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MIDI oscilloscope to plot CC values ?
I am looking for a standalone program (preferred), or plugin that acts like a MIDI multichannel oscilloscope.
It should be able to plot multiple CC (or note) values over time. Ideally as a heart monitor style rolling plot with adjustable speed.
Because this will be used as a video overlay for a live stream, I would like to be able to configure line colors and line width.
I could patch something together in miRack or Drambo, but for aforementioned reasons a standalone program with a simple UI would be preferred. It would be great if it runs on iOS 12 or older so I can use my second iPad to run it.
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I don't know or have made an app that does this, but the idea is brilliant! I've always wanted to make the FirstMIDIMonitorThatDoesntSuck™️, so will add this to the list of stuff it would support 👌
ShowMIDI does this for MIDI CC at least, not for notes. It works standalone or as a plugin.
Edit: sorry, I missed your requirement about customization
Hm. As you've already considered yourself, MiRack is really the only thing I can think of that even comes close. One of its scopes does at least let you vary the trace color, but not line width.
Sounds like a job for puredata... oh, or maybe Audulus?
Cool idea!
One could definitely do it in Audulus -- I wonder if someone has rigged something like that up. You might be able to find someone on the Audulus Discord willing to try rigging it up.
I’m fairly certain that NuRack from 4 Pockets does this.
I'm trying it now. As far as I can tell, it doesn't have a graphic midi monitor component like what's being asked for. I only see the MIDI CC Monitor component, and that just lists the CC and value. It also doesn't seem to handle multiple CC's at once. I threw Rozeta LFO at it, and it's only monitoring the last of the three CC's I'm sending to it.
Maybe user error, or maybe I'm not looking at the right component.
[edit] yup. user error. Filter for only one CC and it does graph it. You can only graph one CC at a time, but you can have more than one monitor component.
Takeamidi by Alex Nadzharov does the trick and a lot more. I think.
Nice!
That's like the most non-suckiest midi monitor app I've ever seen. I like how you can pause it and select a region to see the message log for it. I can think of a million uses for this!
Yeah it's really cool, you should be able to grab and drag midi parts out of it if I remember correct.
Yup, you can. Works great in the Loopy Pro beta, except you have to have notes and cc data in order to be able to copy cc data. Could be a bug that'll get fixed, or a design decision that won't be revised prior to the 2.0 release. It's insanely useful though both as a monitoring tool and as an augment to Loopy's retrospective record feature.
Thanks for suggesting "Takeamidi". Another app that I completely overlooked in my (far too large) app collection
This could become a winner. It runs perfectly on my old Air2. I am not sure if it's possible to give the different CC traces different colors, but I might simply map them to different channels beforehand...
One oddity though: I cannot load Takeamidi into any plugin host on my newer iPad 9 running iOS 18.4.1 - the plugin always crashes although the standalone works.
I just tried. I only ran it in S.A yesterday so yeah, same here (AUM) but @wim says above that he ran it in LP beta. The contact for this dev is a bit hazy, I've tried to push him to fix rrarrow and he seem to have separate emails for each app!? Someone here knows him or at least have direct contact but can't remember who (he gave me an address for the rrarrow subject but I never got a response - wrote twice now.)
Web page for TaM: http://alexnadzharov.com/apps/takeamidi
Email I was given: [email protected]
Try the latter, see if his awake. 🙃☺️
I just asked Alex about it, he's aware of the problem and a fix should be out in the coming weeks
I'm on iPad 9, but still on iOS 17. I guess iOS 18 is the issue.
I don't think it's possible to give different CC's different colors. It would be nice if they could at least have the coloring by midi channel like notes do.
+1 for Takeamidi. I was waiting to see if it would be suggested because it seemed like the closest fit. I absolutely love the app and use it for almost all my MIDI monitoring needs.
Thanks @Gavinski for doing this. Could you add a request to have the channel coloring for the CC messages as well. Currently only the channel of note messages can be distinguished by color (or I am missing something...).