MIDI Kinetics Forum

Noticed quite a few on this forum talking about Ableton. I write a blog with some tutorials and general Ableton for beginners stuff on it.
So by way of introduction this is the link http://www.able2ableton.com/ which you can check out.

Anyway, I was wondering how everyone felt about touchcreen tablets, do you think they make Lemur redundant (potentially)? Or at least do what soft synths did to hardware synths... Thoughts?

I'll bite* . . .

Yeah. I do, and at least one member of the team who originally developed Mu seems to agree.

For some, this is fantastick news - though the guys @ Liine may be forgiven for experiencing another Jazzmutant Moment. Ah well, you snooze, you lose.

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All snark aside - I can't be the only one who sees the potential in superior hardware and a more open software / hardware platform and ecosystem for touch and reconfigrable control surfaces over the anaemic iPad. This conversation has to include the roadblocks, technical and otherwise that Apple brings to the table when it comes to basic necessities like wired network comms. Put succinctly, Apple's motivations and agenda very rarely seem to line up with content-creator, or "pros" or whatever label you would ascribe (but I'm sure you get the jist) anymore.

For a little while, yes. They're to be commended for ushering the in era of affordable, quality touchscreen devices - hence why a lot of us are here, now proud owners of the formerly daydream-money Lemur . . . but the same corporate machinery that got us the cheap touchscreens seems likely to also keep us locked out of anything resembling professional (prosumer, whatever) features and interop. At least, out of the box.

Lemur has the lead and the pedigree, but for how long?

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* . . . and bit myself square IN THA FACE!

'cause I was of course referring to Mathieu Chamagne and Fantastick - which runs on . . . iThings!

But Imma leave all that blather there, along with this:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/06/leno ... e-monitor/

. . . because I think it opens up an interesting topic of conversation. And because if I've made a bit of a d*ck of myself then I shall have to take my slaps for it! Ahoy!