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Simultaneous MIDI plus Audio I/O on the cheap
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Behringer UCA222 £27 including shipping.
MIDI to USB cable £2.59 including shipping.
USB Hub/Card reader £1 from a pound store.
3rd party CCK £6 including shipping.
5V Power supply for USB hub borrowed from LCD mp4 player.
All works like a charm with my iPad 2. Doesn't charge the iPad in use, but then I don't know a setup that does. Not for this price.
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thesoundtestroom complained pretty bitterly about that Behringer in his Jam Synth vid.
He also praised the hell out of it in more than one other video. I've never had any problems.
Are you sure it was the Jam Synth video? The Behringer has line level inputs and would not be suitable for guitar input without an extra inline device. In the 1st Jam Synth video he was using an analog iRig and in the 2nd he was using an iRig Pro.
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Plus the se MIDI cable as @PaulB
Good deal for the US members, certainly.
I ordered the "MIDI to USB" cable thing yesterday. Glad to know that it actually works because the reviews were mixed, but it was so cheap I decided to at least give it a try. Just needed a quick way to send midi from my drum machine to the iPad as well as my old E-MU_xboard.
Lotsa luck with the cheap 3rd party CCK. If you know of a specific one that works reliably, I'm sure a lot of people would like to know.
I know of mine...
I think the 3rd party CCK problems are mostly with lightning connector versions and iOS 7.
sorry PaulB, it wasn't the Jam Synth vid, it was the DMI Mixer vid. Been on planes for 9 hours today...
No worries, I'll take a look.
Plenty of problems since iPad 2, ios6- loads of bad reviews on Amazon. In fact, this is one of the first times I've heard of someone satisfied with a 3rd party one, hence my negative comment.
@Zymos I've had this CCK for about 8 months, it came from China. USB works, as does the card reader. As I said, never had a problem.
@CalCutta The only complaining Doug did in that video was about crackly leads, his synth not working and his camera battery. The Behringer interface doesn't come with leads other than the USB cable, which is digital and can't crackle, and it can't be blamed for the synth or camera problems, so maybe you got the wrong impression?
I just watched the video. He mentioned "crackling leads," but that refers to wires, no? He didn't have any dispraise for the Behringer unit that I could detect. Mind you: I'm sure there are higher-fidelity ways to get audio into an iPad! But this one, I can say from using it for two years, is serviceable.
I read a technical analysis of the Behringer and it concluded that the DACs compared favourably with much more expensive units in both frequency response and signal to noise ratios.
Does the 'B' in PaulB stand for Bargain ?
I've been using a CCK and a Yamaha Audiogram 6 connected to a powered USB hub. You can hook in instruments, phantom powered mics, adjust the level from your DAW and send audio out. It doesn't really cost any more than some of these iOS dedicated audio hardware devices and gives you a lot more input/output options.
From time to time you have have to connect and disconnect the CCK to re-establish the connection, but once the connection is established, it's fairly stable. I run into similar issues with the iRig Midi, or connecting USB midi devices directly with CCK or via the powered USB hub too.
@DaveMagoo said:
Lol. Bagginses... preciousss.
I have never complained about the UCA222 in fact I love that thing for its value for money, I complained about my mixer which is very old and needs fixing and cleaning which I am doing at the moment. The UCA222 is unbeatable for the money and works great.
I am going to get one of those USB to MIDI cables too, I had looked at them before but wasn't sure if it would work, I would like to get the iPad to control the hardware stuff.
And in the first Jam Synth vid it was an iRig HD, which is also great, but I have the PRO now so I can mic stuff up and it has a midi input. Thanks Paul for that info, very useful.