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other portable-ish things: Boss DR-202, Yamaha SU-10, Roland MC-202 (have to put that in sleep mode or you lose everything.)

The entity that is music is not really dependent on the hardware past the fact that you might want somthing to jot down your idea/piece/symphony on. It’s the person behind it. Sorry, but the cliché still stands. How you develop it past that stage is another matter; do you want to keep “lo-fi” or make a big production out of it? Your choice but at that point the music is already there, from that point on it’s more of a development phase.

Looking back on the pieces I’ve made, the ones I like the most are the ones I made in a sparse enviroment. Those constraints had me focus on the music instead of the blinking buttons. Now, of course there’s the problem that I happen to like shiny new gadgets as well; I don’t force myself into a dark room with nothing but a cow bell, I’m just saying that expensive pro audio gear doesn’t mean “better” music and I never will. If the music is good it’s because of the musician/composer. Just look at the curcuit bending stuff, whether *I* like what’s coming out of those machines or not is not important, you can’t deny that there’s creativity behind it all.

You could the same analogy with games. There are some awesome ideas out there that really shine with the extra polish of todays graphics but I but if the idea is crap no graphics on earth will make it become good one. People might play those old games out of nostalgia but also because they are *fun*. Back then if you didn’t have an idea you didn’t have a game. It’s the same thing with music.

If I were to be the doom and gloom guy that could mean we create less memorable music for every year that goes by (looking back at classical stuff). But luckily I don’t believe that.

So, if mobile devices are so crap for making music, looking back, how come we have so much awsome music - that we still listen to mind you - made on even “crappier” “devices” with fewer choices and significantly worse audio quality?

Mobile devices are here to stay. There’s no room for a laptop in my pocket, I won’t sit on the bus making music for fun on my laptop (I’m sure someone is, though) but I just might with a portable device. It’s there when an idea pops up.

Please let this site stay as a source of creativity, regardless of whether it’s an article about Pro Tools or a new app for your iPhone. I’m just here to make music.

Sorry for the incomprehensible and meaningless rant. No tl/dr version.

“Some of you are as passionate about hating mobile tech as others of you are about loving it, perhaps propelled by a strong uptick of iPhone hype and accompanying resentment.”

The scroll bar is a remedy for extraneous information, but there’s no “inverse scroll bar” for reading content that was omitted.

Vocal iPhone haters are basically trying to grab the remote control, in a bid to relieve their painful knicker-twist-syndrome. But iPhone is the most significant new mainstream platform we’ve seen in years, and there are amazing musical possibilities…

Very true. It took me years of searching to get a mechanical toy piano and now that I have it I treasure it!

Also what Bean said is quite important. The use of the same color order in both graphs when different data is being shown is confusing. You really should use the same colors for the same things in both graphs.

Whomever put the QY-100 in there must either be made out of batteries or have a different understanding of “mobile” than the rest of us. I owned one of those things and never got more than 20 minutes use out of a fresh set of batteries. Fortunately I’d bought it used and managed to sell it off for more than I paid for it.