iTrack Solo provides the best solution for recording your instruments and vocals using an iPad. Featuring a Focusrite microphone pre-amplifier and an input to record directly from electric and bass guitars, iTrack Solo is the perfect way to expand the audio capabilities of your iPad using Garageband or any other music-making app.
Although it is an Apple certified "Made for iPad" device, iTrack Solo is also fully compatible with your PC or Mac computer and comes with a host of free music making software including Ableton Live Lite and the Focusrite Scarlett Plug-in Suite.
KEY FEATURES:
- High-quality, award-winning Focusrite mic preamp
- Directly connect your microphone or instrument
- Compatible with iPad, Mac OS X and Windows
- Rugged anodised metal unibody chassis
- Up to 24-bit/96kHz when used with PC or Mac
- Signal halos for level and clip indication
- Direct Monitor function for zero-latency tracking
- Powered by USB connection or USB power supply (included)
- Large monitor level dial
- Kensington lockable
- Focusrite Scarlett plug-in suite & Ableton Live Lite (activation)
- Perfect for Garage Band and Auria iPad DAW software
Get started
Just connect your iTrack Solo to a power supply and an iPad and you’re ready to go! With the very best in digital audio technology encased by a rugged aluminium unibody chassis, iTrack Solo will capture and playback your sound with pristine quality.
Plug straight in
The front panel has an input for a microphone and an input for an instrument (such as an electric guitar, bass guitar or the output of an electro-acoustic guitar). This makes the iTrack Solo perfect for capturing the output of a microphone, or using an electric guitar with one of the many guitar amp applications on iPad.
Keep an eye on your audio
Unique signal halos let you know that you’ve got a good audio level for recording. Green is good and red means that your audio is too loud, and that your should turn down the level control.
25 years of experience
Since 1985, Focusrite has been a leading manufacturer in the professional audio field. Focusrite mic pres are the choice of leading artists, recording studios and engineers around the world. Now get the quality of Focusrite on your iPad or computer.
Don’t be limited by your dock
Use the iTrack Solo’s premium quality audio outputs to take your sound to Hi-Fi, speaker systems or headphones to hear the difference Focusrite can make. At Focusrite, that's all that matters – Sound is Everything.
A supplied cable connects iTrack Solo to the iPad, and it is powered by the included USB cable that delivers the power necessary to run the iTrack’s high-specification components. If you are using iTrack Solo with a Mac or PC you don't need to connect it to the mains, your computer will supply enough power via the USB cable.
The cable supplied in the box with your iTrack Solo is designed to pass Apple's Made for iPad tests to ensure that any official iPad accessory can meet their standards for noise interference resilience, specifically the TDMA noise that can be induced when an iPad receives a telephone call over a 2G network.
Specifications
2 in / 2 out USB audio interface
96 KHz, 24-bit conversion
1 Focusrite microphone preamplifier
Silver “soft-touch” aluminium unibody chassis
Front panel
- 1 microphone input – XLR
- 1 Instrument input – ¼’ unbalanced
- 2 Gain knobs
- 2 Gain halo signal indicators
- 48V Phantom power switch
- Direct monitor switch
- Large monitor level dial (controls headphone and line level outputs)
- USB Connection LED indicator
- Headphone output - ¼” TRS Jack
Rear panel
- 2 unbalanced monitor outputs – RCA Phono
- DEVICE LINK port (to connect iTrack Solo to iPad)
- USB 2.0 Port
- Kensington Lock slot
Included software
- Ableton Live Lite 8 – professional music making software to use your iTrack Solo with a Mac or PC.
- Focusrite Scarlett plug-in suite – collection of software plug-ins bringing effects to your music software (like Ableton Live for example).
- Novation Bass Station – legendary Novation synthesizer modelled in software as a soft-synth plug-in instrument.
- Loopmasters content – 1 Gigabyte of royalty free samples
| Analogue Input Performance | |
| Mic | |
| Frequency Response | 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 0.2 dB |
| THD+N | < 0.002% (minimum gain, -1dBFS input with 22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter) |
| Equivalent Input Noise (EIN) | < -120dB: measured at minimum gain with, -1 dBFS (20Hz/22kHz bandpass filter) |
| Gain Range | +10dB to +55dB |
| Max Input Level | -3dBu |
| Instrument | |
| Frequency Response | 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 0.2dB |
| THD+N | 0.003% (measured with -1dBFS input and 22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter) |
| Noise | -87dBu (22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter) |
| Gain Range | -10dB to +55dB |
| Max Input Level | -3dBu |
| Analogue Output Performance | |
| Nominal Output Level | 0dBFS = +9dBu, unbalanced |
| Frequency Response | 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 0.2dB |
| Noise | -87dBu (22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter) |
| Gain Range | +10dB to +55dB |
| Max Input Level | -3dBu |
| Analogue Output Performance | |
| Nominal Output Level | 0dBFS = 10dBu, balanced |
| Frequency Response | 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 0.2dB |
| THD+N | < 0.001% (measured with 0dBFS input 22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter, un-weighted) |
| Digital Performance | |
| Clock sources | Internal clock only |
| A-D Dynamic Range | 105dB 'A-weighted' (all inputs). Converter chipset A-D dynamic range 114dB |
| D-A Dynamic Range | 105dB 'A-weighted' (all outputs). Converter chipset D-A dynamic range 114dB |
| Supported sample rates | 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz – Mac and PC 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz – iPad |
| Crosstalk | |
| Input to Input | Better than 90dB |
| Output to Output | Better than 90dB |
| Input to Output | Better than 85dB |
| Input Metering | |
| Ring LED lit Green | Signal present (-24 dBFS) |
| Ring LED lit Red | Signal overload (0dBFS), peak held for approximately 1 second |
| Weight and Dimensions | |
| Height | 45 mm / 1 ¾ “ |
| Width | 150 mm / 6” |
| Depth | 100 mm / 4” |
| Weight | 500 g / 1 lb |
Included software
- Ableton Live Lite 8 – professional music making software to use your iTrack Solo with a Mac or PC.
- Focusrite Scarlett plug-in suite – collection of software plug-ins bringing effects to your music software (like Ableton Live for example).
- Novation Bass Station – legendary Novation synthesizer modelled in software as a soft-synth plug-in instrument.
- Loopmasters content – 1 Gigabyte of royalty free samples
Related videos
iTrack Solo overview
Click above to see iTrack Solo in action.
iTrack Solo tutorial
Watch above to see how to setup your iTrack Solo.
