When the iPad was launched, back in 2010,
many critics dismissed it as “just a big
iPhone” (or “just a big iPod touch”, to be more
precise). They speculated that no one would
be able to come up with a compelling reason
to buy one – a touchscreen device is fine for
your pocket, it was argued, but if you want to
do any serious creative work, you need a
laptop or desktop computer.
Jump forward four years and the doubters
have been silenced. Sure, an iPad is still a luxury
for many people (albeit one that you quickly
wonder how you ever did without), but if you’re
a music maker, it’s fast becoming a temptation
that’s impossible to resist.
Unlike pretty much
every other tablet on the market, the iPad is a
tool that you can use to create rather than
simply consume music, and with far greater
ease than you can on Apple’s smaller
touchscreen devices.
This is largely thanks to Apple’s iOS operating
system, which has several unique features built
into it that put it streets ahead of its competitors
when it comes to music production.
If you have
an iPad and the right software, recording and
editing multiple tracks of high-quality audio is
easy, while the App Store is also full of synths
and other software instruments that rival their
desktop counterparts in terms of quality and
ease of use.
What’s more, while it was previously
only possible to use these apps in isolation, new
technologies are enabling you to bring them
together in the same project!
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