My Ableton Suite 9 on a Tablet?

[loudness81]

Hello everyone,
I'm looking for a tablet that I am able to program beats on,
mainly really strictly beats/drums, but also I'd love to have it all there.
Now I'd live to have a copy of my Suite 9 on a tablet, and searching here and the internet
I know that people have managed to install ableton on a windows based tablet.
So can someone recommend a tablet to me?
Also do you know if it's possible to run VST as well?
I know I can't expect the same power as in my Desktop PC.
Thanks a lot for your comments, much appreciated.
Have a good one!

[jestermgee]

A touchscreen interface is rubbish for driving Live. You just don't have the fine control with a fat finger Vs a high DPI mouse and pointer. Additionally it is harder to do click actions accurately. Then you also have Ram, CPU, Latency issues with such a low powered device.

I would recommend using an app such as Touchable and control the PC instead even if it is a laptop. Get some good wireless headphones and now you can move away from the PC.

If you are dead set on the idea of Live on a tablet tho, I can only wish you good luck.

[yur2die4]

Yoga 2 pro. Make sure you use the absoluteMouseMode for Live.

[loudness81]

Thanks for the reply, but I dont want to control Ableton via a pad but actually run it.
It's a matter of space and flexibility and a laptop is just to big. I don't expect the pad to substitute for a desktop or laptop, like I said, I'm aware of fact that a pad is very limited in its specs, but I figured since this the forum, I'll ask you guys.

[re:dream]

Offhand, the idea sounds quite far-fetched, but then again, that's what they told the Wright brothers.

We seem still to be far off:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=197434&start=0

http://www.pc-music.com/content/will-mi ... production

Ok, so the Surface Pro has every potential of being a cool mobile, touchy studio – but is it? Well the slight difficulty comes in the type of processor it uses. It’s an Intel Core i5 which is fabulous but it’s from the “U” series which is the same as used in Intel’s Ultrabooks – performance reports that I’ve seen indicate that although they are very powerful they don’t live up to their potential when it comes to real-time audio. The U series focuses on power saving and energy efficiency and so is constantly trying to reduce the operating speed of the CPU to save power. This can have the effect of causing glitching in audio playback once the CPU hits a certain load – and far sooner than a regular series CPU.

So Live seems a long shot at the moment.

There seem to be any number of much more lightweight tablet based DAWs around - perhaps check them out?

[loudness81]

Ah, thanks! Sounds like you are right... Too bad.
I just thought I could do some beats while waiting.
So maybe cubase is more light, but then again, I haven't done any drum computer
things in cubase for some years now. Thank you!

[yur2die4]

My 'old' '08 laptop is a centrino2 2.3 dual core. It handles Live for plenty of things, it was my main computer for that stuff.

In November I was looking for new laptops. I was torn between a newer rendition of my previous one with a current i7 mobile, or the yoga2pro with their highest option of i7. One is 17" and standard laptop style, the other is very small, super high resolution and can fold up into a tablet like pad, it looks rugged also, check it out at best buy and on the Lenovo site.

Now, the thing that kind of settled me on the larger, not-as-portable laptop was the processor. Both were around $1,500 for my desired specs. I looked up the u and the m processors' benchmarks on a site, and the u was Twice the benchmark of my old laptop. But, the m for the laptop I wanted was twice the benchmark of the u processor (so that made it 4x higher than my old laptop!)

I honestly don't know how benchmarks correlate with music performance. I'm happy with my decision although I still secretly lust after that ultrabook. I'm sure it'd have some limitations for serious sets, but I bet it'd handle any casual usage no problem. Still, the people at my best buy had no clue what I WANTED, and couldn't comprehend that music software can be very demanding on a computer's resources!