Monday, April 16, 2012

i-o Dock & Garage Band

Since I've married up the iPad with the Alesis i-O Dock, it's been in the hands of the students on a steady basis, given that all fine arts student are composing and recording their collaborative works. Although limited to only two inputs at a time and a maximum of eight tracks, it does exactly what it is supposed to do with relative ease. Moreover, the Garage Band sounds are amazing and the "Smart" instruments is a very cool feature that enables non-players of those instruments access to inclusion. Ultra portable and easy to use, this setup has has become the 'go to' DAW in my department. I doubt that my other hardware / software DAW's will see much action from now on.

On a related note, I have purchased a usb & card reader adapter on eBay for $4 that attaches to the iPad, in order to exchange data and expand the memory beyond the internal 16GB.

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