Q: Anyone else having "Noise" problems with iRig/Garageband/iPad "3"?
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Jul 4, 2012 12:14 PMby mhsmitty,While Apogee might now be a fix for Garageband in it's current version, iRig worked fine with the older versions of the software. Many people including myself have spent money on iRig and were please with it using the older versions of Garageband. It still works fine on the iPad 1. Hillzie's find shows that it should be fixable on the software part of Garageband. If I had not already invested in both an iRig for my iPad and a "M-Aduio Fastrack" for my iMac I may have bought an Apogee. The fact remains that it needs to be fixed.
A side note: I noticed that when using the tuner built in to Garageband the background noise is less.
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Jul 4, 2012 12:23 PMby Beardy man,Couldn't agree more. I'm in a similar position to you; I don't want to waste the money Ispent on iRig by getting an Apogee device.
I'm lucky in that I have access to two iPads (mine and my wife's).We're keeping the iPad2 with the old version of GB on it as that works fine. I'd like this to be fixed before one of us accidentally "upgrades" GB ;-)
Shame it isn't possible to downgrade - I also have a different app on my old iPhone that won't work as the os is too old - basically bricked app - I'd love to go back to the previous (paid) version of the app and get functionality back! Probably get an iPhone 5 when they come out so that one is only a short term problem (I hope)
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Jul 29, 2012 4:14 PMby mhsmitty,Having no fix in sight for the iRig/GarageBand noise problem with the new iPad, I bought an Apogee Jam today ($99). It works great. I spent about two hours playing / recording with it today. It works well with my iMac too. I wish I had bought it to start with instead of the iRig. It works with amplitude and ampkit on the iPad. It didn't work with amplitude on the iPhone 4. I might need to update it.
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Aug 6, 2012 12:40 AMby Beardy man,As I've been able to reproduce the fault and the 4 finger mitigation ( thanks again Hillzie), I've sent bug reports to Apple.
I think this is such a minor problem in the grand scheme of things that Idon't see Apple doing anything about it. I would hope that behind the scenes IK (iRig manufacturers) are putting some pressure to get things changed. This must be hurting their business somewhat. I've looked on their website but as they push iRig to be used with Amplitube, they're probably not as concerned with the GarageBand problem.
All I would suggest is that anyone using iRig/GB and therefore having this problem, send in a bug report!
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Aug 14, 2012 5:31 PMby bingoooo,Hmmm the new iRig Stomp pedal is coming soon -- so why fix a problem with the cheaper iRig!? -- now we all have to buy the iRig Stomp pedal!!
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigstomp/
It´s all about the money!!!!
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Aug 15, 2012 12:45 AMby Beardy man,Missing the point here bingooo. The problem appears to be with GarageBand not iRig. The current version of GarageBand has a persistent background noise when used with iRig through the headphone/mic socket. I'm convinced this is the problem as it can be made to reduce by the 4 finger swipe. As the iStomp(?) will use the same connector this may well suffer from the same problem.
As this problem affects too few of us for Apple to notice (despite bug reports), I had hoped that IKM would have put a bit of pressure on our behalf to get Apple to release an update to GB that solves the problem.
Eventually I'll probably buy an Apogee Jam - I certainly wouldn't recommend anyone to buy an iRig or iStomp at the moment.
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Sep 20, 2012 5:42 AMby Beardy man,OUCH!!!
Just 'upgraded' to the latest GarageBand to see if the noise issue had been addressed. Still on iOS5 at the moment.
The problem has got a lot worse!
The 'crackle' noise has now gone only to be replaced by massive amounts of feedback noise. So much so that the app is now totally unusable with iRig for me. The 4 finger swipe that I'd been using as a workaround no longer has any effect.
If you want to keep using your iRig I strongly recommend NOT upgrading to Garageband 1.3(179.75).
As I'm wary of Apple Maps at the moment, I don't want to touch iOS6 until Google bring out their app so I can't say if upgrading the OS would help. Amplitube continues to work perfectly.
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Sep 20, 2012 1:33 PMby Jimmhy,Too late... I already install the ios 6 & garageband update with the hope that the problem would be fixed... but nop and is worst now. My bigest problem is that I live in Chile, with no access to Apogee Jam here. Any one knows other way to record guitars in garage band? (iRig is really useless now).
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Sep 21, 2012 9:13 AMby Beardy man,SInce I now realise that Apple won't be doing anything to help with GarageBand, I've had a closer look at Amplitude Free. Very pleasantly surprised. No background noise at all, certainly no massive feedback (Apple are you listening?) I've managed to load one of my GB songs via iTunes into Amplitude.
Works well. Not having signed up for the whole package I haven't got access to the full 8 track recording part of it but I'm very tempted at this point - certainly cheaper than chucking the iRig and buying an Apogee Jam!
As I'm certain the problem is with GB rather than iRig, I think I'll ditch GB (except to tinker with backing tracks) and have a look at the Amplitude offering.
