On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Nick Copeland <nickycopeland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> there are some very cool synths starting to appear for the iPad too, >> but this is precisely the market that *cannot* (for technical reasons) >> be catered to on Android. its very sad. would i consider an Ardour >> port to an Android that had a reasonable audio subsystem? i would >> definitely look into it. but on android as is: why would anyone bother >> to build synths, whether historical replicas or things like >> supercollider, or DAWs or FX units etc. on this platform? there just >> isn't any reason. > > I agree with Fons that it is largely for toys, I think that subject came up > before but hey, we are all big kids really. i actually don't consider having a work korg ms-20 on an ipad to be a toy, at least no more than a toy than an actual ms-20. ditto for some of the other synths that have started appearing on iOS. there is some very useful work in the re-creation realm, and some really cool stuff in the "wierd-ass synthesis model" realm. none of these can be played live sensibly on android. >> I did some research. Android on an iPad seems to be something that soon >> or later will be available for everybody. seems more likely and more useful if someone managed to port "actual linux" to the iPad. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
