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MIDI from AUM or other apps to Dorico iPad
I have been using Dorico for iPad and want to use other iPad apps to input MIDI into Dorico. I have AUM for MIDI routing and a handful of other apps that generate MIDI (I mostly want to use MIDI Guitar 2). I can get Dorico to read my MIDI controller, but I can’t find enough documentation about MIDI setup to figure out how to get other apps inside the iPad to talk to Dorico.
Is anyone on this forum able to help? I posted to the Dorico forum but think I might get better answers here.
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It doesn’t look to me like you can do that directly. It supports hardware midi input but doesn’t appear to support other core midi. You can record to something else that can save a midi file, then import that. Midi Tape Recorder is free and should do the job.
The free FreEWI app by Audionic can make a virtual hardware midi port.
His latest app that can do all things midi can make multiple midi ports.
It is called MidiFire.
@Alfred it looks like FreEWI relies on MIDIBridge to connect, which is no longer available on the App Store. MIDIFire is $12 and has not been updated in 3 years; I am not sure if I want to spend that much if it doesn’t work.
Is MIDIFire just a one-time setup that I can leave going in the background? Any others have experience with this solution to get Guitar MIDI coming in as hardware midi input?
I think FreEWI works all by itself. Did you try it?
Point your midi output to freewi and in dorico choose freewi as midi input device.
MidiFire is the new version of MidBridge.
MidiFire could be usefull if you want to connect multiple (mpe) instruments.
That won't help. Dorico doesn't have any virtual MIDI input capability. You can create ports with FreEWI or MidiFire, etc. but they're still Core Midi virtual ports and it seems that Dorico can only connect to hardware midi devices.
Try it if you like. Dorico is free. Maybe I'm missing something.
@wim You are right it does not work with those virtual ports.
@skdeish If you have an iPhone or a second iPad you can use a bluetooth midi connection to send your performance to Dorico.
@Alfred that worked! Running an instance of MIDI Guitar on an old iPad, passing Bluetooth from that one to another using AUM on both iPads, and Dorico is recognizing the Bluetooth connection as a hardware source. Thanks for your help and to @wim as well.
Well damn! That's a great hack! I would have never thought to use a second device and Bluetooth.
👍🏼🤙🏼
Thanks @wim , glad to be of help @skdeish :-)
Did it introduce much latency?
@michael_m Midi over bluetooth has negligable latency. It is audio over bluetooth that creates unbearable latency due to realtime audio compression.
Yes, I’m sure audio does on an iPad, but I wasn’t sure if it would be noticeable for something like MIDI.