My name is Craig, I'm from South Wales in the UK & I handle lead vocals & rhythm guitar in a band called the long tenon (link in signature
).I recently splashed out on a shiny new top spec Ipad Air, and after browsing these forums and various reviews, I took the plunge and paid for the full version of Auria. I was pretty shocked to find that my existing PC audio interface (alesis io4) worked more or less out of the box via USB & the camera connector... I'm used to the weird and wonderful world of PC/windows based recording in nuendo / cubase where I'd often spend as much time trying to get things working correctly than I actually would recording anything - I'm sold on the Mac philosophy of things just working and not crashing.
The plan is to use the ipad for live band recordings eventually, but in the short term it will be mainly used to provide a click for our drummer and backing tracks - sampled drum loops, backing vocals and other bits - to augment what we're playing. The Alesis i04 has 4 outputs but I thought it'd be a good idea to have more just in case, so I snapped up an ex-demo presonus 1818vsl at a decent price.
I'm assuming the presonus will work fine without a hub as it's self-powered?
Last night I made a start on merging all the existing backing tracks, splicing them together into one project & mixing down each channel individually for export as wav files.
unfortunately these (x4) wav files are approx. 250MB each, which wouldn't be a problem if I could use removable storage... but uploading them to dropbox on my home ADSL connection took forever, and downloading to the ipad via the import functionality in Auria kept falling over / timing out.
Does anyone have a better way of getting files from PC to Ipad? Or should I be looking at compressing the files I have?
And if you use your Ipad live, how reliable has your Ipad/Auria combination been so far?
ta
