Where It All Begins

January 13, 2012

MIDI Designer is the result of over a year and a half of slow, iterative development in iOS. It fixes a lot of the problems that we’ve encountered with hardware, while also adding capabilities that hardware can only dream about every time it goes fishing.

2009 Precursor to MIDI Designer - VirtualThang, custom Java software interacted with external hardware and MIDI

We still continue to revisit the app for areas of improvement. For example, early reviews indicated that the 1.0 UI was “hard on the eyes,” but we quite liked it. So we took out the graphic design tools and reduced the ugliness by a factor of 10 (while increasing usability, and even this do-over may need another rework soon). We’re working through all this stuff, and learning as we go. We hope you agree we’re on the right track. And we really hope that you can give us some helpful suggestions!  Have fun, express yourself, and let us know what you think.

Thanks for checking out MIDI Designer.

Dan Rosenstark
MIDI Designer

P.S. It’s Summer of 2013, and a lot has happened, including a bustling Community, lots of press and awesome user reviews (Read a quick summary here)