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I’ve been using this OWC travel dock, but I hate how short the built in cable is—ends up being very awkward to use with iPad on lap, putting unnecessary weight on the iPads port when it inevitably falls off to the side. I’ll probably pick up a USB-C extension cable and/or one of the lightweight dongles featured above.
If you plan on using the HDMI port make sure it supports at least 60hz…
some of these only support 30hz, which is awful to use as it lags…
Anyone have good experiences with Kensington or Caldigit TB hubs for Mac? Trying to decide on a TB4 hub for my M1 Pro MBP — currently leaning towards Kensington’s SD5700T. Planning to run several TB and USB HDDs, mouse/KB, Elektron Overbridge, + quite a few midi devices and possibly audio over its ethernet port to my old PC desktop. Dedicating the mac’s other TB port to my Babyface Pro.
Glad that's helped
And yes you should be able to power the hub with the iPad charger, or indeed any power source with a USB outlet.
I actually went for the cheaper version of the one @jakoB_haQ got, as it was on a Black Friday and new customer offer so I got a pretty decent deal
I wanted a real USB-C hub since the type C connector is the upcoming standard connector type. Soon it will be common place. I also invested in some C-to-A and C-to-B cables and adapters. The good thing is that I can also just use the inexpensive apple audio adapter with such a hub. Some of the hubs have a really bad audio port. Moreover I don’t want any network, HDMI, card reader ports. They only consume power and since I use my iPad for music making, I don’t need them. Actually some multi-port hubs consume more than 5W themselves.
I decided for the Sitecom C-386 with three USB-C 3.1 10Gbps ports and one 100W PD port. It consumes far below 1W and really delivers 3.1 data transfer speeds. It is light weight, aluminium case and compact. Absolutely no issues with compatibility on my iPad and my MacBook Pro, too. It doesn’t support DP-Alt - so no USB-C display connectivity but I can live with that. It costs about 50 Euro. I have it since 1.5 years and I can really recommend it.
https://www.sitecom.com/en/usb-c-hub-4-port/cn-386/p/1881
BTW, don’t save money on cables and adapters. Buy cables with a good spec. Should be minimum 3.0 or 3.1 spec. Good cables have a chip, e.g. an e-marker chip, that actively negotiates the transfer or charging mode. In the USB world your connection can only do that what the weakest part of the whole chain iPad - hub - cable - adapter - device can do.
Mobile I just use this hub but at home I also have a powered 10 port USB-A hub from icybox that I connect to the USB-C hub. It has an aluminium case and a good power supply. I have no hum at all.
@krassmann that hub makes sense since at least you're not paying for display ports etc that don't get used. It's still pretty expensive but it does deliver PD power. It would be better if there was a mixture of USB-C and USB-A sockets, but I guess you can get around that with adapters.
(edit) actually they do a whole range of hubs with different options, so it's worth checking out the whole range, some do have both types of sockets:
https://www.sitecom.com/en/hubs
@richardyot as I wrote I also bought some C-to-A and C-to-B cables, so I only need adapters for some devices like USB drives or my USB card reader.
It’s a crazy USB world out there
So I've had a USB-C iPad Pro for almost two months now, and IMO the accessories you really need are these, anything else is not really essential:
The headphone jack seems to be the biggest stumbling block for most people, but that's easily solved with the $9 Apple dongle. Add a USB-C to USB-A adapter and you can plug that dongle into any hub:
Most of the time I just have my headphones plugged right into the Apple dongle, no problem even with high-impedance cans:
If you need to use headphones with say a MIDI controller, you can simply use a cheap USB-C hub for the controller, and the Apple dongle via an adapter for the headphones:
There is also a powerbank in this setup to power the peripherals to prevent battery drain on the iPad, but that's optional (unless your accessories are really power-hungry).
And of course when using an audio interface you can either use the hub (powered or not) or just plug it straight into the iPad:
This cheap setup should cover pretty much all your needs, apart from charging the iPad while in use. That problem can also be solved with a splitter as detailed in the first post in this thread. Personally I just don't see the need for anything more expensive.
I'm seeing endless recommendations for more expensive setups, and I just don't get it 🤷♀️
fwiw: currently $46 for removeable cable, ethernet, 2 usb2, 2 usb3 & power delivery:
SABRENT USB C Hub 9 in 1: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KJR8LV5/
Very nice to more options with detachable cable in case my uni hub ever gives up
I can recommend BOTH the
Sabrent Hub https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KJR8LV5/ and the
Uni hub https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Adapter-uni-Detachable-Compatible/dp/B07Q6YS7W2
IN ALL CAPS
GET A 65W POWER ADAPTER <—
I can also recommend Cables from OWC (Other World Computing) and UNI. OWC in particular are very thorough with testing and quality.
why so strongly? i run a desktop usb audio ifx with the apple 20w power brick into the Sabrent hub just fine.
Because of the number of devices I have attached and the power they draw. Yes you can use the Apple Brick with no issues for the most part. Considering the amounts of gear I've seen in peoples set ups the 65W power adapter is probably a good idea.
And they arent expensive... (the 65W adapeters)
I get great results out of this one. Has a headphone jack
Does audio and midi go through usb c?
Ipad to usb c interface.
Everything that usually travels via cck?
Think so.
The usbc thing and no headphone. Plus maybe needing interface on or maybe theres a standby mode ( iconnect audio 4c )
Makes ( Perhaps OAP style )
Not be that enthusiastic about 8gb ipads ( maybe 16gb though ) instead of 3gb ipads.