yorolpal
It used to be words and music...then came loops and beats...now squeaks and sqwanks...pretty soon we'll be back to grunts and groans...the circle will be complete. Thag make sound!!

going back to caveman days....burps and farts.

bitflipper
 
More precisely, everybody now has a crappy camera in their pocket. .

Zactly. I actually used my phone camera the other day when I unexpectedly came across a colourful boat parade for UAE national day. I might as well not have bothered. The photos are crap, the way you hold it as a camera totally un-ergonomic and composing on the LDC screen is next to impossible. Then there is the latency between pressing the shutter and photo being taken, hopeless for moving objects.
 
Call me a dinosaur but I am going to be carrying round a SLR and lenses and even a tripod for some time yet.

Word.

bitflipper

IK Obi
Care or not, mobile is the future of technology. That includes the arts. You already see camera sales going down, why? Because just about everyone has one in their pocket already.....
 

More precisely, everybody now has a crappy camera in their pocket. Polarizing filters? You dinosaur! Glass lenses? How retro. Zoom lenses? Get with it, you just make the pixels bigger now. It's digital, you know. Depth of field? I'm sure there's a menu for that. You, with your ancient camera thingy, you have to focus the damn thing. My phone automatically focuses on whatever's most important in the frame. Of course, if I'm trying to take a picture through a window it focuses on the window, but that actually looks pretty cool. The important thing is that when I take a picture of my junk clever "selfie", I can instantly post it on Twitface so all my fellow twitfacers can marvel at my cleverness.
 
Personally, I'm still waiting for a phone that works well as a telephone and does so for more than 4 hours before going dead.

The HUGE advantage of a camera in your phone is that you always have it with you. If you are going to make great photography you'll take a great camera but you will have planned for that.  I have no need for a great camera.  I've got a $100 Olympus that's fine but I never have it with me when my kids do something cute or I see something out of the ordinary.  A "crappy" camera in my phone is far better then an "SLR and lenses and even a tripod" in my closet.
12/4/2013
 
 
 
 
 

convenience is still king ;-)

The only advantage to mobile music making apps (to me) is when that song idea hits me at an inconvenient time, I can now "record" it someplace and not forget it while waiting until I can get to me DAW. I can't see it ever replacing my DAW, but you never know...
 
Regards,
Dan
 

CDs will NEVER replace cassettes.

 I use my cell phone camera for taking pics of wire configurations when I'm going to disassemble and for those 24 digit model numbers written in small font. As a close up camera it's great. I guess everything has a place. 
 
 This app looks a lot like another app called loopy which is a really successful app. I can see why Cake would be doing this. I don't think they will sacrifice X3 to develop/promote this. I'm hoping for more compatibility with Sonar in the future. A little Sonar that plays with the big Sonar. Like most other apps you can probably export what you do in this and load it into something else.
 
 In the video I watched it looked as if the vocalist making use of it live was firing off samples that were somehow locked to a click. At least the drummer was in time with it.

bapu
CDs will NEVER replace cassettes.

I remember CD's.

digital will never replace analog :)