It’s made of plastic but feels sturdy you can sling it into a bag without much worry. IPad Pro and iRig Keys Mini are the perfect match, size-wise.Īs a piece of hardware, the accessory is well-built. After a few seconds, the iRig keyboard was ready to use.
Plugging in the keyboard with the USB adapter automatically brought up a ‘Device Installing’ notification on OS X. The octave buttons illuminate with a red glow to confirm the device is getting power.Īlthough this review is focused on using MIDI with iOS, I did briefly test Mac compatibility. The iRig is powered by the source device, which is very convenient for people like me who don’t want to manage yet another accessory with a rechargeable battery. There’s no setup at all once you put the cable in both ends. There’s a mini-USB to Lightning adapter bundled in the box, as well as a normal USB and mini-USB connector for using the iRig with a laptop.įor iPhone and iPad connectivity, it’s as simple as plug and play. The iRig is not an unofficial oddity. It has a MFI sticker on the packaging. Setting up the iRig with an iOS device is extremely simple - you just plug it in. The iRig itself is compatible with multiple computing accessories, so the I/O connector on the hardware is actually a mini-USB port. This works surprisingly well for a number of accessories but it isn’t official or as elegant as a true MFI MIDI keyboard. Often, musicians connect MIDI devices to iPad by using a kind of hack - plugging in a USB MIDI device with the iPad USB Camera Connector. Read on for my full review of the iRig Keys Mini piano keyboard for iOS ($79.99).įirst off, it’s important to note that the iRig product is made to work with iPhone and iPad, it’s an official MFI accessory. This makes for a perfect storm of capability and functionality: not only are MIDI accessories possible, they can really be used to make music on iPhone and iPad. Simultaneously, the App Store has bloomed a wide ecosystem of sophisticated music creation and audio production apps. Since iOS 4 in fact, Apple gave the developers the ability to interact with MIDI peripherals. Although it isn’t regularly advertised, iPhones and iPads have had great support for MIDI input instruments and other devices for a long time.
The iRig Keys Mini is an electronic MIDI music keyboard that connects to iPhone and iPad with a Lightning cable.
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