IPAD and Keyboard midi for live gigs

Everlost · Joined: Oct 18, 2012 Posts: 2 Location: Italy

Hi all,
i 'm a musician and i have an home recording project that i would like to bring it in a live contest.
at home i work with my pc, an m-audio usb external sound card,my keyboard midi and i use Cubase 5 with vst.
Recently i 've buy a new ipad and i would like to use it for replace the Pc.
so now i have :

- an Ipad 3 without jailbreak.
- a midi/usb keyboard (1 midi out).
- an external usb sound card.

Now, what i need and how can i use them?
i see many videos where guys use Camera Connection Kit to connect Keyboard with Ipad.Ok,so i't s the best things?and what CCK works?
5 to 1?Apple version or cheap wersion?
i see also the IRIG MIDI for connect keyboard via MIDI.
what is the better? CCK or IRIG MIDI ? MIDI or USB ? Sound card or not?and what i should use for output in a live contest?
thanks in advance,and sorry for too many questions but i think that these informations are really useful for a new future in live music for Ipad.

Keysandslots · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 7:04 am Post subject:

I use an Alesis IO Dock with an iPad 2 and it seems to work fine so far. I decided on the Alesis Dock because I wanted the iPad to function as an integral part of my music equipment, so it needed inputs and outpus and full MIDI.

I will admit 'though that I would not use an iPad for live shows yet. Stuck notes and missing notes are very common. There is a reason why many of the music-related apps have a very easy to get to PANIC button.

Randy

matrix · Joined: Aug 28, 2005 Posts: 68 Location: USA

You might want to take a look at the following:

http://m.matrixsynth.com/2012/10/innerclock-systems-runs-sync-timing.html

http://m.matrixsynth.com/2012/10/poor-midi-timing-and-note-jitter-in-ios.html

David Lackey of Innerclock Systems, who specializes in sync and timing, chimed in. Also see the corresponding Facebook thread linked in the posts. As with any instrument it just depends on how you plan to use it.

matrix · Joined: Aug 28, 2005 Posts: 68 Location: USA

You are welcome!

GovernorSilver · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:36 pm Post subject:

Hmm... complaints about iPad MIDI performance are few and far between here at electro-music.com.

I guess nobody here syncs external MIDI sequencers/arps to iPad MIDI sequencer output.

Keysandslots · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 6:29 am Post subject:

I'm thinking maybe not very many people here are using the iPad as an integral part of their setup.

Randy

GovernorSilver · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:30 am Post subject:

matrix · Joined: Aug 28, 2005 Posts: 68 Location: USA

I use mine mainly three ways, one as an editor for my synths:

http://m.matrixsynth.com/search/label/M%20Editor
http://m.matrixsynth.com/search/label/iPad%20Editors

Two, to sequence external synths - mainly with Little MIDI Machine and PolyStepArp.

And three for the stand alone synths on it - Sunrizer, NLog Pro, Magellan, Animoog and so on.

You can find a ton of posts via the iOS label here:
http://m.matrixsynth.com/search/label/iOS

Check out Rheyene:

http://m.matrixsynth.com/search?q=RheyneMusic&max-results=20&by-date=true

matrix · Joined: Aug 28, 2005 Posts: 68 Location: USA

Oh, and when Division 6 comes out with their MIDI to CV modules, I'll be using it with Liine's Lemur to control my modular.

http://m.matrixsynth.com/2012/06/cv-engine-new-modules-in-works-from.html

EdisonRex · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 5:19 pm Post subject:

Everlost · Joined: Oct 18, 2012 Posts: 2 Location: Italy

thanks for the reply,
this forum doesn't notify your posts Confused

anyway i'm just bought a powered usb hub ,camera connection kit and i've bought
garageband,it sound good and latency is pretty low ( for a tablet)
i don't think is a great substitute of a notebook but for a little use in live (
only a piano and some backing tracks )is quite good.
now i must think to play the click for the drummer,
you think that a jack / RCA cable and 2 panned tracks in GB can do it?