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What? No free updates for everything we want right now? The nerve!
To be honest. one of the main reasons i want ableton link is to sync it with actual ableton. even if apple adds something to ios10 it doesnt mean ableton link will be useless. ah well. still a fantastic app regardless. for now i just use midi link sync to make midisteps behave.
Word, I think he did too. He also didn't say anything about not implementing Link. Just that he's going to wait to make any sort of move until after WWDC. Think at this point, that makes good sense. Remember, he's got several apps built around clocks and the MIDI clock implementation in all of them are best-of-class.
Oh! @syrupcore,
Oldtimer, you! Midisteps clock is really the best!
Not everyone is after a free update. Many are likely to find the lack of Link puts them off buying it in the first place. I was refunded for Midisteps because the clock simply isn't tight enough. With Link added, I'd absolutely buy it. I'm not saying this with any sense of entitlement, merely offering the idea that Link may boost sales.
@sleepless curious what it wasn't clocking well with. I find the clocks in all of his apps to be total champs.
I can't remember as it was a couple of months back, although I'm 100% certain one of the set ups I tested was having it receive clock from my Octatrack. It would get very shaky with keeping up timing. Oh, and receiving clock from MidiLinkSync and Link To Midi too.
I'm not sure where the MIDI timing problems would come from, I actually used an Elektron RYTM in my test set up when developing the app and made sure it was solid, but I'm sorry it didn't work for you. The upside of MIDI is it's a standard that works with all sorts of stuff like hardware drum machines, even thirty year old ones like the 909 I currently have driving my test set up. The downside is it can be finicky: is the problem the drum machine providing the clock? The MIDI interface? The OS? The app? A specific combo of all of the above that just doesn't work well together even though it should because they work fine separately and now I want to throw the whole bunch against the closest wall? Yep, I get it.
Anyway, sounds like you got a refund so hopefully you're good. For any others who are having issues: there is a timing shift slider in the settings menu which can help to get things aligned right. That's to fix midiSTEPs being ahead or behind the beat (or intentionally putting it ahead or behind). And there is also a latency menu that determines how early the MIDI data is computed and sent to the OS. Increase that latency sider if you are getting jittery results. Using lower audio latency settings may also help. Using those three together should help deal with the timing issues that midiSTEPs can control. And if you're having trouble with midiSTEPs, always test another iOS app's clock too to see if the problem could be further down the chain (hardware, interface, etc).
As someone already mentioned I am not at all ruling out adding Link! I've used Ableton Live since v1, still have the (green I think?) original CD somewhere, have the latest version and I use it to compose stuff. I also use Logic, which I use to record stuff, including iPad apps. So for me personally, MIDI is more useful than Link since it works with my old hardware, both my DAWs, and a lot more apps. But I get that Link eliminates a lot of the hassle of debugging MIDI, it "just works" which is what we all want. I know why you all want it. I'm being honest and saying I'm waiting for WWDC to see what gets changed and what gets added, which I have no control over, and then figure out where things go from there. I could give you all the old snowjob and just say "It's coming!" and keep you hanging while I don't actually add it, or I could just avoid the question. I'm trying to give you an honest, transparent answer about when/if it will get it.
I'm working on finishing up a third MIDI app now that I've been working on for a couple years and want to finish, more features for all the apps will come after that. Hopefully by then Apple will let us know what direction they want us to go, or will tell us they're indifferent and don't care by not adding anything, and I can decide which way is the best way forward for my apps. It's even possible Apple will announce a competing solution, I'll decide I don't like it, and end up only doing only Link. The problem for me right now is I don't know what to expect and once I add a feature I can't take it away without pissing off even more people than I have by saying I'm holding off for a little bit. So for now, away from forums for me and back to the bat cave to work on stuff I have some control over...
My sarcasm was aimed at those criticizing the developer's strategy to wait, as if Link capability was owed to them now. I don't see the app as broken. My guess is that, like myself, there are plenty of customers who like MidiSTEPs for all that it can do, are going to continue to use it, and will wait patiently for Link or whatever the next step in syncing is.
Hi! Still loving this app and using it a lot on iPad Pro. Any updates on iPhone / Universal support? thanks.
I would sure like an iPhone version or Universal support myself! :-)
@artkerns hopping in to say that I absolutely love your apps - Thank You for them
Since iOS10 did not bring any major news to the midi-side of things I'm hoping we'll see a Link-Enabled midiSTEPs soon and maybe added 'grid editor' since editing multiple notes per step is tedious
And if possible more than 4 channels.
midiSTEPs is still my 'go-to' app quickly trying out ideas.