Logic on iPad today?
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- KVRian
- 1140 posts since 16 May, 2007 from At home. Good bye city ways!
I doubt that will happen.
I‘m pretty sure that GarageBand on iOS is in many ways a separate code base from the desktop version.
The desktop versions are clearly just different build targets (meaning: some features of Logic are simply de-activated for GarageBand, while some experimental features like the loops may be built into GarageBand first).
For iOS, Apple would have to either port or replace the Pro App framework with something which is capable of presenting each GUI element both in a touch-friendly, as well as in a mouse-friendly way. Entire interaction concepts would have to be rethought when your hand blocks a certain area if the screen. All gestures which are available on the track pad would have to adjust to the fact that there isn’t a click concept.
If you would limit it to iPads with the keyboard and track pad, why port it at all? Do you really want to carry a thunderbolt docking station everywhere?
I‘m pretty sure that GarageBand on iOS is in many ways a separate code base from the desktop version.
The desktop versions are clearly just different build targets (meaning: some features of Logic are simply de-activated for GarageBand, while some experimental features like the loops may be built into GarageBand first).
For iOS, Apple would have to either port or replace the Pro App framework with something which is capable of presenting each GUI element both in a touch-friendly, as well as in a mouse-friendly way. Entire interaction concepts would have to be rethought when your hand blocks a certain area if the screen. All gestures which are available on the track pad would have to adjust to the fact that there isn’t a click concept.
If you would limit it to iPads with the keyboard and track pad, why port it at all? Do you really want to carry a thunderbolt docking station everywhere?
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- KVRAF
- 11154 posts since 2 Dec, 2004 from North Wales
I love my iPad and use it a lot with Korg Gadgets etc, but I pretty much came to the conclusion that more complex DAWS (even with special tablet modes like Bitwig on my Surface Pro) are still a PITA on a small touch screen! You just can't beat a big screen and a window/icon/mouse/pointer environment for DAWS, not yet anyway.
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- KVRAF
- 25393 posts since 3 Feb, 2005 from in the wilds
It's fine with me if they don't bring Logic to iOS... but then Garageband needs a significant upgrade. Garageband is excellent on iOS in terms of workflow. It is my favorite iOS DAW but it has a few painful deficiencies.
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- KVRAF
- 2031 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from Seattle, WA - USA
Now that iPadOS has full mouse and keyboard support, it'd be interesting if they created a hybrid version of Logic that adapts depending on situation. With the new models featuring M1 chips and Thunderbolt ports you could connect an external monitor, then run full Logic with a mouse or trackpad.
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- KVRAF
- 25393 posts since 3 Feb, 2005 from in the wilds
Plus the new M1 iPad Pro is now faster than the top of the line 16" MBP!Tronam wrote: ↑Sun May 02, 2021 7:31 am Now that iPadOS has full mouse and keyboard support, it'd be interesting if they created a hybrid version of Logic that adapts depending on situation. With the new models featuring M1 chips and Thunderbolt ports you could connect an external monitor, then run full Logic with a mouse or trackpad.
I guess that if Apple is putting that M1 CPU in the iPad Pro, they are gonna also have a DAW to use on it. Either some version of Logic, or a massively updated Garageband.
