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iPad-friendly USB hub that is also headphone friendly?
Is there such a thing that would allow me to do some (any) combination of:
1. have my keyboard Midi run through the hub to the iPad via keyboard USB out
2. have my keyboard digital audio out do the same, via USB out
3. monitor the digital audio out of the iPad by plugging my headphones into the hub (either USB headphones or normal analog ones with headphone jack)?
I currently do 1 & 2 with my Yamaha P515 piano and Kingston Nucleum hub, but have my headphones plugged into the piano itself. Ok for home, not ok for a portable midi keyboard for travel.
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This one works fine with my iPad Air5.
https://www.belkin.com/usb-c-7-in-1-multiport-hub-adapter/P-PVC003.html?bvstate=pg:2/ct:q
Does the keyboard have a headphone jack (i.e. does it do two-way audio)? If so then you will probably not be able to use the hub headphone jack. iOS currently only allows one audio in/out device. If the keyboard accepts input then it's likely to take over the audio routing.
If your portable midi keyboard does midi only, not audio, then you should be just fine with a hub such as recommended above. You can have all the midi devices you want (subject to available power), but only one audio I/O device.
You just need the $9 Apple 3.5mm to USB C dongle, and a USB C to USB A adapter and you can then use any hub you like. Plug your headphones into the dongle, and the dongle into your hub, with the USB A adapter if needed.
This isn’t quite true. There can only be one input device and one output device but they can be different in some cases. If you plug in headphones without a mic while an in/out audio device is connected, you can get input from the interface and output to the headphones if the headphones are plugged in last (at least with the apple headphone dongle or the headphone port on an I-device that has one.
I was thinking about that since I know that's works with my iRig Pro that doesn't have a headphone jack but will work fine if I plug headphones into the iPad first. But I wasn't sure it would work with the hub setup and don't want to recommend something that only might work.
Anyway, I don't think it's an issue if the portable keyboard is midi only anyway.
Maybe this is a good place to ask: I have a powered USB hub and I’d like to plug in my midi controller, SSD, and headphones (with a usb adapter). Will that work? I won’t have any other audio coming in or an actual interface.
Yep.
Thanks Wim! Will iOS let you run more than one midi app at a time? In other words could I use the midi controller and a drum pad controller together?
Yes.
Fantastic. Thank you 🙏 the Donner midi pads are a much better deal than the new TE device lol