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Alesis iO Audio Dock for iPad
Connect all of your audio gear to the entire world of apps for iPad. The iO Dock is the first device that enables anyone with an iPad or iPad 2 to create, produce, and perform music with virtually any pro audio gear or instruments. The iO Dock is a universal docking station specifically designed for the iPad and iPad 2, and it gives musicians, recording engineers, and music producers the connectivity they need to create and perform with iPad. Connect all your pro audio gear to virtually any app in the App Store with the iO Dock.
FLEXIBLE FUNCTIONALITY
Songwriters, music producers and performers of all kinds will find that the iO Dock connects the iPad’s powerful processor, touch-screen interface and extensive library of apps to their collection of microphones, instruments, professional speaker and PA systems, MIDI controllers, sound modules, video projectors and much more.
With the iO Dock and an iPad, musicians and producers can record, perform, craft and create music in virtually any situation or location. Built to accommodate all current app-development standards including Core MIDI, the iO Dock is a universal device that bridges your choice of music-creation apps, instruments, and devices.
COMPLETE CONNECTIVITY
The iO Dock provides microphone and instrument users with two combination XLR and 1/4-inch inputs, each with its own gain control and switchable phantom power for condenser microphones. Guitarists and bassists will appreciate the iO Dock’s guitar-direct switch, enabling them to play, perform and record right into amplifier- and effects-modeling apps. Bands can connect outputs from their mixer and easily record their performances and rehearsals or use the iO Dock as a metronome or loop-playback device. Producers can use the iO Dock’s MIDI jacks to sequence external keyboards, samplers, drum machines and synthesizers, or perform using the iO Dock as the sound module and their favorite MIDI-compliant keyboard, drum pad or other controller. An assignable 1/4-inch footswitch input enables remote control of any app-defined function such as stop/start or record. Users can also connect the iO Dock to their Mac or PC using the USB port to send MIDI back and forth for creative, new applications of the iPad and computer used in tandem.
Users can connect the iO Dock’s stereo pair of 1/4-inch main outputs to studio monitors for critical listening, or to PA systems for use in performance settings. They can monitor on headphones, and independently control the levels of the two outputs, each on its own knob. Recording musicians will appreciate the iO Dock’s direct-monitor switch, which enables them to toggle between the incoming and playback signal on their headphones. Rounding out the iO Dock’s output section is a composite video connector, enabling users to employ the iO Dock as a source for video projection behind bands on stage, or for connection to most televisions and computer monitors.
RUGGED RELIABILITY
The iO Dock was built for the real world. Whether you’re keeping it in the safety of the studio or taking it out for recording or performance use in the club or on tour, the iO Dock will not only deliver the connectivity you need for audio applications, but it also serves as a rugged, protective case for the iPad. The iO Dock completely houses the iPad on the bottom and three side surfaces. It also encases the iPad’s screen in a protective bezel on three of its four edges, further shielding the mobile computing device from the potential for damage in punishing environments.
The applications of the iPad for music creation, production, and performance are limited only by your creativity. As an imaginative, cutting-edge music maker, the iO Dock empowers you to seamlessly connect the world of pro audio gear and instruments to the iPad and the massive collection of apps.
Features
- The world’s first pro audio dock for iPad and iPad 2
- Connect microphones and instruments including guitar, studio monitors, PA speakers, headphones, and MIDI controllers
- Universal device works with virtually every audio and MIDI app in the App Store; Core MIDI compliant
- Perform, craft, create and play back music in virtually any conceivable manner or location
- Video output for connection to TVs and projectors
- Inputs: two combo XLR-1/4″ for use with audio gear, instruments, and computer audio
- Input channel gain controls and switchable phantom power for use with condenser microphones
- Guitar-direct switch for use with amplifier- and effects-modeling app
- Outputs: pair 1/4″ and 1/4″ headphone with separate volume controls
- Control: MIDI In, MIDI Out, USB MIDI, and assignable 1/4-inch footswitch input
INCLUDES:
- iO Dock docking station for iPad
- Power supply
- Quick start guide
AUDIO INPUTS
- 2x XLR-1/4″
- Individual gain controls
- Phantom power, switchable
- Guitar (high-impedance) switch on Input 2
AUDIO OUTPUTS
- 2x 1/4″ Main
- 1/4″ TRS Headphone
- Individual level controls
VIDEO OUTPUT
- RCA Composite (requires compatible apps)
CONTROL I/O
- MIDI In (DIN)
- MIDI Out (DIN)
- USB MIDI
- 1/4″ Footswitch (function assigned by apps)
Pricing and Availability
The Alesis iO Audio Dock for iPad has a retail price of $199.99 USD.
For more information, and to find a retailer near you, visit the Alesis website.
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There just seems to be alot of non unity in apps and hardware at the moment…a few more years will create standards.
If you looking for faults check the Alesis forum before you buy one!
Apple o Alesis … We’ll find out if it’s fixed on the next iOS update….
The audio hiss problem is not just seen with the ioDock, you can get the same problem when using an audio/midi interface using the CCK. I see this problem when connecting my external audio interface. Sometimes It just works fine, then all of a sudden I get the hiss. It’s a problem with the way the 30-pin connector handles audio and I’ve read that Apple are looking into it.
It’s not fair some of the comments that Alesis have received over this issue, but I guess that’s inevitable when they were the first and only dedicated audio/midi interface for the iPad. Although I don’t own an ioDock I’m really grateful that Alesis are working with Apple to resolve it, hopefully then my ten year old interface will work better. Not much chance of a manufacturer of a discontinued non-iOS device being interested to help resolve. Big thumbs up to Alesis!
I bought an iRig MIDI yesterday, mistakenly thinking it had USB MIDI support, and when it turned out they don’t I took it back and got one of these Alesis docks as a replacement; and yes, these docks do have USB MIDI support.
Not sure if it will matter to you or not but SysEx MIDI isn’t supported at all. Obviously that might come in a future firmware update but it wasn’t a deal-killer for me personally, and although I’ve only used it for an hour or so with the Lemur and Phaedra sequencer apps I’m really impressed so far. I’ve not tried the audio in/outputs yet so can’t comment on them.
It’s definitely a nice bit of kit, although if I’m looking for immediate faults it’s arguably a bit plasticky.
I have yet to figure this out:
With all the ins and outs this box has there seems to be no mention of USB midi keyboard support. I might be missing the feature description as I have been known to miss things in the past.
I watched a few videos on YT and even in the videos it shows the midi USB keyboard controller hooked into a pc and then the midi notes are sent from the keyboard to the pc DAW then into the iPad.
I know that many of the USB keyboards out have to use a powered USB hub to get the iPad to recognize that the device is connected. If for some reason the I/o dock does not allow this function then it could really effect my decision in buying one. If I can’t use my keyboard controller USB into this thing direct………..perhaps someone with more hands on experience could answer this. Until then.
hi, i’m ready to buy Alesis IO device, one more question before: it is really compatible with Alchemy mobile app? thank you
@Ludovico: I think so, yes :)