iPad built-in speaker frequency profile

I stumbled across this topic looking for something unrelated and I found it rather humorous that you somehow didn't make your own frequency response plot, being a professional audio producer apparently, in 8 months seeing how crucial this information is.

Knowing the actual frequency response of the speaker is arbitrary, as one of the well known flaws of it is that it aims at nothing, out of the back of the device. Are you using a reflector? Is your official case folded behind it, which reflects forward? Both of those change the "frequency response" of the speaker.

So even if you had a perfect plot of what the speaker did, what exactly are you going to do, EQ your audio tracks differently? Without dictating the listening environment and reflections out of the speakers, it doesn't matter.

And further, anyone who actually cares about sound on an iPad uses better headphones or speakers, so developing for the obviously limited and midrange scooped iPad default speaker that is pointed nowhere and further diminished by poor placement is ridiculous, no different than developing for the actual apple headphones.

Finally, I'm not exactly sure how you don't have a workflow for a device that includes rapid prototyping for that device. You'd obviously want to demo everything even if you applied some sort of "time saving EQ template" to it.

Is it really that difficult to output reference patterns to see what attenuation and reinforcement is happening one time to craft a chart? Time waste regardless because if you moved a reference microphone to any number of potential typical listening papositions the curves would be completely different.

Or is your plan to make the best mix for someone holding the speaker pointed away from them AND two inches above their lap, magically? because you! with your gear and experience should know, in that case you create accurate audio so no single listening environment is favored intentionally.

Hey, have you tried playing one of those speaker frequency range test videos on your device? I used this one to determine what frequencies are best heard on my iPad2. It helped me a lot and I hope it helps for you too.

Cugnai, this is a perfectly good question. I am making a ringtone specifically for the iPhone, and I needed a way to output the sound from Logic to the iPhone (like an audio out going through the iPhone) so that I could hear exactly how it was going to sound on the iPhone while I was producing it in Logic.

Airfoil for Mac was the best I could come up with. It wirelessly sends audio from you Mac to your iPhone. There's about a 3 second lag, but it's better than nothing.

First download Airfoil onto your computer: https://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/

Get the app "Airfoil Speekers Touch" from the App Store.

After you install the software on both your computer and your iPhone you choose the application that you want Airfoil to pull the audio from. And that's it, it works pretty good. To take it a step further, have you ever used Soundflower as an audio out? If so, that's an easy way to do it. Set you computer out to Soundflower, and then no matter what program you're working in the computer's output will go through Soundflower, then to Airfoil, then to your iPhone.

is this helpful; http://thesounddesignprocess.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/iphone-and-ipad-speakers-f requency-response/

i completely understand your question, btw and need the same information - interesting that it's so hard to find -

I found this thread while looking for the same solution. I eventually discovered this which should be exactly what you're looking for! It is a speaker built around an actual mobile phone speaker so you ca reliably mix and reference your work on mobile in realtime.

http://www.m-ref.com

Are you aware the iPhone is a mobile, handheld device?

If you have a question about Cubase, you should ask them. It seems they know something about iOS apps.

It sounds like you expect to use the iPad as a studio reference speaker.

It's not a studio reference speaker.

Get a studio reference speaker.

Good luck.

Did you bother to look at any of the links I posted?

Thought your question was serious, guess not.