![]() You can start recording on your phone by connecting your audio interface to your iPhone or iPad port. The power your audio interface will deliver to your computer through recording must be converted so your iPad or iPhone can read it. Whatever model you choose, connecting it to your iPad or iPhone won’t be as simple as you’d like.īelow are a few tutorials depending on your phones and equipment. You need to add a “real” USB audio interface if you want to literally search on Youtube or GarageBand on your iOS product to record the finest possible latency. A nice gesture for those who aren’t already covered in that area.How To Connect A USB Audio Interface To Your iPad or iPhone While it is regrettable for Windows users, we cannot ask much more of IK MUltimedia, who offers a version of Amplitube Metal bundled with the interface, a present that is worth about €100. PCs are excluded because IK hasn’t developed the drivers for that platform and has merely focused on Apple’s Core Audio. Let’s finish by pointing out the possibility of connecting the interface to your Mac via the USB cable included. ![]() But be careful: not all the apps are iRig HD compatible ( Multitrack DAW, for instance) or not completely so: I couldn’t get any sounds out of my iPhone’s headphone output while recording myself with Fire, for example, or even with Audioshare. It’s a very nice detail at a time when many manufacturers simply offer a list of compatible software without actually providing any.įurthermore, while the Amplitube apps offer many possibilities in terms of sound and functionality (and even more so if you make use of the in-app purchasing option to get newer amps and features), the iRig HD’s Core Audio compatibility allows you to use other apps as well: especially JamUp, but also GarageBand, Auria and its simulator OverLoud, etc. In order to incite you to use it, Amplitube Free provides two amps and three effects (Flanger, whammy and distortion) ─ the latter are available exclusively to iRig HD owners. In terms of apps, IK obviously recommends using the iOS version of Amplitube. The only defect I can see is that it is impossible to use the iRig HD while charging your iDevice at the same time, since it uses the same connector. True, the algorithms of an amp simulation might be able to partly mask such miseries, and even more so with distorted sounds, but it’s obvious that the iRig HD represents a real improvement in terms of quality. Not only does the Ampkit Link offer no control over the gain (you have to adjust the level via the guitar pickups, which isn’t ideal), but its input is also way noisier, with less low end and wicked highs - these are probably the same limitations of the AD converters used by Apple. Guitar Dry via Peavey Ampkit link 00:24.And that’s it? That’s it! Does it work? Yes, it works! To monitor the signal you’ll have to use your iDevice’s headphone output, since the iRig HD has none. We will come back to this later…įor now let’s keep on describing the object, which couldn’t be simpler: apart from the 7-pin connector to connect your iDevice or your Mac, there is also a 1/4" jack for your guitar or bass, a knob to adjust the input gain, and an LED whose color and brilliance indicate the interface’s status and the input signal’s level: dark blue, the iRig HD is in Standby light blue it is active green, the input signal is too weak red, the input signal is too high orange, the input level is optimal. We emphasize this detail especially as the input converters on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch are very poor in quality, considering that they were conceived for telephone use. Why use the proprietary connector and not the mic input on the iDevice? To supply the interface with power, but also because, just like the Apogee Jam (and unlike the Peavey Ampkit Link), the iRig HD features its own converters to digitize your guitar’s signal.
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