iPad 2

[Kesa]

Sorry Bloodline my adblockerplus is blocking it out. What is the name of your band? Simple text will do fine. Cheers

p.s. The singer in Def Fx looks like Cammy

[bloodline]

Actually I just misused the YouTube tag, it's fixed now, scroll to the post and see... But you can search "tan hauser gate" to find our stuff

[Franko]

@ Kesa

If your ruddy signature gets any longer it's gonna need it's own website...

[Kesa]

@ Kesa

If your ruddy signature gets any longer it's gonna need it's own website...

Really? i was thinking maybe it was a wee bit short? That's it i'm making it bigger!

[Daedalus]

Tell me what computer will fit on a music stand of a music keyboard and store every piece of sheet music / chord charts / lyrics / set lists a muso may have and not look stupid. OnSong + iPad becomes the perfect songbook for live stage use.

It's a good point, and there's an opening there for something like that. However you won't see too many professional musicians using them for displaying their scores - the shiny screen makes the risk of glare too great. Now, an iPad-alike and sized device with an e-ink screen would be the business...

/me runs out to patent that idea.

Interestingly, on a recent holiday in Portugal I was impressed in one restaurant to have the winelist handed to me on an iPad. Fantastic idea! just swipe through them to browse, or sort by region, grape, price etc., read about the winery and other details you don't get from the traditional paper ones...

[Kesa]

@Bloodline i'm impressed. Can't believe you never had a hit. Were you in the video? Maybe the person in your avatar? I intend to listen more in the near future. Plus added your band on facebook. Cheers.

[dentunes]

It's a good point, and there's an opening there for something like that. However you won't see too many professional musicians using them for displaying their scores - the shiny screen makes the risk of glare too great. Now, an iPad-alike and sized device with an e-ink screen would be the business...

/me runs out to patent that idea.

Interestingly, on a recent holiday in Portugal I was impressed in one restaurant to have the winelist handed to me on an iPad. Fantastic idea! just swipe through them to browse, or sort by region, grape, price etc., read about the winery and other details you don't get from the traditional paper ones...

I disagree with your comment about glare. 99% of the time the issue is not glare, the issue is playing in a club where there is almost no lighting whatsoever. The fact the iPad is backlight is actually a GOOD thing. I can also see the buttons on the keyboard to help change sounds, etc.

[Franko]

@Bloodline i'm impressed. Can't believe you never had a hit. Were you in the video? Maybe the person in your avatar? I intend to listen more in the near future. Plus added your band on facebook. Cheers.

Yup that's the real bloodline in his avatar, didn't you spot him in the video, the hairs a dead giveaway...

[nicholas]

I think XDelusion's signature speaks for itself here.

[Daedalus]

I disagree with your comment about glare. 99% of the time the issue is not glare, the issue is playing in a club where there is almost no lighting whatsoever. The fact the iPad is backlight is actually a GOOD thing. I can also see the buttons on the keyboard to help change sounds, etc.

Fair enough, different musicians and situations I'm talking from the perspective of some classical pianists I know who can't even have their music in plastic covers because of glare. They'll usually be playing on a stage with spotlights focussed on them. The girlfriend says the same, although she's an opera singer and so more often than not she wouldn't have the score in front of her, but when she does it's off with the plastic covers again and no hope of using a shiny screen.

[dentunes]

Fair enough, different musicians and situations I'm talking from the perspective of some classical pianists I know who can't even have their music in plastic covers because of glare. They'll usually be playing on a stage with spotlights focussed on them. The girlfriend says the same, although she's an opera singer and so more often than not she wouldn't have the score in front of her, but when she does it's off with the plastic covers again and no hope of using a shiny screen.

Horses for courses, of course

The settings available allow for rather high contrast and I am yet to run into problem though there may be times when that isn't the case. It is definitely taking off as a music device, though.

[Kesa]

Yup that's the real bloodline in his avatar, didn't you spot him in the video, the hairs a dead giveaway...

Yep i admit i have been wondering for quite a while about his avatar. Action avatars are the best kind not fake ones like Karlos uses. All i have to do is figure out how to take a photo of myself screaming through a tube on my surfboard and i'm laughing :cool:

[fishy_fiz]

What a load of rubbish. It's married with telling people what they want and need and then marketing it very successfully. I'd have far more respect for the company if they just said it like it is. They have long since surpassed Microsoft's darkest ambitions for completely controlling what their users do (and can do) with their products.

As it stands, if apple were smote from the face of the Earth tomorrow by a vengeful God, I'd not shed a single tear :lol:

+27

The only part of thios post I cant agree on is in regards to shedding a tear. I'd shed many such would be my delight.

[TheBilgeRat]

I'll wait to see what the Android manufacturers pull off.

[stefcep2]

Actually I was the synth guy in a vaguely successful Electro-rock band... I've never been asked to DJ as my taste in music is rather avant garde...

I couldn't get enough of that electro-synth stuff at the time..

[nicholas]

I'll wait to see what the Android manufacturers pull off.

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