Hi is there a good place to get more instrument patches for logic pro for iPad? Seems like i might need to have a MacBook to buy/add unique instruments? I’m new to music production… thanks

I have an iPad Air with a USB-C port, and I want to use it during concerts to play instrumental tracks. Can I connect the iPad directly to a small mixer (I'm considering something compact like the Behringer Xenyx 302USB), or do I need a basic audio interface? If an interface is needed, would a Focusrite Scarlett Solo 4th Gen be suitable, or is there an even simpler option?

My question is keeping midi connection to iPad in general, which has repeatedly been an issue for me.

I have iPad 5th gen which I got new maybe 5 years ago, currently on ios 16.7.10 the highest allowed. For these years I've been connecting with official Apple CCK [after knockoff failed to work]. Korg Microkey Air also worked BT but after repeated firmware updates required.

Ios support for CCK seems disappearing, I know for the last year various ios eg 15.5.1 and 16,5, have not worked with CCK generally and though repeatedly fixed with updates previously my current ios again fails to recognize official CCK. Perhaps there will be another fix, perhaps not.

One proposed solution would be to get a newer iPad, though this I got new around 5 years ago and works fine otherwise. But it seems the zillion different iPad versions might all behave differently, and might at any point stop working with CCK as mine has done. Apparently at least one model iPad M1, unknown ios version, still works with CCK, but this may not last. I've been advised to get iPad with usb-connector, but google indicates the lightning CCK I have which no longer works, is required for all except newest iPad 11th Gen.

While I'm disinclined to buy a brand new iPad because their unnecessarily propietary connectors no longer work, in considering this, can anyone doing this comment on what's required/any issues using iPad usb-c connector on new iPads? Just plug in midi usb keyboard directly, without problems?

My other option is to go full bluetooth, though my BT-iPad connection has also been spotty, and today I again updated my Microykey Air firmware so it again connects to iPad. This also I find worrying, but it seems best option? Other thoughts? thx

ps using battery-powered Korg Microkey without hub gives a Device [CCK] Not Supported [not an insufficient power] error message. Yes, shouldn't have updated; Apple's unsigned all earlier versions and rollback is impossible. Also, ps I now also find that updating Korg drivers disabled Win11 from being able to discover Microkey and Nanokontrol. as previously worked. For that changing Win BT setting to Advanced changed nothing.

I started a project recording hardware synths but I'm not liking what I get, so I'm going to try some iPad synths. I have several questions/issues, any help is much appreciated. I have an iPad mini 6.

1. Non-Apple Pencil for smooth modulation? I usually manually modulate synth parameters (like slowly turning up a filter knob). I forgot that I had an Apple Pencil and because I neglected it for 2 years, it's not holding charge. The new ones are too expensive. I see that there are some pretty cheap non-Apple pencils. Will these work for moving sliders smoothly, which I find to be not super easy with fingers? How would these compare to something like a Korg Nanokontrol 2 in terms of smoothness. I have the latter and it works ok but I would prefer a pencil if it works well.

2. Audio Quality of USB-C out? I seem to get decent quality audio via the USB-C out converted into audio with a dongle and ran into a TS cable. Is there a major advantage (sound-quality wise) to recording inside iPad (e.g., record direct in AUM and export to file back into PC)?

3. Latency sending MIDI via wifi? I route MIDI from my PC DAW (Bitwig) to iPad via wifi. It sometimes works fine but often there is some latency with some notes here and there enough to make it unusable. I searched for a MIDI buffer setting in AUM but it seems like there is none. Is there a way to overcome this? My thought is to get some MIDI file player (Helium?) and export the MIDI file from Bitwig into iPad and load it into this player. The other option could be to get an iRig MIDI 2.

4. Good paid synths? I currently do not have much paid synths, just Dagger, Phase Monkey, and ID700. These are pretty good sounding which is why I'm trying to record iPad synths. I like to get maybe 2-3 more in Black Friday. I dislike complex hybrid sounds and would like more plain sounds with the ability to add subtle layers (noise, FM modulation, etc.). If you have recommendations please share.

Thanks a lot!

Hey all, I have a Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol A61 that seems to power on when I'm plugging in to my iPad Pro (USB C connection) but doens't seem to play at all.

When I got it over a year ago, I remember it being easily plug and play and worked great with one of my iPad piano apps. I then hadn't used it for over a year and just took it out but it refuses to make any sound. I also plugged it into the Macbook Pro and tested it, same thing.

It goes through the power on lighting cycle (all buttons flash), then only lights up the S & M buttons, and the two buttons on the left above the wheels.

I recall I didn't have to meddle with any software or do anything special, it just seemed to work with my iPad at the time, and thught I'd ask if anyone knows any fixes. Thanks!

Hi, i am basically looking for a sequencer to control Hardware, an OxiOne, Beatstep or T1 if you will, as software. No daw, no groovebox. i want it simple and easy to use. Does something like that exist ?

EDIT 9.11.24: hey thanks all for the input, i aint gonna answer evrey reply ^^, just thank you all for a lot of usefull information !

Hey folks. I'm new to using an iPad for music production and have some doubts about the setup I'm trying to achieve. It's a bit difficult to explain what's happening, but I'll try:

I have a newest gen iPad Mini, with a usb c hub (Anker 551). Connected to this hub, I have a pair of headphones going out using the headphone jack, as well as an external hardware synth connected via usb for audio-in from that external device. This external device has a sample rate of 44.1khz.

Now, I'm using AUM and have chosen the hardware synth as my Audio In, and chose the USB Hub as my Audio Out. AUM let's me do this and I can hear my external synth correctly through the headphones and everything seems to work for a short period of time. After about a minute, the audio becomes crackly/degraded and continues to get worse until I unplug one of the devices and plug back in. It'll go back to normal for a short time, but then do the same thing. I believe this is happening because the headphone out is running at sample rate of 48khz, and my external synth coming in is 44.1khz. The problem with the audio is exactly what I've experienced in the past when sample rates weren't properly controlled or aligned.

(AUM audio in) external synth usb audio -> usb hub -> iPad

(AUM audio out) iPad -> usb hub -> headphone port

Am I doing something wrong here, or are there some settings that I have to choose that allows for this kind of configuration? Could this be happening because the iPad is trying to handle different in and out streams from two different audio sources/destinations?

I currently use an iRig HD2 to record my guitar using AUM and I was thinking about getting an iTrack dock but I see it’s old and if I ever get a new iPad it will probably have usb-c instead of lightning. I was wondering if there are any newer alternatives.

I am looking for some kind of docking station that I can plug my guitar into and maybe charge the iPad at the same time.

I have it loaded as MIDI FX, to control an audio plugin, but I just can't get it work. If i use Scaler 2 as an auv3 midi fx, I have no issues... nothing is changing in the setting in logic... and tips?

Guys kindly advise, ive been using GB on my M1 Pro with some cheap in ear plugs that were working great.. I recently upgraded to AT M50x headphones, im getting used to the balanced sound, however noticed that sometimes randomly the audio starts crackling with jittering noise. It never happened with the in ear cheap ones.

Im using 3$ Type C to Aux supposedly DAC, which does the job. But I'm also suspecting it could be the reason why the M50x could be crackling.

This doesn't happen if I connect the headphone to the EVO 4 Audio interface.

Should I get an apple type c to 3.5 mm aux or something more powerful.

TIA

I have two P-locks on the sequencer in Drambo but they aren’t exactly the values I’d like them to be. Is there a way to edit the values of the p-lock with numerical values after they are on the sequencer? I’ve tried to do it in real time time but I can’t seem to get it quite right.

Anyone know of an app that has the famous preset “Soundtrack” designed by Eric Persing for the D-50? Or something that sounds like it? Thanks in advance.

Hey guys, I'm celebrating one month of existence with a big update for my plugin Lowfi Dojo Vinyl Simulator for iOS (also available for Mac, Windows). I will have a max of 50 TestFlight invitations to share.

- Here's a video review from The Sound Test Room 🎉

New in version 1.1

• New effect: WOW, get that nasty sounding broken vinyl record feeling
• New controls: Control DRIVE and OUTPUT GAIN
• Reworked Filter: Filtro is now even nicer
• New backgrounds

Here's how the new version looks and sounds.

Cheers!
Juan

I used to be an avid fan of Band-in-the-box, a PC/Mac software that will create music for you in just about any style just by entering a chord progression. I was trying to create some backing tracks and programmed in a lot of popular songs in the hopes of using them in my live show. One thing I found difficult with the program, was the ability to have certain chords fall on the upbeat instead of the downbeat... I was able to accomplish it for the most part, but it seemed like a work-around and was sometimes impossible because of the way you had to code the chords... for instance you can't have it play on the upbeat of the last beat in a bar and then also play on the downbeat of beat one. Also some of the styles had a hard time with it and obviously weren't recorded with upbeats in mind. . A couple of examples of what I'm talking about is Frankie Valli's classic piano intro to December, 1963, or James Taylor's intro to the song Mexico. They are both heavy with these syncopated rhythms. So I've been working with various iPad apps now, and It seems to me from a lot of songs I'm hearing and demo videos of various music making apps... groove boxes, arpeggiators, chord progression builders, drum beat apps and many others that the main problem with them is they all generate music on the downbeats. Some can do a swing beat, but for the most part they aren't programmed or able to create any kind of interesting rhythmic patterns or syncopation. It's also difficult once you lay down a track on whatever DAW or app to record the music you've generated to go in and modify the rhythm pattern after the fact without re-recording the whole part... which kind of defeats the purpose of using the generative apps in the first place. So I'm hearing a lot of music out there that has what I would say sounds "like it has been composed on an iPad" because it's devoid of rhythmic variety. Then at the other end of the spectrum there are the apps that seem to do the opposite and generate random notes based on math models, chaos theory or whatever else. They do defy the problem of always falling on the downbeat, but also generally are uninteresting because of their inherent randomness... it seems like some kind of AI music generation for the sole purpose of filling an empty void of silence. What are your experiences? How do you find ways to make your own music rhythmically interesting on iPad apps?

I'm trying to run audiolayer as an auv and logic pro and it keeps pitching down to -24. I reset it back to zero. I stopped my song at logic pro. I rewind my song and then it plays again. It pitched -24 again anyone encounter this error?

Hi! So tried doing composing stuff on my PC but it is wildly difficult to adjust (just the program cause I already started on Logic and not having the touch/easy interaction is difficult).
As such I am trying to use my M-Audio Pro 49 and M-Audio Pro Mini with the ipad, however I have seen with both of them that there is a noticable delay between me pressing the keys and hearing the note. It may be due to my bluetooth headphones but Id prefer not to have to get another adapter for that lmfao so if there are any fixes you guys know Id really appreciate it!

Side question-- Love both the Pro Mini and the Pro 49 but I cant decide which to keep (returning one of them). The 49's keys are perfectly sized but because of being well... 49 keys its hard to use with the Ipad comfortably. But the Pro Mini's keys are a bit too small for me, and its lower key count makes it a little difficult with some pieces.
I have tried the Impact 25+ which I believe is around the same size as the Maudio Pro 25, but its keys didnt feel very good and it has even less keys than the Pro Mini but are at least bigger?

Hello,

I'm reaching out about audio interfaces.

Right now I use a iConnectivity Audio4C for my setup because I saw that it allows 2 USB-Hosts to be plugged in at the same time, sending audio and MIDI both ways.

This means you can plugin a iPad and a computer. Or you can plugin an iPad and a standalone Push, ect.

However, I have had issues with the Audio4C not pushing enough volume out to my speakers, and turning up the gain makes it clip before the speakers are ever loud enough for me (same issue over headphones too). Not ever source is this way (like computer audio is fine); but instruments are way too quiet.

So I am looking to see if there are any other audio interfaces on the market that allow 2 USB Hosts to be integrated like this?

Or, is there any mixers that can do this? Would have to move to audio interface + mixer, but still worth asking. Thanks in advance for any help!

Everything is in the tittle :-). My setup is an ipad (audiobus drives 3 apps) coupled with 3 hardware synths. I would like to record my live session. Any idea ?

So I bought myself an M4 iPad after not owning a tablet for about 10 years, and downloaded Logic to play around for a bit. Long story short I got hooked and just built myself a small bedroom studio around it. As a 40 year old man and now “retired” full time musician I am having so much fun with all the sounds, old and new, that I can recreate with the iPad plugin apps, such as my current favorite, the TAL U NO LX.

I have however now ran into some limitations which have motivated to buy myself a macbook to further power my studio (already bought Logic on mac many years ago so I should be able to just download it). Being that apps such as the TAL are more than 3x pricier on Macos rather than iOs, I am thinking of finding a way to run the iPads sound into my interface (Apogee Symphony Desktop) and then into the Macbook and that way save some money on software.

I have done some research but I mostly find tutorial on connecting iPad directly into the Macbook to use it as a virtual instrument which is fine, but would much rather have an iPad-interface-macbook connection as I would like for that connection to be a permanent setup and not spend time connecting and disconnecting devices any time I wanted to do something different. Has anyone done anything similar before, or any information on how to go about it? Thanks in advance for anyones input!

Picking up guitar again after about 10 years and was hoping to use my iPad pro (M1) for amp modeling and backing tracks but I'm a bit confused about hardware options.

In my head I want guitar input with something like an irig and output to either monitor speakers or a guitar amp. I'm thinking monitors would be best as I like to play along with prerecorded backing tracks. Is this even possible to run the two apps into one output on the iPad?

Does anyone have any advice on how to achieve this without breaking the bank?? I've had a look online but there's so many options my head is spinning now.

Hi i’m incredibly new to the music making world but i was wondering what would be the best app/program to use to make some music for a game im currently working on. I have an ipad and a laptop but preferably id like to use my ipad which is why im posting here. I’m aware of Garageband and BandLab but that’s it tbh. Thank you!

I'm running audiolayer as a instrument plug-in. I have this pitch at +5. Every time I rewind my track it changes the pitch to -24

Any ideas why?

Pretty much as the title implies. Looking for an app that utilizes TRS midi as I have a slightly older gen pad with a jack and looking to use it with my M8 tracker