Season 1 began with making music on the Surface Pro 3. Season 2 featuring the agony of getting the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book to work for music production. Season 3 will kick off shortly with the brand new, numerically voided, Surface Pro. Stay tuned for more. As of the 15th June the new […]
This is the question I’m going to get asked a lot over the next few days, weeks and months. Or at least until the Surface Pro 5 comes along and the question migrates to the newest version of the platform. Although my stock answer is always “I don’t know until I’ve tried it” here’s my […]
Is the Surface Book suitable for music production and live performance? After two months of exhaustive testing I can finally give my view on the Microsoft Surface Book as a platform for music and audio production. Spoiler – the results are good! I’ve testing all sorts of music software such as Cubase, Pro Tools, Bitwig, […]
How long can you keep jamming music running on just the Surface Book batteries? We set Ableton Live running a big project, while powering an audio interface and keyboard controller over USB to see how long it would take to drain the battery. How did it do?
I didn’t test Sonar on the Surface Pro 4 back in the “Mega test” so this is the first time I’ve really put it through its paces. It certainly didn’t disappoint. I was able to get full use of the Pro Channel effects over my 16 track test song plus a bunch of other CPU […]
Back in the “Mega test” video I did back in May 2016 Pro Tools was the worst behaving DAW on the Surface Pro 4. Now, things may have changed. Previously it would click and pop and glitch on the most basic projects. Now it seems to be stable loading up plug-in after plug-in until the […]
How well does PreSonus Studio One run on the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4? Well let’s find out. In the last testing I did back in May 2016 Studio One struggled on the SP4. It would glitch and pop unless you disabled multi-processing and ran it on one Core. That worked but didn’t exactly […]
Reaktor 6.1 has just been released with Ableton Link support. So I got out my Surface Pro 4 running Ableton Live and “Ableton Linked” it directly to the Surface Book running Reaktor 6.1 EASY! No cables, no messing around – instant tempo sync. Awesome!
A quick look and demo of Deskew’s Gig Performer software running the on the Surface Book. Gig Performer is a VST Host that lets you chain together virtual instruments and effects to create a live performance rig. You can then create a rack of controls for it which are fully multi-touchable. Check it out! www.gigperformer.com
How well does Ableton Live run on the Surface Book? Let’s find out! I build a big project on the i7 Surface Book and keep adding stuff until it crackles. I then compare it to the i5 Surface Pro 4 and see how they differ. Specs: Surface Book i7 6600U 2.6GHz 16GB with Nvidia Surface […]