Re: Re: GeoShred

I have the surface book, and I wish it would run on that, but as you say, if
it won't, it won't. I already have so much hardware, I doubt, I would ever
buy a ipad, especially a older one...so it goes. 
 
 
 
 
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From: JAMES HARRISON [email protected] [midiguitar]
Date: 1/23/2017 11:39:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [midiguitar] Re: GeoShred
 
  
I have a nice Windows 10 combo tablet/laptop I'd like to use, that 
should be pretty ideal. But if it won't work it won't work.

If you [or anyone] can determine the earliest [cheapest] Ipad and the 
earliest OS that will work great with GeoShred I hope you will post it here.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply,

James
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> Sun Jan 22, 2017 3:03 am (PST) . Posted by:
>
>
> "richard brown" napravobg
> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20GeoShred>
>
> Hi James.
> I was in the same position as yourself, and I looked at whether it 
> might run on windows simulators like iPadian, but it's not possible.. 
> Then I bit the bullet last night and bought a used ipad 2nd 
> generation, specifically to use with the GeoShred app, as well as 
> other music apps and synths eventually.
> I don't need cameras or word processors, because I have all that on 
> other stuff like my phone and laptop, but as Chris pointed out, a 
> platform that will support sensibly implimented apps like this seems 
> like a good idea and a logical way to go, and ipad seems to be a way 
> of accessing loads of pro-spec music apps and soft synths, at much 
> cheap prices than equivalent Windows platform software..
>
> Otherwise, apart from being able to run dedicated music apps, I 
> wouldn't bother with investing in one at all. Now, I just need to 
> find out which is the best OS to install, so that I can get it to run 
> reliably without crackling.
>
> It did strike me as a useful app to program bass parts with via USB 2 
> midi out, as it's normally tuned in fourths, and I'll also experiment 
> tuning it in fifths maybe, and see if that makes sense. The interval 
> jumps and chords may not be so easy though.. I also want to set it 
> up as a small isomorphic keyboard if I can, and try that.
>
> I must say that tuning in fifths on my Ztar was difficult to make any 
> sense of, and nearly drove me mad, and I gave up on that after a few 
> months of persevering. Trying to re-learn scale shapes and exercises 
> after decades of guitar was not easy at all.
> On Ztar, I almost always use use normal guitar tuning with the same 
> octave doubled higher up the neck at the twelfth fret, and play that 
> 'guitar-
> zone' in normal guitar tuning for chords and scales and leads and 
> harmonies, with my right hand..
> That has always seemed the easiest way to go for me, although 
> Warr-guitar and Chapman Stick players probably wouldn't agree with 
> that approach at all..
>
> There's also the option of using Ztar midi out, to GeoShred midi in, 
> but without the pitch bend and vibrato on any Ztar 'string' of 
> course, although it will receive modulation cc's and individual note 
> aftertouch, and the Ztar will send them. I recognise that it's never 
> going to sound anything like a Roli Seaboard..
> I'll keep the group posted on my progress..
> But regardless.. A a new and very expressive instrument to explore.. 
> Sounds good to me.:-)
> regards
>
> richard
>
> bg (Bulgaria)