Whenever I‘m jamming there are those moments at which I want to hit a button to record all individual inputs from my MOTU Ultralite MK4. It works nicely with an IPad + Auria App, but since the input is in use for the Audio Interface, I have to frequently charge it, which sometimes leads to either an empty battery or it‘s elsewhere after using it for a different purpose. My Notebook is in use elsewhere as well most of the time and I‘m wondering if you know of any straightforward solution to a multitrack recording device which I‘d just plug my MOTU in?
How many outputs? MONO/STEREO? Let’s see if we can stay in USB land first. Less cables the better
If iPad Pro (no model cited) you can get a USB-C hub that allows charging and separate USB options (and even ethernet, micro SD/regular SD cards, etc…)
Older iPad can use camera connection kit as it supports charging via lightning cable and has a USB-A (2.0) port.
Outputs don‘t matter at all, since the MOTU is able to route by itself. It‘s just about recording the inputs.
Something exclusive would be great. A modern IPad Pro would be waste to use it only for recording. An older one (IPad 2 for example) might not have enough space.
Not sure which cheap Android device would allow to connect my MOTU USB interface and the power adapter at the same time. Also I don‘t know a multi recording app.
Really tricky. A Raspberry Pi would somewhat be too hacky while I can‘t spend much time on something like this.
If you are already using an ipad, your best solution is to just find a way to insert charging into the connection chain.
Otherwise you would have to have all the physical outputs connected to a recording device and the mixer set accordingly. A small recording device that takes an adat input would be cool, not sure if they exist though.
ADAT is already in use with another MOTU interface.
I found the adapter which seems to allow charging and connecting a device at the same time.
Will purchase and try with the IPad.
In case I want to use an old IPhone for this (e.g. the 6S), would you know a stable app which allows multi track recording with ease? I tried Cubasis 3, but it‘s really unreliable as of today.
While researching I found out that it seems like all the lightning-splitter do only support audio phones as an input device. Looks like this solution won‘t work.
