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The new mylar melodies midi controller video
It's a promotional video of course, but:
It's quite an interesting controller, albeit a little TOO small and seems a bit fragile, however I like it a lot. The title and the idea is more interesting to me though, he's advocating using controllers to get away from staring at a screen and adding some tactility.
My wife bought me an Akai mpk mini 3 for my my birthday a few years ago and honestly I've been a bit slack using it.
The encoders are awesome and with the various programs you can have 64 of them, but I just don't feel I need something with a keyboard and it's too big to fiddle with in bed (that's what she said, well... Not my wife anyway).
Anyway today I set up a few banks to control no input mixer and mylar melodies is right, it's a whole different ball game. But I'm never sure what to map how deep do you go with your controller mapping? Do you change the controls ad hoc depending on the tracks you are making or try to stick with the same controls per instrument to improve muscle memory and give a more hardware instrument feeling? What is the sweet spot concerning pots or faders? Do too many banks just end up confusing?
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I’d actually considered that controller in the video, but like many such controllers it has to be configured using web site (so what happens if the supplier goes bust) and that only works in browsers that support web midi, ie nothing on iOS. Plus it’s a kit, and soldering fills me with dread. Shame, as it looks great otherwise, despite the size. Though I’m more inclined towards Bluetooth to keep the cable count down.
All that said, I like the idea of controllers, just not sure about all the mapping, which I could see being a creativity killer. In my case, knobs (mostly) and buttons are the draw, I’m not that interested in keyboards
So I’m monitoring this thread!
Imho there is no such thing as a sweet spot with any of those „abstract“ controllers, that get mapped.
The appearance of IOS was like a revelation to me, to be more precise it was Animoog and iElectribe ages ago.
Instant tactile access and visual representation... and (even more important) dynamic reaction of controls like acceleration and scaling.
If implemented properly (as been shown by many developers), it‘s unsurpassed.
The only alternative is dedicated dials/faders (each with their own display) and feedback from the desktop or virtual instrument, like the Mackie Control did.
These items are rare and often lack in scaling/dynamics.
My birdkids wireless controller is now useless because the web-based configuration tool is down now that the company failed and they didn't open source anything
However it looks like this one's tool is actually open source: https://github.com/TomWhitwell/8mu_Public both firmware and editor. So there's no need to worry about a web-based tool.
I actually went for the en16 by intech, it’s 16 push button encoders with 4 banks and they are completely programmable to do pretty much anything. I got it because it’s similar to the midifighter twister but half the price. Have only fiddle a little bit but it’s really nice playing with noinputmixer and real knobs phwoar
In Ableton, I like to use the MID Fighter Twister, with a script that auto-maps the bottom two rows using Ableton's "blue hand" mapper.
I don't find the blue hand useful usually, because it never seems to pick the controls I want to use, but if you make 8 macros, it maps to those and is then perfect.
The best part about the MFT is that it has LED rings around the endless encoders, so they always reflect the current state of a control.
I know you can't reconfigure it, but surely it's not completely useless, just locked to chromatic note modes, right? I imagine you could still do a bunch of interesting mapping with MIDI learn.
I just had a fun time playing some sloppy Slammer drums with mine — I was going to sell it because of the limited configurability and the stiffness of the pads, but I've decided not to, because the stiffness is kinda deceptive, as the sensitivity is actually there.
Sounds good. Have you needed to use the editor software?
Not yet out of the box it has 4 banks of sixteen encoders with push buttons. Apparently you can edit it to do anything and also use 14bit midi bit I'm not sure how much of a difference that would make?
I reconfigured mine when the site was up, so it's stuck with whatever in-progress config I was experimenting with
Looks like they might've put the site back up for now anyway, still without open sourcing it
I want to sell it if anyone wants it
(I'd like to replace it with the Striso board:)
