Caustic is a lot like Reason for android, I've played with it on my transformer, and PocketBand Uloops is pretty good for sketching out ideas, if you dont mind the fact that its primarily cloud based and wont do you much good if your not attached to some sort of data connection.  There are also a few fun toys like Reactable and NodeBeat, although I mainly use my tablet for TouchOSC and TouchDAW to use it for an interface/mixer for Ableton.

Btw, pixls, keep in mind I don't need to run like  9,000 tracks and plugins and vsts and shizz, I just need something to sketch out ideas when i don't have a computer on hand, with the ability to export said ideas as audio or midi. Not really production, more just a small compositional tool.

But, I ask you guys cause when i type in music composition android apps i get shit like "classical piano app!" and whatnot.

and pianos fucking suck. there i said it. ANYWAY

Thanks for the responses! Everything helps!

I've thought about this, but I really just don't feel like dealing with Apple's all black box everything bullshit. I plan on having this thing for a while, and not being able to fix it myself is going to seriously fuck with my life. I also like being able to multitask. Besides, I have seen some decent apps out there, and I'm sure there's more. Gonna keep looking.

nice!

i use Genome Midi Sequencer for the iPad as a controller for my whole setup. It might not be for everyone, but I loves it I does.

if you MUST go tablet, iPad for the apps

this, unfortunately. i would love to have cheaper/competing/not fucking apple music tablet options, but for some wacky reason, android processes sound files in a way that makes it impossible NOT to lag, and google is completely ignoring developers begging them to change it. so until thats fixed, android is a music wasteland (much like G+)

that said... the iPad fucking RULES and the music production possibilities are huge. anybody that says otherwise doesnt know what they are talking about and i dont mind saying that. it will likely never "replace" classic DAW stuff and clearly it wont do exactly the same things as a PC, but the synth apps out there right now are completely UN REAL for the price you pay. think of a badass polysynth built by Moog with multitouch wave-form sound control and high-quality onboard sampling and effects, linked through muti-app routing to an MPC interface with gigs of samples, controlled by a MIDI arpeggiator then AGAIN routed to a monome / jazzmutant-style controller. and you can just swipe through all of them instantly. then record it all using your onboard DAW, mix it in there and then its got cloud-based publishing so you just drop it on soundcloud... and all that cost you like a few bucks.

realistically android tablets don't have the optimization you'd want for real music production, not to mention the atrocious lack of apps, if you actually want to do serious music production on a tablet the only real option is an iPad.

sunvox is a pretty powerful tracker i wouldn't call it a TOY

have you heard nightradio's songs he made with it -~- they are incredible

edit: no midi files though i think.

kthnx

netbooks definitely have the best apps dude.

thanks for the suggestions, guys!
well, judge me as you please, but i def need a tablet. Looking at the Lenovo ideapad a1 atm.
ipad was considered, then thrown out when I realized you have to sync everything through itunes, and when i considered that it's like yet another piece of apple gear in the sense that when it breaks, you can't fix it without coughing up ungodly amounts of money.

thoughts? nanoloop is a definite, still looking for more apps. My ideal app would be a digital audio workstation that runs on gingerbread

I don't get the hype with touch screen 90% of the ones i have used have been shit/more effort than buttons.... I guess I must not have a soul or something.

This is almost identical to what I was about to type.
Netbook > tablet
If you need a touchscreen get a tablet PC.

Nanostudio for ios - http://www.blipinteractive.co.uk/download.php

You can check it on a PC/Mac before buying it

EDIT: Beatmaker 2, Sunvox, iMS-20 and nanoloop are also worth checking out ;p