* pull up a drum kit.
  * give iPad to 18mo old
  * he bangs on iPad like a chimpanzee. That ain't working.
  * take away iPad
  * drum kit keeps playing for 20 seconds or more with no input.
  * he yells for a minute or more to get it back

I didn't notice any lag, but maybe that's because my son can't stop himself from making the app go away: the home button is too irresistible. Someone needs to come out with a slip case that makes the home button unreachable.

My two year old loves too watch movies and look at pictures on the iPad but can't help herself from pushing the Home button. The iPad would be great for car trips with the right case - and the home button is the biggest issue.

Something tells me there is a big market for kid-friendly iPad accessories...

(and the big grey button on the ups in daddy's office is fun too. makes beeping noises.)

There should be a way to enable kid mode, and use the switch to disable the home button for a while. At least till he figured that out.

1: Open app. 2: Watch app for 3 seconds. 3: Close app. 4: Goto 1

How-To: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/13/want-new-gesture-controls-in-...

There are no plastic electronic drums, keyboards or other things that say letters, squeak, or otherwise make non-real noises.

At extra special times, all three of them will parade around the house with drums and sing Whiskey in the Jar. It's quite an experience.

But as for the electronic bits, He just likes the ipad. All three of the kids do.

My six year old found this :)

It's clear that the ipad is queueing the events and not dropping them if it gets lagged. Under normal circumstances, it's not a problem. But when you have wee monkeys, it does seem to happen with some repeatability.

Not sure exactly what he means by "all-in-one" but if an app running on a distinct, general purpose device counts I'd take Ableton Live on a Macbook over this a million times over. There are certainly some appealing things about this but it's still a toy compared to the alternatives.

1) I was referring to portable all-in-one units like the Boss Micro BR, Tascam field recorders, etc. Maybe I should have been more explicit about this.

2) Ableton is great for recording and processing, but for creating virtual instruments without external hardware, I'd prefer the iPad interface.

What do you mean by "creating virtual instruments"? Do you mean presenting a virtual instrument interface on screen? If so, I do think the touch surface has some real advantages over a mouse.

I'm still not sold on virtual keyboards and drum surfaces on touch screens though. So far I haven't seen one I'd prefer to a real midi keyboard and drum pads.

"The condenser mic in my iPad (again, first generation) is acceptable, but leaves something to be desired, particularly on the high end"

If the mic on the iPad is acceptable to the reviewer. it goes pretty far to show how he reviewing the product (not as a DAW. but as a really awesome toy).

TouchOSC + your choice of DAW is going to be pretty common for a while I think.

I wonder if we'll see the mythical "Asteroid" project rise again.

On a side note, this will be great for my AV nerd descendants, I used to run a media lab and we always wanted to move the people on GarageBand elsewhere to keep the place quiet.

http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/duet.php

http://blog.miazmatic.com/post/3799771400/i-decided-to-test-...

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I'm using Firefox 4 without Flash plugin on Win7. Both VLC and QuickTime browser plugins are installed, so the site can throw any audio file at me that it wants. Too bad that it doesn't even attempt to do so.

Tablets make a lot more sense to me as control surfaces and novel instruments, not as DAW alternatives.

edit the page finally loaded.. and I'm amazed by the sound quality of the recordings! Seems like the iPad can be a great 'on the road' sampler! Does anyone have experience with recording quality on other (tablet) devices?

Most software packages have that "lock track" function.

The difference between the Apogee Jam and something like the iRig is huge. The iRig is very noisy, and doesn't do AD conversion, it just alters the signal level to a mic level signal instead of instrument level. The end result is less than stellar.

The Apogee Jam does AD conversion itself, using Apogee designed converters. I can't speak from experience with the Jam, but if its anything even close to the Duet, the sound quality will be excellent.

The only disappointment for me was that it didn't come with a microphone, like the Apogee One.