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By: a few questions.. - Treo Forum - Treonauts

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By: gordon

gordon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:33:09 +0000

Serious music eh. too be honest when i hear someone say this i am astounded. Surely a good musician remains open minded. When the electric bass first came out it was met with suspicion, but modern music would not be the same today. Bob Dylan was critized for going electric etc. surely pushing the boundaries and experimentation is the lifeblood of music in fact of all creative endeavours. yes once Apple was the undisputed king of music, windows is now a completely valid and cheaper (hardware) alternative which many musicians embrace because it give them an opportunity to make music that the expense of apple may deny them otherwize. at the end of the day they are all just tools in the same way an instrument is, and the quality of the finished product is down to the user. many people slag budget guitars, but someone like Eric Claptonwould still sound good on a pawn shop guitar. i think that those who cling to the imagined superiority of their equipment are basically insecure of their ability and essentially hiding behind it.

By: Malachi

Malachi — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:21:33 +0000

It’s always funny to see people going on about what is required for “serious” music making. Considering people made astounding music with stellar production on equipment that is today considered archaic and useless, while others use high tech devices and make crap.

Anyways, I downloaded the demo, but it seems to be only a sequencer, meaning no synths. Good if you have to make a quick demo on the run, but so far I see no point for myself. We’ll see. I did find on the same site an app called Audio Box, which is more of a softstudio featuring a variety of synth modules with extensive editing options. Saving is disabled on the demo, so no examples, but so far it works quite well. Might have to buy that one.
Griff was the reason I bought a PDA in the first place. Was I ever disappointed. So much promise brought low by a simple oversight in the GUI; in order to access different octaves or continue plotting notes beyond the first bar you have to scrunch the screen up, making everything smaller and harder to see and manage. A simple scroll bar would have fixed everything, but according to Griff’s makers there would be no more updates as they considered the software finished. Especially bad as the OS had updated since Griff was made. That was a few years back, though, maybe they’ve done more.

As for devices, I’ve had an Asus MyPal A730 for about 3 years now and I still think it’s great.

By: Julio

Julio — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:33:04 +0000

I have the same question as Misha. If I were looking at trying the Griff software. What would be a good choice of phone. The Samsung Blackjack runs Windows Mobile doesn’t it? I was going to get one of those anyway. That would be sweet.

By: Misha

Misha — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:19:58 +0000

Does anybody have particular recommendations for a suitable (non-phone) device that could be used for this specific audio application? Peter mentioned a Dell PDA…any other models?

Thanks!

By: Vulp

Vulp — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:10:45 +0000

“When i think of making music i think of using a musical instrument first and a mobile device last. When i want to go mobile iâ€™ll take my iPhone first, instruments next, plane tickets, etc. Never, ever, a Windows device for serious music!”
So basically “I hate Windows”. Congratulations.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:57:39 +0000

@Ivan, absolutely, Bhajis is fantastic. I was just surprised to see what seems to be a *new* app for Windows Mobile of this sort, though it’s possible Griff were mistaken and this has been around longer than we thought (first I’ve seen it, at least).

By: vvvoid

vvvoid — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:28:43 +0000

When i think of making music i think of using a musical instrument first and a mobile device last. When i want to go mobile iâ€™ll take my iPhone first, instruments next, plane tickets, etc. Never, ever, a Windows device for serious music!

So, when you think of making music, mobile, you take your mobile phone first. Great.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:37:16 +0000

There is Bhajis Loops for Palm PDAs too