Connecting a iPad to voice live 3 play to send midi commands

Kerry

Hello I just purchased ST3 and used it today with my iPad and it worked great.
I just searched a post about using it with my voice live 3 and understand how to send midi commands in the lyric editor I think.

My question is just a basic how do I connect my iPad to the Voicelive 3 play for midi??
The iPad has a regular lightning port and the voice live 3 has a usb port, so do I look for a cable that connects the two together??
I know the iPad has Bluetooth but I don’t think the Voicelive play does??

My goal is just to turn effects on or off between songs and maybe change a preset depending on the song once in a while. Thanks!!

dazz4770

Hi Kerry, there are a couple of ways you could connect from the iPad to the Voice live, as follows;

Purchase the Apple Camera adaptor which provides a USB A connector and then use a USB to Midi cable. You could also potentially connect into the USB port of the Voice Live however will need to check the manual.
My preferred option is to purchase a WIDI wireless bluetooth midi connector which will connect directly to your iPad. I have recently purchased 2 of these and they work brilliantly and no messy cables.
https://www.cme-pro.com/widi-master/

Cheers Darrin

Kerry

dazz4770 not sure if I understand this, my Voicelive play does not have a midi connector and you mentioned wirelessly? I believe the usb connector is a mini b?

peter

The direct usb connection will only work if the device you connect is class compliant and therefore works without drivers. I don't know if this is the case with the Voicelive.

So using a class compliant or bluetooth midi interface might be the better option.

Lishy

Kerry if you have the voice play 3 then it does have midi in and out

Kerry

Lishy sorry about that, it is a voice live play, it does not have a midi port so I thought maybe the usb would work. When I was looking at other posts it must have been the voicelive play gtx or something when people said they used it. As far as I can tell the voicelive play won’t work.

peter

Do you have a VoiceLive 3 or a VoiceLive Play? In your first post you said 3 and in the last play???

I believe the 3 can be conneted to iOS and the Play does not work.

Kerry

peter Hi Peter, sorry for the confusion I don’t know why I said three in my first post instead of play, unless the voice recognition transposed it, lol. I had read somewhere else somebody used the voice live play, but I think maybe it was the GTX version for guitar or something so I’m guessing it can’t be done through the USB. Thank you.