Musical Vision for My New iPad

    When Apple announces a new product, it has captured the attention of the music world since the inception of the iPod. Wednesday held the long awaited announcement of the Apple Tablet. While most people have fumed their disappointment due to its features and limits, I think most people forget that there is no way real way this device can flop. Personally, I could care less about the games and trinket apps, all 140,000 of them. The way I see, it is all about the potential tactile control, interfacing with my desktop, and the ability to create (yes, I said create) live music.

    Consume all the eBooks and hollywood movies you like, but at the end of the day 10 inches of screen space leaves room for a controller, scratch pad, and piano keys. All we ever needed from Apple was a touch screen and an audio output. Steve Jobs gave us that and a whole lot more. So go ahead and knock it all you like. A year from now you will see a lot of indie musicians, club DJs, and speakers running the show with tablet in hand. As for me, it will soon be my DAW mixing controller much like this one. I'm stoked!