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Noob question: how to get midi or notes from my voice melody in thumbjam into Gadget?
I am wanting to get my voice melody that I hum (which thumbjam can convert into other notes or musical instrument sounds) into Gadget or any other note or midi sequencer or daw environment.
Gadget can't 'open in' the mid file from thumbjam so I'll need a "no internet" workaround.
Better yet, any suggestions on a daw or sequencer that can open .mid files and arrange and edit them intuitively is also welcome!
I heard that the editing features , looping, and automations of gadget are great, but the difficulty of importing and exporting is really getting to me. Can gadget even play multiple vst apps on the iPad? Can it do it well?
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As long as Thumbjam's MIDI Out is enabled, preferably to its own Virtual Out, that should be transmitting the MIDI data automatically to Gadget. Gadget will only accept MIDI onto one track at a time (whichever track has the yellow light when you're looking at the main mixer view).
If that doesn't work, I know that Beatmaker 2 can import MIDI files, and also accepts live MIDI In.
Another question, I see that genome sequencer can 'open in' .mid sequences.
What would be the best workflow if my main goal was to convert my voice into midi loops, and arrange them and overlap them into a complex peice (end result being multiple instrument sounds (think orchestra ensemble) being driven by the midi of my own voice from thumbjam.
Hmm... I have the midi out options selected in thumbjam but I am not hearing anything triggering in gadget. Anyone familiar with what settings I need to tweak to make this work?
On Korg gadget's faqs they say they don't support iaa. Is that true?!
What suggestions does anyone have for working with the midi file from thumbjam? Or any editing app that can receive the midi from iaa.
Any workflow examples on how to get midi from thumbjam into a sequencer or editor and then have that editor/sequencer drive virtual instrument apps like sampletank to record the audio track for final editing (on which app?)?
I wonder if MIDImorphosis could help you.
Hmm, something strange is going on in my latest dev version... in order to get the Output Connection Note OUTs actually working I had to set the Hide Own Ports to ON, then when you enable Gadget's entry for NOTE OUT it actually sends it. Otherwise it appears to only send out TJ's virtual port. Someone should check if the released version has the same issue.... (too much trouble to set that up here right now!).
Quote Sebastian January 2013 It's that record button that has this note symbol on it. If you press that, Thumbjam will detect incoming notes via Audio (from them mic or Audiobus).
Quote sonosaurus January 2013 Just some reference info about ThumbJam's support for monophonic pitch tracking: To turn on input pitch tracking, find the button with the microphone and notes, which is at the bottom of the sidebar on iPad, or at the bottom of the auxiliary sidebar (toggled by hitting the sidebar button with the 3 small icons on it) on iPhone/iPod. The controls you see pop up are Thr - threshold level for pitch detection trigger of note; Vel - velocity based on level of audio input, turn it all the up the way for no velocity sensitivity; Gli - glide amount between notes.
The button with the stairstep icons let you toggle between played notes locked to scale, chromatic notes, or free which will match your pitch exactly. The octave controls there let you set an octave offset to play the instrument with.
Using headphones might be useful to prevent feedback, if you want to make midi loops, you have to point thumbjam's midi out to a daw (e.g. Beatmaker 2) and record a midi track there, or you record and tweak in gadget only, or you use the daw's midi THRU.
... doesn't matter if the virtual ports are hidden or not.
Greetings.
Pardon me for asking this... how do I set up gadget to receive and record the midi coming from thumbjam? So in otherwords, what do I click on gadget-side-wise?
You want to enable background audio for Gadget which you get to from the system Settings app. Other than that Gadget should be ready.
Thank you. By the way, the monophonic pitch recorder on thumbjam is amazing.
That feature should be marketed more (at least towards music beginners) on ios store.
To be able to hum and them arrange them in a daw afterwards is excellent and was worth the entire price for me for the voice pitch recorder alone!
Thank you!
I agree, I get better results with thumbjam than with sonuus (wich is pretty good by the way) !
So, thumb up thumbjam
Yeah, I think most of the others optimize for guitar input, whereas TJ is probably a bit better for voice/wind input.
I didn't even know it could track humming, going to try it out!
Great thread here! I will try this + Jam Maestro next time I need a quick way to create a guitar tab.
Side note: singing or humming into ThumbJam's MIDI converter is ridiculously fun.
Would somebody like to share how to accomplish this?
Look back a few posts to where crzycrs quoted an older post of mine explaining it....
Oops! Thanks!