Art, I think for Serato to be good on a tablet it would need to be written
that way. I've got a Samsung Ativ Smart PC Pro, which is one of the first
full Windows 8 tablets, and the desktop app experience with touch is OK,
but not an improvement over using a mouse(pad). If Serato released an RT or
otherwise-touch-designed app for controlling things it would be compelling
I think, but otherwise I'd just get a full Windows laptop with a touch
screen so you can get some of the benefits of that experience (if that's
what you're after), while continuing to use the "desktop" Serato interface
with mouse/keyboard as you normally would. If you find that some things are
good with touch then you could/would do them that way, but you're not
betting on touch being good where it hasn't been designed for it if you go
down this road. As a rule, if the software hasn't been written for touch
it's not going to be great when touching it.
Keep in mind that all of the tablets are shipping with no more than 4GB
RAM, which is the trade-off for the form factor. You get a lot more options
at a lower price with a full laptop.
On 6 December 2012 10:00, Matt Chester wrote:
> Hi Arturo,
> I bought an app called 'Midi-to' for controlling scratch which works ok,
> but to be honest only used it a couple of times - it seemed more hassle
> that it was worth to set it up and didn't really offer any advantage over
> the normal interface, other than being able to place the tablet wherever
> you want. I haven't seen anything which displays the track names and
> folders on the tablet and allows you to load from there, which would be
> ideal...
>
> cheers,
> matt
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Arturo Lopez wrote:
>
>> I haven't been able to find any examples poking around google but I have
>> to imagine people have figured out how to make this work?
>>
>> Microsoft's next iteration of Surface will feature a full-version of win8
>> next year which might do the trick, have any of you heard of any success on
>> an Android or (gasp) Ipad?
>>
>> -Arturo
>>
>> (My laptop is nearing the end of it's life and if I can figure out a
>> Serato / Tablet marriage it will hugely effect my next purchase...)
>>
>>
>>
>
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