[Prestidigitweeze]

If you're not careful, I'm going to start linking to my XtraNormal animations!

Here's why I keep asking about ICS and USB Audio (a post from XDA):

The key sentence of the "Galaxy Nexus Help" from Google is:

"If they (USB devices like USB DAC) work without special drivers or adapters on your PC, they will probably work with your phone."

Does ICS have USB audio driver?
Probably yes: "USB class for audio devices."
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/host.html
http://developer.android.com/referen...Constants.html

Another point of interest (though older):

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/0...-with-arduino/

The refrain from many advocates of mobile and next-generation platforms has been that users don’t need or want the kinds of capabilities that we get from conventional computer experiences, and that us pundit nerds should stop making comparisons to computers and let average users just check their Facebook accounts. Yet I’m pleased that engineers at places like Apple and Google have added just those features, because I think a wide variety of people – not just nerds like me, indeed – can do great, expressive things with them, and that that’s been a lesson of computing over the past decades.