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Rating And Reviews: Tascam iU2 iPad Audio

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"It works if you baby it." submitted July 26, 2012

By Randy T in Anna, TX
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Overall: This product has received poor reviews. This is understandable: light-weight plastic housing, iffy connection confidence, poor Tascam support. However, (after my 2nd unit was shipped to me) I discovered how to make the connections work every time. The Tascam tech support said to make sure the USB cable wasn't connected if wanted my iDevice to recognize it. This worked only occasionally. What made it work (with GarageBand and NanoStudio) everytime was to make sure the MIDI cable was ALSO disconnected. I was able to test this with my home studio keyboard, my office studio setup, and my live keyboard rig. The sound quality is clean (not audiophile warm or anything) and has a good (low) noise floor as well. There is nothing else out there that does everything this box does. Recommended for the patient musician.
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"for an iPad: useless, badly engineered, cheap plastic, major Tascam fail" submitted June 26, 2012

By Stephen C in Cleveland, OH
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Overall: The great: ZZounds services, especially with this transaction where I troubled them greatly. The good: this works fine with a MacBook Pro, and as a midi interface for my Triton. The IU2 doesn't have much headroom and the converters are okay, typical for the price point. The bad: simply a useless device for an iPad/iPhone. FAIL Main problem: it worked for about a 1 day, and then, obviously, the 30 pin connector had failed inside/outside the unit--my third such unit. In the few hours I did get to use it: horrific ergonomics. Cheap, wiggly knobs. After an hour had to wiggle the headphone to recontact the innards of the jack. More bad: laughable documentation. Tascam helped me trouble-shoot this unit, and their advice to test on iphone, and if it works, then wiggle wiggle stuff--if you can ride along the implication of wiggling a connector as a fix! Well, it did allow me to use the unit for several hours until the sound kicked out. Third unit. Conclusion is easy: the life cycle of this unit with an iPad is about 6 hours. For $129.00 Works fine as super cheaply made plastic interface for a MacBook.
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"Good for recording, bad for everything else" submitted July 22, 2012

By a customer from verizon.net in Brooklyn, NY
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Overall: You need to plug things in the proper sequence so it's recognized and charging, but the connection is VERY prone to failure whenever you make programming change in GarageBand and other applications. It's not very robust and I am forced to reconnect the iTunes connector constantly to restore connection. I've returned it because I've gotta bypass it entirely to get anything done in Garageband (besides recording). Can't even surf and listen to iTunes at the same time without the USB going haywire. No arguing it's got good features, but the flaky USB connection is a deal breaker. I've replaced it with a Alesis IO4; no such connection issues.
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