Music Tech Magazine

2010 & 2011

APPLE IPAD

What is it? Apple iPad

What we said “…we expect to see the iPad quickly becoming a common sight onstage and in the studio, controlling synths, lights, samplers, FX and even other computers.”

Were we right? We didn’t even scratch the surface. The explosion of app development that followed the introduction of the iPad was huge and was adopted heavily by performers, live-sound engineers and studio-based producers. While the audio processing capabilities of the first-generation device were limited, later versions have become powerful enough to easily run DAWs with many developers even releasing iPad-specific plug-ins.

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