Astropad on Friday updated its Astropad and Luna Display apps to support Macs with Apple's new M1 chip.
Think of it like turning your iPad into a Wacom pen display. To get Astropad to work properly, you'll need to get the free Mac companion app. With Astropad, you'll get a natural drawing experience with your iPad, with the results being delivered right to your Mac. It's fast and will keep up with your drawing at 60 FPS, even over a Wi-Fi connection. Are your Astropad and Luna Display apps up-to-date? Access the latest software downloads available here. Turn your iPad into a graphics tablet – pro version.
Luna fully integrates with Astropad — our award-winning drawing software that turns the iPad into a professional graphics tablet for Mac. Astropad offers absolute workflow customization, featuring a packed suite full of creatives tools like unlimited workflow shortcuts, Magic Gestures, and custom pressure curves. Turn your iPad into a wireless second display — Now available for Mac and PC. Luna is designed for heavy-duty workflows: Connect over WiFi or USB Low-latency at 16 ms Crystal-clear image quality GPU acceleration. I show how I use Astropad Standard to turn my Ipad Pro into a fully functioning graphics tablet, similar to the Wacom Cintiq and my initial reactions to the.
The software company creates apps that allow users to leverage their iPads as drawing tablets or secondary devices for their macOS devices. Prior to the Sidecar feature in macOS Catalina, Luna Display was one of the more popular methods for extending a Mac's screen to an iPad.
Astropad's new update on Friday optimizes both apps to run smoother and with better performance on the M1 MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini.
Here in the Astropad labs, we're working on adding Apple Silicon support to our products and the results are phenomenal!
Check out this video of Luna Display running on the M1 MacBook Air streaming in Mac to Mac mode, it's like butter! pic.twitter.com/67i4uTgWQr
The native Apple Silicon support is available in Astropad Studio version 3.6, Astropad Standard version 3.6, and Luna Display version 4.4.
New users can download the software from Astropad's website, while existing users should see the updates appear in their apps automatically.
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