Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
30 pin connectors and general ipad first gen question.
Is there a way to keep a physical midi connection plugged in and send power to the device?
I have a couple midi mobilizers and would love to use them, but I would like to keep the devices powered.
Second question, is there a definitive list of what audio apps work on first gens?
Thanks!
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Docks or irig midi.
I should have been clearer, besides docks.
Irig midi.
The IK MIDI rig does that, i use it on an iPhone 4.
Give you a micro USB for charging.
iRig MIDI and Tascam iU2. I use them both and they work fine.
The original irig midi has a 30 pin connector and also has a micro USB port on the side that if plugged into an iPad charger sends power to the iPad as well. I still use it with my ipad3.
These all work, to some reasonable degree, on my iPad 1. I wouldn't buy any of them now just to run on an old iPad—the store may not offer you an older version to load anymore.
Nanostudio
Genome
Chordbot
StepPolyArp
BeatMaker
BeatMaker2
PixiTracker 1Bit
PixiTracker
Cubasis
ChordPolyPad
ProChords
Sunvox
Drumjam
thumbjam
DM1
iElectribe
Funkbox
triqtraq
MoDrum
Beat-Machine
RealBeat
SoundPrism
SoundPrism Pro
Musix
Orphion
Polychord
Samplr
Werkbench
Midi Designer
Arp Pro
Nodebeat HD
Gestrument
Changeling
Launchpad
TC-11
Echopad
Filtatron
MultiTrack DAW
Loopy HD
Audioshare
Hokusai
iFretless Bass/Guitar
guitarism
Arctic Keys
Xenon
Sunrizer
Magellan
Cassini
Alchemy
Galileo
Nlog Pro
iSEM
iMini
Grain Science
Animoog
Arctic Prosynth
Thor
elsa
Sylo Synth
MorphWiz
BitWiz
iPulsaret
Stria
iDensity
Tachyon
iMidiPatchBay
MidiBridge
bs-16i
iLectric Piano
M3000 HD
Manetron2
ManetronMarkII
sir Sampleton
SampleWiz
SampleTank
@aaronpc You rock, thank you!
In many cases (but not always) you can purchase the current app version via iTunes, go to your iPad 1 and download the last version that was released for it.
I'd like to add a few apps to the great iOS 5.1.1-compatibility list from above
Lemur (YES!)
TB Midi Stuff (another MIDI remote, a bit less deep than Lemur but photorealistic surface)
YAMAHA Synth Arp & Drum Pad
YAMAHA Mobile Music Sequencer
Alexander Gross Music Studio
Auria V1
Garageband
Modstep
Figure
KORG iPolysix (iPad 1 limits polyphony)
KORG iMS-20 (works great)
DXi (4-OP FM)
Virsyn iVoxel
Impaktor
Fairlight Pro
Borderlands Granular
PPG WaveGenerator
Everyday Looper
Steinberg LoopMash HD
GlitchBreaks
TC VoiceJam
Molten Drum Machine
Noisepad
Reactable
Twisted Wave (great quick audio file editor with FTP upload and "open in...")
DAW Control (Mackie Control emulation, seems a bit unstable)
Some features on iPad one version of apps won’t work though - for example features accessing Dropbox often get broken when Dropbox changes its software.
limited network capabilities are the most severe restriction of IOS 5.1
Audioshare can only import from WebDAV and no export except Soundcloud and eMail.
(just tested SC which is quite stunning given the time past)
Not all apps may be available in a 5.1.1 compatible version, even if that existed before.
Apps may adjust their calculation power to the older CPU which generally means no oversampling and such stuff.
ps: overall an iPad One is still a very useful device.
The fun thing with an iPad 1 is that you can jailbreak it and potentially make Dropbox or an intermediate helper app like Audioshare obsolete because you can access every app's data directly, even over WiFi.
I have an Alesis I/o dock for my ancient iPad 2. Every once in a while it would crash and send out a deafening blast of white noise at max volume. So now it sits unused. Anyone Elise have this issue ever?
Nope. Though I haven’t used it in a long time.
@soundshaper I'm using an Alesis 1/o dock on a 3rd gen and it's fine.
Some great lists there you guys.
@soundshaper possibly the charging unit inside is about to fail - at least that seems a common problem some old docks develope.
(mine has failed charging entirely, but it was solvable with relatively few effort by soldering a USB cable to some pins on board, so any USB charger does the job now)
There must be different build versions, though - the 'hack' mentions this mod also powers the analog circuits, which it doesn't in my case... so I still need a small 6V supply to get a tone out of the unit (which really is quite good considering it's price tag)
On my ipad1 that was given to me I did jailbreak it but Ifile keeps crashing, is there something else that will work?