As you all probably know by now I'm very much a fan of iOS, I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2 that I use for pretty much everything (I probably use them too much really).
I've featured and reviewed tonnes of iOS based music apps on Voltage-Controlled for the simple fact that iOS is by far the most superior (mobile) operating system for music apps.
Disagree? Click that little iOS button on the right sidebar and take a look at all the cool apps that you can get for the iPad & iPhone.
Is that about to change any time soon? The obvious answer is no, but as I was checking my various news feeds today I stumbled across an article on Music Radar about a device called Miselu Neiro. This device is powered by Android which officially makes it the first Android device that's actually grabbed my interest.
Miselu Neiro is being described as "the worlds first net-enabled social musical instrument with wide touch display". Now to me that just sounds like a bunch of buzz words that have been randomly thrown together to make something seem more appealing than it actually is.
The device is the result of a partnership between Retronyms (creators of the TableTop iOS app) and Miselu. From the pictures it looks like the Miselu Neiro will have 2 USB ports, a HDMI port, a card slot of some kind, Midi I/O, audio input and headphone output. Yamaha is also providing it with the Yamaha AudioEngine (TM) sound chip NSX-1.
But the best thing of all? It reminds me of an old V-Tech spelling computer I had when I was a kid.
Let's be realistic though, I have no need for an Android tablet that has a little midi keyboard stuck to it. I Wouldn't use it, it just doesn't seem practical in the slightest. I have no idea how much this is going to cost but I bet I could buy an Alesis IO dock for my iPad for a similar (or less) amount of money. And to be honest the IO dock would have a place in my studio where as the Miselu Neiro wouldn't.
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