It's official, the iPad is worth it.

[pacustary]

If Richie Hawtin uses the iPad, it must be good enough for professional use.

Not exactly "DJing" with the iPad, but check this out!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqzQcNVT_h4

[DJPhaidon]

If Richie Hawtin uses the iPad, it must be good enough for professional use.

Not exactly "DJing" with the iPad, but check this out!

Not exactly DJing? 5 Words is all we needed that will make it work for DJ'ing. Modular, Ableton Live, Coming soon. Him and Hexler.net/touchOSC are pretty intertwined right now, considering they developed his interactive iphone app. Considering that Hawtin has always kinda been on the bleeding edge of just about every new controller or tech, I wouldn't be surprised if this thing kicked some major a$$.

[DJPhaidon]

Forgot to mention that in his setup he laid it out Lemur, iPad, Lemur, iPad with exactly as much space as it needed. I'm sure this wasn't a coincidence which leads me to believe they are a rather key part of his setup.

[psyEDk]

Interesting, Hawtin and Deadmau5 are using growingly similair setups when playing out live.
Really fuels my technolust to see all those touch surfaces laid out like that

Mmm, time to take out a second loan? lol

[JesC]

Nice.

[sj03w4t]

If Richie Hawtin uses the iPad, it must be good enough for professional use.

Don't really agree. It implies two things:
1. richie hawtin is not a professional dj
2. richie hawtin uses the ipad

I mean, for #2 he does USE the ipad but I don't think (yet) in his live shows?
Ipad is funny, but overrated and overhyped

[JesC]

...
Ipad is funny, but overrated and overhyped

:eek: What You Talking About Willis!



I love my iPad, I love what it can do. I wish I had more time to program my TouchOSC & OSCulator. The thing works, and for the price its not bad for a touch screen.

#justsayin

[nem0nic]

It's not at all overrated if it helps the person using it achieve what they want to achieve the way they want to achieve it.

Also this...

Main Entry: 1pro·fes·sion·al
Pronunciation: \prə-ˈfesh-nəl, -ˈfe-shə-nəl\
Function: adjective
Date: 1606

2 a : participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs

He is very much a professional DJ. Sorry.

[corporation]

"This video is private."



bummer.

[DJPhaidon]

http://griid.net/

this is what it's refering to, did a check after that vid was leaked, cause I'm assuming they made it private because it wasn't supposed to be out yet.

I mean, for #2 he does USE the ipad but I don't think (yet) in his live shows?
Ipad is funny, but overrated and overhyped

it's funny how much overhyped, overrated, and other terms keep appearing on these and other forums. One thing that I've noticed is that "hype" seems to only appear constistantly with Apple items. Other items like, the NS7, CDJ2000, VCI-300, EKS Otus, APC-40, which were dubbed as the next best thing to sex from their respective makers all got the "we'll see if it's worth it when it's in use by professionals", and yet, when the iPad is making it's way in more and more professionals live performance setups, it turns to "ohh, that shit is so overhyped" even though it has never been marketed by apple as a DJ performance item. Evidentally not if the guys that basically define the way that the technology for DJ's go are CHOOSING to integrate them into their sets.

Hawtin has commisioned multiple software designers to do his bidding for numberous things, including Lemur layouts and his own iPhone app. You honestly think that if using an iPad wasn't the best way to go for what he's using it for, that he wouldn't just get a layout for the Lemur made and use that? Ohh wait, he's using both. Must mean that it can compete at some level, or he would just have 5 lemurs instead of 3 and 2 iPads.