Re: X16 Preview
I totally agree about mixing on a tablet. I think the idea is silly. A wireless tablet to walk around the venue or stage during set up and optimization can be a valuable tool, but banking your show on a WiFi connection to an iPad, or any other tablet, is a train wreck looking for a place to happen. Relying on a tablet as the only interface to a console is also a less than ideal way to mix. I feel the same about mixing on a laptop. You cannot get the fine level of control with either that you get with a physical console type control surface.
I fail to see how having to own a particular tablet to run the console software is any different than having to own a particular computer to run array design software, or processor control software. For many years I lugged around a Toshiba laptop for the sole purpose of running Yamaha PM1D Manager, XTA Audiocore, and L'Acoustic array software. I owned that computer because I needed it to run software that I needed to do my job. The rest of my business, and all my personal computing was, and is on a Mac. With the advent of emulation software I now run XP on my Mac and no longer have to carry 2 computers everywhere, but I still use 2 platforms (plus IOS on my iPad). If the job requires you to use a particular device, use that device. Software that only runs on one platform is not unique to the iPad, nor did it just start 3 years ago.
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