How Apple’s iPad is revolutionizing music

Apple’s revolutionary iPad has infiltrated “the music industry. We’re not just talking about the fact that the tablet can house your entire iTunes music library,” Libby Plummer reports for Pocket-lint. “It’s also fast becoming a useful tool for musical types, both professional and amateur.”

“The most high-profile use of Apple’s tablet by a pro musician so far involves the latest album from ex-Blur frontman Damon Albarn’s hip-hop project Gorillaz, which was created largely on his iPad during a 32-day tour of North America,” Plummer reports. “The album uses real instruments and vocals combined with a good helping of synthesizers with Albarn making use of around 20 apps including Korg iELECTRIBE, Moog Filatron and FunkBox Drum Machine.”

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Plummer reports, “It perfectly illustrates the convenience of being able to lay down tracks on a device, while on the move, with no access to a desktop computer or studio.”

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25 Comments

  1. “Plummer reports, “It perfectly illustrates the convenience of being able to lay down tracks on a device, while on the move, with no access to a desktop computer or studio.””

    NO, NO this cannot be. Anal….yst have totally said that the iPad is a consumption device ONLY. NO creating on it. PERIOD.

    🙂 Think Different 🙂

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    1. Could this mean that the days of the sound studio are numbered?

      Has Apple’s iPad started a count-down clock on that?

      Who will be the first with an album developed by totally circumventing a sound studio? Or maybe it’s already been done…

  2. So much for the notion that iPads are strictly content consumption devices.

    You should have seen what Francis Ford Coppola was doing with an iPad during his presentation for his movie Twixt at the San Diego ComicCon.

      1. Those who guessed Ballmer guessed correctly, yes he was saying it about the 1st gen iPhone but he was actually referring to iOS when you think about it.

        Anyway, DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS… Hey! Where did everyone go?

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