• • • At its event on 26th October, Microsoft revealed the Surface Studio all-in-one desktop computer. It offers a creative touchscreen environment that folds down into a console style device. Add in the Surface Dial hardware knob and you’ve got a combination of things that could sit very well in a recording studio. There had been lots of rumours about the Surface Pro 5, Surface Book 2, Surface Phone but none of those appeared. Instead what we got was the only slightly leaked Surface Studio. And a lot of quite stunning creative updates to Windows 10. The focus was quite clearly on drawing, on making art, on working in visual mediums moving from 2D to 3D to augmented and then virtual realities – it all looks like a load of fun. But was there anything there for us hard done by musicians? Well no, but there could be (I’ve also made a video that expands on these thoughts expressed in this article which you’ll find below). Surface Studio The Surface Studio just made the iMac obsolete. The iMac is arguably one of the most common project music production studio platforms – you see it all over the place. Download video downloadhelper for mac. Studio 5 Live Production Switcher Software. Transform your computer into a professional live production control room with Livestream Studio. Input multiple feeds, add graphics, master audio, and stream in one robust, easy-to-use package. Everything you love about Studio, now available for. The form factor is awesome, the convenience and the power is enough to run a decent amount of audio software and processing. The Surface Studio brings better processing and a better looking screen to the party. But that’s not what’s important here. What is does is brings the Surface immersive experience and workflow to the desktop. I’ve been banging on about this since the Surface Pro 3. Once you pick up the digital pen – once you start using your fingers your workflow evolves from a passive, sat back mouse driven experience to an active, involved flowing experience. Channelling all your creativity to that narrow point of a mouses optical sensor seems completely bonkers – we’ve come to accept it so much that we don’t even notice how restricting it is anymore. When working with my Surface Pro 4 I feel so released, so enabled to do so much more that I can very quickly get frustrated with non-touch software in how it slows me down. You wouldn’t create music on an instrument with a single finger – I couldn’t play guitar with one form of input – why should we accept the same on the device we create the most on. Critical factors However, to make this work requires two critical things – software and hardware. There’s a fair bit of multi-touch-enhanced music software out there now. FL Studio and Bitwig Studio being the best at the moment. Cubase and Pro Tools can both be readily accessed with single touch and the digital pen. I don’t really want to hear about Windows 10 Apps – there was a glimpse of something called Groove Music Maker in the presentation that looks like an App – no good.
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