In theory its a fuckin brilliant idea. It can upload projects to and from your dsktop seamlessly. They will be adding support for uploading your own samples in a future update but that feature is nit available now. I really like the idea of being able to throw down some "bare bones" for a track on the go or while taking a shit or whatever. Lol. And then being able to upload the track later and polish it up with the right samples and playing your midi files to be recorded on your hardware or soft synhs, adding effects eq etc... And you would think the touch interface would lend itself to an intuitive creative flow... In some respects the interface works pretty good but things like the piano roll i thought would be quick and easy to edit, it was a pain in the ass. It would ask you everytime you selected a note, if you want to move it for example, then you have push yes, move the fuckin note. Too much double confirmation of obvious shit. The piano is ok, except it is pretty retarded to tap a flat screen instead of piano keys you know.... It has an mpc type touch pad for the drum kits, which seems like it would work well. But then again, i tried to quantize a bunch of shit and it was awkward trying to edit the pianoroll like i said earlier. The drum kits are all preset andvgay. The instruments are ok, general midi shit eith a small library of other synths and instruments. Nothing imwould use on an actual track. Theres reverb, delay, gain and i think a couple other effects. You can only manipulate attack and cutoff on the instrument sampkes. (well volume, panning, velocity too). No vst softsynth support to my knowledge but i could be wrong. I dont think ill fuck with this too much. It cist 20$ and im kinda pissed at it just trying to figure out what should be simple operations like cut paste edit etc etc. I do trust image line to come up w a good product - ive been a fl user since like 2.0 but i think its a bit premature on this technology. I think in a year or so this ipad shit will be kickin off. Already we have korg and moog and a bunch of smaller companies with softsynths. Alesis and i think m audio have come out with hardware midi and audio deals for iphone and ipad so its gonna work eventually its just not there yet.
