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MIDI over Bluetooth for every app
If you have ONE app (in my case: Crystalline) which supports the new MIDI over Bluetooth feature of Yosemite/iOS 8, you can control nearly every other music app over Bluetooth MIDI from your Mac. As soon as the Bluetooth connection has been established (as described in the video of Soundtestroom), Bluetooth MIDI occurs as port in all other apps and works great. Now my question is: Is there any other way to initialize the Bluetooth MIDI service or is it essential to own a supporting app like Crystalline?
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What about this? It's free.
MIDI LE by Matthias Frick
https://appsto.re/us/n_Ek3.i
I'm still on 7 but this is one of the features that makes me want to upgrade.
Currently, for the iOS 8 native Bluetooth solution you'll need either an app that supports the native connection interface like my own apps, or the Apollo Bluetooth MIDI apps or MIDI LE linked above. There is no way to enable it without a supporting app.
Apollo supports back to iOS 6, and OS X 10.7 (the hardware has to have BTLE -- on the Mac, a USB BTLE adapter can be made to work). The Mac version of Apollo is free, and there's a free iOS version people can try out.
Thanks for the feedback and for the hint with MIDI LE. Looks good.
StepPoly and ChordPoly got bt midi ;-)
Is BT better than Network? What advantages does it offer?
It's really low latency and very immediate compared to wifi or ad-hoc.
@SecretBaseDesign said:
This.
Keep it in the family when you can. That's what I say.
Does anyone know if any of the midi over Bluetooth solutions workl with windows 8?
Yesterday I played around with ChordPolyPad on the iPhone to control some iPad synths. MIDI over Bluetooth seems to be reliable and makes really fun. However, I don't like the fact to run a separate app like MIDI LE to use this feature. This should IMHO be managed from the OS directly. OK, it's a 1st world problem, I know ;-)
I'm having a lot of trouble getting MIDI bluetooth to work. I followed the soundtestroom demo with Ableton Live and it wasn't so easy for me as it was for the person demoing it! The first stumbling block was just getting my iPad to connect via bluetooth at all. I struggled with this for an hour or so, then all of a sudden it decided to link. I had not done anything different. Later it became disconnected when I restarted my computer and same thing. Its took many tries before I could connect. I'm not sure why that is. Is the bluetooth implementation in Yosemite known to be buggy?
The next hurdle was getting assigning MIDI CC numbers to the parameters in Caramel. It all looked so easy in the demo but my version of Caramel didn't have any MIDI CC numbers assigned to it. What is the easiest and best way to assign MIDI CC numbers there?
I would also like to know what other synths or effects have implemented the new midi bluetooth capability successfully...
I really want to get this working. It will be a welcomed addition to my controller plans!
And about MIDI LE, is it the same as just establishing a connection with Caramel. Just getting the iPad talking to Yosemite via bluetooth MIDI in Audio Midi Setup? That's what it seems like to me. Would be nice to have an explanation of how it might be different.
Sorry for my lame questions. I spend enough time trying to sort through this with my mental mind that I'm now I'm utterly unclear.
Using iPad Air 2, OSX 10.10, IOS 8.1.
many thanks for tips and clarifications...
Greg K.
Anyone have the link handy for the soudntestroom vid? I have been trying to get a bluetooth keyboard to work with trigering events, but can't figure it out for the life of me. I was trying it in the Holderness Apps (which are just brilliant, by the way).
Edit: Haven't found the video yet, but I'm finding plenty of info in my latest search across the forum here. Excuse my post for now while i do a little more research on my own. Thanks.
This?