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Recording High Quality Into PC or IPad

OsBP

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Good Day!!

Id like to know if I use the same Audio Interface ( UAD or Apogee ) to record Vocals and Analog Machines into a Mac Studio, MacBook Pro, Windows PC or IPad would it record the same Analog quality into all of this Computers or would it loose High Quality

My question is because of course I dont understand how recording signals and internal audio sound cards work and because I only have an IPad at the moment.

Id like to know if buying more PCs is needed or would it be good with just an IPad

Speaking about Recording only not DAW capabilities and features

Thank You Very Much!!
 
If your iPad supports the UAD or Apogee it will be fine. Do they support iOS?

As long as there are no problems "digital is digital" and the audio data will be the same.

UAD has some special features like plug-in effects that run inside the interface and I'd be surprised if those work.

...Other than possibly microphone preamp noise, most interfaces will be better than human hearing. The acoustic and analog side of recording are what most affect sound quality.
 
Thank You for your response!!

I have an UAD Apollo Twin X . . I had a Mac PC . . It doesnt work with IOS

Maybe they have one that works with both Systems

I think Apogee One or Duet works with PCs and IOS
 
More common (less expensive) interfaces are usually Class Compliant which means they are plug-and-play with the standard drivers supplied with Windows, macOS, or Linux. I don't know if that support is built-into iOS or Android.
 
For clarity, iPads run iPadOS these days, not iOS.
 
Today I Got To See UAD Volt Series That Works With IPad IPhone OS 14 or Higher

 
More common (less expensive) interfaces are usually Class Compliant which means they are plug-and-play with the standard drivers supplied with Windows, macOS, or Linux. I don't know if that support is built-into iOS or Android.
Well...they should work in linux and by extension Android (since it uses the linux kernel) but they often haven't had it tested on anything non-Apple. Sometimes there are quirks that need to be reverse engineered and have fixes added to linux before they work properly. In some cases the Class Compliant mode doesn't expose all the capabilities either.
 
I Guess Good High Analog Audio Quality Would Be Depending On The Audio Interface Used Instead Of The Digital Device We Record Into

I Guess That If We Really Want High Analog Quality Recordings We Would Need To Use An Audio Interface With Mac , Windows Or Linux Operating Systems Compatibility With Better AD/DA Converters
 
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I Guess Good High Analog Audio Quality Would Be Depending On The Audio Interface Used Instead Of The Digital Device We Record Into

I Guess That If We Really Want High Analog Quality Recordings We Would Need To Use An Audio Interface With Mac , Windows Or Linux Operating Systems Compatibility With Better AD/DA Converters
Yes, but some of them do work with mobile devices.
 
I Guess That If We Really Want High Analog Quality...
There's no analog on the digital-side of the interface. ;)

With Better AD/DA Converters.
Most converters are better than human hearing. A different microphone or moving the microphone a couple of inches makes a bigger difference a different interface. The biggest thing with interfaces is the quality of the mic preamps. Some are noisier than other. (They all have SOME noise). But unless you have a soundproof studio the acoustic noise usually dominates.


Of course the DA has nothing to do with recording quality.
 
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