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Originally Posted by tomsem
One thing I am wondering about is availability of an adapter or hub that lets you plug in Lightning accessories (microphones, headsets, Apple Pencil v1, etc.), and ideally have passthrough for charging.
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Some web searching and critical thinking has lead me to the conclusion that there probably never be a way to use Lightning accessories with the new iPad Pros. When the first MacbookPro with USB-C ports came out, many users complained that they could not use their iPhone (Lightning) headsets with the MacbookPro. It is still the case a couple of years later.
I’ve come to really like my Lightning headsets, in particular the Pioneer Rayz, which has active noise cancelling (drawing power from the Lightning port) and other enhanced abilities like equalizer, auto-pause, etc., and it has a Lightning port to plug power in, so you can listen and charge at same time.
The Lightening plug seems less prone to breakage and noise caused by bad physical connection than 3.5mm stereo plugs, which I have come to despise. So I’m not looking for a return to that. Yet it is not clear that wireless audio will ever have low enough latency for audio production (wireless MIDI seems good enough on my current iPad Pro, but that does not involve nearly as much bandwidth).
I have an audio interface (mic+guitar+aux) that currently connects to my iPad via lightning wire, and even with that there is a tiny bit of latency. It also has USB 2.0 output to connect to a laptop/desktop, so maybe that will work with iPad Pro’s USB-C port (with suitable adapter).
There are USB-C headsets and audio interfaces, of course. Looks like I’ll need to look into these and factor that in to what I will need to spend to upgrade.