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Plugin that lets you create/customize a midi interface/controller? Sliders, xy-pads- buttons etc?
Is there a plugin that lets you freely design a MIDI UI? Something like KB-1 or the controller that LK offers, but freely customizable?
A plugin that lets you place buttons, sliders, knobs etc. at will?
I found a similar thread and @wim 's mozaic script. That's already really cool. But with mozaic you're generally still bound to a certain set of possible layouts, aren't you?
There's this old app KRFT that I think allows you to do something similar, plus being an entire AUM-like environment I guess? But I feel like it is a LOT more than what I really need and it's not necessarily very intuitive.
It would be fun to have an UI where you had everything you need for a live session/jam in one place. Like the KoalaFX app or the interface builder in Nu Rack, but just as a MIDI controller so you can control stuff in AUM.
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There is a couple. There’s more then this, but these are some of the main ones…
Touch OSC
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/touchosc/id1569996730
Touch OSC Mk1 version
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/touchosc-mk1/id288120394
Midi designer pro 2
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/midi-designer-pro-2/id492291712
Widi
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/widi-midi-studio/id1420223879
Not sure if all these hit your specs.
All the midi
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/allthemidi/id1516518842
Check out the free versions of each individual type of controller
Sonic Logic
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sonic-logic/id573446786
Lemur
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lemur/id481290621
Knob lab but only knobs
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/knob-lab/id727466234
@Poppadocrock already nailed it (as usual)
So I have just one more to add
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tb-midi-stuff/id480953919
TB Midi Stuff
Edit: I still dig the patch randomizer Matt Fletcher made for Gadget some years ago using TB
wow, thanks guys, lots of possibilities to choose from. OK I think WIDI is out of the race because you can't make sliders that jump back to zero if you let go. Although the option to include midi clips is really nice... dangit, that one would have been nice and cheap
TB midi stuff looks really cool. they all look really cool
Is there any such app that is also AUv3?
Loopy pro…
hehe I wish... got one of dem beta invitations?
does anybody else have the problem with tb midi stuff that the left 3-4cm of the keyboard (the "letters and numbers" kind of keyboard, lol) do not work? If I want to enter a value, I cannot enter 1 2 or 3, if I press on any of these keys it will enter 4...
Loopy PRO can have knobs, xy pads and buttons (with gestures) and works as an AUv3 and is completely resizable, so you can have a window with only one or one hundred controls, it's pretty amnazing!
edit: you can also have it as a side window so it's like a floating midi controller
it is pretty amazing but also still in closed beta
but tbh, I think I might actually just wait for a place in the beta. Touch OSC is crazy complex, TH MIDI stuff is too buggy, the others cost 25 bucks. I think I'd rather spend that time and money on loopy pro :P
@cokomairena in loopy pro, can you create sliders and knobs that jump back to center or to zero when you let go?
Strangle enough...
...I've been using Tonality's 'Chord Pads AUv3' for triggering drums with touch velocity and sending CC's since each pad can also be an X & Y controller.
You can for example put all tom-notes on one pad and enable strum on the pad for quick tom-roll, or put congas or bongos and swipe like crazy on the pad to trigger them sounds etc. etc.
To me Tonality has become a lot more than 'Just Another Music Theory App'
I'm slowly getting the hang of TouchOSC. wow, what a piece of software...
I’ve yet to try this but I’ve been wanting too. The CC functionalities. Great idea with the strum to Tom roll.
This is such a cool idea that I just tested it, and yes, you can: set a Release action on the control that sets the parameter to a specific value. You can even set a ramp time to control how quickly it springs back (and I think in future you’ll be able control the curve of that ramp as well).
For now it's the same two CC's and Velocity settings for all pads but that could very well change in the future...
...the developer is super responsive!
I've already asked for dedicated modulation pads/sliders and some other nice-to-have features that will make things easier for all of us so we'll have to wait and see what's cooking.
Tonality's 'Chord Pads AUv3' not a dedicated 'Control Surface App' but it can kinda be used as one
I feel like that would be useful if you make a slider that controls the dry/wet % of an effect for example. Like in KoalaFX.
Wow, just saw that Elliot Garage is also working on a new midi interface app.
how has lemur gone under the rader here
Someone has posted it. looks great, but.... soo expensive...
And no longer maintained if I remember correctly. It works, but if it breaks, I'm not sure it'll be fixed. I hope I'm wrong about that.
Of the apps listed here that I'm familiar with, TouchOSC, Midi Designer Pro 2, and (someday soon) Loopy Pro, are the ones that are currently the most actively supported. You could also probably include Sonic Logic in there, though it hasn't been as active as the others.
I'm not familiar with WiDi and All the Midi.
[Edit] Ha! Sonic Logic update due in a few weeks. https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/47884/sonic-logic-4-out-december-4th. I don't know if it's an update or a new app though. Good to see activity for this really, really good app though.
I went for TouchOSC for now, and can't wait to get my hands on loopy Pro. Compared to the others, WIDI is limited in what it can do, but it can play MIDI clips and can do some automation which is nice. All the midi felt like the most lightweight of them all. Both can't do sliders that return to a standard value when you let go...
One thing I roundly dislike (pun intended) about TouchOSC is knobs can only use rotary motion. I hate that in iOS apps. I wrote the developer about it and he very thoughtfully explained that he simply doesn't want to add vertical motion for knobs. Oh well, it's a great app in all other respects, and a good developer.
you mean the way you have to move your finger to turn the knob? yeah I'd like that too, that had me confused as well, would much prefer if you could just move the finger vertically, isn't that pretty much the standard... maybe I should send him a mail about it too lol
Yes, that's what I mean. He seemed open to listening though not interested in making the change yet. So yes, additional requests might help.
Oh, BTW, there's a workaround he has referred to involving placing an invisible vertical fader over each knob and setting the fader to update the knob instead of the knob updating itself. He seems to think this is an acceptable alternative and more in line with TouchOSC's design ethos. I respectfully disagree, but it's ultimately up to him.
just an attribute horizontal/vertical/circular movement, I guess it would really not be a big deal to implement... but that workaround's a good idea. I'll keep it in mind.
I remember one of these apps had gyro/tilt as a possible input source to control sliders. Is it possible to do the same thing in TouchOSC too?
man I wish I could remember which app that was, i kinda want that feature now lol