Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Tablet Day 3
Have been using the tablet quite a bit these last few days. The pen Input is generally good though you have to remember to put the pen close to the screen before p utting your hand on the screen. The pen calibration is driving me a bit crazy as F cant seem ho get the cwrsor to appear right underneath the pen tip.
Ableton Live is also pretty hand to control with the pen. The slightest moment of the pen when you have a control selected and it's either at O or at Full. Draw mode definately works be for drawing controller data.
Will bring you more updates as Icontinue to use it.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Samsung Series 7 Slate Day 1 Part 2
Did all my windows updates, got signed on to Skype and did a few other tweaks. In mobile format, I'm finding myself using the pen almost exclusively. It's great to just write emails, and one note notes, and web url's etc.
Most of the little niggles I have to date are pretty much windows related, rather than Samsung related, except for the touchlauncher not being able to be minimized, or to be able to flick to the desktop or change the todo app to outlook.
It is also pretty thirsty for power. It will be wanting to live in a dock or close to power at least 2 or 3 times a day as it won't last an entire days worth of computing without a charge.
I successfully installed Live 8 (though I did the wrong download and have no samples at the moment - I'll fix that), but it runs fine. Unfortunately due to the screen real estate, the maximum zoom that you can use on Live is 110%, which is a pity, because it would be great to crank it up to 150, but the Ableton window goes off the screen and you lose the navigation bar at the bottom.
The small dials are also quite tricky to control with the stylus. I'll play around and see if I can get some better control. Live it won't be a problem as I have an APC40, but could be tedious on the train.
Most of the little niggles I have to date are pretty much windows related, rather than Samsung related, except for the touchlauncher not being able to be minimized, or to be able to flick to the desktop or change the todo app to outlook.
It is also pretty thirsty for power. It will be wanting to live in a dock or close to power at least 2 or 3 times a day as it won't last an entire days worth of computing without a charge.
I successfully installed Live 8 (though I did the wrong download and have no samples at the moment - I'll fix that), but it runs fine. Unfortunately due to the screen real estate, the maximum zoom that you can use on Live is 110%, which is a pity, because it would be great to crank it up to 150, but the Ableton window goes off the screen and you lose the navigation bar at the bottom.
The small dials are also quite tricky to control with the stylus. I'll play around and see if I can get some better control. Live it won't be a problem as I have an APC40, but could be tedious on the train.
Slate PC Day 1
Wow that was fast. Slate was delivered the next day. Still waiting on a few extra bits and pieces. All unpacked and first impression is that it's actually pretty big, compared with an iPad.
Plugged it in to charge up and it all launched up pretty quick.
First thing - upgrade to Win7 Pro, so over to Anytime Upgrade and $200 later and 10 minutes of installation, and I can join my domain. No problems except that anytime upgrade complains that the update wasn't successful because of the windows update reboot dialog, but no biggie.
http://connect and follow the prompts, and whammo - I'm on the domain.
Next thing is to authorize office. The slate will be used for work/email and writing music. It will kind of be my portable notepad. I'll mainly be using outlook, word, excel, one note and ableton live. Launched office, entered my code, and Office setup did the rest.
I notice this thing has Norton Internet Security. Will have to see if I want to keep that on or not. Probably will for the time being, though I often find that the "security" products normally have a lot of bloat and a firewall that is impossible to control or turn off (in favour of Windows Firewall). Will give it the benefit of the doubt for now.
Have had a bit of a play with it now, and a few things I've noticed. Firstly, use the Security Button Login for a domain, hold the windows key and press power. Secondly 20GB of the valuable 128GB is taken up by the recovery partition. That is going to have to go at some stage. Hard drive space is just too damn valuable on this thing.
Pen input works well, and the Samsung touch interface is pretty cool, except for the insistence on using it's own todo list, rather than my exchange one. Will have to see if I can reconfigure that.
Plugged it in to charge up and it all launched up pretty quick.
First thing - upgrade to Win7 Pro, so over to Anytime Upgrade and $200 later and 10 minutes of installation, and I can join my domain. No problems except that anytime upgrade complains that the update wasn't successful because of the windows update reboot dialog, but no biggie.
http://connect and follow the prompts, and whammo - I'm on the domain.
Next thing is to authorize office. The slate will be used for work/email and writing music. It will kind of be my portable notepad. I'll mainly be using outlook, word, excel, one note and ableton live. Launched office, entered my code, and Office setup did the rest.
I notice this thing has Norton Internet Security. Will have to see if I want to keep that on or not. Probably will for the time being, though I often find that the "security" products normally have a lot of bloat and a firewall that is impossible to control or turn off (in favour of Windows Firewall). Will give it the benefit of the doubt for now.
Have had a bit of a play with it now, and a few things I've noticed. Firstly, use the Security Button Login for a domain, hold the windows key and press power. Secondly 20GB of the valuable 128GB is taken up by the recovery partition. That is going to have to go at some stage. Hard drive space is just too damn valuable on this thing.
Pen input works well, and the Samsung touch interface is pretty cool, except for the insistence on using it's own todo list, rather than my exchange one. Will have to see if I can reconfigure that.
New Project - Samsung Series 7 Slate Running Ableton Live
I've got myself a new toy, and I'm going to use this space to document and review the Samsung Series 7 Slate and setting up and running Ableton Live 8 Suite on it. I'm looking to use the slate as a mobile composition platform and to incorporate it into our live rig. It will come home to the studio for hardware treatment and for loading of samples, transfer of information etc.
With a new and growing family, finding time in the studio has become a challenge, so I'm going to try to spend an hour or so a day composing on the train to and from work. We'll see how it goes.
With a new and growing family, finding time in the studio has become a challenge, so I'm going to try to spend an hour or so a day composing on the train to and from work. We'll see how it goes.
Labels: ableton, music, samsung
