Reader Nick Mayer sent word that MIDI Studio – a software MIDI controller for iOS – is discounted from $10.99 to $3.99 through tomorrow.
Better yet – he sent along codes (below) that will let 15 Synthtopia readers get MIDI Studio for free.
Midi Studio Features:
The Missing Link OSC/MIDI Translator is a unique device, created by Jabrudian Industries, that lets you control MIDI devices wirelessly, using OSC over WiFi.
If you’ve ever thought it would be cool to be able to control your vintage MIDI gear wirelessly, The Missing Link can let you do it.
When you turn it on, the Missing Link creates a WiFi network that you can connect to with computers and other wireless devices, just as you would connect to other WiFi networks. It also has MIDI In & Out jacks, so you can connect it to your legacy MIDI hardware.
Hardware & Setup
The Missing Link is small (3.3″ x 2.2″ x 1.6″) box that has a jack for a wall-wart power connector, a USB connector & MIDI In & Out (standard DIN-5). The case is plastic.
Setup is a little geeky, but still easy.
When you power up the Missing Link, it automatically creates a WiFi network. To connect to the Missing Link, you need to configure your device. It’s not that different than setting up a laptop to access a WiFi network.
From the stupidtacular category comes Chris Marion’s FireHero 2 – the MIDI-controlled flamethrowing alternative to Guitar Hero:
FireHero can play with computer-sequenced precision to any guitar hero or rock band chart and any custom MIDI file.
This means that I can use the vast database of pre-charted songs built for the popular video game series to produce fire to music – beautifully, quickly, and easily.
You never know when you’re going to need a MIDI-controlled flamethrower, do you?
Details at Chris Marion’s site.
MIDI is almost 30 years old. In the years since it was introduced, it’s become one of the most important standards in musical instruments and software.
For the first two decades of MIDI’s existence, you could connect just about any two MIDI-compatible devices together. With a couple of DIN MIDI cables, you could connect keyboards, synth modules, effects, controllers and computers with MIDI interfaces.
More recently, though, connecting MIDI devices has gotten more complicated. Manufacturers have switched to USB cables on keyboards and MIDI controllers. And the explosion of iOS music applications means that musicians now want to connect MIDI devices to iPhones and iPads, which use a proprietary 30-pin connector.
What do you do if you want to use an iPad sequencer to run your hardware gear? Or you want to use your computer to sequence hardware synths — and also iOS apps? Or you want to use your USB MIDI controller to play your old-school synth module?
These are the sort of situations that iConnectivity’s iConnectMIDI was designed to solve.
The iConnectMIDI is a MIDI interface that’s like the Rosetta Stone of MIDI. It not only has the physical ports to connect computer, iOS devices, USB controllers and old-school MIDI devices together, it has the power to do it intelligently.
This is a demo video, via iDesignSound, of a Korg MonoTribe with the Amazing Machines MidiTribe mod:
Quick video of me testing a MonoTribe template that I made for TB MIDI Stuff. Using the Amazing Machines MidiTribe MIDI Mod.
The MidiTribe mod, as you might guess, adds MIDI control to the Korg Monotribe.
See the Amazing Machines site for details.
Korg introduced their nanoSERIES 2 Slim-line USB-MIDI Controllers early in the year, at the 2011 NAMM Show. They’ve just released this video, though, which gives an overview of each of the controllers in the series.
This is a promo/demo video for the Amazing Machines MIDITribe – a DIY MIDI In interface for the Korg Monotribe.
Pricing and availability are to be announced.
Saturday Synth Porn: Livid shared this sneak preview of their upcoming line of modular MIDI controller modules, built into a custom controller, created for Sound Tribe Sector 9.
The MIDI controller modules fit in a standard Eurorack enclosure.
Livid’s modular MIDI controller modules look like they could be a great option for modular synth owners, in addition to being an interesting new option for general MIDI controllers.
Availability and pricing is to be announced.
Check this out and let us know what you think!
Behringer has published a series of videos, embedded above, that focus on recording on an iPad with their gear and GarageBand.
The series covers:
Free Music Software: Moog Music has introduced a free software VST controller plug-in for their popular MF-105M MIDI MuRF pedal.
The MIDI MuRF (Multiple Resonance Filter Array) is an advanced combination of two MOOG pedals: the MF-105 MuRF and the MF-105B Bass MuRF. It use an 8 band array of resonant filters with a pre-programmed animation section to create unique sequenced filter effects.
The new MuRF_Controller is designed to let Midi MuRF users control and expand its’ power and capabilities from within their DAW.
Features include:
MuRF Controller VST plug-in is a free download from the Moog site for all owners of the MF-105M MIDI MuRF.