Its full spread of controls - two knobs, two buttons, one slider and one push-button rotary encoder - let you get creative. But iRig Pads does more than your average mobile pad-based MIDI controller. Each pad lights up in three different colours - red, green and orange - to match your playing with the MIDI information coming from your chosen music app or software. It can be used with all generations of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch without an adaptor via its included Lightning cable (30-pin connector sold separately) as well as Mac and PC via its included USB cable.Īt the heart of iRig Pads is its 4x4 grid of 16 velocity-sensitive, backlit multicolour rubber pads. iRig Pads is low energy consumption, does not need a power source and draws its power directly from its host device for maximum portability. It has a slim, compact form factor and it's so lightweight that it can easily be slipped into any backpack or iPad or laptop bag and carried around with ease. It's smaller than an iPad and less than 1' thick - it's the smallest groove controller on the market. IRig Pads is designed to be effortlessly portable. Here is what IK Multimedia say about the iRig Pads Being smaller than an iPad and less than 1' thick means that it you can put it in nearly any laptop or iPad bag and carry it with you without a power supply from gig to gig thanks to the bus power supply that can even run off of an iPad. One of the great points of this product is just how portable it is. Sometimes you need more options than what are available to you on one scene so with the iRig Pads you have total recall with 16 user-programmable scenes that you can bring back any time you want so you don't have to change your settings between each section or track. You also have 2 MIDI knobs, one slider and a pushbutton rotary encoder which are all completely programable to whatever software you want to use. With 16 velocity sensitive pads with 3 colour lighting under each one the iRig Pads not only sends your playing into your software of choice but also feeds back that information so you can quickly adjust and see exactly what is going on with each pad in your set up.

The iRig Pads opens up the world of midi triggers for DJ's and live producers through an iOS device though it also works with PC and Mac computers.

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