KVR Audio

TristezaOrange · Post by **TristezaOrange** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:27 pm

Android sucks so much for audio!

UltraJv · Post by **UltraJv** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:38 pm

I have LG GT540 android phone and its great fun. It cost £100 and has Android 2.3 on it. There are enough fun audio apps like RD3 (TB303 clone), ethereal dialpad, musicgrid etc. and other realtime synth stuff. The latency is good enough for fun stuff. Ubuntu has been made to run on them as well. Thing is that if youre going to pay £500 for a portable audio device, thats quite a lot to pay just for fun (thats all it will be on a phone sized device) - I would recommend something made for audio rather than iphone or android.

Lunatique · Post by **Lunatique** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:48 pm

UltraJv wrote:Thing is that if youre going to pay £500 for a portable audio device, thats quite a lot to pay just for fun (thats all it will be on a phone sized device) - I would recommend something made for audio rather than iphone or android.

The iPod Touch isn't nearly as expensive, and I don't know any other tiny handheld device that can be used as a full-featured DAW MIDI/audio sequencer. I have been extremely impressed by what Music Studio, NanoStudio, and BeatMaker 2 can do. Even the way the pianoroll editing is done with them seems to be very intuitive fast for such a tiny screen. They're perfect for doing a rough first pass.

UltraJv · Post by **UltraJv** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:54 pm

Lunatique wrote:
UltraJv wrote:Thing is that if youre going to pay £500 for a portable audio device, thats quite a lot to pay just for fun (thats all it will be on a phone sized device) - I would recommend something made for audio rather than iphone or android.
The iPod Touch isn't nearly as expensive, and I don't know any other tiny handheld device that can be used as a full-featured DAW MIDI/audio sequencer. I have been extremely impressed by what Music Studio, NanoStudio, and BeatMaker 2 can do. Even the way the pianoroll editing is done with them seems to be very intuitive fast for such a tiny screen. They're perfect for doing a rough first pass.

Sure they are great toys but thats how I see them. Screen size means you wont want to use it for long. I can just whistle a tune into an audio recorder app. Each to thier own

IncarnateX · Post by **IncarnateX** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:25 pm

If you want to make music on a hand held device it is a rather easy choise: iPhone or iPod Touch. I'll give you 3 very good reasons for that

1) The well known android latency issue (already mentioned in this thread)

2) The amount of music apps (also mentioned in the thread)

3) The independence from PCs: Until recently, you would have to transfer over wi-fi by virtue of a computer to export wave-files from one app to another (given the app could export at all), but with the recently applied pasteboard copy in many music apps, you can exchange files between apps with no need of external gear. And with direct Sound Cloud upload in some apps (like Nanostudio) you do not even need a computer to upload your finished files. Though there are a few music apps for android they can in no way compete with apple apps in this sense. Look at my signature: All apps listed can export to pasteboard and most of them can import from it too. Used in conjunction, these apps constitute a fairly well-featured pocket studio that Android owners can only dream of.

Resonator63 · Post by **Resonator63** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:48 pm

I use an ipod touch 4
Absolutely brilliant.You can't go wrong with one of these.
Also if your an FL Studio user FL Mobile is coming soon

Dewaine · Post by **Dewaine** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:50 pm

Simple. If you want a phone get iPhone 4, if not then get iPod touch 4.

Choose between iPod Touch/iPhone 4 and Android devices?