Zoom H4n Ipad Garageband

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The Zoom H4n The gold standard in portable recording The H4n Handy Recorder has long been a favorite of audio and video aficionados everywhere. It offers four tracks of simultaneous recording, a built-in X/Y stereo microphone, and advanced features such as time stamping, phantom power and mid-side (MS) decoding, as well as onboard multi-effects and guitar/bass amp modeling. The Zoom H4n Pro kills two birds with one stone (as you capture the sound of the ambient bird chirps) by combining an XY stereo pair and a recording device. Core Sound OctoMic: The Core Sound OctoMic (link to check price on Core Sound website) is an 8-diaphragm ambisonic transducer. This “microphone” is a serious feat of engineering. Recording Multi-track with Ipad and Zoom H6. While working on my new Subaqueous Album, I came up with an idea. I have had the Zoom H4n for years and needed to upgrade. You can easily connect this to your laptop and use it as a soundcard, or straight into your Ipad.

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What is Audiobus? — Audiobus isan award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you useyour other music apps together. Chain effects on your favouritesynth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app likeGarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface outputfor each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive asynth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDIkeyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear.And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.

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Does anyone know if the Zoom R8 works as a controller for the iPad, specifically GarageBand and Cubasis and others? Maybe even AUM?

I believe it works for Auria,

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Zoom H4n Ipad Garageband 7

  • I tried it a couple years ago and never got it working...but a lot has changed in the iOS world since then

  • I'll try to hook up and give it a go. Love my Zoom R8.

  • @Trueyorky said:
    I'll try to hook up and give it a go. Love my Zoom R8.

    That would be rad. I'm planning on picking one up tomorrow -- maybe.

  • @mistercharlie it's a really versatile bit of kit and probably under-rated by many folks. It does so much and has such a logical workflow.

  • These have issues with clock drift that make it a pain to use in the long run:
    http://zoomforum.us/viewtopic.php?t=17190

  • @Trueyorky said:
    @mistercharlie it's a really versatile bit of kit and probably under-rated by many folks. It does so much and has such a logical workflow.

    Why do you prefer it over the iPad for recording? For me it seems like it would be easier to just get down to recording, instead of futzing with a million options. Kind of the reasons I prefer a plain old guitar amp over BIAS FX for most things.

  • Any luck with the R8 and ipad? I am close to buying a Pro 12.9 and have the R8 already...I had been wondering if it would work

  • It works with AUM, but not GB or Cubasis. That's down to Cubasis and GB though--they don't seem to be controllable with any hardware surface. If you use Auria, you should be good though. (I bought an R8 yesterday, so I tested it out).

  • Here's a possible tip for R8 users. Mine wouldn't power on if hooked up to an iPad using just the new USB 3 CCK, and connected to power using a 12-watt iPad charger.

    It would start up fine connected the the USB port of my Mac, or to the iPad via a regular powered USB hub. I concluded it was drawing too much power to even boot.

    On a hunch, I switched the R8's Phantom Power option from 48v to 24v. Now it starts up using the CCK just fine, meaning it can work with my iPad. I also swapped the batteries at the same time, but that shouldn't make any difference.

    It seems odd, but it also worked. Also odd is that I don't use Phantom Power, and it wasn't switched on. Still, maybe this helps someone.