Should I buy a new Ipad?

[Trevor Jackson]

I have had the original Ipad for the past 4 years. I keep it on a speaker dock so the battery is still hardly used. I am wondering how people these days are using the Ipad in their musical lives and if I should go out and buy a new one. I know there is a lot of software I can't use on my old Ipad. Please let me know how you use yours these days and if you think an upgrade is worth it.

For me, there is a songwriting app that I want to use but can't because my ios is out of date. I don't see any sense of spending several hundred dollars just for that, though....

[keyman_sam]

Animoog is worth getting the newer iPad, methinks (unless it runs in the old iPad in which case, jackpot). It costs $40 bucks and worth every penny. iPad might serve as a pretty cool external 'hardware' synth.

[Trevor Jackson]

I actually have some very cool synths on the original Ipad. I'll check out Animoog. I don't think a cool synth is going to be enough to sway me because I don't play much keyboard.

Edit: I checked out Animoog. Way cool. How much of a learning curve?

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I actually have some very cool synths on the original Ipad. I'll check out Animoog. I don't think a cool synth is going to be enough to sway me because I don't play much keyboard.

Edit: I checked out Animoog. Way cool. How much of a learning curve?

there are good tutorials for animoog on youtube, and

https://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/an ... ng-animoog

haven't seen the mpv one

try to hold off buying animoog at full price, as they have pretty regular sales

if you want to get a really good look at what's available in ios music, then check out :

http://discchord.com/
http://www.thesoundtestroom.com/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 61C5B7FEC4

much of the apps will force you into an ios upgrade that won't be supported on your current model. further to that, any thoughts of running apps via audiobus etc are going to call for more power than you currently have