4 Feb
2012
4 Feb
'12
2:34 p.m.
there are some very cool synths starting to appear for
the iPad too,
but this is precisely the market that *cannot* (for technical reasons)
be catered to on Android. its very sad. would i consider an Ardour
port to an Android that had a reasonable audio subsystem? i would
definitely look into it. but on android as is: why would anyone bother
to build synths, whether historical replicas or things like
supercollider, or DAWs or FX units etc. on this platform? there just
isn't any reason.I agree with Fons that it is largely for toys, I think that subject
came up beforebut hey, we are all big kids really.
If you are sequencing then the
latency is a non-issue, well, unless you wantflashing LEDs in step to the music. As long
as the different tracks are in steptheir is not a big problem with lag. FX processing is
out of the question, andmost live work as you cannot play 42ms of latency.
From: ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net
I did some research. Android on an iPad seems to be something that soon
or later will be available for everybody.
Alien Android. Man, this harks back to the days when people were claiming that the i386
emulator on Mac systems was actually faster than a PC. Dalvicis FOSS and yes, it is being
ported onto the iPad, PlayBook and other systems.There are some issues though. If the app
uses the JNI then the backend libraries are going to be ELF but are there not going to be
some linking problems at run time from the differences between Darwin and Android?
Regards, nick.