The Future of touchscreens for music creation is a breath of fresh air, no longer do you need to buy bulky dedicated control surfaces, though I am waiting to get my hands on a larger lighter solution, there is no denying that some of the best portable touch apps are only currently available on iPad, but things can only improve. “Tocca Mi”
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3016804/a-music-geeks-guide-to-ipad-synthesizer-hardware
Planetary
Planetary is an all-new, stunningly beautiful way to explore your music collection, available only on iPad. Fly through a 3D universe dynamically created by information about the recording artists you love. Visit planets that represent your favorite albums and control the playback of your music on iPad by browsing and selecting astronomical objects.
Planetary is just the sort of science fiction experience you expect when using an object from the future like iPad. You’ll want to show your friends this beautiful app. We’ve made it even easier to share Planetary at home; it looks incredible when you hook your iPad 2 up to a big HDTV or projector using the HDMI accessory.
Planetary is the first of a new type of visual discovery app produced by Bloom Studio. In the coming months, we’ll be releasing an ongoing stream of apps that let you explore and participate in social networks, video streaming services, and location-based applications in a whole new way! We’re building new ways to see and communicate.
Originally released in 2011 by Bloom, Planetary is an app which examines a user’s iTunes collection and charts it across a truly cosmic scale, transforming your music library into a virtual 3-D galaxy. Each star in that galaxy represents a different artist, each orbiting planet an album, and every moon a song. Simply tapping a moon will make it play that song. It’s the music of the spheres come to digital life.
Planetary uses the visual metaphor of celestial bodies to represent the relationship between artists (stars), albums (planets) and tracks/songs (moons).
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016595/to-preserve-digital-design-the-smithsonian-begins-collecting-apps#3
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/planetary-bloom
Music Creator 6 Touch
Music Creator 6 Touch makes it fun and easy to create original music or remix your favorite songs – with no musical experience required. Transform any Windows 7 or 8 computer into your own personal music studio. Music Creator has all the tools, loops, instruments, and FX you need to create, edit, and mix great music. And when you’re ready to share your music with the world, you can burn a CD or use SoundCloud to post your music on Facebook and Twitter.
https://www.cakewalk.com/products/musiccreator/
Microsoft Surface 2 looks like fun…
BeatSkool 