Having a small Windows device for light use while on the road has always intrigued me. I recently came across a series of videos showing the Surface Go running various DAWs.
How do you guys think the Surface Go or a similar device would do running a DAW such as Studio One or FL Studio in a light duty situation ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpx1g51vF8
Tech specs
Software Surface Go
Windows 10 Home in S mode1
Surface Go for Business
Windows 10 Pro
Microsoft Office 365 Home 30-day trial
Dimensions 9.65" x 6.90" x 0.33" (245 mm x 175 mm x 8.30 mm)
Weight Wi-Fi: Starting at 1.15 lbs (522 g), not including Type Cover*
Storage3 eMMC drive: 64GB
Solid-state drive (SSD): 128GB SSD
Display Screen: 10" PixelSense™ Display
Resolution: 1800 x 1200 (217 PPI) resolution
Aspect ratio: 3:2
Contrast ratio: 1500:1
Touch: 10-point multi-touch
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
Battery life Wi-Fi: Up to 9 hours of video playback5
Processor Intel® Pentium® Gold Processor 4415Y
Security TPM 2.0 for enterprise security
Enterprise-grade protection with Windows Hello face sign-in
Memory 4GB or 8GB RAM
Wireless Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac compatible
Bluetooth Wireless 4.1 technology
Connections 1 x USB-C
3.5 mm headphone jack
1 x Surface Connect port
Surface Type Cover port4
microSDXC card reader
Compatible with Surface Dial* off-screen interaction
Cameras, video, and audio Windows Hello face authentication camera (front-facing)
5.0MP front-facing camera with 1080p Skype HD video
8.0MP rear-facing autofocus camera with 1080p HD video
Single microphone
2W stereo speakers with Dolby® Audio™ Premium
Graphics Intel® HD Graphics 615
Exterior Casing: Magnesium
Color: Silver
Physical buttons: Volume, Power
Sensors Ambient light sensor
Accelerometer
Gyroscope
Magnetometer
What’s in the box Surface Go
Power supply
Quick start guide
Safety and warranty documents
Warranty 1-year limited hardware warranty[/quote]
Surface Go For Light Use ?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 72 posts since 20 Dec, 2014
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- KVRer
- 4 posts since 19 Aug, 2018
One interesting use case is a portable VST synth for sound design on the go (Go). Then you can create new sound patches and reuse them in projects on your main DAW computer.
iOS has heaps of cool software synths but in most cases you can't reuse them in a desktop project without sampling or recording the audio.
iOS has heaps of cool software synths but in most cases you can't reuse them in a desktop project without sampling or recording the audio.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 72 posts since 20 Dec, 2014
digital plum wrote: ↑Wed Nov 21, 2018 12:34 am One interesting use case is a portable VST synth for sound design on the go (Go). Then you can create new sound patches and reuse them in projects on your main DAW computer.
iOS has heaps of cool software synths but in most cases you can't reuse them in a desktop project without sampling or recording the audio.
Thanks Digital, that's an good idea as I was mostly only focusing on using the Go for the purposes of running a DAW. I'll have to look into that.
