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@funjunkie27 said:
the hand was moving around so much in that clip I thought I got slapped
quite informative though
@Kobamoto not using Audiobus at all just stand along with Sunrizer and NLog. iOS 8.1.1 just keep getting midi failure works on fresh download of app for a few minutes then stops working. No keyboard sound or data clip sound.
ok thanks
@Jumpercollins - Yes, I have had similar issues. This is without using AudioBus - just trying to set up one or two apps to use with MIDI. I assumed it was my own ignorance or problems within the target apps (usually MIDI channel set wrong or Background Audio turned off). Except that I have problems in Pro Midi that don't seem to occur as often as in other MIDI apps, like MidiPatterns.
Does Pro Midi accept tempo changes from imported midi files?
@funjunkie27 said:
Merci.
Hi @StormJH1 sorry to hear you have problems aswell maybe it is a app problem then not ios 8.1.1 please @Wiksnet see what's broken !
Arh, I had just bought Midi Pattern Sequencer when I noticed this was on sale ... But I've bought it anyway! Haven't had a chance to play with it yet, I want to get some value out of Midi Pattern Sequencer first!
two things that didnt work well / or i didnt get:
-after you type a name for a channel how you do get rid of the keyboard?
-it seems that for nlog pro and sunrizer for example the midi keyboard is not working, keyboardnotes that are set in pianoroll are getting triggered though.
For what it's worth, I've tried playing this into quite a few synth apps (including Nlog & Sunrizer) and had no issues triggering from the keyboard or the piano roll (on an iPad Air 2, iOS 8.1.1). This is using Channel 1 and the default setting of 'All' without specifying a particular output port.
One thing that does bother me is that the internal keyboard records notes while playing in the piano roll regardless of whether you have pressed the record button or not. Which is a bit frustrating as it means you can't jam along to work out ideas. I can't imagine this is the intended behaviour, as why else have the record button?
Just a few tips:
1) The note at the top left of the piano roll lets you assign a scale, and the arrow beside it will collapse the grid to only the notes of that scale (or only used notes if no scale is selected).
2) The arrow in the bottom left opens up the CC editing pane (which can be dragged up or down in size). Click on the label to change the current CC type.
3) The 2 icons with the lines (on the main screen beside tempo) will gradually reduce and increase tempo temporarily respectively by holding them down. Note: if you slide your finger off the icon before lifting the tempo change will continue, tap one of the 2 icons again to stop it (may be a bug).
It's actually refreshing that this app was made to be played live and doesn't have a song based view, by design.
It also seems that the keyboard only plays channel 1 regardless of which channel it is set. Plays channel 1 while recording but then plays through the set channel once recorded.
It is a pain that it records everything too.
@Fitz said:
I also noticed this, hope @Wiksnet will fix for the next update.
The on-screen keyboard should honestly transmit on the track-channel and not default to transmitting on channel 1.
This is a pain when using multi-timbral apps like BS-16i and Thumbjam.
I'll test if the on-screen keyboard honors the selected 'output app' or if it insists on sending on channel 1 to all connected apps at once...
I'd love to see a smarter way of navigating instead of just scrolling around in the grid editor, similar to a 'pattern based' approach, scroll the screen sideways in groups of 4 beats(= 1 bar/screen).
Just checked, does the same with an external keyboard. Records/plays live on channel 1, can't change this, then plays back on chosen channel.
Played with this app for a few hours last night sequencing some hardware synths. It's a pretty incredible piece of work, especially for a 1.0. Piano roll is great and the controllers setup is super sweet. I didn't get far enough to wish for a song mode and really liked juxtaposing patterns from different synths. I love the ability to name tracks and clips. Everything works really smoothly and the design is buttery.
Definitely missed all the stuff people have already mentioned, especially triggering the note when tapping in the piano roll, setting a key on the scales, and the internal keyboard didn't work at all for me—except to record notes on the piano roll when it wasn't in record! Like Fitz, I couldn't get my controller keyboard to control any track destinations either.
The tempo ramp buttons are really fun.
Two other things I was sorely missing were a metronome and the ability to copy a project—once everything is setup and pointing at fixed sources and destinations, why do it again? The man promised us that computers would do this sort of stuff for us so that we might lead lives of leisure.
I bought the app on sale and most certainly got my four bucks worth already. So thank you for all the work and congrats on the release @Wiksnet.
Some nice to haves/stuff that will keep me coming back:
This will never happen but a fella can dream: How rad would it be if synth apps published a manifest of all of their MIDI addressable controls and a sequencer app like ProMIDI offered you an actual list of them in the controllers view instead of us playing the 'what did I map to CC42?' game? It would have to use something like NRPNs but that would be transparent to the user.
With iOS 8 and the doc picker thing, this could look like 'Import Controls' in the sequencing app and then you would see a list of all apps that have which have published manifests. Tap, wait, magic, profit.
This would probably take a coordination effort on the scale of AudioBus to actually come to pass so... not gonna happen but damn, it's 2014 and I want it. Maybe an app like ProMidi and one or two synth devs (like @giku and @yonac) could pilot it and be out in front?
Some great ideas @syrupcore!
Killer feedback and suggestions as usual, @syrupcore. I particularly like the idea of templates or app profiles - user editable, of course.
I know they're different animals, but I need to check out the templates available for MIDI Designer Pro and Lemur to see what's available.
Had to delete it of my ipad 3 iOS 8.1.1 in the end doesn't work midi keeps dropping won't let me even delete it without ipad freezing by the usually method of the home button. Had to delete it via settings menu. Will try it again if it gets fixed , shame as looks good app but no good if it doesn't work!
It feels like a good app that hasn't been finished unfortunately. I really hope he does finish it, as it has a lot of potential. There's a lot to like about the interface, I like the clip view and the way it handles time signatures (each clip can have an individual time signature). And the basic interface is pretty good, though I find entering notes on the grid view slightly inefficient. But overall it's just not ready yet.
I was pretty sure that I had it working one time where the keyboard was controlling a drum app on channel 10 or whatever, and then a synth app on channel 2.
It's too early to give up on the app - dev has responded and is already working on things like metronome, etc. In terms of raw feature list (except for a song mode), this one is one of the most complete MIDI sequencers. But if the MIDI hookups through the app are unreliable, for whatever reason, that's an issue for me.
I bought it. Like out so far. Has great potential. Question. I couldn't get it to sequence DM1. Anybody else tried?
I got pro midi to sequence drum jam. Pretty awesome app
This has gone back up to full price. Bummer. It wasn't essential for me, but I'd hoped to buy it after payday.
MIDI hookups have been very reliable for me.
Ios7, Air 1, hooking up notes and CCs on various channels to Egoist, Animoog, Animoog iPhone (installed on iPad), z3ta, gadget. Everything I've tried has worked.
Few improvements would be nice. But for jamming tracks with clips, or composing various short sections to point at any synth, I love it. Nothing else (apart from Genome) that I'm aware of to really compare it to.
@syrupcore said:
Wouldn't something like that be possible via midi sysex?
@knewspeak yes or just CCs. The main idea there is that apps could publish a list of addressable controls so that we users would see "Envelope 2 Attack" or "Frequency LFO Depth" in the MIDI editor instead of "CC22" or whatever. The MIDI spec has a few of these sorts of things predefined (volume = cc7, Cutoff=cc72...) but most apps don't implement them by default and there are way way way more addressable controls on most synths than there are predefined CC destination points in the spec.
On templates... I'd almost prefer 'save as' to duplicating templates (if both weren't possible
. Or the ability to set a project to 'locked' so that when you closed it out, the app prompted you to name the new version. I know that gets in the way of the iOS 'just works' ethos, which I can appreciate, but I almost always want to be in control of this sort of thing with music apps. DM1, for instance, makes me batty with its autosave.
If a standard was set for sending these via sysex eg. CC xx=string "xxxxxx" could these be passed when midi is initialised and with a sysex request from host to slave.
Yes, a sysex request could be one way to get the manifest (the controls themselves still wouldn't require sysex but it could). Think iOS 8's document picker gizmo would probably require less overhead for developers though.