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YouTube ideas: How many people get confused by MIDI?
The reason I ask is because there are so many different approaches about it on iPad, would people want a video about that?
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Showing which approach? The right or the wrong one? Or the middle Way?:)
Yes I would- I am so confused by it- I just avoid it altogether.
It’s always been a bane ! A newbies intro series basic nuts and bolts first, then following on with BT midi etc would be cool. I admit I have apps like midiflow and the new MIDIFire and would really like to get more out of them. So any videos showing all their uses would be cool.
I always chose the Midi Way myself
The problem is not MIDI. It’s the multitude of ways it’s implemented in iOS. In the hardware days it was pretty simple. In iOS there are a lot of different paths to Nirvana. Most seem to be under construction.
Yes please
Which is kind of odd considering that midi was developed to make midi programs sync with each other properly and developers would have a gold standard to follow.
If I could find a sequencer with note step input and automated knobs which could be easily mapped to my desired destinations within a variety of good iOS synths- I would be very happy.
Please direct me to any video/ manual links if such a thing exists
Indeed. MIDI is in essense really simple, especially when you've ever used the old-fashioned 1980s cabled variant...
I still picture MIDI connections as cables in my mind. IN, OUT and THRU... that's all there is to it 
Old-fashioned 1980’s indeed!
Seems like yesterday...
Midi is really show it's age now though. 8 bit resolution, no microtuning, the vagueries of clocks.
THRU had me for quite a while. For me, one of the most weird concepts in Midi. Chaining and all that S&M weirdness.
I think Midi is easier with hardware, where you can almost see it. Some flashing lights if your lucky. Seeing it on ios needs an investment in MidiFlow or the all singing and dancing, mad scientist version MidiFire. The manuals for these apps give good practical examples are well written and help.
I can usually get stuff hooked together thru trial and error, unless it is just not working correctly. I use the Midiflow Monitor usually if I need to see if the connections are right or broken or whatnot.
Midi messages on the other hand are a little confusing. I was reading in a thread about triggering program changes in Drum Jam, but got a little lost with the MSB and LSB stuff.
Hate to spam the forum any further, but Xequence should have you sorted. (It's also a universal app). There's already a forum thread on here.
MIDI has been updated to address these issues though it still depends upon how or if they're implemented in hardware or apps in your particular setup. In addition when you have more complexity due to the inherent differences in hardware, software, iOS, and the vision developers have in how they anticipate musicians will use their app. They also need to determine the level of options and how to present them in their apps as more options require a more complex GUI and more development time. There can also be performance trade offs, and the the inconsistencies between all of the components in your setup offer more levels of complexity to address.
So yes, I think a series of videos addressing these issues can be very helpful so musicians will know what their options are and what's required to create various setups and workflows.
Thanks - though I did ask for direction to a video/ manual- which I notice are not yet available.
Ah right, sorry. Here's the manual:
http://www.seven.systems/xequence/manual/
The "Example setups" chapter is still missing, but I think the rest of the info might already be useful! (22 pages)
There's also a PDF for your offline reading pleasure:
http://www.seven.systems/xequence/downloads/XequenceQuickstartGuide.pdf
Ok- thanks for that- I shall have a good look at it
I wish the other devs could read your mind, too many of them can only picture 'IN'
It’s still all brilliant though isn’t it, we would hate it if was easy, I get huge sense of achievement when I get MIDI connections work together, it’s bliss
I’ll take your 1000 and raise you another 1000......
+1
helps if you were around in the 80s when these questions were first asked
imo, the most important aspects of midi for the musician are threefold:
1) Understanding the note off message and how it relates to your note on. It really does mirror playing a velocity sensitive keyboard! Aftertouch, pitchblend etc again can all relate to a keyboard.
2) The use of midi CCs to automate data on your synth. Without this sound would be boring and you'd have to tweak the knobs yourself. It doesn't end with CCs though NRPNs, RPN, Sysex all move data around.
3) midi clocks & timing - hardware has really stable clocks, software doesn't - so alternatives such as Ableton Link are now preferred.
4) devices & endpoints - these are really just sources & destinations for communication - you connect destinations to sources (outputs to inputs) - they can be real hardware (like a usb midi interface connected via cck) or virtual ones (most apps publish named endpoints)
Just set up a nice little system to jam with
iPhone midi clock out ftom Funkbox to midi in on the roland SH-01A ...bass sequence.
SH-01A CV/gate out to cv/gate in on arp Axxe
As well as supplying midi out, Ableton Link is enabled on the iPhone which is synced to iPad through ableton link.
All a bit Heath Robinson but works beautifully.