My name is Jakob Haq and I am a mobile music producer from Sweden with roughly 30 years of experience of computerized music making. For the past ten years I've mainly been make music using portable hardware with an iPad as a central platform.
On this channel you'll find tutorials, reviews and demos featuring portable music hardware (Pocket operators, volcas, etc) and also videos featuring music apps and iDevices (iPad and iPhone). iOS is a central hub in all of my production work.
All of my content including music, videos and animations have been produced with and on iDevices like the iPad and iPhone.
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Yes. The MMPs are larger and even thought both MMs and MMPs have the same power output on paper, the MMPs still sound a bit more controlled. Then there’s more filter calibration to be done on the back of the MMPs compared to the MMs. On top of that there’s ARC and at that point It’s no longer fair to compare the two. The ARC system changes everything. For me It would be a harder sell to upgrade without it.
@@JakobHaq But for that much money you can already buy a Yamaha HS5, which is cheaper than the MMP. Don't you think it's stupid to pay twice as much as plain MM for these upgrades?
Nice review, thanks. I don't understand one thing - if I choose some voice profile is it immediately saved to the monitors so can I use this profile without running X-Monitor app?
Yes, every change in x-monitor gets stored in the speaker. After changes have been made you shut the software down and the settings stay. Even after turning the speakers off and on, the last setup you did with x-monitor loads.
I wonder if they fixed the high pitch noise issue that their original Micro Monitors all have. I returned mine and I remember back then reading other people having the same issue
This shit is so annoying. I have like 17k photos ive been trying to offload of my phone but because i dont have an apple laptop and everything i was having serious issues getting these photos offloaded. This issue is going to be why I end up ditching apple on my next upgrade.
Nice tips and overview of the calibration process 👌🏻 As I do have a setup with (also) the old Micros and the ARC Studio overhere, I was hoping for a audio comparison. How ‘big’ is the step up? There’s so little information from IK Multimedia on the differences in sound with these new Pros (or new MTMs), other than some technical specs.
So I’ve been using the MTM’s mostly for over three years. One thing that stood out was that the MMP’s are less powerful and also “tamer” in the bottom end compared to the MTMs. This is not surprising considering the size and effect of the MMPs (literally like half MTM). I know, this doesen’t really tell you much but my take is; the MTM’s are definitely a big step up from the MMP’s and I must say that the MMP’s are a big step up from the original MM’s. The overall sound of the MMP’s feels more “controlled”. Plus they are ARC powered and after the ARC calibration it’s like night and day of course and you can’t do that with the MM’s. ARC changes everything and I consider that upgrade to be extremely significant.
@@JakobHaq thanks, that’s why I’ve bought the ARC Studio, to use it with the MMs, next to a pair of older Truths, and I’m on the fence for a pair of used but very mint Adam Audio A8Xs (or the MTM mk2, which are also on my shortlist…).
These monitors do seem like a nice product, with a very distinctive functionality that gives a lot more flexibility than most of the other products that are out there. While it's a major help to have an even frequency response in terms of the volume that makes it to the listener's position for a given sine wave tone, in my opinion that's half of the equation. The other half is the length of the reverberation tails of audio content in a typical rectangular listening environment and the extent of phase cancellation or volume doubling effects that accompanies that, depending precisely on where the listener positions their head. If there is a precise location (think in 3 dimensions) in a room where there is near complete phase cancellation for a given frequency, no amount of volume offset per frequency band processing is going to be able to take care of these issues at a fundamental level, simply because of physics.
My strategy for dealing with this so far is to be aware of the problematic frequencies and to account for them with my mixing decisions, despite the fact that I have significant acoustic treatment & bass traps in my apartment studio. At some point I literally sat at my listening position playing sine wave tones one by one while slightly modifying my listening position (while still remaining in the listening "sweet spot" zone) and I documented every frequency/note that I thought was worthy of mention, whether there was a significant degree of volume doubling effect, or phase cancellation. This stuff REALLY matters in the low frequencies but I chose to document this up to about 2000Hz. Whenever I make music and I'm considering heavy handed mixing decisions, I have the presence of mind of looking at the relevant track volume dB meter, and I audition adjacent notes for the problematic instrument to be able to differentiate between whether or not the source content is itself too loud or too quiet (think about the impact that modulating a low-pass filter with key tracking - or not - can have on a synth bass sound volume over a span of notes) or if I'm being led to think that there is a problem with the source whereas the perceived issue is simply due to the uneven frequency response of my listening environment. I will also systematically double check with my headphones in these situations and in the overwhelming majority of cases I will refrain from making an adjustment. Going one step above that is to anchor my entire music projects around root notes which I know don't have phase cancellation issues at my listening position.
Haven’t tested as I don’t use subwoofer in my studio anymore. However the Micro Monitor pros has a switchable high-pass filter. The 80Hz mode is for using them together with woofer.
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Finally, an in-depth tutorial and honest review of this little powerhouse! I recently bought one and couldn't figure out how to connect my hardware, *until I found your video*. What is the synth at 4:11? Sounds deep!
Please do live track samples of thousands of sounds on every keyboard and write a book which I would buy for up to $100 dollars should include access to every sound from the keyboards you discuss. That would be useful. Should a step by step sound track building video of your creative process for synth beginners to get songs and soundtracks created. Your knowledge is amazing. Share some of your projects over the years with links to them. Just sayin.
Just give me soMe GOT DAMN transport controls!!!! Imma bout to bail iOS after last update. Won’t matter how much development we’ve been doing this shit almost 20 years.
Rick thanks so much for this video. I'm 56 and love your channel. Gonna show this video to my twenty something kids. I'm learning music right now after dreaming about it for years❤!!!!
Of course the worst part is having to explain yourself over and over. I use hardware but only to control the apps on my iPad. It is so much easier to grab a physical knob or slider than hope to hit the right place on my screen. At least for my big fat bass player fingers. But,…..if a dedicated iPad user wanted to try out a hardware synth, do you have any recommendations on a reasonably cheap starter synth. Asking for a friend of course.
