KVR Audio

miden · Post by **miden** » Mon Nov 04, 2013 6:18 pm

What I would really like to know is how difficult it is to program apps in portrait mode?

Most music apps seem to be restricted to landscape - why? When one is doing double (or triple) duty with an iPad being restricted to having to use only landscape can be a real p.i.t.a.

Does anyone have any ideas? Is it laziness on the part of the app developer? I am sure they can design boxes widgets, knobs and sliders to fit the portrait mode?

martygras · Post by **martygras** » Mon Nov 04, 2013 8:22 pm

Huh.?. I was thinking the opposite. All those iPhone apps that only work in portrait mode are annoying when used along side universal apps. Especially when I have my iPad in a dock.

I do know that Auria allows use in both modes. In portrait, you get longer faders which is kinda cool.

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:28 pm

martygras wrote:Huh.?. I was thinking the opposite. All those iPhone apps that only work in portrait mode are annoying when used along side universal apps. Especially when I have my iPad in a dock.

I do know that Auria allows use in both modes. In portrait, you get longer faders which is kinda cool.

+1

Don't like those portrait only apps.

miden · Post by **miden** » Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:02 am

But if one has an ipad, iphone apps are not really the versions to be buying

and I bet if you bought the iPad version of the same app it would be locked to landscape.

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:31 am

miden wrote:But if one has an ipad, iphone apps are not really the versions to be buying and I bet if you bought the iPad version of the same app it would be locked to landscape.

Except when its not locked to landscape and still iPad app, or when they don't have an official iPad version, just iPhone version. So yeah, I don't really like when they are locked to portrait.

BiancaNeve · Post by **BiancaNeve** » Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:17 am

My pet hate is apps where you have to change orientation to access some features.

tony tony chopper · Post by **tony tony chopper** » Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:23 am

For an ipad a portrait mode makes sense. Sadly other tablets went for 16:9, which is both too much in landscape & pointless in portrait.

I don't get it because there is something in-between 4:3 & 16:9, and it's.. A4.. that would have made the most sense for use in portrait, and still good for apps.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:08 am

It's totally up to the developer / designer weather and how portrait & landscape modes are allowed.

If you don't like the app, then don't use it!

tony tony chopper wrote:I don't get it because there is something in-between 4:3 & 16:9, and it's.. A4.. that would have made the most sense for use in portrait, and still good for apps.

Say what? 4:3 equates to 12:9. Inbetween that and 16:9 is simply 14:9.

The A-series format have a ratio of 1:√2 which converts (in landscape) to 12.728:9 so imho that's still quite close to 4:3. If you draw a filling 4:3 rectangle on A4 paper, you're left with a strip of just a quarter inch.

The argument for 16:9 aspect ratios is ergonomics: ability to hold them as a phone. And to watch wide-screen TV ofcourse

tony tony chopper · Post by **tony tony chopper** » Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:22 am

Say what? 4:3 equates to 12:9. Inbetween that and 16:9 is simply 14:9.

I didn't say right in the middle

1.41421356237 isn't 1.333, but most importantly it allows viewing a standard A4 fullscreen.

The argument for 16:9 aspect ratios is ergonomics: ability to hold them as a phone. And to watch wide-screen TV ofcourse

I use a surface pro & its format is definitely a problem for apps, it always lacks room vertically, while there's too much room horizontally. It's not even ideal to browse web pages either.
It's also hard to hold from the sides, because the weight isn't well balanced. On the other hand I find 4/3 too squarish to make a big difference when rotated, so A4.. that'd have been better.

T-CM11 · Post by **T-CM11** » Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:48 am

BertKoor wrote:If you don't like the app, then don't use it!

Type that in every topic here, and we can shut down kvraudio

Anyway, I have a dock, so I only hate it when apps are locked in Portrait mode (Figure, TNR-i).

Also, ever seen any portrait-shaped DAWs or plugins? Even the hardware world is in "Landscape mode".

Exceptions I can think of: Reason, individual modular modules

miden · Post by **miden** » Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:20 pm

I guess it must just be laziness on the part of the app developer - when some developers can obviously have an app that can run in either mode, other developers just don't seem to bother - perhaps it is just too much trouble?

And I am not talking about small companies here, some of the apps I use are from MAJOR corporations!

Anyway it is what it is, but I for one do find it annoying to have to rotate the iPad which is on a holder on my stage rig, just to use a different app for a short space of time before going back to another one.

Why only landscape?