Surface Book Review for Music Production. 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 Ive testing all sorts of music software such as Cubase, Pro Tools, Bitwig, Studio One, Ableton Live and Sonar. Ive run software instruments such as Arturia V Collection, Native Instruments Reaktor and Biotek. Ive installed audio interfaces and controllers such as the Avid Fast. Track Duo, Keith Mc. Millen K Mix, Novation Bass Station II and Circuit. Ive run it with Ableton Link, Ive done multi track audio and Ive created some terrible electronic music. And its all been good. Its all behaved as it should. Ive made a lot of comparisons to the Surface Pro 4 and Im happy to say that the SP4 is working brilliantly as well. Capture One 6 Serial Keygen on this page. 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So check out the video below for all the details. And if you want to see the detail of the tests I ran then youll find nearly 6 hours of content on my You. Tube channel. The script I based the video on continues below. Surface Book Review for Music Production. Ive had the surface book on loan from Microsoft for 2 months. So, what have I done with it Well, Ive tweaked it and tested. Installed all sorts of updates and software. Ive made all sorts of terrible music in all sorts of software. Ive loaded it up with plugins until it caught fire. Ive tested Cubase and Pro Tools, Ableton and Studio One, Bitwig. Ive played with Stage Light and FL Studio mobile and Staffpad. Ive looked into toolbars, tested different hubs and drained the battery running loops in live performance. Ive produced over 6 hours of in depth You. Tube content demonstrating music software on the Surface book. And its been fine in fact, its been fabulous. If you want all the details of the performance tests and reasonable examples of the sort of performance you can expect then youll find all the videos on this channel or on Surface. Pro. Audio. com. So, how did it go I had no problems running any music software or hardware. The Surface Book has a U series processor these are designed for long battery life, low power but nippy performance for mobile devices these are the least ideal processors for music production. Music production wants high power, high performance, always on desktop CPU power. However,  the Surface Book offers other advantages in the form factor, in live performance and with interactivity that make it interesting to me and other artists. So what I am saying is that you are not going to get desktop performance. Labor Cost To Install Garbage Disposal on this page. However, what you do get is pretty impressive in my view. So, some examples for you. I could run Reaktor 6. Ableton Link fabulous. With Ableton Live I was able to run a project with 8 Arturia virtual instruments and 8 instances of Reaktor Blocks with some plug ins and samples running no problem. In Pro Tools I had 4. Reaktor Blocks. I recorded 9. Pro Tools glitched. This is good stuff for the Surface Book i. My Surface Pro 4 also performed brilliantly with about a 1. So I can safely say that the problems I hit early on with the SP4 are no longer present. Now both the SB and the SP4 are totally capable of running audio software and hardware at least in this experience here. Theres always the potential for struggle in any system but hopefully the tweaking guide and other information provided here will help you with that. So what do I think of the surface book as a device for music productionI can honestly say that Ive never handled a more beautiful device. The feel of the keyboard and trackpad is awesome, the screen is breath taking, the feel from the pen and the touch integration is fabulous. It has the power and stability to run decent sized projects and gives you more ways of interacting in live performance than you get with a regular laptop or Mac. Book. Because the touch experience is vital. The whole pen and touch aspect is what, for me, makes the Surface range interesting. Let me try to make this clear. I dont want all touch that can be clumsy and restricting in some areas I want everything. I want to be able to use a fabulous keyboard and trackpad, but I also want to use touch to compliment it or the other way around. I hear people say that such and such a piece of software is no good for touch so whats the point well then use the keyboard and mouse you are not restricted. We can all use keyboards and mice with our computers but Ive increasingly found that trying to direct all my ideas, all my creativity through the single point of a mouse is just bonkers it ties you up in knots. I dont have to mouse around trying put a pointer on a fader I can reach out and move it. With Surface I can still single point it all if I wish but I can also approach it differently, get my fingers in there, get the pen in there you sit differently, your posture is different, your focus changes and those things, in a creative space, are awesome So what dont I like about it. Its not perfect how could it be There were a couple of difficulties. First of all the USB sockets in the super slim chassis made it difficult to plug in dongles. My Cubase dongle and i. Lok were not looking very safe and in danger of getting bent. Obviously using a hub sorts that out but its a bit annoying. The screen detaching, although very cool, was more of an annoyance for me. Because it didnt take USB or power with it then as a music making tablet it wasnt really going to cut it. Youd have to shut your audio software down when doing it because otherwise it would get into a argument over the USB audio interface suddenly disappearing. So for me, it would be better if you could spin it around like with some other hybrids. And then you have the screen wobble. Its probably the biggest issue for me. When using the sb as a laptop its awesome when folded down flat and getting stuck in with a pen its awesome. Where it doesnt work so well is in hybrid mode. I am used to the sp. I use keys, trackpad, touch and pen all at once whatever works. Reach out and touch the screen and it wobbles it just does. You can minimise it with your hand and its no big thing with occasional prodding, but if you are used to touch as I am and youre getting stuck in then it starts to become a problem. This is the point at which you go into console mode and thats great, but youve now lost the keyboard entirely. That doesnt happen on the Surface Pro 4. And this highlights the difference between the two devices. The Surface Pro 4 was designed as a touch device, as a tablet with laptop performance. The Surface Book was designed as a laptop with touch. So, in fact, the touch experience works better on the Surface Pro 4 in this form factor than it does on the Surface Book. An example is that some things just dont like touch. The savediscard button on the Roland software synths will not go away with a finger or a pen. With the SP4 I can clip on the keyboard and deal with it even in a live situation. With the Surface Book I cannot and actually I should probably carry at least a wireless mouse with me just in case I cant, in the middle of a gig take the screen off and reattach in order to use the keyboard for a second.