I have given up with Android tablets as music applications are scarce. iPad isn't too bad and I have many apps which I use at different times.

So...I just got finished messing around with a new Windows 8.1 tablet. It's an Acer Aspire Switch 10 with an Atom quad-core processor. Being Windows if you have programs that will run on a desktop machine (and do not need too much processor power) it will run on this tablet.

I installed Band-In-A-Box and Realband on it (running from the hard drive - no sense in gobbling up the 64Gb Memory) and... it runs like a dream. Just like running on a desktop but with a touch screen.

The Acer does have a keyboard with a full sized USB socket on it and this is detachable. If you use the micro usb socket on the tablet you can connect a usb hub and then connect a hard drive, sound interface and usb midi keyboard if you wish. Better make that a powered hub though or the tablets battery will not last too long.

How good this will be live I have yet to see but after a couple of hours here at home it has run flawlessly.

BTW one on the nice things about a Windows powered tablet is the absolute ease of connecting up external peripherals such as printers, scanners etc.

Kevin smile