“Playing with playback is pretty much the standard on most pop oriented gigs these days. The more solid and stable playback you have, the less stressed you feel.”
Andrew Marshall - Drummer with Billie Eilish
 

iConnectivity Ethernet-equipped MIDI interfaces use a system called RTP-MIDI (Real Time Protocol MIDI). This is a method of running MIDI over standard networks, like Ethernet or even Wi-fi! Yes, that's right, you can even run MIDI over Wi-Fi!

Monitoring: It's an oft-overlooked aspect of playing live, but one which has an absolutely crucial impact on how you as a musician plays and performs on-stage

We're proudly going into 2018 with two new products: our incredible PlayAUDIO12 interface and our revolutionary software control interface, Auracle.

The past month has seen some big developments, here at iConnectivity, and so we've decided to wrap them all up in one big blog, just in case you've missed some of the great advances and releases we've been working on.

"iConnectivity are light years ahead of everyone else in the playback industry" - find out why the world's best professionals have been queuing up for the new PlayAUDIO12 by iConnectivity

We thought it would be a good idea to answer some of the most common questions we've received about the PlayAUDIO12 and put them all in one place.

Today's the day we show our new baby off to the world: the interface we've all been working on furtively behind the scenes, and the one we think might, just might change the way people look at running computer audio and MIDI live...

Here's the lowdown on what you need to know about interfacing your audio outputs to your venue's stage box and keeping your Front Of House (FOH) engineer a happy bunny.

A modern computer is so powerful and so capable of controlling virtually every aspect of our live shows, that it's become the heart of many musician's live performances. With that though, comes the great danger that with a computer failure comes a complete failure of the gig itself!

There are some debates in the world of music and audio which seemingly run and run ad nauseum. Perhaps the oldest chestnut of them is the debate between analogue and digital, and which one's 'best'.

Happy with the songs he recorded, the songs were mixed from the TEAC 144 with a touch of Echoplex delay onto a boombox.... which had previously managed to end up submerged in a river by accident. The tracks were a little wonky sounding, with obvious distortion in places, but hey - they're demos right?

At what point does the quest for audio quality begin to overtake the suitability of the interface for the job in hand? At what point does the quest for the greatest headroom, the widest bandwidth, and the tightest clocking get in the way of making music?

MIDI was a musical revolution and was, arguably, fundamental in shaping the sound of music we hear today.