![]() ![]() I always thought they were largely wasted on most of the faculty who refused to RTFM. I have never been a big fan of Apple because I had to support them when I worked for a university Chemistry dept. I bought a 32Gig iPod Touch for $189 refurbed and shipped from an Apple factory in China which is a good deal and had a full warranty looked brand new (I got it as a backup for my first 8GB iPod touch that I had a bunch of hardware for). Boys do need their toys!! And frankly the iPad is a lot of tool for the price plus you can get them used. Hopefully that will change for you someday. I’m also embarrassed to say that I’ve dumped so many apps THAT I PAID for because they were crap or I just never used them. Now that was 2 years, ago I could’ve bought that Duesenberg I’ve always wanted for the money I’ve spend on apps. Last time I checked, a year after I bought the ipad I was shocked to find it was well over $1000 and I’d made a conscious effort to download only free apps. By the way there is an app to find out how much money you’ve spent on apps. DM1 drum machine, Funkbox and Virtuoso, which is a piano. Essential chord progressions helps me with my song writing. It’s sounds crappy but you get the tab FREE. Songster, is great because you can find a tab for almost any song you can think of and it also plays the song for you. I couldn’t live without Guitarist Ref, Garageband, (even though I have it on my iMac). Here are the apps I love: I’m with you Matthew, I love Bebot, I have it on my ipad and iphone. I’m sure it is the main contributing factor to my insomnia. It’s the first thing I grab if I can’t go back to sleep in the middle of the night. ![]() It keeps me up late at night searching for that next great effects unit which I spend my life searching for on youtube and then trying to find on Ebay or (here in France). I use it to keep up with the news, family far away. I think its the best damn thing that’s ever been invented, I sit it on my workbench when I putting together a Tonefiend DIY. Don’t forget to back up the iTunes to save your apps. If you have the extra cash go for an iPad as it comes with Garageband already aboard which will satisfy most of your needs. I highly recommend the iPad as an instrument it also can make a very convenient guitar FX and amp simulator there are a number of great sounding apps I like the Agile one as it works with guitar adapters that plug in thru the multipin plug as well as the headphone jack ones. I normally use all three devices along with guitar, electric cello, drum pad, percussion and a big box of cheap electronic toys but I was trying to limit the baggage since it was up a long flight of stairs (even tho’ everything was carried for me I still had to set it up). I use an Akai IOdock with my iPad and did not drag my iPod Touches along for thae show. The sounds I created worked well and we got a tremendous response from an audience of 35 or so (it was a very small venue/ very large living room). I recently used my iPad at a gig I played with The Dits a free improv/noisy/trippy/humorous trio I have played with for the last 12 years except for a not so brief hiatus for back surgery. I also use some sound maker type apps like Slewpi, Syntpond, Reactable, Keplers orrey, Slice, Aura Flux and iGendyn for improvisation and inspiration. Moog has 2 apps I use a lot called Filtatron and AniMoog which create sounds worthy of the Moog name. 1 cent accuracy as their hardware brethren ideal for tuning or intonation adjustment. My main tuner is an app by Peterson called iStrobsoft that gives the same. Another cool one is Droneo which creates drones that can be tweaked to the nth degree. There are also a host of strange synthy type apps from Curtis that I use a lot that have unique interfaces and can bend sounds dramatically. I also use an app called Teslas Synth which is similar but a bit more aggressive. ![]() It is 4-5 note polyphonic and looks like a kids toy but it is very expressive. Some of my faves are Bebot which is a synth whose interface is a stupid looking little robot that moves as you place your finger on the screen left for low note right for higher notes as you move up the modulation increases you can have either continuous note change or add lines for a more keyboard like response. I have more apps than any sane person should have. I use mine as a musical instrument a great deal. I am also an iPad user as well as the iPod Touch.
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