Agree to disagree then. For someone like me, the 11" form factor is iconic - not too big, not too small. My iPad Pro M4 with the keyboard/trackpad has basically replaced my macbook for most day-today tasks, it goes everywhere with me.
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ā¦and funnily enough, I bought a 11ā Air M3 this month primarily because Logic is annoyingly small on my iPad Mini 5. Also quite nice to have the extra power on top of the screen real estate.
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I find logic must have been designed to work best with the 13" iPads though. It feels a bit fiddly to use even on the 11" IMHO, which is why I never continued my subscription after the first year. Iām still on Auria & Cubasis as far as iOS DAWs are concerned
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yeah I dunno how much better it is on 13ā or if itās just going to be wonky on a touch screen with the current design across the board, but still happier with the 11ā than the mini. Using mini is brutal sometimes, though I love how easy handling it.
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What would be very interesting for me itās also the capability to transfer audio files from the ipad to the digitakt. Is overbridge for ipad going to enable this? 
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isnt there an app for that?
There was, but though I have a working version on my iPad, it doesnāt seem to be available any more. In any case, it only supports one file at a time. Topic is here
An extension of the OB app to file management (suggested by @bassimat ) or a dedicated iPadOS version of transfer would be very welcome.
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The transfer app ((Transfer - Samples app for IOS... anyone here using it?) for iOS is not working any more and not maintained
I really want a way to be able to transfer files from iOS to digitakt, PLEASE!!
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I like my mini 6 ( using it to type this) but will upgrade to air if overbridge come out. Then keep the mini beside the bed as music player and for reading books
Just to add to this iPad size conversation. I had an 11ā iPad Pro and when Logic Pro came out I felt quite constrained with the UI on the medium sized iPad screen. I traded in for a 13ā iPad Pro and it had been a lot better for Logic Pro and the like. Think especially if your dealing with multitracking 16+ tracks and you want to have UI space for the mixer and FX etc. thereās no such thing as too much screen real estate.
Not to discount those who want to use this with the iPad Mini - I love that form factor and if Apple enabled it, having the ability to bring up a preconfigured AUM template with all my Digitakt channels grouped into sensible busses with individual FX on them for performance would be really nice and convenient. Especially if you could put on top a simple control surface designed for good UX on smaller screens, to control selected parameters with touch.
But for recording, editing, mixing etc. the bigger screen is a real boost.
Boo to Apple for excluding the newer, arguably just as powerful, A series chips from being compatible with DriverKit.
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Iāve just realised it may be helpful to clarify the whole issue of Overbridge for iPad only being compatible with M series chipped iPads.
As @ThomasJ said previously, this is an Apple restriction.
I believe Overbridge is being implemented using Appleās DriverKit SDK (99% sure - I canāt think of any other way youād be able to do it). This is what Apple say about DriverKit compatibility:
The base DriverKit framework is available in macOS for Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac computers, and in iPadOS for devices with an M-series chip. The availability of family frameworks like USBDriverKit and AudioDriverKit varies by platform.
It also looks like DriverKit requires iPadOS 16.0+
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Exactly, re:A/M split think of A series iPads as beefed up iPhone chips optimized for battery life while M series iPads are slimmed down Mac chips optimized for performance.
This means modern (last 3-4 cycles) iPad Pro & Air devices (M chips) can be thought of as more Mac-like vs standard iPad or iPad mini which use the A series chips.
Apple, at an OS/API level supports different features between the two chipsets.
This is not Elektron making a decision. If Apple change their OS/API or starts putting M series chips in iPad mini then OB for iPad would work there without Elektron really having to do anything.
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I think thatās because of then the driverkit stuff can pretty much run the same code on iPadOS and macOS, since both use apple silicon
Next gen iPad minis will surely get an M-series CPU
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Thatāll be a long wait. Last update was 6 months ago (?) following a multi-year gap.
oh snap. Looks that way
Absolutely. Maybe Iām just not used to the size yet, or donāt like the case I got as much, but I find myself grabbing the mini 5 for almost all casual tasks, while grabbing the 11ā air M3 whenever Iām actually doing media.
This is unfortunate. I couldnāt afford a 13ā, but I did discover in system settings>display ādisplay zoom - for more spaceā and it appears to have shrunk everything adding some extra real estate, and Iāll just have to make do with that.
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So, any word lately on when this might get released?
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If I had to guess the earliest would be some time in Q3 but probably later. Big doubts on elektron releasing anything in the summer time.
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Maybe this functionality would make me use Elektron devices again. BUT:
As long as I canāt use another audio interface at the same time I still wouldnāt use it.