Nice find from Cult of Mac’s Charlie Sorrel. The video below is an interview with Grammy award-winning music producer Henny Tha Bizness and is his take on the iPad’s place in professional music production.
The whole video is interesting but, at the very least, jump to 6:28 into the video when Henny asks producer Ken Lewis about his take on using an iPad rather than a Mac.
Insightful take on the switch from analog (knobs and sliders) to a mouse interface, and back to analog (knobs and sliders that you touch directly). It’s all about feel.
I can’t remember the last time I played a gig and didn’t see the sound guy walking around mixing the show on an iPad. In my last band, we also had personal monitor mixes that we could control with our phones. IOS has made everything so much nicer.
There is an excellent follow-up post – it goes into much more detail of what Henny and Ken are doing. https://youtu.be/ZxvliLODkxI
Looks like skeuomorphism never entirely went away.
To see such joy was amazing.
It also highlights the need for Apple to highlight how tactile the iPad is. I wish they’d stop advertising it with a keyboard and demonstrate the wonder of touch. Kind of what they did with the iPad 2…
https://youtu.be/b2LLSrlKr3c
Try the Logic Remote. Pretty handy.