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

2011
08/26
HexaChrom For iPad
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HexaChrom For iPad

Looking for a different musical approach to controlling your synths over WiFi? Try this out.

HexaChrome by Somascape

HexaChrom turns your iPad into a musical performance controller, enabling you to play your OSC or MIDI (#) electronic musical instruments — virtual instruments running on a laptop/desktop computer, or hardware MIDI instruments.

HexaChrom takes an alternative approach to the majority of MIDI keyboard controllers in that it uses an isometric note layout, where the notes are presented as a hexagonal matrix of keys. There are many such isometric layouts, though HexaChrom uses the Harmonic Table layout, which is a modern variation of the Tonnetz (tone network), devised by the famous mathematician Euler.

This note layout has particularly useful musical intervals between adjacent keys, ie along the 3 major axes : minor thirds, major thirds and perfect fifths. In the Western musical tradition, the intervals of the major and minor thirds dominate chordal structures. Consequently, this layout offers a number of advantages over the more conventional clavier-style keyboards : consistent chord shapes irrespective of key, the ability to span several octaves with one hand, and to play basic major or minor triads with a single finger. Together resulting in an easier learning curve.

It also encourages the user to approach music differently, just as the different note layouts of pianos and guitars engender different playing styles.

(#) HexaChrom can send MIDI data either via the OSC protocol (wirelessly), or via CoreMIDI (wired or wirelessly). When using OSC to control MIDI devices (whether hardware or software based) you will need to translate the OSC messages to MIDI, using either additional software (eg OSCulator on a Mac) or hardware (Jabrudian’s Missing Link).

HexaChrom Screenshot

FEATURES :

– Isometric ‘harmonic table’ note layout keyboard, based on a 52-note matrix (just over 4 octaves).

– Play simple chords with a single finger.

– Consistent chord shapes irrespective of root key.

– Octave transposition provides a total span of just over 7 octaves.

– Dual view : Portrait mode offers a single 52-note matrix (easy play); Landscape mode has a 104-note dual matrix, with optional split channel operation.

– Assignable controllers (sliders and buttons).

– Control any software or hardware MIDI synthesizer, sampler, drum machine, etc. using OSC or MIDI protocols (additional software and/or hardware is required – see Requirements).

– OSC (wireless) support for both the ‘M’ data type (as used by OSCulator), and the Missing Link’s proprietary message format. With automatic connection using Bonjour, or manual connection when Bonjour is not an option.

– CoreMIDI support (wireless or wired).

– Multitouch interface.

– iOS 4 multitasking compliant.

REQUIREMENTS :

– iPad running iOS 3.2 or later (4.2 is required for wired MIDI, whilst 4.3 is required for wireless MIDI).
– To use wired MIDI : A CoreMIDI compliant MIDI interface (eg Yamaha’s i-MX1), or Apple’s Camera Connection Kit along with a class compliant USB-MIDI interface.
– To use wireless MIDI : a wireless network with access to a MIDI Server.
– To use OSC : a wireless network with access to an OSC Server, eg OSCulator or a Missing Link device.
– A Mac running OS X 10.4 or later (if using OSCulator or wireless MIDI).

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