It seems as though the world is turning faster and faster, I’m hardly able to keep up. Whether it’s the latest obscure indie music video that’s storming the web, the latest iphone app or even just the latest and fastest way to get weather updates, these days one must have a full time ‘ear to the ground/finger on the pulse’ technician giving daily debriefs on what’s happening in the world of the interwebs and techbiz land.
A month or two ago I got an iPhone. After the initial jizz fest of figuring out how I could not only streamline my workflow but more impressively do it from anywhere, things slowed down. To be honest most iPhone owners shudder in shame when they hear that I only have a handful of apps and most of which I never use. Shame on me, tisk tisk. I struggle to actually see the practical use for a lot of iphone apps so you can imagine my jekyl and hyde response once I saw Tim controlling Ableton live from his iPhone, I freaked out. How awesome was this? I was pretty syre that it could revolutionise recording and music performance? And so after a quick interweb search for anything similar for Pro tools, I uncovered this:
Now, I know it’s not an official release and it’s only working on Jailbroken iphones, but it got me thinking….
Why do we have this? Why do we need this? What has happened to us? Is this just another grossly unnecessary example of useless techno-landfill? Or am I missing the point and it’s potentially brilliant and maybe with more development the future of portable recording control surfaces?
I think I have a fair idea, but we’ll see.