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Making Use Of Older Phones/Pads
Quick question - got a new phone, made me wonder if there’s a way of using my growing collection of retired iOS devices - am I right in thinking I could get them all connected and synced wirelessly? Any pointers greatly appreciated👍
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You'll need a sound interface, hub and all that for each. I currently have 2 iPads and my mini connected to a mixer and can thus use all three via the mixer where the computer is the main receiver. I bought a cheap M-Audio solo for the extra iPad. With Ableton link it's possible to make them work together. I don't do it much though, for whatever reason 😃
You’d only need a sound interface for sound based projects, but I use BT MIDI to control one iPad from another with sequencers or touch instruments like Velocity Keyboard, GeoShred, or Touchscaper. If a Mac is your central hub you have the option of IDAM to pass MIDI back and forth while routing audio from iOS. You could also bypass multiple interfaces if your older device has an aux out - I have two iPad minis with aux out that can be brought into the mix with an aux to 1/4” adapter.
I’ve integrated the following into a “multi-iOS device” setup:
iPad Mini 5: runs MusiKraken for game controller + general MIDI control + Lumbeat Drummers
iPad mini 4: NanoStudio 2 machine w/Touchscaper
iPad Pro: main iPad with big synths, modern sequencers, primary DAWs - the brains of the iPad
iPhone X: messing with old GeoShred and playing music
Mac Mini: Logic Pro hub
I have an iRig Pro Duo I/O that bounces between devices and a PreSonus AudioBox plugged into my Mac.
If you have phones, a great use for them is to donate them to a women’s shelter that takes in victims of domestic violence. You’ll probably find the nearest one easily enough with Google.
Iphones with 3D Touch are great fun with geoshred, 6 and 6s have headphone socket too for easy connection to a mixer.
You got me curious and I had to see if my old scratchy 5s could install Geoshred and it could but only a bit older version. Now, I fail to make out what's different from my more recent devices (except size, damn it's small😅), i.e how you mean?
3D Touch was only from iPhones 6-10. It makes geoshred pressure sensitive eg press harder for growl etc or vary volume, which makes it quite expressive without having to get finger position as accurate vertically on note....and the tiny size does not matter as much.. ;-)
ps...thumbjam works well on old phones and the cello sounds great, shaking it for vibrato can be a bit risky though.
Ha! That explains why I always struggled to get that to work, embarrassing.🫣 Moving on.
In my vintage corner, I currently have an iPad Mini 2 sitting in an iTrack Dock, running Nanostudio 2 and sending hardware MIDI clock to the Digitone (using a wired MIDI interface connected to the Dock's USB host port) and an iPhone 6 Plus which runs Drambo (synced via BT MIDI Service). Luckily, Drambo V2 still runs on iOS 12 and NS2 allows for adjusting sent clock offset to keep DNK and NS2 in tight sync at any audio buffer size.
Since each of the sequencers has its own charm and is well-integrated in its own environment, there is nothing more than MIDI clock going between the devices.
No total recall of songs but I can record separate stereo tracks from the TC Blender (into the Mac for use with Logic and Ableton, or to a newer iPad running Loopy Pro, Cubasis or Audio Evolution) which is also my little desktop mixer.
Ableton Link and sync pulses are the main means of syncing here.
There is an old iPhone 5 that I sometimes use as master clock generator for the whole setup including various hardware synths. They get their sync pulse from the iPhones headphone jack. It’s generated by playing a single click sample. My go to app for this purpose is Bleass Groovebox. An oldie that runs well on older devices and smaller screens. The app is free, supports Ableton Link, and the complete unlock IAP is only about £5. I load the sample into the drum machine. This allows me to create all kinds of rhythmic sync patterns.
Otherwise even devices that are not synced can sometimes be useful: There are plenty of older touchscreen oriented apps like TC-11 or Borderlands Granular that are great for creating soundscapes that can be manipulated live.
I use Streamdeck Mobile app on old iphone 8 for keyboard shortcut buttons for my desktop - DAW + general functions .
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