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.
Got the Minifuse 1 and love it. My iPad 10th gen powers it and a Minilab MK3. Question tho.
If I upgrade to a Minifuse 4, which has the extra two USB ports, instead of the extra one on the Minifuse 1, do you think I could also hook up a Launch Control XL to it or would the iPad 10 not be able to power all three?
Edit: Never mind. The battery drain on the iPad is a lot with it powering just the Minifuse 1 and the Minilab 3.
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The minifuse 4 appears to have an external power supply that is included. You would just plug this in if you want to use external controllers plugged into it’s hub so that it’s getting it’s power from the supply, no the iPad.
How bad is the battery drain when powering both the Minifuse and Minilab?
I have the minilab3 with an older regular iPad and was planning on picking up the minifuse within the next few days.
I’m thinking the battery drain will be worse with an older iPad?
You can avoid draining the iPad and connect all these external devices with a powered hub. How many minutes do you get before the music stops and you must charge the iPad?
With my lightning connected iPad and the camera kit adapter (CKA) I could remain charging while also using an unpowered USB Hub to add more than one extra device.
With the new USB-C iPads you pretty much have to go with a powered hub to add external devices. There’s no CKA in a USB-C cable option because they spec the standard power adapter too low for a network of devices. I can’t find a hub of USB-C ports probably because to might allow use to connect multiple iPads and have more than 1 host which probably would generate an alarm message and shit down connectivity.
About 20% of the ipad's battery per hour of use. I guess not too bad really. 5 hours to not have to plug into a wall or use a powered hub is nice. Really enjoying the setup so far. Hated using powerhubs etc. This is cleaner and less cables and devices.
I read a while ago (2-3 years) that there was no chip capable of creating a true USB-C hub. Qualcomm was "working on it", but clearly no result as yet. I suspect that just adequately switching all the signals at the required speed may be tough. It's a lot more than traditional USB. There are some hubs with 4 USB-C peripheral connectors, but they only support USB-3.1 data, not the full gamut of USB-C possibilities.
Hey @ipadthai, what are you using between iPad and Minifuse, USB-c to USB-c cable ?
Yeah