm...I really don't know especially as I don'twork in the home office in Boston. I do know that some employees at Cakewalk do certianly own them. There are a few floating around in Sales and Marketing for sure.

I'm personally more interested in the upcoming Android 3 tablets (Motorola etc), but can absolutely see the appeal of iPads (and tablets in general - the iPad being a more mature one) especially when you start seeing these kinds of apps.

I saw Eric Persing demo the iPad controller for Omnisphere at NAMM and it was WAY cool. Really great use for devices of this kind.

Hello Brandon,
 
Have you connected any external midi controllers to any of the Android Tablets? I have an "Asus Transformer TF101, and I would like to use my M-Audio Axiom Pro 49 with it. I have connected the USB port to the Axiom in Sonar X1 and it syncs right up with no issues, but when I connect it to the Transformer TF101 all I get is the Keyboard just powered up, but does not show that it is connected in the Android taskbar. By the way I am running it with the NVIDIA Tegra 2 ARM CortexA9 processor, with a 32gb hard drive and the attached "keyboard docking station" which comes with 2 USB ports, mini HDMI ports, and a microphone in / audio speaker out port. I have contacted Asus about whether they have USB host support for the TF101, but haven't heard anything positive at this point.  I have read that it should have it. Any way to get this to be a "USB play and play" method between the Axiom Pro 49 and the Asus Transformer TF101? Thank you

Freddie H


As long Apple continue with all its restriction and politics and doesn't add a simple FLASH PLAYER that they can get 100% free from Adobe, NO NEVER!!!

Yes you need to jailbreak the Iphone or Ipad just to get simple functionality? How ****ed isn't that?
I have Iphone now but this year I will ditch it and get an HTC phone instead.

Apple - Products made for people that has very low tech knowledge and understanding how to build, operate computers and systems, technology gadgets and so on.


LOOK----> http://www.htc.com/europe...ct/flyer/overview.html

A Ipad with customization better SCREEN, better Graphic and with FLASH PLAYER that work!!!

Regards
Freddie

Freddie, before you go on spreading such non-sense you should do a bit of research - Adobe themselves dropped flash for web browsing and mobile phones last fall.


You should also know that the alternative is backed not only Apple, but Microsoft and Google.


But I guess you can wipe that information from your brain and resume insulting people using Mac (I included) for being ignorant of all stuff technical.  

Rain,

Excatly. Adobe has dropped mobile flash and has about a 1 year or so life span on desktop support. Everything is moving towards htlm5 which the iPad supported all along. 

If anything freddie is arguing about old, buggy techinogy that even adobe is replacing.

By the way, if you were to give Sonar and v control pro a run you'd find that you'll be using your mouse and keyboard quite a lot less with a quick access touchscreen. This enhances workflow, makes the iPad have great worth in a modern DAW.

http://www.neyrinck.com/en/products/v-control-pro

Rain


But I guess you can wipe that information from your brain and resume insulting people using Mac (I included) for being ignorant of all stuff technical.  

I agree... I have a very high degree of technical knowledge and I do own 2 macs, 2 ipads, an iPhone and an iPod. I also own 4 custom-built (by me) desktop (Windows) machines. I do development and I am a systems engineer. I used to be a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and I install and maintain networks for a living. So, I resent the fact "all mac users are ignorant of all stuff technical"... Hell, I even have a degree in car mechanics (which was a hobby...) :) I will grant you this... I like Windows 7 much more than I like OS X. Especially Lion. And I hate Apple's philosophy. It's my computer, and I use it like I want, not like Apple thinks I should use it.

Scott Lee


Rain,

Excatly. Adobe has dropped mobile flash and has about a 1 year or so life span on desktop support. Everything is moving towards htlm5 which the iPad supported all along. 

If anything freddie is arguing about old, buggy techinogy that even adobe is replacing.

By the way, if you were to give Sonar and v control pro a run you'd find that you'll be using your mouse and keyboard quite a lot less with a quick access touchscreen. This enhances workflow, makes the iPad have great worth in a modern DAW.

http://www.neyrinck.com/en/products/v-control-pro

It's the way of the future. And despite all that can be said against Apple, they once again paved the way (no they didn't invent tablets, but they sure as heck spread the technology w/ an unprecedented efficiency.) 


An iPad for remote control certainly is part of the plan for the studio when we get home - we just have to figure out where and when that'll be now.

Sure not the same, but simply dabbling with a few of those apps on the iPhone last summer (TouchOSC and another remote control, I forget which) convinced me of the potential. The less layers between me and what I'm trying to do, the better. 

The propoganda around Flash has been fairly interesting; the gap between what Adobe said about it and the reality is pretty wide. Bottom line is this: sure, when the iPhone first appeared, it could be a bit of a drag coming across inaccessible Flash stuff on the web. By the time the iPad was out, it was a done deal, more or less. Almost everything on the web that uses flash video has either fully switched to HTML 5 or has an HTML5 fallback. I can't remember the last time I couldn't access something on the iPad.