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Buying MIDI controllers for iPad and powering for portability - Advice - haQ VLog 87
In this vlog I am answering a viewer who asked me, “what type of iPad MIDI controller I would choose to take with me when travelling”. The biggest issue for me is always the way that a hardware device is powered. For me, wall-powered equals “not portable”.
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Actually @jakoB_haQ . Getting a powered hub doesn't mean you need a wall socket.
Meet my battery powered studio. Both the remote zero and the novation audio hub are being powered by the battery bank you see on the right. Each of which never works directly with an iPad. Even the 2 kboards are being powered by the battery. Basically any hub that comes with a usb wall charger. You can instead plug in the charging cable into a battery bank and it still works. With my 2 volcas and a battery powered speaker it means I can produce on the beach if I want to (I'm from Goa, India. So being on the beach is quite common lol)
I have(or have owned) the iRig keys 37, oxygen 49, nektar impact 61, nanokey2, and the K board, yamaha reface cp. All of those can be powered by the ipad via cck.
For live use, I use a powered usb hub and a scarlett usb interface to get pro quality sound.
My favorite controller for taking on a plane is actually the K board. Super portable and very tough little guy. I just wish the keys were more even with velocity sensitivity.
I think you might have missed my point. In the video Jakob is talking about a battery powered only rig. And mentions that with a powered hub you're stuck using a plugpoint again. I was trying to point out its not necessarily the case... The Audiohub has a focusrite chip inside. Yet it's working over battery. So pro audio sans mains power.
Accidental double post. Please ignore.
The Alesis Q25 works, powered through the cck. So does the Icon Ikeyboard 4 (nice keys!).
@gonekrazy3000 That's an awesome rig you've got there, looks massive! =D
You made me remember the portable motorcycle battery solution a used back in the days. i just built a splitting voltage regulator board with multiple DC plug out. 2 5v and two 9v lines out. Sure the battery is heavy but one can run loads of stuff for a whole day using something like it. And with this any gear that runs on 12v and down can be used.
But, it's probably not allowed to bring a battery in the plane for instance
Thanks for the comments everyone. Keep commenting, I'll make s follow up vlog in the near future.
Thanks The battery bank is a 10000 mah. It actually let's me get a solid 12+hrs of use
I'm soon getting myself the new USB 3 camera connection kit so I'm going to try and get my hands on a 20000-25000 mah battery bank so I can keep my iPad fully charged. Hopefully it should support plugging in the lightening cable into a battery bank. Also... My brother is getting a Volca sample for Me when he gets back from holiday in Canada. Can't wait to complete my Volca Trio . I'm skipping the beats since I prefer elastic drums. I have a custom template for it on my remote zero so I can sound shape manually just like I would on physical volca. And to be fair I don't really like FM synthesis much
The Korg PadKontrol is wonderful, but sadly needs a power supply (too many blinky lights?).
The Novation Remote SL (37key in this case) needs the power supply.
The M-Audio Axiom 49, 1st version is useless for iOS, the ipad says it takes too much power, even with it plugged into an external power supply.
Plug in the remote SL and axiom to a powered hub then plug in that to a battery bank. It's what I'm doing with the remote zero which is basically the same sans keys. Checkout my rig above. There's a bug in iOS 9 that needs a hub even if you have powered devices. If you have powered devices an unpowered hub in between should still do the trick. It's how I fixed the error with the Audiohub even when plugged into mains power.
I really love my samson graphite m25,
it looks and feels cheap (it is actually cheap) but has knobs and pads (fully configurable midi channels etc)
and leaves enought spare power to plug an electric uke in my apogee jam (although not enough for a full scale electric guitar, I might have to try this with the new apple cck with power...)