Moog Music Forum

Hi everyone

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....

No dropouts with beatmaker 2 and both sunrizer and animoog in the background is what pleased me most. plus some drum samples in beatmaker and voyager hooked up externally. still better to switch between the apps with the home button to avoid accidental triggering. btw animoog could use some CC functionality and flexible midi channels

iPad 3 power is pretty impressive...

Today I'm using Phaedra running on the new iPad to sequence both Animoog and Addictive Synth - running simultaneously on the same iPad 3 in the back ground. Animoog on chan 1 and Addictive Synth on chan 2. Clock is coming from Live 8 and driving the SP and Voyager on chan 3. My second iPad is running Korg iMS-20 drums for accompaniment on chan 4. Works really well. The iPad runs slightly "warm"....

Omaroo - That's great to know, I'm going to have to get the new iPad for sure.

If you record MIDI notes from Phaedra into Logic, how is the timing? I've found that with my iPad 1, just running Phaedra on it's own into Logic, and looking at where the notes record in the piano grid that the timing is pretty sloppy, always late and not consistent. Doe the new iPad solve this?