Electronic Musician

CREATE YOUR IPAD STUDIO

If you'd asked us about it this time last year, we probably would have told you that we still don’t think that mobile music making offers all the flexibility of a decent hardware and software studio. We would have told you that iPads just couldn't match the capabilities of a powerful music making computer.

How a year changes everything! Apple’s latest Pro iPads have the same M1 chips found in the company’s desktop and laptop machines, so are on par power-wise with your standard computer. Plus, most of the latest iPads have USB and even Thunderbolt compatibility, so you can plug in and play a range of interfaces, keyboards and more.

Of course, iPhones also offer the same kind of music making power – the latest iPhone 13 chips are right up there, if not quite at the same level as an M1 – but we are really just talking about the iPad here, because the extra screen real estate on an iPad really does offer you a better desk-top-style music production experience, with all the advantages of touch.

So what do you need to know to set up an iPad studio? Let us reveal all. First up, we'll explain all the latest

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