In reply to Seppo.

For Ableton I would’ve assumed it’s a combination of them wanting to sell their own hardware (do they make a portable DAW?) and maybe the lack of connectivity. I’m not experienced enough with musical equipment to know whether you’d need more than 1 USB-C port to connect everything.

But the idea of a tablet-based DAW makes even more sense than running it on a laptop! Garage Band is another one of those apps that’s fine on a Mac, but really comes into its own on the iPad.

That’s the quality that I was trying to get at towards the end of this post, with mention of Nomad Sculpt: designing apps so that they don’t feel like the desktop version ported to pencil and touch input, but rethought to take full advantage of being on a tablet. How do you take the workflows that people are familiar with, simplify and abstract away all the tedious stuff that’s more a result of tradition than any actual hardware limitation, and keep it powerful enough to do (almost) anything that a “prosumer” level user would want to do?