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Looking for MPE controller app
Now that Ableton has MPE support, I thought I might use an iPad app as an MPE MIDI controller over USB.
Are there any great MPE controller apps? Or perhaps an app that’s not designed as a controller, but happens to output MPE midi along with its audio?
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Hey, charlie. From controllers you’ve got KB-1 which offers multiple layouts and is very flexible in general. As for apps not being dedicated controllers I believe Animoog Z and Model 15 output MPE.
Nice. I already own all of those!
And KB-1 can connect to Ableton over Bluetooth!
KB-1 is my favorite one to control Ableton Live. Thanks to its multi-layout I can have a MPE controller and various knobs to modulate things.
But talking about great MPE controllers included in other apps, Mononoke is a gem. And it includes an AUv3 Midi module.
I have that one too! Great to know about the midi module. That’ll be handy in Loopy Pro
OK, and now I just discovered I can sequence Ableton with Drambo, wirelessly, and use Ableton Link to keep it all synced.
What a world we live in!
@mistercharlie If you're using an iPad to sequence Ableton Live using MPE, studiomux is other essential tool.
With the MIDI configuration tool included in the Mac, it's possible to create various network MIDI ports, using the IAC driver.
The problem is that by default, iOS will only show a generic network MIDI device, including all the virtual ports.
With studiomux, it's possible to see the individual IAC MIDI ports.
This is important, because with MPE, you will need to send info to all the channels in a port.
So if you want to use Ableton Live to sequence various iOS synths with MPE at the same time, you will need these individual ports, each one for a different synthesizer.
Ableton Live is conjunction with AUM and studiomux is secretly the best iOS DAW.
@Pynchon I’ve looked at Studiomux, but it seems super complicated to set up. I have an iConnectMIDI, too, but a simple USB cable would be more practical, especially with a MacBook.
@mistercharlie : Studiomux can be used through an USB cable or via a WiFi connection.
Once you have this configured, you only need to open the server app in your Mac, and open the standalone app in your iOS device.
And all the virtual midi ports created in the Mac will appear in other applications, such as AUM.
My doubt is if using an iConnectivity audio interface, the IAC virtual ports will also show individually in iOS, in the same way as they do with studiomux.
I'm thinking in purchasing one, only if the MIDI part offers the same functionality as studiomux.
If not, I will save some more money to purchase a RME Babyface Pro, to have a better DAC converter.
The Roli Noise app. Free and good. Open multiple AUv3 instances if you need more than 2 octaves to play.
GeoShred.
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They all show up as named ports on both Mac and iOS. Make sure you name all the ports before you ever connect it to the iPad though—iOS reads the names once and they cannot be changed after that. Well, not without major, major hassle.
ThumbJam can effectively output MPE with the right midi output options (channel per touch, starting output channel of 2, along with pitch bend and channel pressure enabled if desired). It's been able to do that years before MPE was even a thing
Thumbjam sounds so good I just record the audio straight into the DAW.
I can get the MIDI working, but can’t see how to send audio.
To send audio you need to load the AUv3 studiomux in the effect slots in iOS, or the Audio Unit in the effects slot of your Mac/PC DAW.
You can use the same number of audio channels as in the iConnectivity, but normally I only send the master bus of AUM directly to an audio channel in Ableton, to have audio feedback.
A caveat of studiomux using an USB connection comes from one of the limitations of iOS. You can't use a USB HUB connected to the iPad, as a bridge to communicate with your Mac. So with the new iPads without audio jack ports, it's impossible to connect an audio interface and connect the iPad to the Mac at the same time.
I was looking for output possibilities. I didn’t think of the FX slot!
That’s annoying. But at least I can monitor the audio in Ableton. I’ll see how bad the latency is. At my desk I’m happy to just use the iConnect anyway.
Velocity Keyboard
Geoshred
Geoshred Control
Animoog Old Midi Out IAP and New Animoog Z Keyboard
Model15 the Moog keys I think do too.
Tonality pads let you assign an X and a Y cc to each pad.
You need to load the StudioMux plugin as an instrument or FX in the Desktop DAW and select the device and Studiomux channel to receive from. That will make it an output destination in the iOS app. Then you need to set something to output to it. I don't host AUs in Studiomux. Instead, I add AUM by tapping the + sign at the top of the Studiomux channel, finding AUM (labeled AAUAAAAAAAAAUM for some weird reason), and dragging it to the input position. Now in AUM you can add Studiomux as the output of an AUM channel.
I'm not sure audio can go over wifi. I've only tried it over USB.
I just bought the midi tape recorder app. It does the job, but then I tried Atom sequencer and set it up running midi both directions and it records MPE too.