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Teisco Interface with iPad and iPhone
Teisco released a new audio interface in pedal format and I made a video with it using my iOS devices and effects apps. Nice tool to utilize apps within a regular signal chain. In the video I used
Eventide MicroPitch, Blackhole, UltraTap, Undulator, Discord4, Grind, Bias FX, Spectrum (Granular), and of course AUM.
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Does it work just bus powered? There's a comment on the YouTube video that says it needs power as showed by you using a powered CCK, but as I understand it the power to the CCK just goes to your iOS device, not the USB device?
Looks handy though if you want an interface down below. Nice vid.
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No it didn’t work without plugging in the power.
Thanks. Yeah it’s a nice and useful tool.
Keep seeing Tesco.
@nothumanatall Hey, I saw your video on this and also recently bought the Interface pedal, but I noticed it has a huge volume drop when I engage it vs. bypass it. I've used it with Logic Pro and through AUM with an iPad Pro - tried with additional power plugged into the usb port as as well. I've got the channel gains set to unity for the input gain and output volume in logic or AUM, and all the knobs on the interface maxed out. Has this been your experience? Faulty unit?
Me too. That would definitely be "non-food"
I also maxed all knobs on the pedal to get unity level. I experienced volume drop at first but then realized I was connecting it the wrong way. I was using mono in TRS stereo out. It worked fine when I connected mono in/out or stereo in/out. Maybe that’s the case with you?
Thanks for checking on this and your feedback. I have tried these scenarios:
Are those the two setups that work for you?
Yes those work for me as heard in the video. You should probably contact Teisco.
Hey,
Thanks for your response. I have contacted them maybe a week ago now but haven't heard back. I was able to get in touch with their support before about something else though.
@nothumanatall, great demo!
I eventually bought one despite the obvious red flags like 16 bit AD/DA. Had the same issue as @reverberator. It turned out that besides the hardware knobs, the interface has software control over input and output gain and in my case the output was at -10dB, so setting it to 0 did the trick. With iOS devices, one has to make sure (system) volume is maxed.
I also couldn't resist taking it apart, so, FWIW, it uses a CM6533 chip for AD/DA conversion. I also measured roundtrip latency using RTL Utility on my mac (@ 48 kHz). Not as bad as I thought, but nowhere near what's considered good by today's standard.
16 samples - 8.438 ms
32 samples - 9.771 ms
64 samples - 11.012 ms
128 samples - 13.541 ms
256 samples - 21.271 ms
512 samples - 32.104 ms
On a side note, I really like the concept and form factor, as well as the fact that products like this (also Hotone Jogg, Xsonic stuff, Omec Teleport) are coming to the market. However, it seems to me all of them fall short somewhere, be it audio quality and latency, or connectivity and bypass options. (I seek to integrate it into an existing pedalboard setup, not replace the whole rig, so IMO an ideal box would be stereo send/return bypass looper w/ optional tails, combined with a good quality 2x2 audio interface. Latency is even more important here, since there may be other DSP boxes in the chain and it adds up.)
@nothumanatall, by the way, isn't the HX Stomp capable of something like this, i.e. sending to DAW and returning for its own internal processing? Seems that it has quite a number of routing options (channels) available as an audio interface. That would be 1 less AD/DA conversion...
Thanks!
Makes sense and it should be able to do it. I tried it when I first got the HX Stomp, got confused about routing and channels and lost interest quickly. Then I completely forgot about it. I should probably look into it again.
I'm really curious about this and would appreciate if you let me know when (if) you try it again.