Netbooks are still a great deal

Re:Netbooks are still a great deal by stcredzero on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @09:04AM (#1298065)

Your comment is biased towards production in the narrow context of computers/web browsing. That sort of activity, for most people, requires a computer keyboard, which the iPad lacks, so it's a foregone conclusion.

There are other sorts of activities that do not have a computer keyboard as the most efficient input method.

http://hexler.net/software/touchosc

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Re:Netbooks are still a great deal by hernan7 on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @12:37PM (#1298756)

I'm probably nit-picking here, but TouchOSC doesn't generate sound by itself. It is just a controller application that you use to send OSC messages to either a synthesizer or a "real" computer that actually generates the sound.

A question for the iPad musicians: Surely there are pro-audio iPad applications that generate sound, but does the sound have to go through the consumer-grade audio output or can you send it to the DAW via the USB add-on?

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Re:Netbooks are still a great deal by stcredzero on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @09:06PM (#1300375)

I'm probably nit-picking here, but TouchOSC doesn't generate sound by itself.

You're probably missing the point. Interface is the whole point of the iPad. Interface + processing ability is a lot of what the ongoing computer revolution has been and will be about.

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