Hot News! Synth 1 coming to iOS!

[ObiWonder]

Get Synth1 for iPad. Buy a iPad Mini and a cheap midi keyboard and you've got a pretty decent modern VA for not a lot of money.

I wonder what the polyphony is like.

I guess that once he's done with this. He'll release the native AU version. I would imagine the code is very similar.

iRig KEYS or even iRig MIDI with any MIDI controller would be a sweet set up.

iRig Keys is what I'm hoping Santa brings me.





.....in reality, I'll probably get another lump of coal...





--Sean

Then be sure to drop a lot of hints for your family and friends!

[bwwd]

Im gonna be douche and ask.. why not Android ? iOS isnt too friendly for independent devs.

[glokraw]

http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html

ipad/phone users are a huge collective, with some number of musicians
using them as tools. Android tablet and phone used as a daw host, is not
likely to catch up. And I doubt Synth1 is destined
to be open-sourced, or gpl etc

I myself would rather see more improvements to the instrument itself,
than more tablet/phones to use it on. But next year at this time,
there may be a variety and glut of cheap but functional Andoid devices.
If the top 20 linux audio apps worked on an android tablet, I'd buy one.
Cheers

[plastic]

Im gonna be douche and ask.. why not Android ? iOS isnt too friendly for independent devs.

The short answer is that right now it's impossible to do low latency audio processing with android. In addition the hardware fragmentation of the platform is a pain for developers.

[mkdr]

LOL

Totally useless.. A synth inside an underpowered glass toy. WTF?

[audiojunkie]

LOL

Totally useless.. A synth inside an underpowered glass toy. WTF?

If you are talking about the iOS devices, you might find the following interesting:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTE4NjU

I may be wrong, but didn't the Gemini and Apollo NASA programs launch man into space using math largely calculated by slide rulers?

Or maybe you haven't actually looked into these devices seriously enough to see what capabilities are there?

To each his/her own I guess, but these devices really CAN do a lot of high quality audio. Personally, I like the immediacy and portability that my iPad 2 offers me. The iPad 4 has double the processing power and double the RAM of the iPad 2. I wonder which super computer the iPad 4 is equivalent to?

--Sean

[mkdr]

LOL

Totally useless.. A synth inside an underpowered glass toy. WTF?

If you are talking about the iOS devices, you might find the following interesting:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTE4NjU

--Sean

LOL!

This keeps getting better and better

Are you serious with this?

[plastic]

if you think ipad is a useless toy for music making you're either stupid or lived under a rock for the last 2 years.

[audiojunkie]

LOL

Totally useless.. A synth inside an underpowered glass toy. WTF?

If you are talking about the iOS devices, you might find the following interesting:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTE4NjU

--Sean

LOL!

This keeps getting better and better

Are you serious with this?

Well, yes. I was serious about that piece of trivia. I just thought it was interesting.

mkdr, I'm not trying to convince you of anything. The simple fact is, there have been masterpieces recorded on nothing more than a 4-track. The tools we have now are much more powerful than what was available 30 years ago. When I think of Auria, the 48 track DAW, it is much more capable of any 4-track tape deck ever made. It is much easier to edit audio with than any 1/4 inch reel to reel splicing ever was. It is much more immediate than racks of gear and patch panels (synthesizers, effects and hardware that failed much of the time and was often out of tune).

The iPad is not for you. You've made that clear. As for me, I just have to shake my head in wonderment at all of the neat technology that is coming out. (It gets better and better year after year!)

No, the iPad is not a $250,000 Fairlight. You might be surprised though to know that an exact replica of the Fairlight exists on the iPad, and is available for anyone who wants to purchase it, for less than the price of a tank of gas. Add to that, Moog, the masters of Analog synthesis and Wolfgang Palm, arguably the father of modern digital synthesis, have both released modern, powerful new synths to the iPad.

The Genome Midi Sequencer is more powerful than any of early sequencers we had 30 years ago, yet it exists on the iPad.

No, it is not likely a replacement for <Your favorite Windows DAW>, but it has its place in the music industry. If you are unwilling to acknowledge this, that's your loss.

--Sean

[shanecgriffo]

Not to mention talking Tom the talking Tom cat!

[Igro]

LOL

Totally useless.. A synth inside an underpowered glass toy. WTF?

If you are talking about the iOS devices, you might find the following interesting:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTE4NjU

--Sean

LOL!

This keeps getting better and better

Are you serious with this?

Well, yes. I was serious about that piece of trivia. I just thought it was interesting.

mkdr, I'm not trying to convince you of anything. The simple fact is, there have been masterpieces recorded on nothing more than a 4-track. The tools we have now are much more powerful than what was available 30 years ago. When I think of Auria, the 48 track DAW, it is much more capable of any 4-track tape deck ever made. It is much easier to edit audio with than any 1/4 inch reel to reel splicing ever was. It is much more immediate than racks of gear and patch panels (synthesizers, effects and hardware that failed much of the time and was often out of tune).

The iPad is not for you. You've made that clear. As for me, I just have to shake my head in wonderment at all of the neat technology that is coming out. (It gets better and better year after year!)

No, the iPad is not a $250,000 Fairlight. You might be surprised though to know that an exact replica of the Fairlight exists on the iPad, and is available for anyone who wants to purchase it, for less than the price of a tank of gas. Add to that, Moog, the masters of Analog synthesis and Wolfgang Palm, arguably the father of modern digital synthesis, have both released modern, powerful new synths to the iPad.

The Genome Midi Sequencer is more powerful than any of early sequencers we had 30 years ago, yet it exists on the iPad.

No, it is not likely a replacement for <Your favorite Windows DAW>, but it has its place in the music industry. If you are unwilling to acknowledge this, that's your loss.

--Sean

i was sceptical about some things in this thread, but this is a really good point you made here.

[audiojunkie]

Not to mention talking Tom the talking Tom cat!

My son loves the Talking Tom series! We're going to get him a cheap tablet for Christmas, so that I can delete that stuff off of my iPad.

--Sean

[audiojunkie]

LOL

Totally useless.. A synth inside an underpowered glass toy. WTF?

If you are talking about the iOS devices, you might find the following interesting:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTE4NjU

--Sean

LOL!

This keeps getting better and better

Are you serious with this?

Well, yes. I was serious about that piece of trivia. I just thought it was interesting.

mkdr, I'm not trying to convince you of anything. The simple fact is, there have been masterpieces recorded on nothing more than a 4-track. The tools we have now are much more powerful than what was available 30 years ago. When I think of Auria, the 48 track DAW, it is much more capable of any 4-track tape deck ever made. It is much easier to edit audio with than any 1/4 inch reel to reel splicing ever was. It is much more immediate than racks of gear and patch panels (synthesizers, effects and hardware that failed much of the time and was often out of tune).

The iPad is not for you. You've made that clear. As for me, I just have to shake my head in wonderment at all of the neat technology that is coming out. (It gets better and better year after year!)

No, the iPad is not a $250,000 Fairlight. You might be surprised though to know that an exact replica of the Fairlight exists on the iPad, and is available for anyone who wants to purchase it, for less than the price of a tank of gas. Add to that, Moog, the masters of Analog synthesis and Wolfgang Palm, arguably the father of modern digital synthesis, have both released modern, powerful new synths to the iPad.

The Genome Midi Sequencer is more powerful than any of early sequencers we had 30 years ago, yet it exists on the iPad.

No, it is not likely a replacement for <Your favorite Windows DAW>, but it has its place in the music industry. If you are unwilling to acknowledge this, that's your loss.

--Sean

i was sceptical about some things in this thread, but this is a really good point you made here.

I find that I do more with my iPad than I do with my other equipment. It is the immediacy and portability that do it for me. Now, if I were asked if I miss things about my Windows machine, I would have to say, Absolutely! There is so much more high quality software available on the Windows platform. I would LOVE to have Diva or a high quality sampler or any number of other great things Windows (or even the Mac platform) offers. I wish I could have an iPad version of Tal-U-No LX! I wish there was more space available on my iPad. I wish things weren't so "sandboxed"--Thank goodness Audiobus will largely do away with that issue. I really like the touch screen interface for midi, and really hope the Windows push into touch screen territory balances out that playing field.

In short, there are pros and cons to each platform, and I see the need and usefulness for both. I just don't think the iPad can be dismissed as a legitimate, useful musical tool.

--Sean

[rope]

mh. still waiting for the au-version...
.

[mkdr]

Well, yes. I was serious about that piece of trivia. I just thought it was interesting.

mkdr, I'm not trying to convince you of anything. The simple fact is, there have been masterpieces recorded on nothing more than a 4-track. The tools we have now are much more powerful than what was available 30 years ago. When I think of Auria, the 48 track DAW, it is much more capable of any 4-track tape deck ever made. It is much easier to edit audio with than any 1/4 inch reel to reel splicing ever was. It is much more immediate than racks of gear and patch panels (synthesizers, effects and hardware that failed much of the time and was often out of tune).

"Up to 32 tracks of digital audio. Up to 128 realtime EQs. Professional effects rack with 4 multi-effect processors. Plug in interface for external plug-ins"
Sounds pretty sweet for an iPad app doesn't it?

But it's not.

It's Cubase VST3.0 from 1996



What i'm trying to point out here is that this trivial task that you can now do with your overpriced and slavery built piece of... iDevice.. is so old it's not even funny. Think of what you are paying for, compared to actual modern computer technology.


But sure, you can buy 4-tracks all day. You can make music with that too. I still reserve the right to laugh at you at tech forums