New iPad - Now what?

Thanks for tips Surfer, any others that come to mind please let me know.

Anyone using the Omnisphere TR let me know if you’re succesfully recording automation into Cubase.

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Lemur from Liine is brilliant ! Can someone help me to program the “fader bank” on mackie control ?
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Must have app for me is
Band of the day

Get to know a new band every, uh, day.
Makes me feel young and, uh, hip.

“Can someone help me to program the “fader bank” on mackie control ?”
found it ! lemur is such a powerfull controller !

I’m a few weeks with the IPad here an I’m trying to get a few concepts straight can someone explain how this is not a tragically flawed device without a USB port? How would I do the following

I want to load some songs onto the hard drive

I flying next week and want to rip my DVDs to watch

I have a Streamworks Cubase tutorial that I want toput on the drive

how are a these things done? Is it seriously a kludgey work around using custom adaptors ? I could really be missing something basic so please straighten me out

It is a tragically flawed device…

ITunes or or apps like “Phone drive”

Get to know iTunes.
I assume you have the latest version of iTunes installed on your PC? With the iPad connected one transfers files (movies, photos, videos, mp3s, PDFs etc) back and forth through the iTunes interface. Either by “synching” or drag and drop.

On the PC iTunes click on the device. Across the top are the tabs for various things.
In the left hand column click on the device name and you can see folders for movies. Just drag an drop.

A very useful app is called GoodReader. It can read many types of files, including zip files! download from the web, and play back most media.

With iTunes PC select the app tab across the top, scroll down until you see app sharing and there you can also transfer files in and out of the iPad

I was confused and frustrated as hell about simple file handling also until I got used to the iTunes centered approach.

If you right click on the device name you can easily back up the iPad to your PC.

The DCC (Digital Camera Connection) kit is handy for grabbing photos off of your camera and gives you a USB that some audio interfaces can use - only externally powered ones, the iPad isn’t designed to power USB devices.

I use MediaCoder - more than a universal audio/video transcoder - MediaCoder official website to convert movie files. There is an iPad specific version but the free one works fine. You need to convert whatever you ripped to h.264 video, AAC audio, in an mp4 container. Then just drag and dropped it to the movie folder below the iPad device name in the left column of iTunes on your PC. it will show up in the videos app.

Mediacoder can translate anything to anything but can be a challenge to learn. That’s why they sell a stripped down version pre-configured to make iPad compatible movies. Free is better for me.

Thanks all for some great ideas. I never had iTunes since an initial install years ago when it first came out. Admittedly I never gave it a real chance but back then I got tired of it always popping up while online. Surfer,so when I drag and drop am I really putting files on the hard drive or just some cloud server? Thanks again

Unless you specifically enabled cloud storage, $$$, it is going on your device’s ssd. Note: drag and drop is the exception not the rule. In general you’ll sync folders. Best understood if you install iTunes, attach the iPad, start reading the help files and use google to search for questions. Like I said it all seemed ridiculous to me until I gave up and did it the iCult way.

I hadn’t used iTunes for years before I needed it for the tablet either. It’s better than it was but still weird to my PC mindset.

This is good to get feedback from you on this. I will try this later today. I was hesitant to go to Apple sites for info as I didn’t want the whole apple cultist mindset.Thanks .

I’ve also installed Sugar Sync for cloud storage for work. So far apps I use daily are Steinberg Aoo, Omnisohere app and Tunein Radio. Much more to learn

I love tunein radio! Bought the paid pro version so I can record. Favorite stations are Radio Paradise and KCRW out of Santa Monica. (KCRW Has a dedicated free app that lets you hear past shows)

Cheapskate me even sprang for the $10/mo for the Spotify service. It also works on the Onkyo receiver we got last year. Between the two my music purchases have dropped to almost nil.

Make Music! :sunglasses:

^ :laughing:

This is eating hours of my day:

The company uses the so called freemium business model: the basic kit is free pay extra for better mixers, synths and effects.
Here’s a soundcloud page devoted to it.
http://soundcloud.com/retronyms/favorites

And a video

The free bit is more than enough for me.

Been reading about the iPad’s Audio Copy functionality. Since iOS doesn’t expose the underlying file system to the user making music with more than one application can be a real PITA of transferring files to and from iTunes. But Audio Copy allows one to copy wav and such not through the clip board as if they were text or images.

Very cool.
Use apps like Ampkit or amplitude to record guitars. Recorders for vocals glue the beats and live together in the various mini-DAWs available.

All the pieces are there and cheap and fun.

By the way, to transfer files use DropBox. I do and it’s easy.

Oh my. There goes the remainder of my free time. :open_mouth:

C’mon Steiny!!!
Just add a lil MIDI.

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