PSA: try connecting your USB enabled audio devices to your phone/tablet!

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I may be late to the party here, but I feel compelled to share anyway…

My mind has been blown in the past few days as I have just realized how easy and convenient it is to connect so many of my audio devices directly to my iPhone 15 Pro and iPad Pro.

With a single USB cable, I can connect my Digitakt II, or my OP-1 Field, or my Roland S-1, or a bunch of other devices I own to the iPhone or iPad and:

  • record ideas super quickly and easily from the devices into the iPhone/iPad in lossless quality using the voice memos app. all those recordings are then instantly available on all devices. This is especially great because I like to just play in realtime away from my computer/interface and I often lose ideas before I can get back to my computer to record them.

  • record source material from the iPhone/iPad into the connected device. For samplers, this is a godsend!

Anyway, don’t sleep on this like I did! For a long time I wondered what the big deal was about everything having built in interfaces, and I didn’t understand why everyone made such a big fuss about USB C vs Lightning. But now I get it!

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It’s amazing what power we hold in the palms of our hands. :slight_smile:

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You’re kidding? :laughing:

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I got a fender Mustang headphone amp for practicing guitar and was pleasantly surprised to discover that when it’s plugged in via usb my android phone uses the audio from the amp when recording a video.

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Don’t tell him about Koala and the SP404/2, too much joy can be a bad thing.

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Just googled… holy crap!

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My laptop broke at the same time I sold MPC Live and got rid of Maschine+ so no more music production :disappointed:

Then I remembered maybe using my phone could be possible? I have a Samsung and Analog Heat MK2 and a couple of HW synths.

Could I record directly onto the phone via the Elektron Heat? (as an audio interface)

Maybe get ableton note or something to facilitate it?

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Looks like class compliant usb audio was added to AH Mk2 in a previous firmware update, so I believe that should work.

Don’t think Ableton Note is available on Android though, so you’d probably have to find an alternative app.

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Ah!

Ableton Note seemed perfectly uncluttered, iOS only yes.

Any other suggestions? I liked Cubasis 3 on ipad but that is too much for a phone. Audio recording mainly.

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I’m a long time iOS user, so hopefully others can chime in with suggestions…

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I’m on iOS, but I believe for android Koala Sampler is a good bet.