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Bluetooth headphones/ earbuds/ EarPods etc are fine for all those things.
If Apple provide a dongle with headphone jack and lightning connection then all is forgiven.
Yes, just like every year, this year Apple truly is doomed
There is not one effing Dongel that provides a 3,5 jack AND a normal lighting (meaning more than only charging) connection.
I guess they will release new AirPods too maybe.
I think people are happy and anyway 99% of the crowd never use really high quality headphones or care about latency when they press play.
Yeah, it's kinda annoying that on the CCK3 the Lightning port is only for charging...
All in all the whole lightning mumbo jumbo is not well thought out for more 'advanced' usage.
That's why I seriously hope to see it go away for good and replaced with USB-C but that would be a big blow to Apples 'dongle sales' which apparently generate quite a bit of cash, especially the Lightning->3.5mm one sell it for $9.99 and costs about $0.5 to manufacture, pure evil profits.(Really do hope Karma strikes back at Apple in a big time).
Then let‘s hope they doesn‘t reduce the battery for a thinner and lighter device or you might get more of these „can‘t power this device“ message when connecting midi keyboard and other controllers.
Please give us USB-C Apple, just once do the right thing.
Annoying it is, especially when you think about drowning 50€ for this thing.
USB c could be the way to go? I doubt it though
Rumors are rumors. Let’s do a “what if” instead.
What I want to do:
Plug my USB midi keyboard into my iPad and play a synth through headphones with better audio quality than the iPad “speakers”.
Solution 1:
With a headphone jack:
Keyboard —> CCK —> iPad lightning, and headphones in the jack.
Solution 2:
Without a headphone jack:
Powered USB hub (tethered to a power outlet) —> CCK —> lightning port
Midi kybd and “small audio interface” plugged into USB hub
Headphones connected to the audio interface.
Solution 1 is mobile. Solution 2 requires power for the USB hub, so NOT totally mobile. While Solution 2 is doable, it adds 2 pieces of gear to carry to accomplish the same thing.
Progress is usually defined as something getting BETTER. Solution 2 may slightly improve audio quality. Solution 1 provides true mobility and fewer connections.
Btw, rumors are sometimes accurate. As for whether we should be able to complain about things that may negatively impact us, I thought that’s one of the things AB has so generously provided us a platform to do.
It would at least make things a bit easier and reduce the amount of dongles.
With a Powered USB-C hub the iPad would get charged and at the same time have access to plenty of USB-C ports for audio-interfaces, midi-devies, usb flash-drives, usb-c > hdmi etc. etc. and it could all be powered from a mobile power-bank when needed.
How useful is an iPad that I cannot simply take on the couch to make some music?
Wired headphones are perfectly fine, but an external audio interface plus another cable just isn't.
I have a great laptop for the above, and it does its job much better than an iPad.
Wouldn't the headphones help to catch the falling phone before it gets wet?
+1 Hope that ARM processors in Windows will really take off so we can use BitWig and FL Studio with all plugins that we want on tabletswith all connectivity that have power for 20 hours +
I stopped using the headphone port on my iPad once I realized how much better the lightning port audio sounded.
Using the 'Apple-Dongle' or a dedicated audio-interface?
I can't hear any difference between the Air 2's built-in jack or the Lightning->3.5mm adapter other than that the sample rate gets 'forced' to 48K when using the lightning dongle which causes issues with apps that have problems adapting to different sample-rates.
On the other hand the UR-242 puts both those to shame, feels like one has tons of cotton in the ears in comparison
Definitely with audio interface, though I also recall being surprised by the lightning dongle as well.
But now I only use lightning EarPods for casual composing and plug into an Apogee Duet interface for more serious sessions
3rd party devs choosing crap. Creating damn good apps on crap. Something doesn't quite add up there. Unless everything everywhere is crap, and that's all devs have to perform their miracles on.
So some much better company is going to come along and bring us great stuff. Apple gets pushed harder and is forced to jump through more hoops to please us. Sounds great.
It's harder to deliver products than to promise them. Is the grass greener on the other side of the hill? Today, it is not.
Except that a major reason for doing music on the iPad - for me, anyway - is that I can lie on the couch with the device and a set of headphones. If I was prepared to set up a pile of gear I'd probably just go downstairs and use a real computer.
I don't have a problem with Apple getting rid of obsolete ports and features, but I do wish they'd do it when the replacement technologies actually work. Bluetooth headphones seem to offer a choice of high latency or bad sound at the moment. I've tried a few, and none are really up to replacing wired phones. And, the Lightning port has never really been up to it because you can't run a lightning hub, allowing multiple Lightning devices. And even then, the Lightning to minijack adapter I had (because it's gone who knows where) which came with my 7 crackled when it was moved.
In the case of the supposed loss of iPad headphone jack, I really don't get it: losing it on the iPhone did have benefits, waterproof phones being the most significant, but who needs a waterproof iPad? And iPad sales are apparently not that inspiring, so why piss off a group of your users for no real benefit?
The > @Dawdles said:
The Win10 platform that the Surface go will run on has been out for years, and no quality music creation apps exist for it. Why do you think another MS attempt at hardware will change the software situation?
Yup not too keen on facial recognition. Willingly hand over all the intricacies of my face and simultaneously convince myself I’m free in a evil surveillance state.....
Is there a way to turn off facial recognition?
If it's all just a rumor, this mystery will be gone. Or maybe Apple has a good mobile solution coming that gets rid of the headphone jack but still allows use of regular headphones. I don't know. May be best to just wait and see.
Haha! Guess I’m over reacting
No, but I have one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0755BH2ZR
and it works with my iPhone and lightning headphones, or a lightning to 3.5 jack adapter. (Keep losing the 3.5 jack adapters tho...)
I rarely use it since I mostly use the iPad though.