Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
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Interesting. It will have some great advantages:
Data exchange between apps, data only stored at one single location and a much wider choice of high-quality music software.
Touch support is key. Let's wait and see.
Yes this is a good step forward. It does have a memory card slot and can run Win 10 pro. It will hopefully promote more touch app development for Windows too.
Update (just found on notebookcheck.com):
Due to the missing Turbo Boost, the Pentium 4415Y offers a significantly worse single thread performance than the more expensive Core m3-7Y30. This should be noticeable in daily tasks.
Single-thread performance is especially important for audio apps (as in soft synths).
For more recent cpu-hungry plugins, that might be an issue.
I'm certainly keeping my eye on how this goes and what reports come out about its use for music, at those prices they are a very serious contender for my next hardware upgrade.
Being able to run FL Studio 12 on one of those would be pretty hard to resist.
FL Studio is fairly touch friendly I believe, not tried it with touch though I have to admit.
Most windows audio apps are multi core optimized
Also although cpu turbo is great for launching apps fast , I wouldn’t trust it for audio .
If the cpu is hot , or battery is low , then turbo is disabled and a project can get audio glitches out of sudden .
Will check on
http://surfaceproaudio.com/
for real usage, hopefully he will get the new surface for testing . His YouTube channel is great for surface users .
I'll be checking that out for sure, cheers for the link
It's Windows, so, NO NO NO...
Have struggling with Windows to much in the past...
Although it's Win10 now, perhaps better, but, no more Win in my life...
This guy knows surfaces and testing DAWS so keep a eye out for his tests.
https://www.gearnews.com/surface-go-at-379-is-this-microsofts-ipad-killer/
Not when used inside a DAW, that's why I said that, from my own experience.
That's definitely true, but also valid for the more recent MacBooks
Interesting stuff. If nothing else it’ll give Apple something to think about.
Agreed - for us who have left Windows behind - nothing would make me return.
I cannot see the Surface Go reaching critical mass sufficiently to persuade iOS only devs to engage in porting their apps to Windows. I may be wrong but I think it is too late for a windows touch device to gain traction in mobile music - not for many years to come anyway.
I bought a touchscreen monitor some years ago , hoping for many apps (even non audio) to be optimized, but nothing compares to iOS .
Can’t find a reason to have a windows tablet for simple tasks . Android is much cheaper solution.
As far as touch specific software goes this is the issue, there simply won’t be enough units sold to make it worthwhile, as for the market to reach that point it will need other manufacturers to make their own Windows Surface machines which will introduce the same problems that android has with the variety of specifications causing headaches for developers.
This is evidenced by Microsoft themselves making this model with a less powerful processor to cut costs.
I think unless another manufacturer really splits the market with some unknown amazing development the status quo of iOS for music will stand.
i genuinely dont have probs with windows since 7. been using ableton for years.
It's not just about tablets either, there are more and more users of touch screen desktops and laptops !
I live in both the Apple and the Windows world. But honestly, Windows doesn't even come close to the touch capabilities of an iPad. Touch optimized applications that work well can be searched with a magnifying glass.
I really don't know anyone who really uses the touchdisplay of a surface or yoga extensively. After a short hype phase, everyone works with the mouse on the desktop again. No need for a Touchdisplay anymore,
The iPad, on the other hand, offers completely different possibilities. Nobody would even think of using an iPad with a mouse. The iPad is designed for touch right from the start and works fantastically accordingly. The devs gave us so many amazing software already and we need not to wait for long time to see the next amazing music app on IOS.
I think IOS is way ahead of all other OS systems. Whether Windows can keep up in the foreseeable future I doubt very much.
I really love the iPad with all its possibilities. I manage 80% of my computer activities with my iPad and I have both powerful Macs and Windows pcs available.
But everyone can make his own experiences... 😎
Would ableton run smoothly on the cpu in this touch go?
I had to repair a Surface Pro 4 for a customer yesterday. I quickly tried Ableton Live 10 demo on this tablet and it was a very nice experience.
Windows 10 has mainly some issues with big updates, but has reached some good stability and much better security.
This Surface Go will have an issue IMO with its CPU and our music usage. It has a 1.6 ghz Intel Pentium Gold Processor 4415Y CPU. Should be ok to run Live or Bitwig not too heavy projects, but will not be able to run lot of/or heavy VST’s. Could also run Reason nicely.
Running Ableton Live and its nice freezing management on a tablet with iPad price is still really very tempting. I still have my laptop for big projects, but Surface Go ultra mobility form factor is really interesting.
Do you use Live on your surface?