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Oooo, the alesis dock looked super cool!!! Andy Owens 1-800-AndyOwens Sent from my iPhone So the typing might not be my best! On Jan 17, 2011, at 5:59 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:38 AM, <buzap@gmx.net> wrote: >> I was wondering: >> I don't need the iPhone etc. But is it worth getting the iPod touch >just to have a portable live looper always with you (Everyday Looper, >VoiceJam)? > > I would guess "no", but advice you to hold back for a couple of days > to see reviews coming out of the Alesis StudioDock Pro for iPad that > was just announced at NAMM. Those reports will tell how serious the > iPad actually can get with audio - after all, it is not built for CPU > demanding and timing critical applications like music. > http://www.slipperybrick.com/2011/01/alesis-studiodock-pro-for-ipad/ > > My bet is that the iPad will stay as the useful multi touch screen > control surface it already has proven to be. Then you need some hidden > away computer that does the actual processing. The wireless OSC based > connection is very useful with the iPad but right now there are no > looping software that supports OSC right of the bat. Logic does that > though, and I have just spent a couple of days writing a tutorial > article on OSC with Logic (Swedish only) and it is really cool I must > say. Work right away and you can use the iPhone for everything from > transport control to doing deeply into an EQ plugiin to adjust one > particular frequency band cutoff. I only have the iphone and you would > need an iPad to get serious with wireless OSC mixing because mixing is > like playing music, you need to instantly adjust several parts of the > music (tracks) at once and that many tracks doesn't fit on the iphone > screen. Gosh... this post grew by itself, got to stop here (I actually > wrote the part below before this but never mind, my brain has become > all fucked up by too much speed typing these days... it kind of > processes everything at the same time while typing is a linear > process.... funny but definitely a differetnt storuyd - now out of > here!!!!) > > BTW, my old Ericsson mobile phone recently crapped out and I replaced > it with an iPhone4. What amazes me is that with an iPhone you can call > and text message for free by using certain apps like Viber and What's > Up. And - here comes my point - the Viber dev team says on their web > site that they will soon be releasing Viber for iPad as well. This > means you could use an iPad instead of an iphone for communication. > That would require Skype with a Skyp-Out account as well since Apple > have crippled the iPad to stop us from using them instead of iphone > (as usual they want us to buy all their gadgets ;-) So that was kind > of cool to find out... if I had known I might have not picked up the > iphone but gone with the pad right away. Also, rumors has that a > generation two iPad is being wrapped up right now in the secret Apple > laboratories. More rumors telling it will have better looking screen > and good sounding built-in speakers. No rumors yet regarding USB 3 > ports or digital audio ports, I guess that depends on whether its > processing power can handle live audio application. > > Per >