I have never seen a need for a $600 iPad except for music related things and even then that's a lot of cash. A few months ago I paid $380 for a nice used EV ELX112P 600W powered stage speaker. Compared to that an iPad can wait but they certainly have that "cool" factor and there's new music related apps coming along every hour it seems and some of them are pretty slick.

I was at Sam Ash and they were demoing a DAW being controlled by a mixer that had an iPad dock built in so the iPad was acting as a much larger led screen for the mixer. The guy was simply pinching and dragging envelope controls and other effects and it was really slick. When I see stuff like this I keep thinking about Real Band and how cool a program it is but yet it can't handle anything like this, in fact it looks like a real dinosaur compared to mixing and manipulating the sound just by dragging your finger on a screen. I literally was visualizing Biab or RB being demoed right there in the middle of the floor with that very hot mixer/iPad combo and the guy is showing everybody how to generate Real Tracks and creating a cool song from scratch. He could ask anybody to yell out some chords, enter them and hit play. To my way of thinking it would transform the image of PG Music. It doesn't matter that the average user never learns what "transform wav audio" means or how it works. What matters is the very cool flashy look of it and people going ohh and ahhh. The problem of course is that mixer had a $1,299 tag on it and the iPad is another $599 so basically two grand for that setup and Biab by itself costs how much?

Even though I don't have one I recognize an iPad is becoming the ubiquitous "must have" tech gadget for pretty much anybody under 30 and plenty of others older than that.

Bob

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