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My iPad Air has only one (first Air M1 released). And yes, I wasn't sure the little thingie would work with the sleeve it was a total success.. 🤣

I have one of those for my AIR M1, important that it's not being pulled in any way by the cables and accessories, could potentially ruin the jack in the iPad. The one I have is by happy coincidence being perfectly squeezed in-between the pad and the sleeve I have (it has a plastic piece attached to it probably designed just for this...).

Ipad has one port only, to feed it with power and connect a USB accessory you need a hub of some sort. I do the same even with my AIR M1, there's ONE single USB C on it, which is kind of a limitation in this context. With the Camera Kit dongle for the lightning connector iPads (pre M processor) there was a power input and a USB on the dongle, which made it less important with a hub, HOWEVER with some USB interfaces (Audient for example) you still need a hub to power the interface (I have both the ID4 MkII and the EVO 4 and use with iPad in different settings). I also have a Volt 2, and a UR44c, which both inludes support for external power, but even using those a hub is needed if the Camera Kit is not used, in order to power the iPad.

Sounds like dropping a mail to MTG would be a good idea ?

I think he builds them in batches every now and then, we have been in communication a couple of times. Yeah, you can program standard midi stuff in it, from the page: - Preset mode sends program-change-per-MIDI-channel as well as Bank Select on all 16 channels simultaneously -- per preset. - Send 180 bytes of MIDI data of your choice ...controller data, system exclusive, RPN, NRPN or anything! ... per Preset. (v3.00+) - Holds 200 Presets. (v3.00+)

I've always said that about Bernard Taupin, he earns a pretty decent amount of Eltoh John's success, yet nobody has a clue (until Rocketman was released) about his existence, amazing situation, yes please!

Nobody is interested in a person that seems needy or "is on the outlook for something", independence is as a strength, and the biggest aphrodisiac you have is to not show any interest, and to not become a total bubblegum as soon as you get some attention... Lay low, let them come to you, play it cool, and they will throw themselves in your arms in the end! I just wish it worked the same with old keyboards, wouldn't mind a nice well kept beautiful Rhodes showing up on my doorstep wihtout too much effort... hehe!

For years I've been thinking about grabbing one of these to make life a lot easier in mentioned dept. http://www.musictechnologiesgroup.com/midipatch.htm

For studio monitoring, check Kali Audio, great stuff for the money, and on a very tight budget, check Presonus Eris series, as well their studio series which are one step up from Eris but still not very expensive.

It's a give and take, I have tried most of the iOS DAWs, if not all, one needs to pinpoint ones main needs, and choose based on that, there is no holy grail unfortunately (reservation for Logic that I have, as mentioned, not tested as it was released after I gave up and went with a Surface + Studio One instead). N-Track was one of the most "complete" when it came to the more complex advanced things, like tempo, sync, etc. but was not that great in general workflow etc. (imho). I think it was the built in metronome that could not be routed to anything else than master out, or if it was just added to all outputs (used an interface with many outs), or something like that, which was pretty annoying and incomprehensible, among things.

N-Track.. From the user manual: "n-Track Studio can be synced to other audio programs or to external devices using MIDI Clock or the MIDI Time Code (MTC) protocol. The program can act both as master or as slave, respectively generating or syncing to an incoming signal."

Dang, "Order confirmation, MPC Key 37" in my inbox...

And no iOS!

Ooooops! Inspired by a conversation here at the forum during the last days, I just clicked "Buy" on an Akai MPC Key 37... Do I need it... Hmm let me think... again.... ABSOLUTELY NOT...! But could I have use of it, oh yes, totally!

It'd be fabulous if the Roland Cloud became available for iOS!

Unless you go 18807... but then you may need an extender to make it a bit higher, like the 20002 or in that direction.

I am totally biased, but I was in your situation 2-3 years ago, and ended up being happy owner of a Kurzweil PC3 76, if I had known better I would have tried to source the PC3K 76, which also can handle user samples, as it opens up for a quite a bit wider palette, not that the non K has a small pallet, contrary, but still. I love my PC3 and the keybed is imho the perfect compromise for playing both synth, electromechanical sounds, and piano. A tad too heavy for organ, but I do that on another machine anyway, and as the PC3 is multitimbral on 16 parts it's easy to just jack in another midi board and then BAM you have two "synths".

Joey was definitely slaying, calmly enjoying the view from the top!

Wasn't the USP here that one could add new Zenology sounds to them, kind of AstroLab style, from Roland Cloud in some way?

Yup, and for sure there's options, this thread has made me start GASing on an MPC...

Got a QY700, amazing machine, non volatile memory too, though back up save on floppy is still a good thing to do. Which reminds me that my floppy has stopped working, looking into getting a USB/SD solution instead.

Envelope sustain to keep the note running even with a short trig, and trigger using any midi pad controller sending note number, but yeah, I'm sure there's other ways of doing it with less deep diving...

If I understand things correctly there's even an auto load option making it load the samples when the machine boots up, how neat!

I will have to correct you here, XV-5080 is indeed a sample player into which you can load up to 128 mb (SIMM) of samples. (Doubt beat me to Google it...)

Was it Roland XV-5080 that could load user samples as well? What about sourcing a used 5080 and any midi drumpad with MIDI DIN ? At least then you get some gear, for not a fortune, that you can have good use of in other contexts later on as well.