Using Korg (and other) apps on 1st Gen iPad

Yoa · Post by **Yoa** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:25 pm

I'll definitely look into 2nd gen iPads. They're selling at about the same price as 1st gen, anyway!

Not having an iPad (yet), I may not be of much help, but you should be able to connect it as a mass storage device (as opposed to making it sync or whatever). Check in the iPad's connection settings. You may need to disable/uninstall iTunes to connect it like that. It should be able to show up as a secondary drive, like a flash drive does. If that doesn't work, this is guaranteed to: http://www.digidna.net/diskaid Install that, and your iPad will be easily browsable.

The reason for the differences is that iOS uses a different file system than Windows does and it may not be recognised.

KaossLad · Post by **KaossLad** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:21 am

As for file management, i use iFunbox. iFile is apparently good too and maybe better, but i read it installs some extra stuff without asking. Didn't bother looking into it any further.

Itunes does indeed suck big time. IFunbox is the solution. I never Load up itunes.

My point before was that an ipad1 will still be better than an android tablet for music apps and as good in a lot of other ways. Like i said i can run most things smoothly by keeping my ipad clean and closing unused background apps. I've decided that it is plenty good for me now. I'll upgrade later.

Yoa · Post by **Yoa** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:37 pm

The iPad and any Android tab are pretty much the same save the OS. One isn't better, they just have different apps. Believe me, Android devs (such as myself) make sure their apps run amazingly on the devices they are to be used on.

Android auto-closes background apps

Though I think newer iOS devices do as well now, right?

KaossLad · Post by **KaossLad** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:51 pm

The apps are what make the tablet unless you only want to check your mail and browse the web.
There is a reason there are so many quality music apps on ios and almost 0 on android. (scratch that. There are reasonS)

Yoa · Post by **Yoa** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:50 pm

And here I was hoping to avoid the Android vs iOS debate... But, for the sake of, well, nothing really, I'll bite.

KaossLad wrote:The apps are what make the tablet unless you only want to check your mail and browse the web.

App selection is different, yes, but merely by name. Chill in the Stores and on various Dev's websites and you'll see matching apps that do nearly identical things, maybe some in different ways.

KaossLad wrote:There is a reason there are so many quality music apps on ios and almost 0 on android. (scratch that. There are reasonS)

If I may name a few:
1) android is newer, and thus less popular and has less apps.
2) developing for Android is more risky because of the lessened popularity, and because you need to develop for different specs and screen sizes, thus higher cost and potentially lower profit.
3) Apple is known for their media processing, and thus their devices are made for it. Android is still kinda trying to find its mass market.

On the contrary, there are several quality music apps for Android, many of which surpass some made for iOS. The same can be said for the iOS market.

I do not disagree with you, not by a long shot, but it just seems that you have not spent much time or have had poor luck with Android tablets or browsing the Play store (which I certainly don't blame you for; they can be hard to navigate and find what you are looking for).

Though I still say I'm Android all the way, I really can't overlook the potential on the App Store. They will live in harmony in my studio.

KaossLad · Post by **KaossLad** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:00 am

What are the best music apps you've used made for android? I've tried a few and searched for recommendations but haven't been able to find anything that compares.

I'm actually not a fan of apple at all. The ipad is useful for me though.

Yoa · Post by **Yoa** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:17 am

Well, you always have Caustic, which is a good all-around workstation-type app. As for other apps, it depends on what you're looking for.

I mainly use free apps, but I must say Nick Copeland's synths are impeccable and very fun to use. Synthesizer2 is very interesting for using your device as a live expression instrument, but is hard to control and track. All the Musicbox instruments are neat grid-sequencer instruments, and there are others. There are a couple neat expressive touch synths (saucillator, sythe, etheral dialpad, etc.) which sound great for all sorts of uses. For control, TouchOSC is by far the best, and is on iOS. iOS also has Lemur, but I prefer TouchOSC. Jasuto is very power and sounds great, but has a rather horrid interface and is hard to use, and certainly doesn't live up to its PC version.

My tablet recently died so I have to figure out which apps I used on that. Sadly, my memory is quite unreliable. There are others, this is actually just a short list cover a few different types.

KaossLad · Post by **KaossLad** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:48 am

Yeah i tried caustic and although it was the best of the apps i tried it simply cannot compare to beatmaker2, ipolysix, ims20, animoog, auria, ppg, tc-11, magellan, ielectribe, ikaoss, dm1, aurora, to name a few of the 50 or so top music apps.
So it's not about being a fan of one platform over another it's just that as of now there is no comparison to a new ipad.
And that's not to say an ipad is the best thing around to make music on, far from it, but as far as tablets go i don't see any competition.

Yoa · Post by **Yoa** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:09 pm

Again, sire, iOS is made for it and has the upper hand. With the specs Android devices have now, I'm sure they'll catch up.

Olivander12 · Post by **Olivander12** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:26 pm

KaossLad wrote:Yeah i tried caustic and although it was the best of the apps i tried it simply cannot compare to beatmaker2, ipolysix, ims20, animoog, auria, ppg, tc-11, magellan, ielectribe, ikaoss, dm1, aurora, to name

From my point of view, Caustics sample sequencer (drum computer) is really great! Sample management is better than any iOS app will ever be due to Apple's limitations. Also, it feature a great sounding side chain compressor, iOS does not have at all. What sucks is the latency and the unability to record live input.