iPad Amp Sims

[paisleywookiee]

If built in amps sound good, they are basically NAM models so they should have this issue as well. If this occurs while using some NAM models but not all of them there maybe problems with the actual model. Instead of assuming you can send us the models that have the noise and we can check what is wrong with them.

Sorry for the way late response; forgot to update. So yeah, nothing wrong with Gigfast Lite at all; works great! There was something in my signal chain that day that was causing a ground loop.

Holy shit, NAM fucking rules. Wasn't really happy until I captured some of my own stuff, and it's so very good. Gigfast Lite is cool, albeit pretty barebones. I would love it if you guys could find a way to sync presets over iCloud. That'd be very handy for me.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Ok, as I might have some plans to get an iPad (Samsung just sucks unless you spend as much as for an iPad - and you still don't get workable latency figures), I think I can as well ask here:

What's the most comfortable compact iPad interface? Needs to run on buspower (should be not much of an issue), needs to have a decent Hi-Z input (obviously), needs to have a powerful headphone out and - possibly most of all - it needs low latency operation.
What's the rough latency numbers in average these days? Last time I tried some stuff (admittedly ages ago), it ended up being something like 15ms or so, hence a no-go. As I'd play through headphones pretty much all the time, I'd rather have something like 5ms. Is that realistic or is something like USB-class-compliant-with-CoreAudio what I'm looking at?

 

[dws2384]

Ok, as I might have some plans to get an iPad (Samsung just sucks unless you spend as much as for an iPad - and you still don't get workable latency figures), I think I can as well ask here:

What's the most comfortable compact iPad interface? Needs to run on buspower (should be not much of an issue), needs to have decent Hi-Z input (obviously), needs to have a powerful headphone out and - possibly most of all - it needs low latency operation.
What's the rough latency numbers in average these days? Last time I tried some stuff (admittedly ages ago), it ended up being something like 15ms or so, hence a no-go. As I'd play through headphones pretty much all the time, I'd rather have something like 5ms. Is that realistic or is something like USB-class-compliant-with-CoreAudio what I'm looking at?

RME babyface pro FS

Expensive but worth every cent. I went through a bunch of ‘good’ stuff before I got there and wish I had my time and money back (motu, audient, focusrite) RME stuff is the only one I’ve had no issue getting latency as low as high end modellers.

One major benefit for iOS stuff is TotalMix is available too. A big issue I’ve found with class compliant stuff is the system volume isn’t adjustable. So playing with anything like YouTube backing tracks they are always hitting 0db and cant be adjusted. TotalMix allows system volume to be adjusted in relation to everything else.

Sub 5ms is no problem at all if you’re running 32 samples (or even 64) , which is a breeze on the new iPad pros. It’s also built from a brick of machined aluminum and feels like it would survive a nuclear blast. Bus powered too.

Very good headphone outputs that can drive my 300ohm HD650 just fine from the 1/4 out. The 1/8 out is made for lower impedance phones

 

[Sascha Franck]

RME babyface pro FS

Nah, defenitely overkill for my purposes. I need something small (think iRig - just that it shouldn't be an iRig). Too expensive as well (even my main interface is way cheaper).

Sub 5ms is no problem at all if you’re running 32 samples (or even 64) , which is a breeze on the new iPad pros.

I take it that you can by now set the buffersize yourself? Hasn't been possible the last time I tried (as said, that's ages ago).

 

[dws2384]

Nah, defenitely overkill for my purposes. I need something small (think iRig - just that it shouldn't be an iRig). Too expensive as well (even my main interface is way cheaper).



I take it that you can by now set the buffersize yourself? Hasn't been possible the last time I tried (as said, that's ages ago).

Ahhh. Thats out of my wheelhouse. I used an irig when they first came out, one of the headphone jack ones, and it was so bad I didn’t use iOS guitar stuff 5 years at least.

Yes, you can set the buffer in anything I’ve used recently - Tonex, NAM (gigfast NAMxt), AUM, Audiobus, logic, loopy pro.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I used an irig when they first came out, one of the headphone jack ones, and it was so bad I didn’t use iOS guitar stuff 5 years at least.

That's exactly why I said "just that it shouldn't be an iRig".

So, do interfaces come with their own drivers by now or are they using Core Audio? I have never seen anything like an iOS driver download option anywhere... with vanilla Core Audio, 5ms isn't exactly realistic, regardless of the used interface.

 

[paisleywookiee]

That's exactly why I said "just that it shouldn't be an iRig".

So, do interfaces come with their own drivers by now or are they using Core Audio? I have never seen anything like an iOS driver download option anywhere... with vanilla Core Audio, 5ms isn't exactly realistic, regardless of the used interface.

They’re still using Core Audio, but you can now set your buffer in most stuff. I’ll have to see what I’m getting with my iRig HD2, but yes I too want to move away from that. It’s USB-C, but I think there’s definitely better out there (without breaking the bank).

 

[Los-D]

My experience if it helps: since my iPad Mini sits mostly in my desk, I run it through a Motu M2 + Monitors. Works great this way.

I also bought a Positive Grid Riff (which incidentally I don’t recommend) as a travel rig with + M-wave chocolate pedal and headphones (sounds really good, but has a well-known annoying noise gate issue).

 

[2dor]

Holy shit, NAM fucking rules.

Welcome aboard

 

[Sascha Franck]

They’re still using Core Audio, but you can now set your buffer in most stuff.

Hm ok, thanks. So it's pretty likely that lowest latencies won't get much below, say, 7-8ms. At least these are pretty typical numbers when running all sorts of interfaces without dedicated drivers.
Hm, I could actually just try things out with my Motu M2 and the iPads of my wife or son. The Motus are generally doing very well when it comes to latency, but I never tried without using the dedicated driver.

Now that iOS and macOS are getting closer and closer to each other, I'm actually wondering whether they'll come up with some "driver adaption" thing one day, allowing you to somehow install a driver meant to work in macOS under iOS as well. That'd be fantastic.