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Very interested in responses to the above posts...
How does it compare to cubasis?
This is a pretty cool app, I just did a video which will be up sometime very late tonight (US west coast). Most of those questions can be answered with a 'yes', though no program changes. Note manipulation is a little fiddly with the selection tool, there's some room for improvement UI wise but for the most part it's pretty straightforward and has been fun to use.
@syrupcore - It has dotted box you can expand to select multiple notes. They can all be moved as a group, deleted, or duplicated. You can grab and drag individual notes too, of course. So I think that covers it.
You can rename tracks, so you could call one drums or Sunrizer or whatever. But if you restarted the app and those apps were all closed, I would assume you need to redo the connections. I hate that about a lot of MIDI apps. Actually, I hopped over to MultiTrackStudio earlier today for that very reason. Not only does it have full MIDI editing capabilities, but it's an end destination DAW, so I can make a drum part and bass line, and record guitar in the same place.
Actually, ProMidi is like the MIDI portions of MTS in a lot of ways, except the interface is friendlier for drawing and editing notes. I was having weird issues getting ProMIdi to "talk" to my apps this morning though - don't know why. Worked great last night.
Cheers @stormjh1. That's something that frustrated me about Genome. Sure, you can name a track 'Cassini' but I'm human and want to call it "Bass Synth". Haven't used it for a while but I think there's a limitation in Genome where even if you wanted to call it "Bass - Cassini - A43" (since so many apps do not respond to program change messages... gotta store that too) you couldn't because of space limitations.
I want my sequencing app to look at the current midi channel+connections and add track icon or app name separate from the title I give the track. If the destination app has OMAC Fast App Switching available, I'd like to be able to tap the track icon to jump to it.
In hardware midi sequencing land, your synths pretty much stay on the channel you designate. In iOS, depending on what I'm trying to do, I find that I have to play channel shuffling a lot so I can't really on channel alone (never mind the MIDI PC/preset problem). Maybe I should just commit to opening MIDI Bridge every time I want to use MIDI and keep my channels fixed by routing through it. But, meh.
What the heck, I have not gotten this app to work with other apps in either the keyboard controller or programmed notes in the piano roll for 24 hours now. I'm not great with MIDI, but I can follow all the same steps in MidiPatterns, MTS, or another MIDI app and it works. I even reinstalled once, no dice.
I must be missing a step somewhere - I've been setting up the output to the target app and paying attention to the channel number. Hmmm.
Hey, StormJH1. You're not doing anything wrong. The problem that you're experiencing is due to an evil spirit known as the Midi Monster. It will leave on its own before long and go off to haunt someone else.
Videos still uploading, should be done in a few hours. One thing I just noticed I missed though is you can automate way more than just velocity. Once you open up velocity (lower left corner of the clip editor), tap on the word velocity to reveal quite a few more settings, including program changes and all sorts of envelopes.
Which also goes to show that apps should not be released without manuals! Especially ones like this.
@Janie said:
Haha, thanks. I probably am doing something wrong, but if figuring out my mistake is this hard...it just seems like MIDI is set up not to work as a default unless you check all the right boxes and don't miss anything. What a pain.
Would the MidiBridge app be a good investment, or is that just throwing good money after bad?
Looking forward to this one @cswinn. Thanks a lot for jumping on it!
MidiBridge would be. IMHO, an essential investment. One thing it can do that might also help with @syrupcore's routing is it can save scenes, which include routing and channel/cc/note mappings, and you can switch scens using Program Change.Most useful when all Apps can be set to hear and talk only on their Virtual MIDI ports.
@dwarman said:
Totally agree. It solves a lot of routing problems. I don't use it by default but maybe I should.
Video up now...
http://www.thesoundtestroom.com/pro-midi-demo/
Thanks for the video, it answers a lot of questions.
I like what I see here, however one thing that seems to be missing (from the video at least) is a way to have the clip rows chain together into a song. Is this correct? It seems strange to build an app around a clip paradigm and yet not go the full distance to enable a full song mode, even if that is simply the sequential playing of rows.
@busker said:
I think you are right. Except, if you watch what @CSwinn shows at around the 2:30 mark of his video, I think they expect you to set portions of songs up in the rows and then manually trigger them in sequence. Which would be a heck of a lot more realistic if there were transport controls for AB within the app. Sorry to keep comparing things to MidiPatterns, but that was another piano roll MIDI sequencer that came out in the last couple of weeks, and that app did have a "song mode" for arranging patterns (IAP to use more than 2).
So, I was doing some other stuff for work, restarted my iPad and tried it once more at 1am. That time it worked, at least to program notes and play a sequence using DrumStudio on Channel 10. But when I set up a little melody in Sunrizer on Channel 2 to go with it, there was a major annoyance - it seemed to reset my preset the first one in the folder for Sunrizer, as if the app was being restarted. So instead of a mono note sequence, it was trying to trigger an arpeggio. Great.
I may look into MidiBridge, as this is far from the only app that causes me MIDI problems. But it certainly isn't one of the easier ones for me to set up, and I can't figure out why.
Here's my new major gripe with the app, however: Is there note previewing? Even when the MIDI connection worked as a sequencer, the keyboard controller in the app often didn't work for me. And the vertical piano roll on the grid is apparently decorative - you can't touch those keys as buttons to sample the sound. And I don't think it preview notes you draw on the grid.
Also, there's a heavy emphasis on live recording of MIDI data, but I don't think the app has an audible metronome. You could program a simple click track or drum beat, but that's an extra hassle.
So, yeah, I'm not too sure about this one yet. It's funny, I tried out that MIDI Editor app, which looks extremely primitive, but seems to work more reliably than either Pro Midi or MidiPatterns (at least for simple sequences):
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/midi-editor-music-sketchpad/id718065823?mt=8
Thanks for making the video. The edit screen looks pretty finger-friendly, and except for the lack of audible feedback on the grid, very functional. I think someone mentioned double tapping deletes a single note?
I like the capability of running asynchronous loops per channel. I don't think many sequencers offer that. The patterns page looks very playable as well.
Good video! Thank you.
One more question to whoever may know, can you export a midi file from another app INTO Pro Midi using "open in"?
Thanks for the video Collin.
I really hope the metronome was just missed.
Total shame about song mode! Deal breaker for me I think.
I love that you can have independent and variable-in-real-time loop lengths for each track.
Not having a global playback button when in the piano roll seems like it would drive me nuts.
Some nice select type features in the piano roll. They're all available in Nanostudio but NS doesn't have a disable note feature (not to mention midi out!). So very handy for experimenting and leaving an idea in place, muted. Want.
Thanks for watching everybody. No metronome, and the lack of global transport in the editor has made me a little nutty too. Hopefully this gets refined a bit, lots of potential to be the "holy grail" but it's not quite there yet.
@smeeth, you can use open in from audioshare to import files.
@syrupcore The disable note feature does have some potential, it would be particularly good for trying out different variations of a drum loop.
@CSwinn I'm holding out hope that a manual will somehow reveal that those obvious missing features are hidden away somewhere in the app...
@busker yeah, that would be cool. 'Color' or pickup notes in basslines is what came to mind for me. Sometimes a shift in the last few notes in the a bassline can change the feel of the following chord and there are times when I'm not sure which I want. In NS, I make a copy and mute it on an extra lane.
@smeeeth said:
Yes, MIDI files from anywhere (the web, AudioShare, Dropbox, etc.) will give you an Open In option, and it works. Actually, it's a little weird in that it throws the file into an inbox within the app, but from there, you can open it. It does work, and unlike Midi Editor, there's no 32-bar limit on importing.
It's still not as good as the MIDI functionality, alone, of MultiTrackStudio, which supports MIDI Open In, separates all the MIDI tracks and then even sets them to the appropriate internal instrument or GM SoundFont. Seriously, everything MIDI about MTS is freaking amazing, with the slight exception of the sequencing grid, which gets a little cluttered and lack the option (on purpose) of one-touch note drawing.
As I said above, MIDI file exporting is also there, though you have trick it by sending yourself an email.
The play buttons are in different locations when in the piano roll vs the patterns view. Don't do that!
I fear this is shaping up a bit to be an example of why people say 'get out in front of it' in terms of marketing or PR. We're all looking for everything each of us wants in a MIDI editor and it's entirely possible that the dev isn't looking to make that happen at all but was instead aiming to make an app that is amazing at _______ or very fluidly facilitates _______. Without any marketing at all (even a coming soon web page), he's leaving us to jump to conclusions and find holes instead of learning about it from his perspective, seeing what it does well first. Don't do that either.
Hello All, My name is Vitaly and I'm the main developer of Pro Midi in free time I'll try to answer on some questions. Briefly I'll try to answer on some already asked questions and inform what is planned and what is not.
I apologize in advance for inconvenience to the manual, there was an error in the settings with a date of release in App Store so manual was not ready in time.
ProMidi already support:
1) Open in feature.
2) Background mode.
3) Routing
4) Envelopers, Velocity.
5) Program, Bank, SubBank change.
6) There is no limitation for number of notes or bars. (Some other midi sequencers curled even on Beethoven sonatas. So I tried to design very responsive notes editor. Yet ipad rape is not necessary if you plan to work with very, very large midi files).
In next update was planned:
1) Support audio bus. In current version it was not possible because AB require iOS7 or newer. But I wanted that application work with iOS 5.1.1/6.x (on the first iPad also).
In the result I hope it will allow record sound to aiff file.
2) "THRU" mode in routing.
3) Real-time "Transpose note" and buttons for quick adjusting in the clip editor.
4) Metronome
5) Bug fixes.
Small tweaks:
5) Opportunity to not turn off "Select Note" button. If we already selected some notes. It will be provided in settings as choice.
6) In "external sync" mode and if we receive "Stop" message as option in the Settings we can set so the sequencer will automatically reset position of all clips to zero. I think this will be happening during the second stop. But we can discuss.
Not sure that I have time to do this in next version, I will see, possibly through version:
6) Midi Lean. So that we could control app through the controller. Running clips, record, navigation etc...
7) Clip actions/automations. For example if clip finished playing, then the next clip will be started.
8) On-screen keyboard custom scales. Octave buttons.
9) Some more...
Not planned
1) Song based view. Yet this application was developed to work live. But in the future if it is comfortable and strong enough, I can try to do it.
And yes.. Thank you interested in ProMidi!
Cheers @Wiksnet. Great to have you here.
Thanks @Wiksnet. It's been pretty good so far for me and I look forward to any updates.
@Wiksnet
Thanks for joining us, those sound like some great features you have planned. Maybe clip automations as you have described would be enough to simulate a song mode?