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A use for an old ios device
I found another use for an "outdated" ios device -
If you use reaper, there is a server built in, accessed in the control surface options. It gives you an ip address, then you access that through a web browser and get a remote for the transport. It's coming in handy right now as I use an old ipod touch to control starting and stopping of the transport while multitracking from a behringer x32 rack that's onstage to reaper on my macbook while I'm mixing remotely from a balcony (using my x-touch and an android tablet running mixing station pro).
My friend hipped me to this the other night, I don't know how I never knew about this! Hope it's helpful to someone else.
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I do a similar thing with Harrison Mixbus and the TouchOSC app. Really useful and highly customisable!
another good use for old iPads is the Tangent device emulator, for colour correction and grading in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, Capture One, etc. Each iPad can be dedicated for a specific console, and if I set up all my 4 iPads I have all 4 Tangent Elements consoles. You don't want to miss it once you've discovered how handy these consoles are.
Harrison Mixbus/32C works very well with OSC-based controllers. I made a Lemur template that is optimised for iPad2:
https://liine.net/en/community/user-library/view/723/
Patterning, ModStep, FugueMachine, Senode, Xynthesizr, LittleMidi, Thesis, DrumJam, Concentric, midiSequencer, etc. run just fine on iPad2, and can be used to control hardware synths. And there's also Auria for smaller recording projects.
An iPad 1 in an Alesis io Dock with NanoStudio 1 is the perfect hardware sampler that can be a great addon to one of the modern groove box samplers that often cannot sample in stereo. Great usability, low latency.
I do use an iPad 1 with lemur, but it tends to crash a lot. I use the Mixbus touch osc controller as well sometimes. But I don’t record live shows with mixbus, I use tracks live or reaper. Tracks live is cool because the sessions open in mixbus, but I don’t think it has remote functionality, they stripped out anything unnecessary so it runs really lightweight.
Dunno if it helps, but I didn't experience crashes with Lemur on iPad 1.
Maybe try a different version (if you still have one in your archives)?
There's one thing to watch out for on an iPad 1 though: Memory.
As soon as free mem gets low, all kinds of apps will crash, so you better make sure no other apps are open. I have mine jailbroken so I can have a free memory display at the top and exchange all app's user data over WiFi, very helpful.
And if nothing else works, it’s nice to cut cheese on 🧀
But seriously, Nanostudio would be my dream, but I never got around to buy it, back in the day.