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Apps with Shortcuts support
Are there any apps with support for automation from the Apple Shortcuts app, either in terms of making app-specific shortcut actions available to scripts, or via URL scheme?
One of the main scenarios where I would find this useful is opening a specific preset or project, but I could also see it being useful to send audio or midi files to apps.
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My app MidiWrist supports shortcuts for all its discrete actions, even without an Apple Watch http://uwyn.com/midiwrist/
This is basically all the transport controls and the four CC buttons.
Cool. Wasn’t sure if you needed watch or not.
Only those discrete actions work without Watch, the continuous ones use the Watch as a controller.
I made a few iOS shortcuts a few years back. Here's my RoutineHub repository.
https://routinehub.co/user/Samflash3
Wait, hang on. Does this mean I can make MIDI based iOS shortcuts using this app that'll trigger when I send a shortcut response?
Yes, but it's currently limited to transport control and four buttons that send CC messages. When I added this a couple of years ago, people really didn't seem that interested, so I never continued. I had always planned on making a shortcuts MIDI app for iOS and macOS but put it on hold.
Here's the video I recorded two years ago:
Whoa, I knew that about MidiWrist, had actually tried it out, and then forgot! Thanks for the reminder!
There does seem to be potential for an ecosystem of Shortcuts-scriptable audio and MIDI apps.
.> @GeertBevin said:
Very cool. Saving this for future reference. Got lots of reading to do, haha.
Yeah I'm thinking of reactivating that product idea. Thanks for bringing it up!
On the Mac you can kludge around the current lack of direct MIDI implementation for the Shortcuts app. I've been using Keyboard Maestro to record in messages from sendmidi, so I can then use those messages as action triggers. I then added those to the taskbar:
And I just discovered that with Mate you can set up MIDI messages in shell script files, which are directly supported in the Mac Shortcuts app. So I think on the Mac it would be cool if send & receive midi had a Shortcuts integration - as we can already fire Shortcuts from the command line and pipe them into other commands via UTI's. Along with that, I like the model and functionality of the Actions app. All it does is add a bunch of useful Actions to the Mac Shortcuts app - so has no GUI, and only needs to be run once, not as a background service, and available on the App Store. So for me, it would just be porting the functionality of send/receive midi to Shortcuts actions - especially with the ability to record (auto-format), play back, and generate SysEx messages, and the same with hex.
On the iPad and iPhone, I also use an external keyboard - so being able to, for example, be able to open an app, fire a PC message to open a particular preset from a keyboard shortcut built with Shortcuts would be great. Or just being able to connect a Launchpad and fire a Shortcut to enter custom mode X, open some apps, and start recording. While I use a keyboard mostly, we'd also be able to use widgets or drop them on the Home Screen. Being able to use MIDI actions to open the app switcher, bring up the dock and the like would be very helpful.
So count me in for supporting this project! @GeertBevin I'm also hoping you might consider supporting MIDI-CI. While I'm not aware of any apps or hardware at this point supporting capability inquiry, it would be nice to be able to see how those messages could be recorded or crafted. I think CI could be a huge workflow booster and a terrific bridge to map control surfaces to soft synths.
Best!
@Aud_iOS are you using the sendmidi command line utility for this?
Yes for command line.
Cool, I made those too
Oh I know, and thx for that! I was glad to see your post here. It's really nice how Mate works with those two for creating shell scripts. This is at least a way for now to utilize the Shortcuts app with some MIDI. But I'm hoping for direct integration!