Really great tutorial by the folks over at Create Digital Music. See how you can connect a midi interface to your iPad. You can then control your iPad with an external midi keyboard. You can also use the iPad to control your midi hardware.
I’m using a Micro X Korg as a midi controller for my iPad. Works great. Just connect the USB to the camera connection kit adapter and you’re good to go!
Alesis iO Dock. Connect all of your audio gear to the entire world of apps for iPad.
The iO Dock is the first device that enables anyone with an iPad or iPad 2 to create, produce, and perform music with virtually any pro audio gear or instruments. The iO Dock is a universal docking station specifically designed for the iPad, and it gives musicians, recording engineers, and music producers the connectivity they need to create and perform with iPad. Connect all your pro audio gear to virtually any app in the App Store with the iO Dock.
FLEXIBLE FUNCTIONALITY
Songwriters, music producers and performers of all kinds will find that the iO Dock connects the iPad’s powerful processor, touch-screen interface and extensive library of apps to their collection of microphones, instruments, professional speaker and PA systems, MIDI controllers, sound modules, video projectors and much more.
With the iO Dock and an iPad, musicians and producers can record, perform, craft and create music in virtually any situation or location. Built to accommodate all current app-development standards including Core MIDI, the iO Dock is a universal device that bridges your choice of music-creation apps, instruments, and devices.
COMPLETE CONNECTIVITY
The iO Dock provides microphone and instrument users with two combination XLR and 1/4-inch inputs, each with its own gain control and switchable phantom power for condenser microphones. Guitarists and bassists will appreciate the iO Dock’s guitar-direct switch, enabling them to play, perform and record right into amplifier- and effects-modeling apps. Bands can connect outputs from their mixer and easily record their performances and rehearsals or use the iO Dock as a metronome or loop-playback device. Producers can use the iO Dock’s MIDI jacks to sequence external keyboards, samplers, drum machines and synthesizers, or perform using the iO Dock as the sound module and their favorite MIDI-compliant keyboard, drum pad or other controller. An assignable 1/4-inch footswitch input enables remote control of any app-defined function such as stop/start or record. Users can also connect the iO Dock to their Mac or PC using the USB port to send MIDI back and forth for creative, new applications of the iPad and computer used in tandem.
Users can connect the iO Dock’s stereo pair of 1/4-inch main outputs to studio monitors for critical listening, or to PA systems for use in performance settings. They can monitor on headphones, and independently control the levels of the two outputs, each on its own knob. Recording musicians will appreciate the iO Dock’s direct-monitor switch, which enables them to toggle between the incoming and playback signal on their headphones. Rounding out the iO Dock’s output section is a composite video connector, enabling users to employ the iO Dock as a source for video projection behind bands on stage, or for connection to most televisions and computer monitors.
RUGGED RELIABILITY
The iO Dock was built for the real world. Whether you’re keeping it in the safety of the studio or taking it out for recording or performance use in the club or on tour, the iO Dock will not only deliver the connectivity you need for audio applications, but it also serves as a rugged, protective case for the iPad. The iO Dock completely houses the iPad on the bottom and three side surfaces. It also encases the iPad’s screen in a protective bezel on three of its four edges, further shielding the mobile computing device from the potential for damage in punishing environments.
The applications of the iPad for music creation, production, and performance are limited only by your creativity. As an imaginative, cutting-edge music maker, the iO Dock empowers you to seamlessly connect the world of pro audio gear and instruments to the iPad and the massive collection of apps.
Features:
View your iPad in portrait or landscape
Upright position for viewing
Inclined position so you can type or surf comfortably
Use with your dock cable (available separately) to charge and sync
Secure non-slip rubber pads prevent slipping and sliding
Griffin iPad Loop is available for $5.99 HERE
Shapemix is the only app to give you access to INDIVIDUAL CLIPS. The most innovative remixing and mashup app to bring out the rock star in everyone! Shapemix provides aspiring singers and DJs the ability to combine individual clips from different songs, create original remixes and mashups, and publish instantly to Facebook.
Features
* Vocal record – add your voice to any song you create, or replace the vocal track of one of our songs with your own. Sing-a-long with your favorite artists in a duet, as a backup singer or take over singing the lead vocal.
* Mix in space – See each individual audio track move on your screen, perfectly in time with the song.
* Mix in time – Manipulate individual tracks and clips to show your skills.
* Multi-touch – Move and manipulate 8 audio channels independently
* Automatic pitch adjustment for mixing, and pitch control at the clip level with Shapemix’s proprietary pitch adjustment algorithm.
* Adjust the BPM on the fly, and add effects to each of the tracks – reverb, delay, flanger and low pass – to create an original sound.
* Share mixes in the Shapemix community on Facebook and climb to the top of the Shapemix charts.
* Free tracks included with the app to get you started
* To enhance mixes, additional songs and loop kits are available for purchase
This app is no longer available
Video says prototype but this product is currently available. I saw it at Winter NAMM 2011. Very nice.
In many ways, the iPad is a terrific device for reading music, thanks to its slick design, light weight, and excellent battery life. However, one drawback has been the fact that you still need to use a finger to touch or swipe the screen to “turn” pages, which can be a distraction for musicians who need both hands to play their instruments.
At AirTurn, we’re developing a Bluetooth version of our wireless, hands free automatic page turner that will be compatible with computers equipped with Bluetooth, including the iPad. You’ll be able to turn pages by tapping a footswitch to turn pages forwards, and another one for turning pages backwards. Expected availability of the Bluetooth AirTurn is Q4 2010.
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