2014
12/27
Design Custom Midi Controllers On iPad
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Midi-Designer-Pro

MIDI Designer is the top choice for controlling ANYTHING via MIDI—from hardware synths to DAWs, lighting rigs to other iOS apps.

What’s New in Version 1.7.0

Version 1.7 is a mix of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. These mostly affect advanced users and anyone using other authors’ layouts.

New Features Include:
● Page Copy and Make Similar
● New subcontrol option for Send Current Value
● Bit Changers (for legacy gear like the DX7)
● New supercontrol option for First Available Sub for buttons

Fixes Include:
● Issues with Presets for Groups & Channel Changers for saving, loading and appending
● All duplicate send issues resolved
● Fixed bugs for iOS 8 and use with other iOS apps
● Design your perfect controller using customizable knobs, sliders, XY pads, labels, panels and more
● Choose background color, texture and LED color for up to 8 banks of 6 pages
● Save, load and share your layouts and pages with other users
● Send and receive all MIDI message types, including sysex, NRPN and 14-bit CC.
● Connect any way CoreMIDI can: use Wi-Fi or hardware such as the Line6 MIDI Mobilizer II, iRig, iConnect, and others
● Use supercontrols and subcontrols to create simple and complex relationships between controls
● Full support for external hardware via the “Pedalboards Feature”
● Presets and other features make a mature, reliable platform for your future development

Dream, create and play your perfect MIDI controller with MIDI Designer:
● Reviewed and loved by DJ Tech Tools, Recording Magazine, Sound on Sound and Keyboard Magazine
● Winner of Sonic Touch Gold Award for Best App
● Trusted on stage by veteran touring acts like Todd Rundgren and newer projects like POSTYR and Groove Boston
● A studio cornerstone for music producers like Shadow Child and Oliver for tweaking tons of vintage gear
● Used by musicians, VJs and DJs all around the world
● Platform for community- and professionally-sourced layouts for top-flight gear (e.g., Korg, Roland, Casio, Moog and Yamaha)


If you can dream it, you can create it in MIDI Designer.

MIDI Designer Pro is the full, professional version of MIDI Designer for both iPad and iPhone/iPod touch.

MIDI Designer is easy to use, infinitely flexible and customizable, and battle-tested in performance. It’s the most-respected MIDI controller for iOS.

* * * * * dream | create | play * * * * *

The MIDI Designer Community has built layouts for popular MIDI targets, including:

● Akai: Miniak (= Alesis Micron)
● Cakewalk: Sonar
● CamelAudio: Camelspace, CamelPhat
● Casio: XW Solo Synth (XW-P1, XW-G1), Privia PX-5S
● Eventide: Pitchfactor, Timefactor
● Fractal Audio: Axe FX II
● IK Multimedia: Amplitube
● Jomox: MBase 11
● Kawai: K3m
● Korg: DSS-1, EX-8000, ElecTribe R (ER-1)
● Line6: Pod v2.0, Pod HD-500, DT-50 Series, POD X3 Live
● Moog: Animoog, Little Phatty, Slim Phatty, MF-104m Analog Delay
● Mutable Instruments: Shruthi, Anushri
● Novation: Bass Station
● Peavey: AT-200 Auto-Tune Guitar
● Roland: JX-3P (PG-200), JX-8P (PG-800), MKS-30, MKS-50 (PG-300), JD-990, VG-99, Alpha Juno
● Sonic Charge: MicroTonic VST (μTonic)
● Sonic Potions: LXR Digital Drum Synth
● Strymon: “Trio” (BigSky, TimeLine, Mobius)
● A Tasty Pixel: Loopy HD
● ValhallaDSP: ValhallaÜberMod, ValhallaVintageVerb, ValhallaFreqEcho, ValhallaShimmer, ValhallaRoom
● Waldorf: Blofeld, Pulse, 4-Pole
● Yamaha: S90

Midi Designer Pro is available for $24.99

2014
12/16
Soundprism Electro Play Chords Effortlessly on iPad
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Soundprism-Elelctro

SoundPrism Electro is a musical instrument which makes it easy to come up with great chord progressions.

Play full arrangements of bass, harmony and melody with just one tap, making it an indispensable tool for songwriters or electronic musicians looking to add powerful chord progressions to their tracks.

Features:

* New sound engine with rock-solid polyphony and great-sounding effects. SoundPrism Electro’s new sounds are hand-crafted by Swiss sound designer Oliver Imseng to work beautifully with each other.
* Innovative and improved chord input system: effortlessly play inversions and chord progressions while focusing on your track, not on the music theory behind it.
* A ribbon controller for live manipulation of the built-in effects.
* New interactive tutorial system: SoundPrism Electro walks you through its interface and teaches you how to play.
* Supports Audiobus including state saving.
* Supports Core MIDI

Soundprism Electro is available for $4.99

2014
12/03
Touchable 3 Ableton Live iPad Controller
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touchAble2 Live Controller For iPad

Zerodebug has released touchAble 3, the new version of its dedicated Ableton Live controller app for iPad. After being completely redesigned from the ground up last year for the release of its successful version 2, this new incarnation of the popular Ableton Live touch-controller offers a vast array of new and improved features and finally connects via a simple USB cable.

touchAble 3 also now includes the new Live Device Template Pack, available as an in-app purchase, which provides 42 new templates for Live’s Instruments and Effects, all closely resembling their counterparts in look & feel. touchAble 3 is available as a free update for all existing users and is compatible with all iPad generations.

The new Live Device Template Pack (available as an in-app purchase) provides a well designed layout for nearly every device in Live.

touchAble 3 includes six different modules that – combined – give you full control over Lives Session-View.

Its modular interface allows to split the screen to show two modules at the same time – or to maximise the surface area of a single module.

And if the size of one iPad is not enough, you can use touchAble with as many iPads or iPhones (using touchAble Mini) as you want.

You can now use a simple USB cable to connect 🙂
Access to devices in racks in racks in racks in racks in racks…..!
The new Live Device Template Pack (available as an in-app purchase) provides 42 well designed layouts for nearly every device in Live.

The device module can now follow the selected device in Live (Blue Hand)
Devices can now be loaded to any place of a track’s device chain using the browser and drag and drop.
You can now play notes with the keys of the piano roll within the MIDI Clip Editor in the scales tab.
Devices can be stretched to take 3/4 of the screens real estate.

Completely recoded Server. (Goodbye Java!:) From now on, the Server is running in the background as a System Service.

New Settings, including:
– Follow currently launched scene option.
– choose and assign different MIDI channels for Drum Pads, Keyboard, Isomorphic Keyboard and Piano Roll (MIDI Clip Editor).
– iPads & iPhones Link Mode: combine several Devices to one big control surface.
– Rotary controller sensitivity setting.
– Snap and Timed Snap Mode 4 different envelopes: Exponential, Linear, Logarithmic, Hanning.

Countless of bug fixes, optimisations and enhancements.

Pricing and Availability:
*touchAble 3 for iPad is $24.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and
available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category. The
update is free for previous owners.

*touchAble MINI for iPhone and iPod is $9.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other
currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music
category. The update is free for previous owners.

*The Live Device Template Pack is $21.99 USD and available as in-app purchase
exclusively through the touchable Store within the touchable App for iPad.

Get Touchable

2014
05/21
Use A Bluetooth Keyboard As A Midi Controller
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Double Decker

The best MIDI controller is the one that you have with you. Double Decker transforms an ordinary Bluetooth keyboard into a sophisticated MIDI controller, giving you a much bigger playing surface, while still being portable. The app is designed to work with US/English keyboards; the key arrangement for other languages may not be compatible.

On iOS, an app can only receive keystrokes from a QWERTY keyboard when it is in the foreground. For this reason, Double Decker must be in the foreground to work; this is a limitation of iOS, and there is no way that we can work around it. The app is designed to send MIDI notes to other apps (running in the background), or MIDI to apps running in the foreground on other devices.

The iOS operating system only makes key press information available to apps, and not key release. For this reason, Double Decker cannot make a QWERTY keyboard operate like a typical (piano) keyboard.

Press a key on the Bluetooth keyboard to trigger a note. When you touch another key, the first note is silenced as the next note is played.

Tapping the space bar will silence all sounding notes. While it would obviously be better if lifting up on a key silenced a note, iOS does not provide this functionality for app developers.

The app features a state-of-the-art Soundfont engine, advanced MIDI routing capability, support for Apollo MIDI over Bluetooth, and even Audiobus!

The keys are arranged with the two middle rows in a piano-style formation. Play a second instrument using the bottom row of keys, and two more instruments using the number keys and punctuation. Each key can be configured to trigger either a single note or a chord.

A second arrangement of the keyboard divides things into four grids, four-by-four each. This is great for finger drumming, and triggering samples and sequences.

Double Decker supports Soundfonts, opening up a world of different tones. The app also has full support for MIDI, giving almost unlimited sonic potential. Using the MIDI Learn feature in apps such as Loopy and Genome, you can start and stop recording, play synthesizers, and switch tracks, all with a Bluetooth keyboard.

If you have multiple iOS devices, you can link them together using the low latency connection provided by Apollo MIDI over Bluetooth. Run Double Decker in the foreground on one device to catch keystrokes, and then send MIDI to a second device, which can have a synthesizer or sequencer app in the foreground.

Key features of the app are the following:
* Innovative use of an external keyboard to trigger notes.
* Keyboard arranged into two groups, each with four different playing regions.
* Each region can be assigned a Soundfont patch, a set of MIDI destinations, or both.
* Soundfonts can be added using “open in” or iTunes file sharing.
* Each key in each region is configurable as either a note or a chord, with independent velocity control.
* Key configurations can be saved as presets, shared through email, or downloaded from the web.
* The app supports the Audiobus “input” slot.
* Built-in support as a Apollo MIDI over Bluetooth “A” endpoint.

Double Decker is available for $4.99

2014
02/11
touchAble Mini Ableton Live Controller For iPhone and iPod Touch
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touchAble2 Live Controller For iPad

*Special Introductory Price!

touchAble is THE controller app for Ableton Live. Countless artists around the globe – from bedroom producers to award winning artists – use it on stage, in their studio or while on the road.

touchAble Mini by www.touch-able.com offers no-compromise-control of Ableton Live from your iPhone or iPod. The scaled down interface packs most of the features of the touchAble iPad version into a very ergonomic layout, especially designed for iPhone and iPod.

You can use touchAble with as many iPhones, iPods and iPads as you want.

Each module offers full feedback from Live, making sure you always know what you are tweaking.

The Modules include:

Clips:
Launch Clips and Scenes, Solo and arm tracks.
Fold/unfold group tracks.
Access to any position in the set with the Overview feature.
Live 9 Users can use this module to manage their Live Set – Create or delete Tracks, Scenes, Clips and even stop buttons – without ever touching your Computer.

Edit MIDI Clips with the MIDI Editor.
Drum Mode makes it easy to lay down a drum loop.
Chord Mode allows for precise note placements and lengths – in any scale you want.

Mixer:
touchAble’s Mixer lets you adjust Volumes, Sends and Pans.
Access the Crossfader and change A/B assignments.
Accurate dB readings and level meters allow you to take your eyes off the computer – and only focus on your mix.
The intuitive snap mode and multiple controls per track make it the perfect tool for live performances as well as studio-use.

Devices:
Access Live Devices, VSTs or AUs.
Intelligent Controls adapt to the type of control used in Live.
For some Live devices, a native template mimics the device in Live – providing an interface that will make you feel right at home.
Snap and Combo mode allow for quick control changes in Live situations.

Keys & Pads
Keyboard and Drum Pad include several performance features :switch the Scale, enable note-repeat or aftertouch or change the current octave & velocity.

XY Pad
the XY Pad lets you assign and control up to 12 parameters at once.

Gravity Parameters on each of the dots let you create natural and interesting effects.
Take Snapshots and restore them in an instant – or morph between them.

Browser :
Exclusively available for Live 9 users, the Browser lets you access Lives Library, including all of Live’s Devices & Instruments, your Samples, Drums & Sounds.
Drag and Drop Devices on a track – or drop Samples on one of the DrumPads.

touchAble Mini is compatible with Live 8 & 9 – Intro, Standard and Suite – and runs on any iPhone/iPod running IOS 5 minimum.
The Server Software requires OSX 10.5 and above or Windows XP and above.

Download the Server Software from http://www.touch-able.com and follow the installation process.
•Studio session: Use your domestic router network and connect your iPhone/iPod to it.
•Stage performance: Create an Ad-Hoc network and connect your iPhone/iPod to it.
•Run the touchAble Server and Ableton Live.
•Launch touchAble on your iPad and tap the Server to connect.
•Within a few seconds your set will be touchAble.

Get touchAble Mini

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