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<div>> there are some very cool synths starting to appear for the iPad too,<br>> but this is precisely the market that *cannot* (for technical reasons)<br>> be catered to on Android. its very sad. would i consider an Ardour<br>> port to an Android that had a reasonable audio subsystem? i would<br>> definitely look into it. but on android as is: why would anyone bother<br>> to build synths, whether historical replicas or things like<br>> supercollider, or DAWs or FX units etc. on this platform? there just<br>> isn't any reason.</div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">I agree with Fons that it is largely for toys, I think that subject came up before</div><div>but hey, we are all big kids really.</div></div><div><br></div><div>If you are sequencing then the latency is a non-issue, well, unless you want</div><div>flashing LEDs in step to the music. As long as the different tracks are in step</div><div>their is not a big problem with lag. FX processing is out of the question, and</div><div>most live work as you cannot play 42ms of latency.</div><div><br></div><div>> From: ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net<br>> I did some research. Android on an iPad seems to be something that soon<br>> or later will be available for everybody.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Alien Android. Man, this harks back to the days when people were claiming </div><div>that the i386 emulator on Mac systems was actually faster than a PC. Dalvic</div><div>is FOSS and yes, it is being ported onto the iPad, PlayBook and other systems.</div><div>There are some issues though. If the app uses the JNI then the backend libraries </div><div>are <span style="font-size: 10pt; ">going to be ELF but are there not going to be some linking problems at run </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">time from the differences between Darwin and Android?</span></div><div><br></div><div>Regards, nick.</div> </div></body>
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