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Originally Posted by toddos
Have you considered a Surface Pro? It's a real PC running full Win 8 but in a tablet form factor, and the upcoming Surface Pro 2 has even better battery life. Also, the Music Cover seems like it could be useful for some types of music creation (it seems more oriented towards DJs). |
In fact I've been watching Surface Pro very closely. If Microsoft can attract professional musicians and pro music software/hardware to that platform, I'll be especially interested and might even buy one to try out.
Music Cover looks a tad like a dorkier Ableton Push or NI Maschine control surface. It appears to be great news for DJs who love windows -- and I happen to ventricle a lot of DJ-created music -- but I myself come from an older-than-old-skool composer's background -- I actually like looking at sheet music as well as track information. Professionally, I go so far back that I was actually in a a studio called Intergalactic with Afrika Bambataa when I first moved to NYC. I was there decades later, mind, but it was the same studio in which "Planet Rock" was recorded.
I create nearly all of my music electronically (though I've been known to write for string sections and chamber music groups), but most of it still seems to start with a weighted keyboard and staff lines.