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How can I record Audio from my ipad to my DAW?
I seen people do this with ableton but not sure how.
I'm sure someone has an ideal. I know I can just export wav's and bring them in that way but I'm talking about actually recording live from the ipad to the DAW.
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Music IO and a direct cable connection.
Studiomux and a direct cable connection.
iCM2/4/A+ devices.
This pretty much sums up the current possibilities for digital recording.
But for analog recording there are load of possibilities, ranging from pure cabling from headphone out, via soundcard or dedicated IO docks.
What's your DAW / OS?
In El Capitan w/ latest Logic update & iOS 9, you can attach an iPad to a Mac w/ Lightning cable, and Assign it as an instrument (USB Audio), and record any app straight into Logic.
This is how I do it (OS X 10.11.1, iOS9.1). Once the iOS device is enabled it's accessible by any app running on the Mac. I mostly use Renoise and use the iPad as an external sound module for creating samples.
Only a Lightning -> USB cable is needed and it's possible to attach multiple devices at the same time.
It's also possible to combine multiple iOS devices into one aggregated device to simplify things.
Unfortunately there is at the moment no way to send Midi over USB unless using 3rd party apps like Studiomux and Music IO.
Thank you sir!
I'm on IOS 8 and on the mac update before the latest one El Capitain lol, I forget the name. The DAW I use is ableton.
Thanks for the info on that though.
Damn, my osx firmware is on an older version and so is my Ipad lol. It would be nice if I could do it that way though. I'll check and see if I can do it your way on mine and if not maybe I will upgrade. I'm using an ipad air so maybe updating it won't make my device too slow but I have held off on updating up until now because I fear my device becoming slow as IOS updates tend to do that to IOS devies. It's like with the more updates that come, the more the device becomes closer to obsolete and you become put in a corner to buy the new apple device and I don't want to have to do that with my ipad Air. I'll look into it though.
Thanks and I appreciate you sharing this with me.
Just plug an audio cable into the headphone out and plug it into the audio in on your computer. It's fine. Experiment a bit with gain staging (headphone volume).
You can also sneaker net it if you want digital audio. Capture your iPad audio in time with your Daw into an app like audioshare. Transfer the wav file over.
Thanks, I'll give this a try because I probably need to update to do it the way Samu said as I tried it and it doesn't work for me. I'll try your method.
MusicIO should still work with older OSes.
MusicIO (64bit vst)
iPhone5s (iOS 8.3)
Win 7 64bit
Reaper 5.1 64bit
no audio interface other than pre-installed Realtek card in laptop
ASIO4ALL
Then you need Asio4All to switch to the iPad input in your DAW. You even can charge with the iConnect!