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The trend is that it's small software houses (one or a few people only) who are doing the interesting stuff music instrument wise on iOS these days. It follows a certain logic, larger corporates requires larger revenues for things to be interesting, and in our industry, and probably in all other similar industries as well, they are building this using world wide sales networks with engaged channels/resellers for creating the volumes they need to make money on lunch priced items, app store is just a transaction and delivery platform, and someone has to engage in it to make sales happen there. I do believe Korg has done this right though with their Module platform, and selling additional content in the app, building volumes by providing a good platform for serious usage, and then making sure there is enough content released to keep the machine growing. Personally I find the biggest surprise to be that Roland doesn't offer an iOS cloud, I would hit the subscribe button in a jiffy, and in the long run they would probably be able to convince me to grab one of their hardwares like Jupiter X as well by that.

I like it when I find useful instruments for my iPad, it's a nice "extra" to have in the home studio, and with an M1 processor it becomes a very powerful platform for these things. I just wish Apple will release Main Stage for iPad at some point, would be really interesting to set up and start using (I never used it on Mac, don't have one, sold my last mac in 2017 and went over "to the other side" again..).

Cheers, if only with one sound, but dang, that sound!

This was a really nice experience, grabbed it right away after reading about it yesterday night, way too late, and got stuck for an hour with it when I should have gone to bed.. 🫠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkLxDQezX5E Recorded a little improvisation with a really beautiful choir sound (attached) and Opsix on the bass, and then another with Prologue 16, a "juno-ish" pad, in layer with the very same choir sound. Blurb from Synth Anatomy: AudioKit Nerd Synth, new iOS AUv3 app captures the soul of the Nord Lead A1 Synthesizer https://synthanatomy.com/2024/04/audiokit-nerd-synth-new-ios-auv3-app-captures-the-soul-of-the-nord-lead-a1-synthesizer.html (I am not in any way affiliated with Synth Anathomy or AudioKit, I just really liked the sound of this soft instrument) 20240413_020515.m4a 20240413_021405.m4a

Arrived here yesterday afternoon, installed and ready, sounds great!!

Supply chain 101, reseller often expect 25-30 percent, if you then have a distribution chain on top of this, you take home only 50 percent, at best, of the customer price. So that argument is just not cutting it. Yes, setting up a new framework for programming software can be time consuming, however, looking at the hardware platform for iPads running the M processors, and Macs today now with the M ARM processors being standard since about 3 years now, means that all DSP code (math/algorithms) running on the ARM Mac machines, already works. It smells lazyness, but is inevitable, come 3-4 years ahead, those starting now will have a great advantage. There are already a bunch of innovative small software houses making decent money on iOS apps, probably their advantage is that they have no back catalogue running on desktops, and are not corporate, or halfways there, instead agile, creative, and fast on their feet. Go figure.

Or they are waiting for Main Stage iOS and then they can just release all their models one by one at a fair amount, even subscription, etc. Decimate keyboard sales, dunno, as long as they keep mapping stuff.. All they need is to port Analog Lab to iOS basically.. and offer upgrades to "full" versions of the models inside it...

That's what they should do instead, an "Arturia Stage World" for iOS, with all their models as "add-ons" (like Korg Module) which then integrates with all their existing MIDI controller keyboards... EPIC!

Then we have the explicit setting for those Detroit techno aficionados, can be dialed in anywhere on the row: 808

Whatever ticks your boxes, that one looks awesome!

Love Palladino's creativity, Stravinsky (like lots of other bass players, inspired by Jaco, using Stravinsky)..

Buy two, try the drill first... (or use the "lid" to try first...), drilling, screwing, feels like better longevity.. Keep us posted!

Glue gun?

I lugged an XP-50 back in the days, saved me loads of time and energy due to its portability and versatility, but I never liked the sound, it felt flat, dead, like there were all sounds you could ever imagine, and more with a cpl of expansion boards too, but all without any soul...

Hence the Amazon plastic eggholder I sent ya, cut the "lid" off, attach the remaining "bottom" egg holder to whatever type of clamp that works on to your stand. No idea what stand you use but I am sure you have a clue about how you could attach something to it, like this one:

Running on Android, so you could watch YouTube when bored... 🤣

I have used it back and forth when needed, on iPad, super convenient app!

The world needs more FPGA based hardware synths, where tons of stuff going on at the same time is not a problem!

It's interesting how their marketing trick calling it a "stage keyboard" is uncritically received everywhere, loads of posts all over the internet about how this must be a great live/stage/band/whatnot keyboard, by people who are not players... I love the concept, VIs in a hardware unit, a wet dream from the dawn of VIs, but the packaging here with AstroLab feels like a total hit and miss for their intended target group. I can see this as a great noodling machine for a home studio and for inspiration when composing or when starting to sketch on an arrangement for a pop song, but that's it! Let's give it an incarnation or three, or see if NI is picking up on this, they already have the parts, Software, Keyboard, and the brain in Machine+.

Yes, I saw that, then the singer gave me a note 2 minutes before we went on stage, with a new playlist...

And then "shake your money maker..."

A tiny keyhole window, no numeric keypad for selecting patches, and very odd design with the parameter buttons and knobs on the right side of the top plate? Not designed for live work clearly.

Oh man, I've spent almost 2 decades of my life in that backwards country.. I could tell you why, probably, the things mentioned have been overlooked... but I'm just laughing here, I think this will be a perfect noodling machine for home studio and song writing usage...

Who designed the user interface? A tiny keyhole window, no numeric keypad for selecting patches, and very odd design with the parameter buttons and knobs on the right side of the top plate?

My friend never had any direct breakdown of the app, he just isn't overly impressed with how it is designed and works...