Android or iOS Dilema

[64Guitars]

64Guitars, what is Caustic? A stand-alone program or a plugin?
How is it used?

It's a standalone program which comes with several great synthesizers, a sequencer, effects, and drum machine. There's even a very cool modular synth! You can create songs by manually programming the sequencer and drum machine as you would in a DAW's piano roll mode or a drum machine like Hydrogen or BR Rhythm Editor. Or you can record in real time using a MIDI controller or the onscreen keyboards.

Here's a great intro and tutorial:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86OrU-E7RU

Give it a try! The Windows and Mac versions are completely free so you've nothing to lose. And it's a lot of fun.

Scroll down to the bottom of the following page for the free Mac and PC versions:

http://www.singlecellsoftware.com/caustic


And there are lots more excellent tutorials here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/CausticApp/videos

[Speed Demon]

Thanks, 64G.

I will give it a go.

[64Guitars]

I saw this article in my daily Linux news feed and thought it might help anyone trying to decide whether to go with Android or iOS.

http://www.datamation.com/mobile-wireless/android-vs.-iphone-pros-and-cons.html

It has a link to the following article which I found very interesting and especially relevant to anyone who creates their own music. Apparently, if you subscribe to "Apple Music" on iTunes, Apple can and will delete music from your computer, including your own musical creations, upload it to their iCloud servers, then make you pay to listen to it via the "Apple Music" subscription. If you cancel your subscription, you will no longer have access to your own music! How do they get away with this music theft? Apparently, when you sign up for Apple Music, you give them the right to steal your music.

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/

[Johnny Robbo]

It has a link to the following article which I found very interesting and especially relevant to anyone who creates their own music. Apparently, if you subscribe to "Apple Music" on iTunes, Apple can and will delete music from your computer, including your own musical creations, upload it to their iCloud servers, then make you pay to listen to it via the "Apple Music" subscription. If you cancel your subscription, you will no longer have access to your own music! How do they get away with this music theft? Apparently, when you sign up for Apple Music, you give them the right to steal your music.

I remember seeing a comedian doing a routine about how no-one bothers reading the T&Cs they agree to when installing software. He said something along the lines of "I wouldn't be surprised if someone from iTunes turned up at my door in a couple of years and told me they owned my house now, because of some box I ticked when installing an app..."

This is shocking. I'll never buy an Apple product!

[cuthbert]

Thanks for the heads up, 64G - I won't sign up for Apple Music (not that I would have anyway). But I really can't imagine this can stand up in court, even if a user agrees to it. Let's see what happens...

In the meantime, I will stick with my iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Mac (as well as iTunes). Apple's hardware continues to be the best quality, imho.

[Hook]

That is pretty brazen but not surprising. Like Cuthbert I won't subscribe to thier sevice, I don't like any of these subscription services personally, but I won't give up my ipad. It's so any different instruments, it might be the most useful and impressive tecnical advancement in music.
I have an android (Galexy something) for my phone, not a game person and most apps are pretty useless. It's a phone, calculater, map & flashlight. The ipad is for music and Netflix and the free pandora. Pretty happy with the arrangement.
Rock on

[Flash Harry]

The ipad is for .... and the free pandora.

Ah! Pandora - How I miss her. It was Pandora that introduced me to such wonderful music that I would previously not have heard.  Annoyed that The Man insists on recognising these arbitrary boundaries....

[WarpCanada]

Apple is still evil in 2020, and Android is still Trash.

I own lots of both kinds of devices and I write apps for both, professionally.

Musical production and home recording people will love owning iPads.

[64Guitars]

I've never owned a mobile phone and I have no current plans to buy one. If I did, I wouldn't want an iPhone or an Android phone, but I wouldn't mind getting a Linux phone in a few years when the market for Linux phones is more mature and the prices are lower. Actually, the price of the PinePhone isn't too bad right now ($149.99 US) but I don't want to be an early adopter of this new technology. I'd rather wait till they're more widely available and they've gotten most of the bugs out.

Granted, a Linux phone probably wouldn't be great for music. Not because there's a lack of music software, but because the existing Linux music apps are made for a desktop or laptop computer and probably wouldn't work well with the small screen of a phone and its touch interface. But if Linux phones catch on, I think we might see phone versions of some Linux music programs, plus new music apps written specifically for the phone. Time will tell.

But I wouldn't want to use a phone for making music anyway. I'd much rather use my desktop computer with its large screen. I'd only want a phone for making phonecalls, reading ebooks, listening to MP3s, perhaps surfing the web when I'm not at home, etc. So a Linux phone would be perfect for me.

PinePhone (from $149.99 US)
https://pine64.com/product-category/smartphones/?v=0446c16e2e66

Librem 5 (from $799.00 US)
https://shop.puri.sm/product-category/phones/

F(x)tec PRO¹ X (from $599 US or £450 GB)
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/10/fxtec-pro1-x-sliding-keyboard-phone
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pro1-x-smartphone-functionality-choice-control#/