Console – Gaining Insight into Audio & MIDI behaviors on iOS & macOS
Console is a useful app for producers to take a deep dive into the behaviors of the audio & MIDI systems of both macOS and iOS. Here we’ll look into how to make use of Console.
macOS – How to: USB Monitoring with WireShark
As developers know, the utility tool to debug and monitor USB Traffic hasn’t been available for quite a while. However, Apple has enabled capturing USB traffic, even for USB-C devices, via Wireshark.
Multiroute iOS Audio with Audiobus & Novation’s Circuit + AudioHub 2×4.
My Basic audio experiment here was to see if I could get some more robust audio routings with my iPad and the Circuit, utilizing the Multiroute Audio available in the awesome Audiobus app – adding in the Line2USB cable really opens up the audio routing and processing capabilities […]
Keyboard Shortcuts for iOS
If you’re using an Apple official keyboard, or a 3rd party keyboard that’s properly configured for iOS, there are a great many keyboard shortcuts. Here I’ve made a gallery of some apps with keyboard shortcuts. I may have missed some because shortcuts can be available from different areas […]
New Features with iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra – Internet Sharing & Content Caching
Let’s dive right in and look at the Internet Sharing and Caching Services available with macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 and see what benefits they can bring to producers, professionals, and home or enterprise users with multiple devices. Internet Sharing Setup Requirements: macOS High Sierra iOS 11 […]
How To: iOS Audio, Video & MIDI over Ethernet with Apple TV
For a while now, you’ve been able to utilize Apple’s Lightning-to-USB 3 Camera Connector, along with the Apple USB Ethernet Adapter, plugged out to your Switch or Router, and so long as you plug out the Camera Connector to a 2.4A power supply, will get an Ethernet connection […]
The macOS MIDI Network Session Guide
The macOS MIDI Network Session, as it appears in Audio MIDI Setup, is a robust utility for MIDI routing over your local network (LAN), or even the Internet. This article intends to cover the MIDI Network Session’s terminology, functionality, synchronization and transport methods, and use-case scenarios. If you’ve […]
Free Mac Audio Routing Tools – Apple’s AUNetSend & Receive
Routing audio around on a Mac, between software applications, or from multiple sources including hardware instruments, microphones, and the like, can be challenging when your needs go beyond simple playback. So if you’re making podcasts, working in audio production, or just have a need to get audio from one […]
macOS – Networked Audio Systems Overview – AVB / TSN & Dante
There is much chatter, increasing availability, and development of standards related to passing Audio over Networks. This article will share some insights to these developments, the underlying protocols, native macOS functionality, consumer AVB products, and considerations for producers looking to benefit from affordable networked audio solutions. Confusion about […]
Add iOS Audio to your Dante Network
As you likely know, Dante doesn’t support iOS devices, natively. Of course, the Dante range, including Via, DVS, and Controller allow for a wide variety of audio routing options, including from applications, hardware, and multi-computer setups including MacOS and Windows. Amongst these options, it occurred to me today […]
