Why did mobile music production never take off?

[vurt]

I haven't called a phone a "mobile" in 20 years.

out of interest, what do you call it?
cellphone? mein handy?

[jamcat]

I think the answer is right in front of you.

I haven't called a phone a "mobile" in 20 years.

[vurt]

I think the answer is right in front of you.

I haven't called a phone a "mobile" in 20 years.

but that could mean any old phone, landlines included.

seems a bit of a wreckless way to live, not being specific.

[jamcat]

True, BONES might accidentally try to send a text message from an old rotary phone due to such sloppiness, potentially resulting in an international incident. Or at least international long distance charges.

[audiojunkie]

True, BONES might accidentally try to send a text message from an old rotary phone due to such sloppiness, potentially resulting in an international incident. Or at least international long distance charges.

Nah, if ge hasn’t caused an international scene by now, it’ll never happen.

[GusGranite]

True, BONES might accidentally try to send a text message from an old rotary phone due to such sloppiness, potentially resulting in an international incident. Or at least international long distance charges.

Nah, if ge hasn’t caused an international scene by now, it’ll never happen.

Maybe he got his name from the old dog and bone?

[BONES]

Can you set your own weather in it?

Of course, how else would the Democrats have been able to conjure up Hurricane Milton?

out of interest, what do you call it?
cellphone? mein handy?

Mostly people just call them "phones", don't they? For a while it was "smartphone", when some people still had "feature phones" and "landlines" but I don't know anyone who still has a landline or a feature phone any more, so "phone" is what everyone calls them (as opposed to calling them, which is what they are for). As in, 20 years ago if I couldn't find mine, I'd ask people if they had "seen my mobile" but if I asked that at work today, I bet some Gen Z idiot would ask "mobile what?" and be serious about it.

but that could mean any old phone, landlines included.

Do you know anyone with a landline? Or a mobile phone that isn't a smartphone? The very fact that you said "landline", rather than "home phone", which was in-vogue terminology for the first 50 or so years of my life, shows that we no longer think of that when we hear the word "phone" - it's a "phone" or it's a "landline".

[morelia]

Do you know anyone with a landline? Or a mobile phone that isn't a smartphone? The very fact that you said "landline", rather than "home phone", which was in-vogue terminology for the first 50 or so years of my life, shows that we no longer think of that when we hear the word "phone" - it's a "phone" or it's a "landline".

I have a landline. NBN requires a landline connection (so the told me) so I figured I'd plug one in for emergencies. I refer to it as my home phone but if I'm talking to someone, particularly at work I call it a landline.

[BONES]

Yeah, but you're from Brisbane, you're at least a decade behind the rest of the world.

[Vectorman]

Reminds me of the old Doctor Who episode where Doc's regeneration had gone awry and to assist his recovery, he needed "an isolated space cut off from the rest of the universe." And Tegan, the Australian-born air hostess companion, interjected, "He should've told me that's what he wanted. I'd have shown him Brisbane."

(I'm hardly living in the fast lane myself, of course. The county in which I live has only one proper traffic light and a total population of less than 25,000 people. I make all of my calls on my land line and the only thing my dust-covered smart phone ever gets used for is sending goofy texts to my better half.)

[vurt]

out of interest, what do you call it?
cellphone? mein handy?

Mostly people just call them "phones", don't they? For a while it was "smartphone", when some people still had "feature phones" and "landlines" but I don't know anyone who still has a landline or a feature phone any more, so "phone" is what everyone calls them (as opposed to calling them, which is what they are for). As in, 20 years ago if I couldn't find mine, I'd ask people if they had "seen my mobile" but if I asked that at work today, I bet some Gen Z idiot would ask "mobile what?" and be serious about it.

but that could mean any old phone, landlines included.

Do you know anyone with a landline? Or a mobile phone that isn't a smartphone? The very fact that you said "landline", rather than "home phone", which was in-vogue terminology for the first 50 or so years of my life, shows that we no longer think of that when we hear the word "phone" - it's a "phone" or it's a "landline".

me and my mum have landlines
only because in my case, it was cheaper to get the whole package than just internet. in my mums case, she only recently got a mobile, just does texts and calls, old school!

wasnt trying to be confrontational, here we still use "mobile" or "moby" (very localised term) although some people call them "iphones" even if they arent apple, theyre the worst people!

[jens]

Yeah, it's probably a regional thing in the more rural places of the earth...

I'm with Bones on this one - a phone's a "phone" and there's only one type of phone (which those amongst us old enough to remember called a "smartphone" back in the day - ah, those sweet, bygone days of youth )

[machinesworking]

Holy shit what a Boomer train wreck of a thread??

I messed around with a few mobile apps but mostly I just use the phone for transport controls, and the iPad With Metagrid in the studio. It's nice to have a single button on a screen for quantizing, transposing etc.

The idea there aren't any pro level interfaces for the phones is just dead wrong though. I have a Babyface Pro FS that works connecting audio and MIDI in/outs.

[BONES]

That would have cost more than the phone, though, which is hardly a practical solution. Of course, all you really need is a good DAC and there are plenty of those around that would do the trick nicely.

in my mums case, she only recently got a mobile, just does texts and calls, old school!

I couldn't get my parents to use a mobile phone to save their idiot lives. And you could just forget about the internet with them. I know my dad would have absolutely loved Wikipedia, he could have spent his days finding out about all manner of things he was always curious about. So I bought him a laptop which he used for one, single purpose - to play Solitaire. Of course, that was 20 years ago when accessing wi-fi and getting online wasn't quite the completely effortless process it is today, and it didn't take much to have him throwing his hands up in disgust/despair. They, of course, are long gone now.

I haven't had a landline since 2001. At the time I got rid of it, people thought I was a bit f**king weird but they got there in the end. Of course, anyone with broadband internet actually has one, it's just nobody I know ever uses it. I don't know any of those phone numbers and even though I have around 400 contacts in my address book, I'm 99% sure there's not a single private landline number amongst them any more.

[machinesworking]

That would have cost more than the phone, though, which is hardly a practical solution. Of course, all you really need is a good DAC and there are plenty of those around that would do the trick nicely.

Yeah, and you really don't need 8 in/out of ADAT for a phone or iPad, I mean if the point is mobility. I don't know if it exists but a simple audio interface with a usb port to connect a keyboard or drum pad would be ideal. The Babyface has old school MIID ports, which only really works with older controllers or bulky ones.

Personally I have an MPC Live II which I'm liking more and more as a portable device. IMO if they incorporate the last generation of Qualcom Arm chips into the next generation of the MPC Live it could be one inch or 3 centimeters thick and not weigh as much. I like the idea of something that I only need headphones for to start writing with, (with built in controls and at least a drumpad).

I was an early adopter of laptops for live use, around 2002 was the first live performance I did with one, but I still would rather it all in one box for mobile use.