today i'm looking at how you can turn your ipad or your ios device like your iphone into a home
recording studio so in this video i'm going to be recording some bass guitar and guitar into an
audio interface that's connected to my ipad but this will work for an iphone as well so you can
get great quality guitar bass guitar vocals or whatever type of audio recording you want using
your ios device i'm zane welcome to audio tech tv where it's my goal to help you conquer the tech
so you can unleash your creative beast and first let's look at some of the gear that you're going
to need to get started with and links to all of this gear mentioned are down in the description so
here's the gear list of course you'll need an ipad or an iphone you'll need a usb interface plus the
cables for whatever instrument or microphone you might be recording for this video i'm using the
audient id4 mk2 which is an ios compatible device and you can use whatever one you have but not all
audio interfaces are compatible with ios so if you are going to be purchasing one make sure
that's something that you check first you'll also need an apple lightning to usb 3 camera adapter
a powered usb hub an app for recording the audient id4 comes with cubasis 3le which is great
but your ipad also comes with garageband so you might want to start with garageband if
you don't have another app you're going to need some headphones or studio monitors so you can
hear the music that you're making and now there are some optional items for ipad music production
and those are an external hard drive and a midi controller and these two things are optional
like i said but they might become must-haves the more you get into ipad music production we're not
going to use either of those things in this video but i will be covering them in other videos so be
sure to subscribe if that's something you're interested in and the first video in this ipad
music production series went over the full detail of connecting all of this stuff to your ipad so
if you want the more in-depth detail i'll link to that video down in the description but basically
you connect your audio interface to the powered usb hub connect the hub to the lightning to usb
camera adapter and then connect that to your ipad make sure the power is turned on on your usb hub
and you should be connected now that it's all connected i'm going to open the daw app on my
ipad for this video i'm using garageband i'm going to be doing another video on cubasis so if you're
interested in that be sure to subscribe to the channel and while you're down there you might as
well give this video a thumbs up as well so let's jump into garageband when you open garageband for
the first time it may ask you for permission to access your microphone and stuff like that so
be sure you allow it and it's likely going to look something like this when you first get in
so what we're going to want to do is create a song but first where do we want to create it and you'll
notice on the left hand side here you have your locations if you don't see locations then you
can click the little down arrow beside it and it's going to open up the different locations
so we have our icloud on my ipad and you can even look at recently deleted and if you had
an external hard drive connected you would be able to use that as well and i'm going to get
into that in another video like i said earlier but for this we're going to go with on my ipad
and you can see here we have a garageband for ios folder i'm going to click on that and i'm going to
create a song in here and now if you didn't have that garageband folder you can always create it
by clicking on the folder icon at the top and then you would give your folder a name so now i'm going
to click on create a song it's going to bring us to a screen something like this so you have some
options here for what you want to record first your first track that you're going to be recording
you can see you have audio recorder so if you're recording your vocals or maybe an acoustic guitar
strings which i think is a midi instrument bass is another midi instrument guitar midi instrument
you have a lot of midi options in there but for this i'm going to record my guitar into an amp
and it's going to be a bass amp so if we just clicked on amp like this i will click on base
up in the corner and now it's going to give me a basic bass amp to record into and we can adjust
all of these dials on this amp just like it was a normal guitar amp and you can see you have guitar
pedals down at the bottom you can turn those on and off by clicking on the little button and you
can even add or change these so if you wanted to add one you click in this empty spot here
and then you would select a guitar pedal from these selections down at the bottom
and you can see it's going to open another spot where you can add it if you wanted to
get rid of it you just click and drag it off to the side and before you start recording
you might want to use the tuner so if you just touch that pitchfork up in the top right corner
it opens up the tuner and you can tune your guitar that way
and now another thing you might need to do depending on your audio interface is
change the input that you're recording so you would click on the little guitar plugin
and then you can see channel you can change that to whatever channel you have to input
i'm recording the bass into input one because i have it connected to a di as this bass has
a bad ground and that d i gets rid of that bad ground but when i record my guitar i'll click
and i'll be changing it to input 2. another thing you might want to enable
is the monitoring so you can hear what you're recording while you record it
and you would just turn that on and then you have a noise gate at the bottom if there's a
lot of noise with whatever you're recording you can use that noise gate if you want or you can
turn it off altogether and another thing we're going to do before we start recording is we're
going to change the tempo of our song now what you want to do is click on the gear icon up in the
top right corner if you're on an iphone i think it's a wrench icon and you can see tempo in there
i'm actually going to use 110 but if you wanted you could just click and adjust that to whatever
you wanted and also if you wanted you could tap your tempo so if you have an idea of
the tempo that you have in mind you would just tap here you can see it adjusts to my tapping
you could also change your time signature in here the key signature
and things like that and then the next thing you might want to adjust is your metronome
and counting so i like to have a count in before it starts recording that means when i hit record
it's going to count me in before it actually starts recording and also i'm going to put the
visual count in on so i can also see it's going to go one two three four and you can change the sound
of your metronome so you can have wood block click hi-hat rim shot no sound and you can change the
level of it that's what that sounds like here's the hi-hat here's the click
i like the wood block so i'm going to go with the wood block and that is all set up now and
you can see i have the metronome turned on because the metronome is blue if yours
isn't blue you can turn it on just by touching that so now i'm ready to hit record and you're
going to have to excuse my timing on this because while i'm doing the screen capture on here there
is some latency so i'm going to try to get used to that latency but we'll see what happens
so i'm just going to hit the red record button
and you can see it stopped at eight bars now if we wanted to change that and if we
want to see the clip that we just recorded we would go over to this icon here you can see
it's like a bunch of lines you would click on that and here's what this sounds like
all right my playing wasn't too far off considering the latency i'm dealing with
now like i said we stopped at eight bars and if we wanted to change that you just click the
little plus sign that's at the end of the ruler there and you can see it's set for eight bars i'm
going to click on that and i'm going to set it for automatic and that way you aren't limiting
how long you can record for it's just going to keep going for as long as you're recording but
if you want to record some loop style audio then you can keep it at eight bars or whatever length
you want and then you have that set length for all of the tracks that you're going to be recording
in so you can see we have our clip in here now and if you just touch it and drag you can drag
it around the timeline however you want also you can drag on the edges and you can shorten the clip
you can see that's shortening the clip you can also make splits so if i wanted to split this clip
right say at that five there i would drag this here i would tap then click
split and now you can see these scissors and all i have to do is just drag the scissors down
now it's created a split so i have two clips now and say i wanted to get rid of this first part i
would just tap delete and you can see there's some other settings that you can do you can turn this
into a loop and that just keeps looping this so if you were to drag on the side it's just going
to continue dragging that loop you could rename your clip so i don't think i gave it a name yeah
it just went with clean combo and i can just call this base one done you can copy and paste clips
so i would just click then copy go over here click paste and you can see i have another clip in there
so i'm going to delete that clip and re-record it and i'm going to show you
another way that we can record now that we're in this timeline view so we could go back to the amp
by clicking up on that amp icon and it takes us back to the amp and we can hit record again
but we can also record right in this timeline here what you want to do is make sure the cursor is
at the beginning or wherever you want to start recording and then i'm going to hit the record
button
all right it took us back to this amp we're going to go back to the timeline and there's our new
clip that we created and if you wanted to access more settings for this track just sort of touch
on the amp over here and then drag to the right and you can see we have some more settings so
we could arm this track for recording or unarm it for recording whatever we want
you can stop the monitoring for this track you can mute it also up at the top you can see there's
an effects button you click on that and you can add different effects for this track
or you can go into the mixer with that other button and this is the mixer settings for
this track you can see the arrow points to this track and you can see down here you have plug-ins
and eq so if i wanted to add some different plug-ins i would just go in here and add those
but now i'm going to record a guitar onto a second track so you can see that we can do
multi-track recording in here and it's very easy
so what we want to do now is click on the plus sign down at the bottom left of the screen and
now we're adding another instrument and i'm just going to add a clean guitar so i could click on
clean there instead of just clicking on the amp so i'm going to click on clean
and here's the amp that they brought us to i'm going to go to the guitar cable and i need to
change this to input 2 because i'm plugged into the di on the audient id4 so now you can hear it
probably out of tune but doesn't matter for what i'm doing here today and i have
everything all set up the same way it was before so i'm just going to hit record now
all right nothing too special there because the latency from this screen capture
is killer but let's go into our timeline and you can see we now have our second audio clip
here and again we can do the same thing like we did before we can move it around if we wanted
if you pinch the screen in or out it shows you more or less of the timeline so i'm going to
pinch it in so we can see our whole recording here and we can keep adding different instruments and
as we go we can add effects we can work with the mixer to change the volume level as you
can see it's very basic and easy connecting an audio interface to your ipad gives you a
home studio that you can bring anywhere if you want more ipad music production videos
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thank you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon