Like lots of people in recent days, I've just taken delivery of the replacement to my iPad 1, a 64Gb/4G iPad 3. First thing to try were my favourite apps - Animoog and Filtatron.
Animoog and Phaedra (or any other sequencer/arpeggiator such as StepPolyArp or Genome) seem to work far better when running simultaneously on the new 3, and I mean by far. The new iPad's 1Gb of RAM vs the iPad 1's lesser 250Mb (and iPad 2's 512 Mb), plus the A5X processor really seems to have made a difference to application stability and performance, especially with other applications fired up, multi-tasked and parked. Everything seems instantaneous rather than labored. Output of several other apps I've tried such as Korg's iMS-20, Kaossilator and iElectribe now work as advertised now too - and again especially with a sequencer running in parallel. My iPad 1 barely ran iMS-20 at all, and had real trouble with one of the sample tracks which was just too taxing to provide smooth output. With an ad-hoc 802.11 network running, latency on the 3 seems almost imperceptible too - unless my standards are lower than others'. LOL
All up - with the Retina display (wow) it's been a worthwhile upgrade I think. If I were going from an iPad 2, maybe not so much, but that display is a killer. Maybe the boys in the back room at Moog central will update the apps to take advantage of the extra resolution one day soon....
