Or – how to use touch in Ableton Live 10. Oh yes, in the bad old days of version 9 if you wanted to use touch or a digital pen with Ableton on a Surface Pro or other touchscreen computer you had to faff around in the Options.txt file and enable AbsoluteMouseMode. Not any more! […]
I’ll show you how to get low latency audio out of your Surface Pro using both the on-board sound and a USB audio interface. Featuring ASIO4ALL and the Surface Pro 2017 i5/8GB. This is taken from my larger video on Cubase but it will work in any DAW with similar settings.
So, how well does Cubase run on the Surface Pro? What’s the performance like? How well does touch work? Is touch, the pen and the Dial useful in Cubase? How do you configure the audio engine and what tweaks are needed for stable music making? All will be answered in this epic video that lays […]
Are you having trouble running low latency audio software on Windows 10? This is the guide you need to tweak your system. Newly updated and revised for the Fall Creators Update (Oct 2017). Full explanations included in the video of what you need to do and why it’s important.
I’ve been making videos on the potential of the Surface platform for music production since the Surface Pro 3. Now this adventure continues on the Surface Pro 2017 and (potentially) the Surface Book 2 and I love nothing better than investigating how well different music software works on these devices. I’ve got loads more videos […]
An initial examination of using the Surface Dial with Cubase Pro 9 on the Surface Pro 2017. There’s some usefulness here but is there enough to make the Dial a useful tool for music production? Not sure at the moment – what do you think? All tips and suggestions welcome and I’ll do a more […]
How many plugins and VST instruments can the Surface Pro 2017 handle? I’ve run exhaustive tests of many different DAWs with many different plug-ins and can now offer a demonstration of the Surface Pro’s potential for music production and reliability. IT’s GOOD! I’ll also show the thermal and CPU stability issues I encountered and how […]
I’m currently in the middle of testing audio and music production performance on the Surface Pro 2017. It takes a long time to do so I wanted to update you on where I am and give you a sneak preview of the sort of results I’m getting. Full report coming soon!
How well does music software run on a Surface Pro (2017) out of the box? Using the onboard sound I tested Reaktor, Cubase, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Bitwig Studio, Reason and Waveform to see if they can run glitch free. This is without any tweaking or setup – just install and go! I think you’ll […]
There’s a new Surface Pro and so here’s a new season of testing it with audio and music production software and hardware. Will the 2017 Surface Pro work well for music? Will it glitch and pop? Will it let us run all sorts of audio software and hardware? These are the questions this new season […]