total control
At the time of its launch, Apple’s iPad made many of us weak-at-the-knees with its promise of keyboard-free music-making. Apple’s tablet was all set to fulfil the fantasies of many of us who dreamed of a type of interfacing with our DAW akin to Tom Cruise in Minority Report – swiping, zooming and pinching our way around the music production environment of tomorrow.
For a range of reasons, that elementary change just didn’t happen. But that’s not to say that the iPad didn’t deliver in spades when it came to music-making fare over the next few years. There were inviting, touchable DAWs such as FL Studio Mobile and the tablet’s take on Garageband, surprisingly deep synths such as Korg’s Gadget 2 and Audiokit Synth One. While fluid beat machines such as AKAI’s iMPC and Fingerlab’s DM1 allowed us to build up our ideas and finger-craft our tracks wherever we were.
