Hot News! Synth 1 coming to iOS!

[mkdr]

Oh, and can you load Synth1 to your Auria?

[audiojunkie]

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

Fair enough. That IS your right. If it makes you feel better about yourself, then I'm happy to have helped where I could.

--Sean

[glokraw]

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.

I have enjoyed coffee at the table of an ipad expert, as he created useful music
in a blur of of gestures, taps, and slides.
Seeing/hearing is believing.

[glokraw]

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

Operating systems with commercial versions available for Tandy Color Computer,
and Commodore Amiga, were used extensively by high-end government operatives,
NASA included. Tight, efficient, securable code, has it's uses.

[Doug1978]

I still reserve the right to laugh at you at tech forums

Instead of embarking on pathetic trolling attempts, you'd be better off reading the KVR rules, particularly General Forum Rules number 2:

Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will result in your post being edited / deleted, and you may be issued with a warning and / or a ban.



And no, you can't 'reserve the right' to do whatever you please on internet forums. Those are not rights.

[antitolg]

Will you guys just stop posting in this thread?

Months ago there were rumours of Synth1 being ported to İOS so I smiled with joy when I noticed this new topic thinking "at last my useless iThingy (used for nothing more than web browsing) and IODock (which alesis recently made sure there's no SYSex support coming for) could be put to some good use.

But following all the links here I read that it's destined for Spring

oh the wait...

rant over: please carry on arguing about what the IOS platform can/can't do while I check the thread every time another post is made in hopes that Synth1 is ready to go earlier than scheduled

[Doug1978]

As for the topic, it sounds very exciting and I'm delighted that Toda-san is bringing his wonderful synth to other formats.

わくわく です!!

[ObiWonder]

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.

This.