Cool app with some great sounds.

I definitely like the concept. I think it's a much more attractive proposition now that the base app (and 11 devices) are free, because buying the other devices can get pricey really quick ($10 for a synth here, $5 for a drum machine there, $7 for a mixer, etc). It is a fun lil' studio, though!

Embarrassed to say I was one of the dimwits that actually bought it when it came out. Kept it on my iPad for a week or two, and deleted it.....

yeah me too, then i saw the ridiculous inapp purchasing. delete..

I won't say its expensive to buy synth/effect/other plugins for $5-$10 each. Buy 20 of them and you've spent $100-$200. Not that much if the quality is good... but is it? I downloaded Tabletop and listened to a couple of the demosongs and played a few of the sounds. Now I have uninstalled it again. The whole thing reminds of the old virtual studio thing from Arturia, Storm. And that wasn't particularly good.
Virtual studio on an iPad today means Nanostudio or Beatmaker 2. Hopefully Korg releases more Electribes and Roland and Yamaha iMake some of their Grooveboxes.

Edit: Oh. I see Arturia is still selling Storm. I was referring to the first version that came out back in 2000? or something. I have no idea if it's gotten good over the years.

I just opened up Tabletop but it looks like all the additional devices devices still cost the green stuff!

The 11 included devices are the Tenori-ish sequencer, basic synth, gridlock drum machine, mixer, etc. So nothing additional is free, just the app itself

Cool app, but fully featured will set your dollar back to $40 or so....
BTW; Bought all add ons, but still prefer NanoStudio:)

saw this video of tabletop the other day, almost made me buy an iPad.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzhCu5URpi0

Yeah, I saw that too. Definitely the best advertisement for Tabletop that I've seen yet.

Still haven't dropped the $40 for all the additional devices, though

After playing with the free version, I think the entire concept is flawed. What benefit is it to array the various instruments that way? Feels like they came up with the name first, then made an app to match it.

I'd never arrange devices like this in a physical space, so the app feels like it's based on a slavish adherence to a bogus concept.

I hate that 'free' bullshit when you really end up paying for something. I'd much rather hear someone describe something as exactly what it is - tell me it's the base system and you pay to add to it. Don't insult my intelligence by trying to tell me that something is free when it isn't.

Too much of that with the way apps are sold.

agreed, they think the marketing is clever but it is far from that.

Society largely eats this stuff up.. buy one, get one free for instance.. society has largely forgotten what the word 'free' truly means.

Yes. Very cool. But not did they use Tabletop as a loop trigger and recorder only?
Wasn't much from Tabletop it self in there.