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Joe Soap wrote:

bennydlyte wrote:

Joe Soap wrote:Sections 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 (pages 10 and eleven) of the touchAble User Manual seem to offer the solution to this ongoing pantomime.

Link deleted by Moderator - touchAble%20manual.pdf

This manual says nothing in addition to the original youtube vid on "Connecting Lemur to a Mac.".

Oh . . . it absolutely does.

It quite clearly states that one can (depending on vintage of OS and CPU in your iToy) connect an iDevice to a computer over the standard charging-cable and enable networking over that connection.

It also states that Bluetooth is problematic for WiFi (not in the Youtube vid or Lemur Manual IIRC, but widely known all the same).

You must have missed all that? (Unless the touchAble manual has changed in the few weeks since I posted the link.)

"missed"? no, you failed to mention that it's a hack with regards to the "iToy" which has been recently dubbed "illegal" (yeah, that's only for us that care in the US and I'm not saying that law makes sense either in this instance). The excerpt you speak of is below and may be removed as was your link...

2.3.4 USB Connection
On jailbroken iPads it is possible to connect touchAble to Ableton Live via the USB cable. This is the fastest and most reliable solution, but it would require usage of a 3rd party software and a jailbroken iPad.
To connect via cable you would have to purchase & download MyWi 4.0 or higher from the Cydia store. You would have to open MyWi and enable the USB tethering option. If you had several iPads that you would all want to connect via
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cable you should make sure to select different IP Address ranges for each of the iPads in MyWis settings.
On a Windows PC simply connect the iPad to the PC and it should automatically find and configure the USB connection.
On a Mac please go to the Systems network preferences and click on ‘Apply’ once after the iPad has been found. The connection should now be setup and usable.
2.3.5 Known Problems / Solutions
If you experience dropouts, black clips, missing information or similar – please make sure to disable Bluetooth on the iPad.
Using WPA2 on Windows 7 is known to cause problems with the iPad. Please use WEP as the security type.

So those of us that may run into legitimate H/W issues with the iPad later requiring Apple's assistance (unless you can backout jailbreaking) are up s@!t's creek? No thanks. But, some with extra bread may see their iToys as sacrificial, ok then. Aren't we slightly off topic though, this is not a "wireless" remedy as it seems Tyler is seeking...?
I agree that the Bluetooth and security snippets are useful though. And yes, this is all my humble opinion...

I didn't fail to mention it so much as I presume people have reading comprehension skills and can assess their own cost / benefit in all of this.

That and I've been made aware that the subject is not to be discussed openly on this forum due to US law.

Oh - AFAICG it's still perfectly legal to JB an iPhone for interop reasons . . . the iPad thing has only very recently been made illegal.

And also AFAICG, but would strongly advise anyone taking this step to research the reversibility of any JB before doing so. . . yes, historically JBs are easily reversible and usually work just fine with iTunes and the App Store.

Also bear in mind I'm not recommending that anyone JB their device (I haven't done so myself as my particular hardware / OS combo hasn't a reliable JB available [yet]).

bennydlyte wrote:Aren't we slightly off topic though, this is not a "wireless" remedy as it seems Tyler is seeking...?
I agree that the Bluetooth and security snippets are useful though. And yes, this is all my humble opinion...

No.

The topic . . . the eternal, perennial topic is that WiFi fkn sucks for thus purpose. The solution to this problem is to not use WiFi.

Everything else is a bandaid on a gunshot wound.

IMHO of course!