Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
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Thanks for the suggestion; I’ll do that.
I also tried sniffing the communication between the app and the Morph hoping for a replayable sysex, but no luck 😕
Too many threads about this theme (in general it is hard to find infos in this forum sometimes since there are dozens of threads). So i do not want to start a new one and choose this one, sorry if that is wrong.
Just today i stumbled over a new interesting MPE controller and more seems planned from them.
Really interesting times. This one f.e. is 18 inch size.
https://www.embodme.com
A video about it:
Looks very cool. The drag and drop way of organizing the surface is super. I notice that my local Apple Store no longer seems to stock Roli, not sure if that is happening widely, but maybe these guys have a chance to step in and fill that space. It needs to be more stable than the seaboard though, stuck notes over bluetooth are a major vibe killer.
I do not know what is happening with Roli. They acquired companies in the past they now sell... maybe they are not financial healthy.
I own a Seaboard Rise but in general i am not too happy with Roli and so i look for other competitors in this field.
There is a new hardware controller, Striso, on the way to Kickstarter. Really small and portable, keyboard layout based on Wicki/Hayden's.
https://www.striso.org
In the video he is presenting an older model as far as I can see.
I've been curious about the Sensel Morph for a while. There's something holding me back though, the core technology looks really interesting but the product they've made with, it's like it exists primarily to showcase the technology. If that makes sense. Looks like they're pitching for big contracts to embed the sensor in 3rd party products. The morph is just part of that strategy.
Probably shouldn't be a concern but I just got this feeling about it. That it's not really where they want to be as a business, with their one little niche product. Why that makes me uncomfortable I don't know.
The lack of a Sensel app on iOS is also a real disappointment, probably doing more to hold me back on getting one.
I don't understand Roli either. I (and others) suspect financial problems, yes. Their customer service is incredibly slow. Noise is a piece of crap both in terms of usability and running out of ram, refusal to make an ios version of dashboard, trying to sell their shitty little overpriced blocks to adjust slide, glide etc rather than allowing external midi control. They started with a good idea but have been appallingly managed, imo. Its mind-boggling.
Seaboard is shit. It's like fingering a seal
I actually like playing it but more as normal keyboard. The velocity just works great there for me and i like the surface and also look of this thing. It is also build like a tank and i like the real-time controls but for MPE usage it is not the best device. Usable but not the best. There is a reason there are now so many MPE devices and more are coming.
The Osmose might be the best but maybe only if you prefer a normal keyboard layout with its limitations.
Funny is my iPhone with 3D touch is much better in terms of accurate control of X, Y and Z axis at the same time but anyway i do not use too much of these "extreme" modulations since they make no sense and are not realistic mostly.
I hear so much overused and way to much pitchbends in all those MPE demos which are far from realistic or nice for my taste. MPE is like a spice. handle with care. Like some special FX. Really unique and fantastic but if you use them too much its getting strange and i begin to hate it.
However the tactile feedback cannot be replaced really.
Back to the Osmose. I would die for the synth engine alone as software only.
Also it comes with MPE+, so MPE is yesterday
Good point, definitely less is more, sure, small tweaks win, most of the time anyway, over grand gestures
I usually give those demo videos a pass since they are exaggerating just to show what it is. Before I got into producing my ears weren't trained to hear a lot of the more subtle aspects of sound design. Seaboard just kind of upsets me because they seemed to have paid so many people off to only mention seaboard in commercial videos. SWAM on ipad is currently exclusive to ROLI noise blocks. Which is horse shit and probably is losing SWAM a lot of money.
I agree Osmose looks like an unmatched powerhouse. Preordered that bitch last year. The haptic feedback alone is kind of worth it. Looking forward to pairing their (what looks to be a stellar) MPE+ traditional keyboard with the Linnstrument. Seems like a great combo because as I understand it, you can play both at the same time hooked up to the synth engine. I read that the synth engine chip is actually very small, so small that you could fit 6 of them in the empty compartment of a Linnstrument. I'm surprised there haven't been any DIY geniuses to connect an axotoli or something in there. Because there is more than enough room for it and the Linstrment code is open source. Before I got an Ipad I would always spend every other week thinking about selling my Linnstrument because of how annoying it is to actually use it to its full potential. And I will always be bitter at Ableton, even when they do add it in 2120. It's still annoying as fuck because developers mostly add MPE as a half baked gimmick, but even still, the ipad is MPE salvation. Mother fuckers are trying to call monophonic synths MPE, which doesn't even make sense. I've got a bicycle that only has one wheel I'd like to sell them.
Well, while I'm happy with my Morph and find them a good company to work with, I think your gut instincts have a lot of truth to them. They seem to me to be a small company with limited resources. They do give me the impression they're engineers who know a little about music, not musicians who who know about engineering. However, they do listen to customers and care about the product. It's just that progress is slow and they don't instinctively get what musicians want.
OK, that's all super unfair and uninformed speculation, I know.
I will say that the Morph is darn well good enough for what I paid for it IMO. There are several things I'd really really like to see, but I can live without them until they arrive. They are a really pleasant company to work with as well.
I don't think what you're saying is unfair. The way I see it, they've come up with a product using their technology and sat around thinking up all the possible use case scenarios. It doesn't feel like a musical instrument from the ground up, compared say to the Linnstrument. That's not to say it doesn't make a great controller. I think the price they're asking is very reasonable. As an entry level MPE controller I'd say it's really the only show in town. Forget Roli and their stupid tiny little block thingies. I'm certainly keeping my eye on them, if they ever do an IOS app I'm pretty sure it'll be on my list.
Now if they ever doubled down, rolled up their sleeves, made one 3 to 4 times the size with an all metal casing and an overlay that was firmly secured, one that purely focused on the needs of musicians and was selling for less than 500 bucks... OK there's my dream controller.
Drümünkey ‘s first law of midi controllers:
The best midi controller for an iPad is another iPad connected via Bluetooth. Period.
I do believe you managed to come up with a new category for PornHub...That’s an impressive feat!
New Kickstarter campaign for yet another MPE controller, seems to be aimed at the mobile producer. Be ready to use your thumbs!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/birdkids/offgrid-make-music-your-way-anytime-anywhere-hands-on
The joué play, also recently kickstarted is NOT MPE compliant.
Just a heads up for the Striso Kickstarter which is already launched.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/striso/striso-board
It seem very expressive and portable and will have included a synth - and of course it can be connected to an iPad.
I'm afraid to look at this 😂
No, no. Do it! And then make a video tutorial 😉