What do people do with their pads?

Steinberg Lounge
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Don’t get me wrong. These things are probably great but I’m just ignorant about what all these little touch screen devices can do nowadays. I could use Google and Youtube and get a number of hits but watching the actual videos is just same old same old phluphph pseudo info mixed with unbearable hype.

I think it’s better to ask some real humans here at steinber.net. What do you do with say Cubasis and Amplitube and your chosen iPad/Android/Whatever thingie? I get a slightly annoying number of emails from IK Multimedia, a reasonable few from Steinberg and then a few extra for good measure telling me I need to do this and it kind of looks like fun but is it? Is it even useful and transferable to my DAW or is it just killing time?.

I have my doubts so enlighten me, am I really missing something if I don’t care too much about those devices? :confused:

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I have an Android tablet which I use as a remote control for Cubase on my PC, beyond that, I fail to see the magic of having to compose on a tablet… But I know a few who swear by it. For a location recording if you had a compatible multi-channel interface (like Steiny’s UR44 for example) you would have less gear to haul, but you still need all the ancillary stuff, so not much advantage… I believe you can transfer over to Cubase from Cubasis, so that would be cool for sketchpad stuff if you had an iPatch and iRig or something…

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remote control, not bad! :sunglasses:

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Steiny’s IC Pro remote works for Apple-heads and Droid-Oids alike :laughing:

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I have cubasis and v-control pro. Used cubasis a few times but couldn’t get into it. Rather be at my workstation. V-control I use all the time. The v-window (I think that’s what they call it) sets it apart from every other control app I’ve used. Its awesome having plugin guis on the screen.

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-Recording sounds from it into cubase, triggering cubase synths via midi, lemur, using it as a vst, (some great stuff for ableton use) various other sweet audio tools and innovative audio paraphernalia available…

-if im on vacation and traveling light (without laptop) - quick musical inspirational notepad to carry ideas back to the studio,even djing with it…

-casual gaming, surfing the web, email, writing in this forum…

-quick pic edits, taking pics(mainly of computer screens with errors or info) the occasional moving pic…(seldomly)

Lots of different stuff actually - from A-Z… Its always on and its noise emision is 0db so yeah, kinda pleasant… Its nothing to use by itself (unless all you wanna do is surfing,email,watch/stream videos, games, reading, etc) but if you have a laptop/desktop to pair it with, its very nice… (Good reader for file transfers via wifi) also has office use if you are in one of those:p
its a great sidekick actually… Like a latop (with limitations)
Since the ios 8.2 they have kind of crippled it tho(no more root access) which is a pain in the you know what if you want to transfer numerous audiofiles back n forth- which is why i will prolly jailbreak it if they dont fix it by the time ios9 comes around…

Cubasis? Had used it on several vacays, but its too much of a pain in the"“”" to work with it on a pro level (obviously). Had many times where it garbled my saved tracks upon reopening and touch interface audio editing is likewise a pain in the “”" (for me at least…) But its fine for quick idea sketches and recording into it… To then transfer to daw;)

-would use icpro more if we could connect it via usb- daw is offline and i dont like having wifi on (for adhoc) which i have used extensivly for lemur/kapturepad in live… Been neglecting/ignoring live since v9 and been actively hung up in cubase :stuck_out_tongue:

Cant imagine not having an ipad nowadays…:stuck_out_tongue:

Lots of stuff untold, but you get the picture:p

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Damn! :sunglasses:

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Heeey! That is an an answer! Thanx! :sunglasses: