Who Needs Muscial Instruments When You Have An iPad

KMFIX says:

6/4/2011 at 2:45 pm

As cool as that is.. there is are no dynamics to the sounds. On/Off. A pressure sensitive iPad I hope is in the future… Then truer feeling in the sound will be present.

LDA says:

6/4/2011 at 2:47 pm

It is a musical instrument. What you really need is talent.

Dan Barker says:

6/4/2011 at 3:08 pm

#1 there kind of is, with the piano and drum kit it uses the accelerometer to try and work out how hard you hit the screen. Works quite well in most cases (though sometimes it doesnt, its still quite amazing though)

deowll says:

6/4/2011 at 3:09 pm

Way back when the apple II was still a great machine I keyboarded in a tiny program that allowed one of my students to play a song out put by the tiny computer speaker.

That was also a musical instrument and that kid had talent.

CrankyGeeksFan says:

6/4/2011 at 3:54 pm

#3 Dan Barker – Doesn’t the iPad have to move for the accelerometers to detect anything?

I still like mapping drum sounds to a MIDI keyboard.

ArianeB says:

6/4/2011 at 3:58 pm

I’ve played with this app at an Apple Store, if I ever get an ipad it will mostly be for this app.

Skeptic says:

6/4/2011 at 6:14 pm

I just went back in time and gave an iPad with Garageband, to every band member of all the best groups of the 70’s and 80’s.

Enjoy!

UncDon says:

6/4/2011 at 6:23 pm

#5:

I tried it with my iPad 1 version and I imagine they have a z-axis thing going with extremely small values being sensed by the accelerometer. I simply touched the tom-tom and got a sound, and then barely tapped it a bit and it was noticeably louder. Sometimes, though, it didn’t take when I used the very tip of my finger, and then was just audible (in other words, more finger gave more sound more consistently).

Likes2LOL says:

6/4/2011 at 6:25 pm

I can see it now: live concerts will soon have performers on stage tapping their tablets. How will we know they’re not just finger-syncing?

Special Ed says:

6/4/2011 at 6:44 pm

There are some great old synthesizers like the Mellotron and legacy Korgs that cost a small fortune back in the day, they sound simply incredible! A bargain now on the iPad for $12.00 or less.

TThor says:

6/4/2011 at 7:08 pm

Who need a rock band when you have and iPad? 🙂 Looks easy but you don’t know how to play instruments, forget it. This requires skills.

moller says:

6/4/2011 at 8:29 pm

Just more techno crap, in my opinion. If you think this syntho stuff is swell, fine. I prefer real instruments, played with actual talent and finesse. Musicians working together, not just some looping, multi-tacking and no variety. Sorry, all you misguided, dis-educated, easily satisfied lovers of this stuff. I’m not a vinyl-loving troglodite, just someone who appreciates fine art.

Skeptic says:

6/4/2011 at 9:18 pm

Re: Pedo: “do you want to destroy them faster than they did?”

Who are they that destroyed them?

Uncle Patso says:

6/4/2011 at 10:37 pm

I liked it. A real musician can make music with almost anything.

sargasso_c says:

6/5/2011 at 2:01 am

These posts flush the acoustic snobs.

deowll says:

6/5/2011 at 4:20 am

#13 If you are saying nothing is like being there listening to the sound coming out of the instrument or the singer sing I’ll agree. Once you record music, I don’t care how you do it or what you play it back on it isn’t going to sound the same. Okay just going electronic changes things but half the time singers only sound great because the machine fixes what their singing coach couldn’t. Course there are still a lot more great voices than singing contracts.

Special Ed says:

6/5/2011 at 5:31 am

Pedro, it beats walking around a mexican restaurant with a goofy hat and an ill fitting suit with dangles playing a big, cheap acoustic guitar for pesos.