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Do you use a midi app or the synths keyboards?
Should i be using some midi app to control my synths or just stay with the keyboard that comes with the synth apps? The thor keyboard is nice but if i should get a midi app then which one?
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There are many ways to use midi, and many apps that specialize in approach-! Personally I like sequencers and arpeggiators, have you looked at StepPolyArp? Or for a keyboard with extended features, maybe check out Fiddlewax Pro? What would you like ur midi to do?
...or, make your own GUI with knobs and sliders and keyboard & drumpads...
Look into TB MIDI Stuff och MIDI Designer (two powerful iOS apps that it awesome)!
I shall have to do that. I've got both the aforementioned knob apps, but have no idea where to begin with either thus far (mainly got one for the Oberheim Matrix 1000 controller that has been created for it, as I've got three of those synths still in the attic, but no time to fiddle as yet).
The realisation I have arrived at in recent weeks is that for the past fifty decades or so I have hated piano sounds. I always ascribed that to the punishment and torture supplied by my maternal grandmother in the 60s when she was still alive and visiting the UK from Mauritius, and I was young and for some reason there was a piano in the house, leading to dreadful summers of practice and fighting and arguments. Piano is such a horrible sound.
Well, I thought that was the reason I ignored the keyboards on my analogue synths in the 90s, preferring to play a Roland guitar to midi unit from my Hohner G3T-BKLH with a hex pickup (just about) fitted.
Over the past few weeks I'm starting to realise that it is because keyboards are backwards. My natural inclination is that an increase in energy starts in the egocentric position and goes outward, usually to the left if not directly forward, due to the ergonomy of the arm pivot action. It's as if I were holding my fist by my chest and thrusting it outward to indicate an energy emission. The arm will pivot it to the left. Hence, ther exists an analogous mapping in the mind between increasing in frequency and spatial positioning moving further to the left. It works like that on my guitar — move leftward on the fretboard and the frequency increases. On a typical keyboard, it's all backwards.
That's why I hated piano lessons which would turn into nothing but argument sessions, hated music theory at secondary school, which always ended up in a fight or argument, and later, never touched the superfluous and pointless keyboard that every synth seemed to come with. It's taken me until I'm in my 50s to realise that!
I have fiddlewax pro but it doesnt seem to offer something that the builtin synth keyboards doesn't. The midi designers apps are way more then i need. I think i will like StepPolyArp though.
http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html
What sorcery is this!
The Linnstrument is very interesting, indeed. I kind of hope it doesn’t get copied, but also kind of hope a cheap copy appears. The design philosophy makes a lot of sense. Keyboards are repulsive, so get pushed away while playing. I’d constantly push it from me. Guitars are attractive, so get hugged closer while playing, tenderly touching and emotionally and intimately gripping. This seems to have both modes — sit it on a table and repel it, strap it around me and attract it.
I wonder how many old-generation un-updateable touchscreen phones it would take to nail to a plank and simulate this?
Nadav The keyboard in Fiddlewax Pro allows you to play chords with one touch as well as have keyboards for different scales.
Chordion may be a cheaper solution, it's rad. Soundprsim is pretty great for this too. And Jakob posted a great video showing Fingertip MIDI controlling Thor in a very cool way.
Xynthesizr, Arpeggionome, Thesys, B-Step if you like StepPolyArp... Fiddlewax Blue, Soundprism Pro, Musix Pro, Polyplayground if you like Linnstrument...
chordion looks interesting.
Is Thesys better then StepPolyArp?
Thesys does more things to just one midi channel... StepPolyArp can take a chord and split it across multiple channels to different instruments
mm.. tough call
Then there are also ThumbJam (good for so much more too) and Guitarism (esp.with the Quad Play IAP).
You could try Poly if you like syncopated rhythms.
+1 for chordian
Chordpolypad for chords and strumming