OK, Now weāre in Q2⦠I donāt here any drum rolls. Does Steinberg have a date to announce yet! Iām waiting to see if Iāll go with an iPad or an Android Tablet⦠Hurry up!
If you can afford iPad or iPad Mini, why not go for it⦠You wonāt regret. Compared to phones and tablets, if you choose tablets, I think for music production iPad will be more useful for its stability and low latency.
I was in your situation. I guessed even if they launch android version, it will definitely contains bugs and latency issues, because its Android after all.
But if you donāt afford it, I suggest you wait and see. And if its not urgent.
Anilnc, i think the point is that many of us already have Android and are waiting for IC Pro to arrive so we can make even more use of our cough cough superior tablets
I personally had my Asus Tf300 on Gumtree for sale so I could replace it with an IPad and IC Pro, that was until I read that the Android version is due soon.
I personally cant see there being any mega issues, if the IPad can not it then damn it so can a well specced tablet (heres praying).
Yourās and others situations are different. You have android tablet and you are waiting for Steinberg to launch IC pro android version. But me and the other person I replied with āQUOTESā, GPT, are in different situation. We didnāt own either iPad nor Android (however now I bought one).
If you had posted relevant and accurate information instead of just more marketing drivel then I would have been ok with it. But, the idea that Android code is somehow more prone to bugs than the stuff in the Apple Marketplace is just troll BS.
Its clear that I was not more marketing drivel. I havenāt made anywhere a statement about dont buy android. I havenāt told apple is a must buy. Just my experience and otherās reviews.
If you see 2 moths back, I posted in this same thread that its a good news if steinberg launches android version. So nowhere Iām trying to market drive.
If you see professional music production companies like steinberg and IK and many other are launching only in iOS. Even I didnāt like it until I heard what they explain me.
Finally just to conclude, I am not here to confuse Steinberg not to launch their android version, if you were worried about that. As I said I told to wait
Iām using TouchDAW now, which isnāt bad, but itās not Cubase-specific and itās not customizable. Not going to give a single cent to Apple ever again.
Great news,think its time to invest in an android tablet.
Hopefully weāll see the likes of antares and native instruments creating some awesome vst instruments for the platform. Or will this version be more of a controller for the desktop version?
Been following this for a while - thanks Steinberg, looking forward to it.
Re the Android / Apple debate - I donāt like the restrictive Apple business model and I donāt like the Apple price model; I have Android tab and 'phone and so far as the the hardware goes I consider them to be both better and better value than their āiā counterparts. BUT - there is a hell of a lot of software and media out there that I could be using on an ipad mini that I canāt on my Nexus. Now I suppose this may change over the next year or so, and Sonoma has announced low-latency drivers for Android which may (or not) make a difference in music production apps, but if I was a mobile app developer in the music or publishing space, today, Iād fight down the bile and code for ios first and Android second. What makes this worse is that the model becomes self-fulfilling - I recently looked at a guitar magazine sub - in the ios app you get audio and video embedded and active tabulature that you can play. In the Android version you get non-scaling pages that blur if you try to zoom to read the notes on the tab or staves and NO access to the audio or video at all. Oddly enough, this publisher apparently finds little take-up in the Android marketplace which proves that they were right to concentrate on the ios market! FFS! Iāve even considered buying a ipad mini just because it would run useful software and I could do useful stuff with it - and thatās clearly a ridiculous basis for choosing an operating system.
Also bear in mind that app developers make money because they can typically make a few cents on a LOT of sales - Steinbergās target universe for ic Pro is by definition restricted, it costs money to produce and support and be sure that we will all moan like fury if it doesnāt work on our specific flavour of hardware. Oh - and Iāve managed to use Cubase since SX(1) without ic so itās not like I canāt live without it - I just want another toy.
End of the day, thanks to Steinberg for getting round to this.
Well, consider that latency was an issue with Android until Ice Cream Sandwich. Jelly Bean, however, changed everything and now itās no longer a problem. I guess thatās the reason why companies like Steinberg and IK Multimedia have started porting their iPad apps to Android. Yes, in a year or so Android will have as many music/audio apps as the iPad. So, this is definitely not the right moment to buy an iPad, unless youāre an Apple fanboyā¦