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Highly recommended: Nux Mighty Air (battery powered wireless guitar amp and iPad monitoring system)
I recently purchased a Nux Mighty Air. It is a small guitar amp with an included wireless system. The amp itself has a long lasting internal rechargeable battery (18 hours of continuous use) and the unit can charge the wireless transmitter for your guitar. The amp connects to your iPad via Bluetooth and serves as a bluetooth speaker. It also connects to the iPad via USB and functions as a class compliant, latency free monitoring system. the Free NUX Ipad app lets you change amps and effects and even provides reamping functionality (which I haven’t tried yet).
It makes for a great hassle free setup. I connect my Ipad to the amp/speaker with USB and wirelessly connect my guitar with the amp with the included transmitter plug. This way I can record an monitor my recordings. With the help of The Midi guitar 2 app I can use the same setup to play and record Synths and other instruments.
I also recently purchased a Novation Circuit Rhythm. It is an 8 track monophonic sampler, but each track sends midi out data on its own channel. Because the Circuit has an internal rechargeable battery too (and with the help of a Yamaha MD BT101 bluetooth midi adapter) I have a hardware sequencer that I can connect to the Ipad as well. With all the units charged, I only need one (!) cable (usb from the NUX mighty Air to the Ipad) to have a really nice setup that I wanted to share with you.
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Great how’s the latency?
@hisdudeness In Cubasis 3 I can set it as low as 1.3ms
Wow, that looks like a nice, VERY flexible unit! How are the built in sounds and effects?
@Maarten Very cool, thanks for sharing. Question on MidiGuitar2: how are you getting the audio signal into the iPad? Through the USB cable between the iPad and the NUX amp? Is there any way to wirelessly send the audio directly to the iPad from the transmitter you stick in your guitar?
@Sawiton The amp sounds and effects are quite good. You get a noise gate, one effects block in front of the amp, an amp block, cabinet IR’s, modulation, delay and reverb. I mainly play high gain sounds and the NUX doesn’t dissapoint.
@lukesleepwalker For triggering synths through Midi Guitar 2 I use a clean guitar patch and the wireless signal from my guitar goes through the amp/speaker unit which sends it signal to the Ipad. When playing back the recorded audio from the audio, the signal goes to the NUX speaker via USB. As far as I can tell, you it’s not possible to send the wireless signal directly to the iPad. Maybe the Nux Mighty plug (which is a standalone product) can?
Just checked Amazon and there are easily a dozen wireless guitar systems (with very strange names I guarantee you’ve never heard of) and the prices are all over the map. My guess is a lot of this hardware is made by the same factories in China with minor differences.
Got it, thanks!
Check alibaba for bulk purchase units that might be used as the source of these
Exactly. What happens is these factories all use the same suppliers, then they create a brand to sell in other countries or on Amazon or on Alibaba OR businesses from other countries rebrand these devices (often knockoffs of costlier name brands) and then import and sell them cheap under their own label.
If you ever get a chance to visit any of the manufacturing centers in China (such as Guangdong or Shenzhen), take the opportunity. It is a real eye-opener. Seeing how these operations work in real life is a real shock if you're used to Western or European factories. And I should note that I am very impressed with the go-getter attitude and drive of the Chinese people, but I am not at all impressed with their government.
Doesn’t that apply to just about anything? Isn’t that why having an actual review by a genuine user is useful?
Sure, it's helpful. But until someone compares with the other dozen or more competitors, it is someone's impression of just one device.
Alibaba sells directly to resellers in bulk. Of course white labeling happens everywhere but Alibaba has really scaled it up for the particular things on offer with zero need to build connections or source suppliers in old fashioned ways. It’s democratized it, no need for much capital investment to get started.