Squeeze keyboardist uses iPad on Fallon appearance

Was at a gig by English artist Polly Scattergood in April last year. She played one of the Theramin apps on an iphone.

Am I the only one who can't help but thing of the Blossom theme song during that keyboard solo?

I saw Squeeze perform last weekend in Cleveland, and although the keyboard player didn't play an iPad (he had three keyboards set up), the guitarist/lyricist Chris Difford (the one with the acoustic guitar in the video) had an iPad on a music stand in front of him scrolling the song lyrics. First time I've ever seen that great use of iPad.

This is nice and all, but why? Is the keyboardist incapable of switching the Roland keyboard in front of him between sound profiles?

Besides, you could hear him making a few mistakes in the solo during a run up the keyboard. I'm sure he would not have made the same mistake had he been using the keyboard in front of him.

Check out Jordan Rudess, the keyboardist for Dream Theater - who is using iPads in performance very seriously, and is becoming a powerful force in the app store music section.

For ergonomic reasons, traditional piano layout happens to be one of the less workable on the small rectangular iPad, so there is a lot of experimentation with different layouts at the moment. The next generation of instruments will be natively designed for multitouch computers. It's awesome to see this starting to happen.

I write "Mugician" on the app store. It's basically a heavy-metal oriented synth that's laid out like a cross between a keyboard and an 11-string bass guitar.

Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater used an iPhone in performances and recordings for a couple of years, and has more recently started using the iPad.

He's used a few different apps, but now generally uses his own, MorphWiz.

thanks to this article I went and looked for pianist and bought it and it relay does work quite good as a midi keyboard.

Ironically I was squeezing one out when I read this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDSGbnPfCrw also happened at music festival in ireland

I personally use the iPad in making music. I use AC-7 Pro as a mixer midi controller and ProPads to record drums. That was the main reason I bought the iPad. What was wrong with this performance, they played quite good.