We expect many Lightning-enabled accessories to be coming from companies at CES 2013. Griffin today announced an update to their StudioConnect Audio/MIDI dock which adds a Lightning connector. They claim it to be the first music creation accessory that supports the Lightning connector.
StudioConnect gives your iPad: audio in and out, MIDI in and out, and a stereo headphone jack with its own volume control so you can monitor what's going in (or out).
The StudioConnect with Lightning will be available in the Spring of 2013 and will cost $149.
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But more troubling than a hot AC adapter is the fact that although Griffin took pains to update the Studio Connect with a Lightning interface, they left all other features as is. As such, the Gain adjustment continues to work only on the Mono input, and there is no Gain adjustment whatsoever for the Stereo input. That may be of no significance to some, but it was a big issue for me. I made a video about that here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AHF_CTdtVc
My unboxing video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3803CK1s2kc
(My videos are of the previous edition product which does not have the Lightning connector.)