Okay, now that Chromium OS has more offline capabilities, and now most modern Chromebooks have touchscreens and support Android apps...I'm seriously thinking of a Chromebook as my next portable device.
The new Google Pixel Slate looks amazing BUT I guess a key question is 'is Caustic any good on a Chromebook, what's the latency like etc.'
I have no answer for you, James, but I have the same question as you and hope someone does have answer for you.
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I got it up and running just fine. Caustic won't ask for the permissions to connect my midi device though therefore won't register my controller. everything else works just find though. A little disappointing but pretty awesome all the same. Cheers hope that was helpful.
Steven
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it was, thanks - is that the Android version through Google Play? I.e. not a Linux version.
Disappointing if midi controllers don't work - maybe a deal breaker for me
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I agree. Never really got any use out of my Caustic on Android license due to latency on the MIDI input (and the tiny screen on my Samsong S6). Was hoping this would be better on the larger ChromeOS device, but MIDI connection is stopping me.
A bit strange though because a lot of other MIDI synths for Android are working just fine.
Hallvard the Horrible
Rej hasn't made any changes to Caustic for the last couple of years and the apps that do work have been updated more recently AND are using a different midi library.
If Rej goes back to Caustic development it is possible that midi support will come to Chromebooks. Didn't stop me buying a Chromebook (which I mainly use as large tablet) in the end.
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Yeah that is pretty low hanging fruit if he does come back. It's not that hard to get native midi into an app now.
I am one to talk but I am chaning tech for my apps to make this easy and more future proof.
I bought the ASUS Chromebook Flip C302 - it has a full HD, 12.5" touchscreen which is a beauty in tablet mode.
The only thing that I have real reservations about is the sound, from either the speakers, or from the headphone socket - it's very quiet and I have to turn the device (not Caustic master) volume up to around 90% to use Caustic comfortably - I don't have the same issue with G-Stomper, G-Stomper Producer or Sunvox or YouTube or streaming media.
It's 'too quiet, still too quiet, still too too quiet, almost at max volume now, and oh distorting slightly'. There's not much of a sweet spot.
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Ignore my previous(if you read what I deleted), I forgot you were talking about a Chromebook with non windows OS.