Eddie

I do indeed have a Surface Pro 7 and I do use it for music. Mine is an i5 and has plenty of punch for VSTi's which I play live.

The screen has a resolution of 2736 x 1824 which is too small to read (for us older generation).This is easily fixed by scaling up to 150% which is close enough to 1920 x 1080 (give or take a few pixels).

The keyboard is fine for typing on. It is similar to most laptop keyboards these days in that it has the chicklet type keyboard. It give enough tactile feedback to know when keys are pressed. it is simple enough to use the surface with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse as I do as the keyboard in the cover can be removed.

Networking is fine with its inbuilt wireless. I do tend to use it with a USB3 dongle which has an ethernet type plug on it.

I think knowing what I do now, I may have gone for a larger storage option if I bought again. Mine has 128Gb which is fine and I can have most of my software installed on it. It has an SD card slot that I have populated with a 256Gb card and this means that I can install some software on that if need be. As SD cards get bigger (and prices more reasonable) I may increase the size of this card.

It has 8Gb of memory installed which is fine for most programs. This and the storage are not upgradable.

I run Cubase 12 with no problems. I have just acquired Steinberg VST Live which is great for playing live without other musicians and the Surface handles it well with backing tracks and live VSTi instruments and live input such as microphones plugged into my external sound interface. Band In A Box is no problem either as I run it on the external drive. I tend to use BIAB to generate tracks which I then play in VST Live.

If there is anything more specific you would like to know - just shout.


Kevin smile

Last edited by Kevin Woolley; 09/19/22 08:54 PM.