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Storm- I think it's Auria that is pushing things over the edge. If you are just sending audio out (and not recording it on your iPad) then one synth plus Turnado is easily within limits on ipad2, even at fairly low latency.
I always forget about airplane mode too, but it's probably worth it- every bit counts...
@Zymos - You are probably right. If you can just open audio files within Turnado and edit them that way, that would probably work just fine. As a practical matter, however, I haven't really done that, since I'm always doing the effects for the purpose of recording it. (Still have very little overall experience with Turnado, though, glad to hear it should work).
One thing I know about Sunrizer is that if you leave it running idle it'll drain your battery like no app I've ever seen.
For drums, DrumStudio would probably have a very low overhead. Though I don't have an older iPad to try it on. Also for a DAW the whole MultitrackStudio iPad app is only something like 20 megs... that might be a good bet too as long as you don't load it up with 3rd party after-effects. It can load soundfonts, too.
Yeah, goes without saying that MultiTrack DAW is the king of low-resource recording. I used that exclusively for awhile - still have it for my phone or if I needed something simple. Auria would be the inverse of MTDAW in about every way possible, haha.
Can confirm that DrumStudio runs excellent on older iPads. This probably isn't an absolute rule, but if you have an older app (debuted 2012 or earlier), it's probably not a huge resource hog because the more powerful iPads weren't on the market yet when they were being developed.
It's kind of funny to lurk around some of the non-iOS or other general music boards and see some of the frustration from Android users or even computer musicians at this wealth of stuff that iOS devices get in exclusive apps. They think a lot of the devices lack the CPU power to run this stuff adequately, which has a kernel of truth to it, but obviously the iPhone and iPad have a gigantic user base with an established content delivery system, so this is the place make money (or at least get users) with mobile devices.
Multitrack Studio =/= MT DAW.
True about MT DAW not needing a lot of resources though....
Direct monitoring helps a lot recording guitar into an old system with high buffer settings. Your interface needs to handle it though. Focusrites do, for example. So does the Behringer UCA202, interestingly, though it's RCA only.