MannequinRaces wrote:Interfaces like this bother me because you know in a year or two it's going to be obsolete gathering dust and delegated to an expensive paper weight!
That's kinda how I view the ipad.
I feel the same way about the iPad as well. It comes to a point where a decision must be made if the investment is worth it or not and knowing a better product is already in the pipeline.
For some reason I also feel like buying digital guitar pedals is kinda the same thing, albeit not to the same degree. Take for example buying the new Mobius pedal from Strymon; you know damn well in like three years processors are going to be more powerful and they'll be able to harness even more algorithms and computations per second, etc.. The sounds will be digitally processed but sound even closer to analog (if that's what they're going for). I have an old Boss multi-effects pedal from the late 90's and that thing sounds like a POS.
Impaktor, I just downloaded it and Im in love. Of course it has certain limits and is probably not usable in a live setting, but it's real fun when sitting at home alone.
i have no interest in digital effects after the nightmare i was in with the fender mustang amp i really just want a simple recording software so i can put songs together the features they all come with turn me off the problem is i have no idea how to get riffs from my amp into the computer yet im not askin for the answer to that im just letting you guys know how little experience i have recording so im guessing whatever i record this winter will be complete crap but ill figure out what i need as i go along what im not going to do is plug directly into the ipad and use modelled amps and effects i just wish there was a thread in ilf where you guys rap about home recording and what gear you have and gas for and where i can ask stupid questions
holy synchronicity i downloaded samplr to my ipod this morning stripes gave me an idea at her show the other night involving an ipod strapped to mic stand and samples through the pickups and effects now i aint gotta sing
This is a little OT, but I'd like to share this anyway because it took be a while to realize how to do this. And there seems to be some confusion about it in this thread. Like many of you I don't like to use processors (like a Pod or vst plugins) beacause I love my amp and my pedals. So I'm using my pedals and my amp like this, without waking up the neighbors:
Guitar > Pedals > Amp > speaker cable to DI-box with speaker simulation (Palmer the Junction) > Sound interface > iPad/Garageband
The DI-box also goes through to an attenuator (Weber minimass) which feeds the signal to the speaker (which I can choke if I want to). Only speaker cables used here as well.
ryan summit wrote:the one i got is just a sampling pad for the ipod 15 orange boxes you can assign clips too
Sounds like iMaschine. How's the lag? It's really annoying both on my iPad and on my iPhone (before it got stolen, FUCK!!). Out of these last suggestions I tried Wablet and really like it. Nice for droneydronezzz. Might use it for background when playing reverb-o-delay-guitar.
