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Alesis is allegedly censoring their threads which make me think some of the reviews outside the Alesis website are corporate damage control. Programming issues are not random like these reviews. Either people are lying or it is hardware. This is an Alesis product and Alesis owns the issues. Alesis made iO DOCK for iPad and not the other way round. Nov 29, 2017 The Alesis iO Dock provides serious I/O for the iPad's iOS platform. Made of resilient plastic, the iO Dock is lightweight and tough, bristles with killer I/O potential, and sports a clean industrial design that integrates inconspicuously with the iPad.
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I have had the worst experience with the IO Dock from Alesis. It worked on the dudes ipad i bout it from perfectly. I didnt check his specs. I get home and nothing. We both have iPad 2's so i figured what the hell it should work fine. I did my youtubing on the unit and everything people said was great things. As a youtuber and content creator I took my peoples at there word. The forum for Alesis might be the worst forum I have ever been apart of. Every time the question gets beat around until the forum guy just says write ticket with tech support. I noticed through many different post that the sum of all evils is the forum guys doesn't know shit about the product and or just knows its shit and beats around the bush for his paycheck. Since having these ridiculous issues I mean its made just for ipads and it doesnt work plug and play. Now there talking about firmware updates and thats not easy and they say that wont even fix the issue. SO WHATS THE POINT. Please dont waste your money on there products. It works for some and the ones it doesnt work for others. For those that have no voice and dont get heard and get told take a ticket go to the end of the line, FU IO-Dock in the circuits go screw your mother board.
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Alesis Io Dock
I have a dock 2 and really like it, sorry you aren't
IT doesn't do anything its a paper weight cant get my ipad to recognize it at all and Alesis sucks ass at helping
I have it and works great. Did you do the firmware update?
Got it to update restarted ipad and same thing thats crap
One thing the update did, I dont hear anything audio coming out of the ipad anymore. When I turn the IO Dock off it plays though the ipad speakers. So Im getting closer
maybe it got broken? Why dont simply replace it for a new unit and try? Honestly, I have 2 and I bought one for my brother and it works very well. I had some problems with the midi at the beginning but it was corrected after the update to firmware 1.7
Try again, you will be a happy user once it works!Thank you Hacked but that didnt really help me just kinda told me im shit out of luck. It worked on he dudes before me my IOS version should matter they suck bad product
I bought an io dock with my first iPad2, it worked flawlessly and the firmware updates easily with no problems. I still use it with my air2. It has been a solid product and has served me well.
@Shazam. I had the same problem once upon a time. It's really annoying but you can bypass it by putting certain (not just any) dock extenders in between the dock and iPad. I used a cablejive cord.
You can probably find them cheaper on eBay. But just a warning I tried a cheapo extender from China and it didn't work but the cablejive did!
Good luck
@TGiG said:
@Shazam. I had the same problem once upon a time. It's really annoying but you can bypass it by putting certain (not just any) dock extenders in between the dock and iPad. I used a cablejive cord.You can probably find them cheaper on eBay. But just a warning I tried a cheapo extender from China and it didn't work but the cablejive did!
Good luck
damn you had to do all that ill just get another dock and I will burn Alesis on my youtube channel for this.
Mine has served me for 4 years without an issue.
Sry for your troubles.When the Alesis iodock first came out I was really tempted, but I saw so many reviews saying how shit it was, so I didn't get it, and now I'm relieved.
i'm so very sorry you never saw those reviews I saw, and got burnt so badly. Now I'm wondering where they got to. (or who got at them) Hmm. I did hear good things about the special connector trick, but I agree with you, it'd be like getting a tiny 50-gram pocket phone and then fixing a flaw on it with a giant 5-kilo cross-body phone case.
I hate that disappointment crash I sometimes get after an excited anticipation euphoria gets unfulfilled. I know my condolences and good wishes can't do much for you, but I offer mine to you anyway. Just in case.
I hope you roast Alesis's ass real good, and feel better soon.
Weird, I have 2 of them and never had problems with either. (Except for having to buy new inserts as iPads got thinner)
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it is correct, that the distance for the dock connector is really small to snap properly
the only feature that does suck indeed is that it doesn't support midi sysex - no way
it's a design flaw due to lack of memory of a certain chip used
they've changed this with the ioDock Two - support isn't the greatest, indeed
a common flaw seems to be that the charging circuit may fail, but that can easily be solved (with a soldering iron, though
the circuit design of the thing is really good, considering it's price tagif the iPad does't snap you may have better results with just a cardboard under it
glue some edges to it to fix vertical position and it's finecheers, Tom
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@Shazamm said:
...It worked on the dudes ipad i bout it from perfectly....Get your money back from the guy. Maybe he knew something about his oarticular unit that he didn't disclose. Caveat emptor, I guess. Sympathies for your misfortune but is Alesis really to blame here? Hope you eventually find a solution.
good point - you never know when you buy a unit 2nd hand, but for $50-80 it's a cool device
Alesis spoilt the Midi sysex thing and used an obscure charging design - that for shure
but on the other hand I had no problems to insert a 30pin-to-lightning adapter and continue to use the dock with a Mini-2 (with a 'custom' cardboard bottom as mentioned)
in my case it worked flawlessly with every version of IOS, so the design must be quite solidthere is a mysterious 'distorted sound problem' that may show up once in a while, like it's loosing digital sync
but that has been reported on about any interface aroundcheers, Tom
From the op's descriptions, I suspect his issue is only in small part about the seller and device quality, and 90% about Alesis' pretence of product support with complete unresponsiveness in the same breath.
Aside from the obvious hypocrisy, rudeness and unnecessary pointless timewasting, anybody with even the smallest emotional baggage load is likely to be triggered by these unpleasantly familiar behaviours with varying degrees of intense horrible flashbacked feelings like overwhelming rage and terror.
I've been there and seen it many times, hard to manage even when self-recognised in the moment, which in itself is even harder still.
Personally, with behaviours such as these, I hope Alesis will be reaping what they sow.
Sorry for the armchair psychosis-I-mean-psychology. I'm done now.
Can't really blame the manufacturer if most of people here report no issues. Burn it on YouTube if it makes you feel better early doubt it will, it will only smoke your house (if you do at least do it outdoors.
IMO You're better off taking it back to the seller.
@supadom said:
Can't really blame the manufacturer if most of people here report no issues. Burn it on YouTube if it makes you feel better early doubt it will, it will only smoke your house (if you do at least do it outdoors.
IMO You're better off taking it back to the seller.
When i say burn i mean do a video on my experience lol my bad
Its most definitively the manufacture as i have been on there forums wondering why they never answers peoples questions on this matter. They tell me its the firmware then say downgrade IOS ( I laughed out loud) they just tell us create a ticket with tech support. Tech supports way to busy to even get to me yet. Trust me I am not the only one but its all good I just will spend my money elsewhere
@Shazamm said:
@supadom said:
Can't really blame the manufacturer if most of people here report no issues. Burn it on YouTube if it makes you feel better early doubt it will, it will only smoke your house (if you do at least do it outdoors.
IMO You're better off taking it back to the seller.
When i say burn i mean do a video on my experience lol my bad
The dangers of metaphoric language....
@Shazamm said:
Its most definitively the manufacture as i have been on there forums wondering why they never answers peoples questions on this matter. They tell me its the firmware then say downgrade IOS ( I laughed out loud) they just tell us create a ticket with tech support. Tech supports way to busy to even get to me yet. Trust me I am not the only one but its all good I just will spend my money elsewhereyou didn't spend any money on Alesis at all, as it was a 2nd hand deal...
cheers, Tom
@ExAsperis99 said:
@Shazamm said:
@supadom said:
Can't really blame the manufacturer if most of people here report no issues. Burn it on YouTube if it makes you feel better early doubt it will, it will only smoke your house (if you do at least do it outdoors.
IMO You're better off taking it back to the seller.
When i say burn i mean do a video on my experience lol my bad
The dangers of metaphoric language....
Literally burning it would definitely attract more attention, especially if you burned a printout of the brand logo etc.
My response was tongue in cheek anyway.
Good luck whatever you decide to do with it. I'd go for some kind of explosion personally.
@Telefunky said:
@Shazamm said:
Its most definitively the manufacture as i have been on there forums wondering why they never answers peoples questions on this matter. They tell me its the firmware then say downgrade IOS ( I laughed out loud) they just tell us create a ticket with tech support. Tech supports way to busy to even get to me yet. Trust me I am not the only one but its all good I just will spend my money elsewhereyou didn't spend any money on Alesis at all, as it was a 2nd hand deal...
cheers, Tom
Just because i dont give them my money directly on this actual purchase, doesnt mean i didnt add value to its product buy re purchasing it second hand. I have spent money with them on other products like alesis vi49 and DM10 studio lol. I was saying from my experience with there customer support and build quality I will be spending my money elsewhere as a whole.
sorry, didn't have my crystal ball at hand...
cheers, Tom
@Telefunky said:
sorry, didn't have my crystal ball at hand...cheers, Tom
Guys like you make me like this forum over others
I actually have quite a good amount of stuff from Akai, belonging to same group as Alesis ( In music).From Alesis particularly only own a couple of io dock stations and I have to agree the service to the customer is lousy but their products in general are good value for the money. Probably they could do better on customer service but all in all I find them ok for what they offer.