The American brand Griffin is known for making musical components for mobile devices, especially, premium accessories for iPad. Now he surprises us with his device MIDI Connect that can be connected to iPad, Iphone and iPod Touch. The MIDIConnect is an adapter that allows us to connect professional instruments such as keyboards, guitars, electronic drums and synthesizers with MIDI ports to our devices with operating systems iOS. With this we seek that the iPad assumes two possible functions.
One, like controller. We can control the instrument with the device during performances with applications designed for this function, we mainly think of synthesizers and effect pedals. We connect the iPad to MIDIConnect and then our instrument to its interface through the port MIDI-OUT.
Two, like engraver. We can use it to create music with applications like GarageBand, which is what they recommend and some other music creation applications that we can find in the App Store. To do this, we connect MINIConnect to the iPad and later our instrument to the interface through the port MIDI-IN.
It's a great gadget for musicians amateurs and professionals for its versatility and because it is used both for recording and for playing live.
The MIDI IN and MIDI OUT ports are standard type of 5-pin DIN so they are compatible with all kinds of instruments and gadgets.
This little gem of Griffin you can buy it on their website for $ 79 and they ship to most of the world, but curiously, among the countries to which they would send their devices is not Spain or other countries of the European Union. Unfortunately we will have to wait for an importer to decide to bring it. Given the appeal of this iPad accessory, we don't think it will take long.
We leave you with a video that explains how to connect MIDIConnect to your iPad both to record and to control.