> 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 before

but hey, we are all big kids really.

If you are sequencing then the latency is a non-issue, well, unless you want

flashing LEDs in step to the music. As long as the different tracks are in step

their is not a big problem with lag. FX processing is out of the question, and

most live work as you cannot play 42ms of latency.

> From: ralf.mardorf@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. Dalvic

is 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.