In the latest episode of his iOS Update video series, host Mitch Gallagher demonstrates how how to route audio from your iOS device directly to your computer, without needing an audio interface.
For users of OS X El Capitan or newer, it’s possible to record audio directly over your device’s USB to Lightning cable and Inter-Device Audio. Gallagher also covers creating an Aggregate I/O.
Are you using Inter-Device Audio for recording into your DAW? If so, leave a comment and share how it works for you!
Once again,this just shows my iPad 2 is nothing but a cutting board for vegetables.
Or you could use one of the other solutions like music.io or studiomux.
the pinout and signal paths are the same for lightning or 30-pin, the only difference is the size of the connector, you’re fine as far as that goes, but fewer and fewer apps will run on your 2,( Animoog still works with everything, and that’s plenty right there..).so, your pad is getting dated, but not for the reason you think, the newest pads (Pro ) are quad core CPU’s, and IOS is being written for that hardware now, it depends on what apps you want to run…
I don’t know about you, but my cutting board won’t run great synths like Animoog, a powerful sequencer like ModStep or a flexible MIDI control app like Lemur.
If you can’t figure out how to make it a useful tool, pass it on to a friend!
Yeah, I’m in the same boat. The catch-all phrase “iOS device” is pretty misleading if it means it needs a lightning cable to work. My iPad2 is looking longer in the tooth as every day goes by.
Only last week did I finally upgrade my workhorse iPad 2 that has done me proud to the iPad Air 2. It’s a breath of fresh air! Hadn’t realised just quite how slow my iPad 2 had become. 🙂
Don’t see an app called “iOS Audio.” Sure we’re not talking about MusicIO or Audiomux?
Its found in “Audio MIDI Setup” on the mac. No extra setup is needed on the ipad side. This is shown in the video.
iOXAudio, not “iOS Audio”.
Here you go:
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2016/02/04/ioxaudio-for-os-x/
it’s a bit hard to understand in the video, but it’s called “iOXAudio”. You can get it here:
https://github.com/sieren/ioxaudio
Same for me on ipad 2. The icon in the browser is gray with a red “!”
iPad 3 same problem. But Studiomux works fine.
All these dud solutions…
How long’s the iPad been around for and still no full integration of both MIDI and Audio through that bloody lightning cable.
That’s all well and good, but then how does one trigger the iOS softsynth with a MIDI controller if the lightning port is already occupied?
To use a MIDI controller with an iOS device AND still connect to the Mac via USB, you need to get something like the iConnectMIDI (http://www.iconnectivity.com/iConnectMIDI2plus) or use the iOS device’s headphone jack to go directly into the Mac via the built-in audio jack or an audio interface. An inexpensive and excellent solution is the Behringer UCA202 (http://www.music-group.com/Categories/Behringer/Computer-Audio/Audio-Interfaces/UCA202/p/P0484).
with an iOS app called “musicIO: MIDI over USB”
then plug the MIDI controller into your Mac.
You can also use wireless/bluetooth MIDI.
Thank you for posting about this, I didn’t realise this was at all possible.