There are apps that are more successful than others for making use of touch and the limited screen real estate. I don't have the patience or inclination for exclusive music making on the ipad but I do really enjoy several apps and integrate them into my main rigs. Some of the midi generation apps in particular are inspirational and fun. I send their output to my various gear over blue tooth using low latency CME midi devices.
I feel like mobile screen is too small to make anything good without getting frustrated, its simply uninspiring.
ipads and tablets are better with respect to screen sizes and ipads are fantastic devices for playing and jamming, however, being a full fledged production device while possible is still limiting, maybe thats good for some people but not for me.
Not to mention that apple has been constantly making decisions such as removing audio jack from ipads making it more annoying to use for music production. If i have to use multiple dongles and devices to make good music, i might as well stick to my pc and my macbook, and macbook is actually a fantastic devices for producing on the go, excellent battery life and more capable and compatible with more devices and has an audio jack.
That being said, i do love my ipad for coming up with ideas, groovebox by ampify is one f the most inspiring apps ive used. But generally, i take the ideas to my workstation to finish them.
With mobile devices, my setup is simple, i just have some piano, drums and composition apps along with a couple of grooveboxes such as gstomper (i use android since it’s not my music making device). When it comes to mobile phones, it really doesn’t matter imo since the screen size is a huge deal breaker. iphone can give you more nice toys to play with tho.
For tablets, android has never even been in question. I don’t even think android has as high of a market share as ipad when it cokes to tablets
Statistics: Posted by Scotty — Sat Oct 05, 2024 12:27 am