01 Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation)

Biggest probably does mean best when it comes to music making

The latest iPads Pros were announced back in April and with their M1 chips, they certainly are the most ‘pro’ ever. In fact you can easily equate the power and experience of using the iPad Pro 12.9-inch as that to the 13-inch MacBook Pro, all packed into a ridiculously thin tablet device with a stunning XDR touchscreen.

And it’s the M1 chip that makes this and the slightly smaller 11-inch iPad Pro our top choices for music making. The M1 chip has been causing a stir within Apple’s computers, including the aforementioned MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac Mini, with even a base-model 8GB of RAM proving to be very decent for music making.

With the iPad Pro you get this 8GB as standard and it doubles to 16GB if you choose the 1TB or 2TB options. However, all this power doesn’t come cheap. Go for the top dollar 2TB option and you’re looking at a couple of thousand all in, the same price as a fully-loaded 1TB 16GB iMac, also with an M1 chip.

Do you want a beautiful, static 24-inch screen or a beautiful, mobile 13-inch touchscreen? Apple don’t make it easy to choose between desktop and iPad, but if you are in the market for an iPad for music making, there’s nothing bigger and more powerful out there than the 12.9-inch Pro. And if those rumours – mostly started and spread by the likes of us, it must be said – of Logic Pro being on the way to the iPad are true, we can’t think of any better way of welcoming and using it than this.