Is there an auv3 midi (or synth with midi out)app with a similar play surface to Bebot or thumb jam?

Rudd_Ruse

I just picked up Thereminator which is 95% of the way of what I wanted, but does not allow for custom scales and the way it handles portamento/glide is slightly different. GeoShred is also very close but I have noticed I tend to approach playing it differently than I would ThumbJam.

I may be trying to slice hairs here but was just curious if something like this existed that I was unaware of.

benkamen

Ribbons?

benkamen

Full disclosure - I built Ribbons But it does have midi out (MPE and normal) as well as custom scales, etc.

dwell

Ribbons is really good, sounds beautiful too and it was one of my first iOS apps - it was called Ondes at the time... but it could be better with a little more flexible surface. As it is now, changing the range is buried in the settings, too many taps.
Take Shoom as inspiration: good for adjusting range and octave and a great latch system.

audiblevideo

Animoog, Model 15 and Magellan all have scale bound finger slidable interfaces that can route their midi

Edward_Alexander

@Rudd_Ruse said:
I just picked up Thereminator which is 95% of the way of what I wanted, but does not allow for custom scales

Trooper synth (also by Yonac)

Edward_Alexander

Also Magellan 2 by the same developer

Edward_Alexander

Bonus points; both are Auv3, and I haven’t tried Magellan 2 in a long time, but Trooper can be used as a midi processor to route its MPE keyboard out to other synths.

crushed

Xequence AU | keys?
scales and quite a few modulation options (no MPE yet)

woodman

also check out WoodTroller : stand-alone and AUv3, MPE, custom scale, pitch bending (per note) , ...

Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr

@Rudd_Ruse said:
I just picked up Thereminator which is 95% of the way of what I wanted, but does not allow for custom scales and the way it handles portamento/glide is slightly different. GeoShred is also very close but I have noticed I tend to approach playing it differently than I would ThumbJam.

I may be trying to slice hairs here but was just curious if something like this existed that I was unaware of.

I'm pretty sure you can set up the GS interface to be pretty much like TJ.

seonnthaproducer

I believe ThumbJam allows for MIDI out. Maybe just use that since you’re familiar with it.

audiblevideo

You could also try TC-Data in slidover mode. It has a preset that is 3 octaves of scales... (some mod may be necessary)

EdZAB

@seonnthaproducer said:
I believe ThumbJam allows for MIDI out. Maybe just use that since you’re familiar with it.

@seonnthaproducer is correct. The pads in ThumbJam will send MIDI out. I've used the pads to play other instruments via Audiobus3 and AUM. The MIDI settings are quite advanced too.

EdZAB

There are a few apps that have MPE enabled keyboard style layouts such as Animoog Z, and KB-1, which would offer some similar functionality to the keys in ThumbJam.

Have you tried GeoShred (or GeoShred Control) with a customized MIDI setup and layout? The built in presets include layouts that are nice, but I've experimented a bit with customizing them, and while it took me a while to figure out how to choose the right settings and get the spacing and rows the way I wanted, I was quite impressed with the flexibility of it.