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Re: Worth getting iPod touch for Live Looping only?



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
>