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Lazylefteye wrote: Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:28 am
Kalamata Kid wrote: Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:21 am Is there an app called Patterning?
If so please provide link.
Here you go:

https://www.olympianoiseco.com/apps/patterning-2/
Thanks
Looks interesting!

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fortycoats wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:14 am AC Sabre let's you calibrate gestures to midi cc, easy setup and expressive if you have an old iPhone. Inputting notes didn't work that well for me. I just spent half an hour with Aphelian using internal sounds but the midi possibilities here are looking bright.
The new issue of Sound on Sound magazine gave Aphelion a good review.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... s+aphelian

I was not aware that it had a midi out.
If so I would run the midi out thru iConnectmidi2+ to Studio One.
https://www.iconnectivity.com/products/ ... tmidi2plus

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Cinebient wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2020 1:01 am Indeed iPad/iOS has tons of great midi tools.
I‘m waiting for Drambo (Beepstreet) which might be my new top here for midi as well (its a modular synth compared best maybe with kind of Reaktor Blocks you can say but with a much better workflow, also FX, midi, MPE, parameter locks, morphing scenes and much more).
Most iOS midi tools have a better GUI and workflow. I mainly use my iPhone as midi tool and to feed audio into Logic. The 3D touch and size makes it a great and expressive midi controller. At the same time i can control the iOS apps via my mac midi FX and record it back into Logic or iOS DAW.
Drambo could be interesting.
I am looking to get Riffer 2 for $6.99 whereas the Windows version is € 49.00.
https://audiomodern.com/shop/plugins/riffer/

Yep, the iOS developers are very creative.

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Kalamata Kid wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2020 3:06 am From this thread
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Cinebient wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2020 1:01 am Indeed iPad/iOS has tons of great midi tools.
I‘m waiting for Drambo (Beepstreet) which might be my new top here for midi as well (its a modular synth compared best maybe with kind of Reaktor Blocks you can say but with a much better workflow, also FX, midi, MPE, parameter locks, morphing scenes and much more).
Most iOS midi tools have a better GUI and workflow. I mainly use my iPhone as midi tool and to feed audio into Logic. The 3D touch and size makes it a great and expressive midi controller. At the same time i can control the iOS apps via my mac midi FX and record it back into Logic or iOS DAW.
Drambo could be interesting.
I am looking to get Riffer 2 for $6.99 whereas the Windows version is € 49.00.
https://audiomodern.com/shop/plugins/riffer/

Yep, the iOS developers are very creative.
The different in prices is sometimes strange. I also would not buy it for so much more. The iOS market is really different but has its contra as well of course.

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Kalamata Kid wrote: Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:22 am In a sense anything that is midi in an iPad that can be routed to the Windows and Mac computer.

iPad apps are ahead or the curve in innovation. Add multi-touch capability and innovative developers and we end up with some really nice apps. I wish these developers port their apps to the Windows multi-touch environment and charge a bit more $$$ as has been the case so far. For the time being I route the iPad midi out to the PC through the iConnectMIDI2+. See my studio shot:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7760&p=6718002#p6718002

My favorite MIDI iPad apps:
Navichord. I have several iPad mid apps but have not used them enough to develop a favorite.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/navicho ... 52748?mt=8 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/navichord-chord-sequencer/id916452748?mt=8)

I would love to see:
What are your favorite iPad midi apps.
The virtual or hardware instrument you prefer to use.
If possible mention the routing method to the PC you use.

Please provide links.
Hi,
so how do you deal with latency? My workflow is similar, I use the iConnectMIDI4+, Midi works fine, but the audio delay is very „variable“ — between 30 and 60 ms. That‘s why I use two Audio/Midi interfaces (SPL Crimson and Zoom U-44). I would like to use the iConnect Midi, because I‘d like to integrate a second iPad, but …
Cheers,
Nik

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^^^
I use the iConnectmidi2+ for midi from the iPad to the PC only.
Sorry, can't help.

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I love the Delay Kosmonaut and the Bleass delay is great. Some of the Sounds that GR 16 makes are fantastic.

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https://harvestplugin.com

harvest is now MIDI AUFX
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David wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 6:41 am I'd like to hear about ANY Image to MIDI apps, anywhere, realtime or not; hopefully there's a few that run on a Mac!

As for ios MIDI, my all time fav is Different Drummer, WAY more than just a drum or beat machine. I use it as a touch-driven performance aid, like a bionic virtuoso.

I connect using musicIO. http://musicioapp.com
If you're willing to go extremely oldschool (i.e. run an OS9 emulator), there's ColorMusic (of which I host one of the few remaining mirrors: https://digint.idlecircuits.com/?page_id=577).

On the iOS side, there is an app called Melodist which loads in images and creates melodies from them, which can then be exported as MIDI files.

There is also a rather arcane app called pixound, which lets you "play" images as a MIDI control surface in a similar way to ColorMusic, and also "play" points on the live camera input in a similar fashion as you move it around... does require some IAPs to export MIDI if I recall, and the MIDI format it outputs is somehow nonstandard that Logic chokes if I try to import it directly (my workaround has been to use a relatively ancient program called Harmony Assistant that can properly read a surprising amount of MIDI formats, and convert it into something Logic can play nicely with, but it's a 32-bit app so no Catalina). Still, if you can get it to work, it is the most comprehensive image-to-MIDI thing I've found for iOS, and believe me, I've looked :)

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^^^
Thanks ztrauq!
I might be willing to find and run an OS9 emulator; where to go for that? Is there also some sort of repository of defunct music apps to draw upon? Dr.T !?!

I'd known about, but never tried, pixound; it's from the same dev as my fav ios app, Different Drummer:)
I guess I was put off by all the muzak-y features that made it seem like it was more about building conventional multi-track arrangements (STOCK drum and bass patterns?!), than strictly about converting pixels to MIDI, but mostly because MIDI output isn't even mentioned in the blurbs I've read!

I might have to give it go after all:)

I did find a couple of Mx4Live devices that do this, but the first one I tried was both a bit underwhelming and too complex to take me where I was hoping to go, which was to get the point where I could use graphic design tools with some general clue about what the MIDI results would be like, in the same way that in Metasynth you can quickly grasp what sort of images (NOT "pictures"!) do something more interesting musically than simply create mad pitch-shifting chaos. Still planning to someday check out the 2nd one, but the priority is pretty low at this point given my very poor results so far.

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