I dont know how I could miss mirack but just recently learned about it! And i heard a lot of ppl writing that its fun to use on an ipad…
So from time to time I feel really bored working on my imac and when behringer announced their brains module I gave it a thought to build up a small euro rack for jamming away from my desktop.
Anyway, then I saw mirack and thought why not go with this, its flexible in location and probably also fun to use and an ipad I could also use for other purposes too…
So my question is, what ipad do you recommend?
Used/ new, how big? I saw that theres also a ipad air available?
further more what are you using for recording your jams, for example, is there kind of a „recorder module“ that I can put into a patch so it records it and spits out a wav file or so?
What other gear are you using for connecting your ipad via ableton link for example?
I’ve been using an iPad Air 4 and it’s been great. I’ve either been running out of the iPad using an audio interface and recording into a daw or equally you can run a 3.5 mm Jack to 1/4” stereo jacks from a headphone socket.
I’m pretty sure there are a couple of modules that can record. Have a look in the sampler section.
I’m still using the first gen 12.9" 32GB. I use AUM to run multiple instances of miRack. Performance depends on the amount of modules and additional AU’s used but it can run plenty before it cracks out (dsp/cpu starts tripping up the audio).
64GB would do the job well and yeah having a smaller hard drive means you have to always clean up the drive. However in my case I use the iPad as an instrument and record performance on another DAW so file space isn’t much an issue.
Hello,
I would love to get an iPad to play with miRack, as I use VCV Rack on my PC almost everyday.
Do you think a 2021 iPad is enough to run comfortably the app ?
Thank you !
Vincent
Much later in time but yes!
I got my i-Pad 9th gen. last November. Near the end of April of this year I discovered Mi-Rack and saw a few modules that it contained.
That, were an instant purchase!
After almost 40 years working with and 30 years of DIYing modular synths - almost 2 months of learning Mi-Rack? I have moved to it, COMPLETELY!
Doing fairly large ambient and drone compositions- I haven’t yet topped 12% usage on this 64gigger.
I am, blown away! (Keep in mind! Just hit 60, and I gave high frequency hearing problems now. (What old pink rocker doesn’t? )) With Sony MDR-7506 headphones though, I hear everything beauty!
Thank you for answering !
MiRack doesn’t take too much CPU indeed, but I am upset by its unstability, as it crashed a few times when I used it.
I think the software lacks a lot of feature, compared to Cardinal, which is free… Globally, I don’t like miRack for now and stopped trying to make music with it, but hopefully, there is the great Drambo, that I use everyday.
Thank you for that precision.
It crashed three times with the same patch that I could not open after that. Maybe because of Nysthi Simpliciter, which sometimes causes crashes in VCV Rack too.
I have not been using miRack for the last seven days and might give it a try soon, but I must admit I hate the lack of several features, such as the possibility to enter precise values in modules.
