MIDI Designer Pro 2 Change Log

Welcome MIDI Designer users to our 88th update, version 2.3300!

Our Product and Engineering Teams went through the user requests and took no prisoners. Meaning we implemented a lot of stuff.

Enhancements That Make More Things Possible

• MIDI Message Feedback is now possible: see midiDR.com/qa/9524 for more details
• Randomize Subcontrol: have any subcontrol switch to a random value on button press
• Enable/Disable Button midiDR.com/qa/8783: allow a control (or subcontrol) to be turned OFF dynamically
• Shorter “Snap to Value” times for returning to default or snapping subcontrols to a value (midiDR.com/qa/8908, thanks 5din)
• Allow for wider labels and add option for bold Multiline labels

Other Enhancements

• On iPad and iPhone, Swipe Up and Swipe Down will no longer interfere with your performance
• Mac: lots of enhancements and polish including a fix for the glaring window-size issue
• iPad: finally, a better fix for 3-dots More-button issue since iPadOS 15. Now swipe-down to access More menu
• Mac, iPad, iPhone: Open layout from Files menu when App is not open is fixed
• And many smaller enhancements, fixes and under-the-hood changes prepping for the future of MIDI Designer

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Welcome MIDI Designer users to our 87th update, version 2.3200!

This release provides many changes for Mac, including:
• First-level menu commands on Mac for File New, Open, Save and Recent Files
• Opening from Finder (or altenative file manager like Path Finder)

Also, on Mac and iPad the Log Window is 30% wider per popular request.

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Version 2.313 enhances logging and fixes cosmetic issues with multiline display labels.

Version 2.312 fixes no-midi-send-receive and some cosmetic issues in Design Mode

Light fixes for Loop Control Highlights and fixed Add Page behavior.

Welcome MIDI Designer users to our 83nd update, version 2.310!

What’s in this release:

• NEW: Loop Color Highlights. When you start a loop, the looping controls get highlighted. Highlighted color is the LED color of the looper-start button.
• NEW: Fully transparent panels for advanced users. Use alpha 0.1.
• NEW: Full transparent XY pads.
• FIX: under-the-hood enhancements for Control Loopers.
• FIX: for XY Pads with “no numeric display”

This version builds on 2.300, which introduced Control Loopers and Ableton Link integration. Learn more at midiDR.com/qa/9067

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Welcome MIDI Designer users to our 82nd update, version 2.300! It’s a massive, gigantic leap forward thanks to Control Loopers.


Control Loopers – look-ahead, tempo-locked loopers with mute, reloop, and adjustable length. This release also includes Ableton Link integration. This will keep your loops synchronized with any software or hardware that is Link-enabled.

See explanations and video at midiDR.com/qa/9067

Other features included in this release:
1. New NO midi-send-receive message type
2. Optionally propagate MIDI min-max changes to Display Min/Max/Ticks
3. Multiple Fixes for visual inconsistencies in Design Mode

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Welcome MIDI Designer users to our 81st update, version 2.265!

This version provides two changes for iPadOS 15 (and the new 3-dot multitasking button):

• Tap any open space in a layout in Play Mode and the “More” button will “bow down” to the multitasking button
• New system button type for Show ‘More’ Menu: put a More button anywhere in your layout.

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Welcome MIDI Designer users to version 2.260!

This version fixes many smaller defects and prepares the App for availability on Apple Silicon. We also offer Native Landscape support for iPad 12.9″ Pro (thx Torsten!). Fixes:

• Smart Naming for “Make Similar” is no longer optional: controls that have names ending in a number will be auto-incremented.
• More fixes for out of bounds controls (at bottom of page).
• Images show up with newest images added at the front (thx John via YouTube!).
• File load picker now shows files with newest first.
• Unique CC (for new controls and make similar) can now handle multiple channels (thx Mike!).
• Fixes for Automatic Cloud Backups IAP Flow.
• GUI fixes for new installs.

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2.251 adds a fix for front-to-back order behavior with panels that have panel members (thanks hape!). This + Design Locks + plus Show/Hide Controls is now much easier to use, and powerful to build with. See the Q&A discussion and description in the answer

Welcome MIDI Designer users to our 78th update, version 2.250!

Now: go sideways, go big! This release includes Native iPad Layout Sizes and Portrait Mode for iPad. It’s huge for:

• Users who want to use their iPad vertically.
• Users who have an iPad Pro 11″ (new aspect ratio).
• Users who use Split View to control other iPad apps.

We’re excited to see new layouts being shared with these new sizes.

Other release notes:

• Fixed data thinning for incoming NRPNs, including those coming out of the Stream Byter plugin.
• Other smaller fixes for out-of-bounds controls (finally) and killing timers in Design Mode.

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2.201 is a Critical bug fix for QA8702: startup on blank screen in landscape orientation for all 4:3 iPads, see midiDR.com/qa/8702.

Welcome MIDI Designer users to our 76th update, version 2.200!

Thanks to our partners at Audeonic, we’ve made some changes to the StreamByter Plugin:

• Upgrade the StreamByter engine to Version 1.5
• Allow StreamByter delays for input/output and all connection types
• Fix StreamByter on-load event to work correctly on load and on connect

See midiDR.com/qa/8643 for more details about the StreamByter Plugin changes in 2.200.

In a return to our bolder roots, we’ve unlocked all color combinations for new layouts and pages.

Plug: Label Value Source came out in 2.175. Dynamic labels that show values from knobs, buttons and the rest. Check it out! midiDR.com/label-value-source

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Welcome MIDI Designer users to our 75th update, version 2.190!

Defect Fixes

• Fix accelerometer toggle (running person icon) on iPhone version
• Fix Accelerometer toggle button subtype
• Fix for QA8572 (obscure stuff: supercontrol chaining, upward feedback and button groups,
  thanks dsabou2062 and JKHiser!)
• Fixed cursor color on file save (QA8587, thanks dsabou2062!)
• Fixed Button Off Sets This to Default: Design Mode Picker was not working correctly

Community Updates

• Community Layout Browser (via Home) is now paged for speed.
• Global download counter for QA questions (or answers). This way authors don’t have to keep around old versions of downloads.
• Global download count is visible on Community Layout Browser

Note: We released Label Value Source in 2.175. Update labels with values from knobs, sliders, buttons, etc. Check it out!

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[ 2.181 is a service release fixing trivial issues in 2.180 ]

Welcome MIDI Designer users to our 73rd update, version 2.180!

New functionality:
• Label Value Source: Link – Labels can now update their text with values from knobs, sliders, buttons, etc.
• Extra CC & Hold now works with show/hide panels (thanks Josef): so many possibilities open up this way.
• LCD Font for Labels
• Rounded corners for Panels
• Panel Borders

Other changes:
• Replaced ImagePicker for Extra Features Pack
• Removed take-photo functionality from MD

Website:
Coming very soon: an overall download counter for QA questions (or answers). This way authors don’t have to keep around old versions of downloads.

Reminder that we added Show/Hide Panels with a button in 2.150. Check out the video!
mididesigner.com/show-hide, it’s dope.

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Welcome MIDI Designer users to our 72nd update, version 2.170! This is a bug-fixing release, but some of these bugs affected just about everybody. Enjoy!

Details:
• Fix Bonjour browser permissions to allow for finding of MIDI Wi-Fi Networks
• Fix colors in save box color (thanks Stuart)
• Fix colors in bank-quantity-chooser in design mode
• Fix File Save picker on iPhone (finally, thanks Peter)

Thanks to Adam we know that iOS 14.2 causes crashes with CoreMIDI: please avoid (iOS 14.3 fixes).

Remember that we added Show/Hide Panels with a button in 2.150. Check out the video!
mididesigner.com/show-hide, it’s dope.

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Version 2.165 fixes two small, additional bugs beyond 2.160:
• Zoom levels for odd-aspect-ratio iPads are now maintained when you background and return to the App
• Highlight-Color Control was not showing properly (Page Properties)

Welcome MIDI Designer users to our 70th update, version 2.160! This is a bug-fixing release, but some of these bugs affected just about everybody. Enjoy!
1. Fix Design Properties Pane’s “sticky” mode. Sticky mode is a critical timesaver to move between controls in Design Mode without losing focus on the thing you want to change (e.g., MIDI Min-Max) mididesigner.com/qa/8214
2. We finally implemented Channel Aftertouch/Pressure Receive (thanks the-elf)
3. Several fixes in Design Mode for working with the Apple Pencil (thanks SpookyZoo)
4. Fix for Hide-Label Toggle for Panels (thanks fretnomore): mididesigner.com/qa/8176

It’s probably worth reiterating: we added Show/Hide Panels with a button in 2.150. Check out the video!
mididesigner.com/show-hide

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2.150 adds two new features which are game changers for many of our layout creators.

1. HUGE: Allow panels to hide in response to button press.
2. Allow panels to hide in performance mode (like other controls)

See Video on YouTube

Other fixes in this version:

1. Receive of note-on-on is fixed (thanks the-elf)
2. Design Mode Locks on iPad. You need Design Mode Locks if you’re doing anything complex.
3. Bugs in Make Similar (thanks Josef).

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Hello MIDI Designer users and welcome to Update 68 (Version 2.140)!

This version fixes some pretty obscure stuff. It’s all about bugs in MIDI sysex receive with 4-byte MIDI values. See QA 8026 for a deeper look and QA 8024 too (only the former is fixed in this release, but we’re cooking up a fix for the latter too).

You’ll need iOS 13.2 or better to enjoy this update, but older versions of MD (for older devices) are still available on the App Store (confirmed!).

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2.130 fixed 4-byte negative-sysex receive, but inadvertently broke just about everything on 32-bit (older) devices. This release:

• Rolls back all changes in 2.130
• Is the terminal release for 32-bit devices. From here on out, you need iOS 13.2 or better.

Update: When 2.140 rolled out, we fired up our old iPad 2 and discovered that yes, you can download 2.131 from the App Store with no issues onto an older device. Hurray!

This version fixes some pretty obscure stuff. It’s all about bugs in MIDI sysex receive with 4-byte MIDI values. See QA 8026 for a deeper look and QA 8024 too (only the former is fixed in this release, but we’re cooking up a fix for the latter too).

2.125 is a service release which fixes “Open In…” from other apps including Safari.

2.124 is a service release which fixes Log Panel issues.

2.123 is a service release which fixes a few obscure issues on iOS 13.

Service Release: 2.122 is a service release. Fixes:
– Crash on Bluetooth Connection box show
– More lagging Dark Mode issues on iOS 13.

Service Release: 2.121 is a service release which fixes Dark Mode issues on iOS 13.

Hello MIDI Designer users and welcome to Update 60 (Version 2.120)!

New:

• Waveforms! Guy Rowland — an awesome layout contributor in his own right — provided these back in February 2019. Now they’re available for any Image Panel by default… thanks!
• Now, use built-in Files app on iPad. Thanks Ed Spiegel and Michel for the push!

Fixed:

• An iPadOS crash bug when double-tapping page tabs in design mode (thanks Philippe).
• Other iPadOS crash bugs in buying IAPs.
• A bug that would cause controls to jump when being moved (on iPad only).

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Service Release: 2.112 fixes issues with Design Mode on iPhone in 2.110

Service Release: 2.111 fixes an issue with 2.110 where the Image Manager would hang.

Hello MIDI Designer users and welcome to Update 57 (Version 2.110)!

2.110 provides fixes for issues on iPhone X, XR and XS and reduces drumpad latency near the edge of screen.

Other improvements and fixes:
• Significant improvements in the usability of Browse (all devices)
• Fixed a nasty (but rare) startup crash.
• Fixed pan-zoom hiding on 12.9″ iPad Pro (iOS 11+ only)

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Hello MIDI Designer users!

2.100 includes smaller enhancements to keep our users happy and productive:
* Now you can touch through labels to controls underneath
* Fix some issues with “make similar”

Issues on iPhone X, XR and XS… confirmed! We have confirmed issues with Design Mode in MIDI Designer Pro 2 on the iPhones with “the notch.” These issues will be fixed in an upcoming release, so please hang tight.

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Dan and the MIDI Designer Team

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Hello MIDI Designer users!

2.99 has some smaller improvements to keep our most-advanced users happy.

• We’ve fixed how out-of-bound controls get placed on the page. This will make editing iPad layouts on iPhone way less tortuous. It doesn’t use fancy AI (just brute force space-finding algo), but it’ll handle a lot more cases than before. Also, check the LOG if you want to see how the thing is working (thanks Josef for suggesting and testing on this one).
• If your Design Properties Pane was sticky, it’ll be sticky when you get back in to Design Mode. Thanks Todd for your patience on this one.
• Fixed a bug that incorrectly disallowed adding subcontrols in complex relationships (thanks Michael)

Issues on iPhone X and iPhone XS — Some users have reported issues with Design Mode in MIDI Designer Pro 2 on the iPhone X and the iPhone XS. These issues will be fixed in an upcoming release, so please hang tight.

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Dan and the MIDI Designer Team

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2.98.1 is a service release. It fixes several pesky bugs in 2.98, some of which might have led to a crashes in Design Mode and while adjusting configuration options.

MIDI Designer Pro 2 version 2.98 is all about incremental, continuous improvement.

• Fix for iPad Pro 11″ with new aspect ratio
• Update for Swift 4.2 and Xcode 10
• Fix loading of presets to include all controls on restore for:
  • Autosaved values
  • Values included for first load with layout
• Fix presets saved with layouts to update
• Reduce autosave down to 10 seconds
• Fix No Connections Shingle on initial load
• Fix WelcomeVC to not show on split and slideover
• Fix image loading and saving to be identical to App Store version
• Fix alpha slider not updating multiline label controls.

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MIDI Designer Pro 2 version 2.97 is all about our Pedalboards functionality. With Pedalboards, MDP2 becomes a tactile heads-up display for your hardware MIDI controller. MDP2 currently supports the MIDI Fighter Twister, the Novation Launchpad MK2, and our very own, upcoming pedalboard, the MIDI Beast.

Features all users will find useful, even without an external MIDI controller:

• Add time-based delays to your output StreamByter rules! StreamByter by Audeonic — incorporated into MDP2 as an IAP — is the missing link, allowing you to parse incoming MIDI (e.g., to break up sysex) and modify outgoing MIDI (e.g., for conditional transposition)
• Smart Positioning for Make Similar: create a control and place it. MDP2 will know where to place the next one automatically.
• Automatic Ticks for Button Group Supercontrols: supercontrols now automatically update display min, max and # of ticks based on button subs.
• New Drag to Swap Action: Position/Size
• New Drag to Swap Action: Position/Size & Supercontrols

Features for Pedalboards:

• Pedalboard feedback for the MIDI Beast, the Novation Launchpad MK2, and the MIDI Fighter Twister.
• Automatic supercontrols on Pedalboards: controls placed on Pedalboards are automatically supercontrols.
• Pedalboards now slide up and down (resolving a major hindrance for assigning pedalboard supers to subs on normal pages)
• Pedalboard page properties now in a separate panel (which will host much greater functionality in the future)
• New Subcontrol option: Momentary & Return to Last Page

Defect fixes:

• Fixed Exclude from Reset to Default (thanks qdrtshlz, see qa/6605)
• Fixed big incoming sysex processing for Streambyter (thanks Stuart!)
• Lifted the 256-byte broken-up sysex limit to 4096 bytes (thanks again, Stuart!)
• Fixed Panel CC offset to not adjust panels with Make Similar
• Fixed Default Value Picker math (thanks again, qdrtshlz!)
• Added “hide keyboard” button to exit Stream Byter on iPhone

We know, we know: we’ve got a lot of explaining to do about this update! Watch our Instagram, FB and Twitter for detailed descriptions of how all of these new functionalities work. Our new Community Manager, Mitch Lantz, is working hard to keep everybody in the loop (while designing his own killer layouts, too).

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MIDI Designer Pro 2 version 2.96 is a huge step forward for our most advanced users. We’re introducing the Stream Byter Plugin by Audeonic. The Plugin provides MIDI manipulation in two places: before MIDI Designer processes the MIDI, and before the MIDI produced by MIDI Designer gets sent to a Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Virtual or Hardware target via CoreMIDI.

Stream Byter was initially released in May ’13 as a way to extend MidiBridge 1.5 ‘out in the field’ for customers and has been continuously improved since then. The Stream Byter in Midi Designer is the ‘Stream Byter II’ version that exists in Audeonic’s MidiFire app (iOS/macOS).

What does Stream Byter do? It allows you to make custom MIDI processing modules that you design yourself using a concise programming language made up of rules. There are simple rules for matching and transforming MIDI events and more complex rules for writing modules that behave conditionally, set/examine variables, perform math/timing operations, and of course, generate MIDI messages.

Here is a very simple case: you are playing a keyboard and you decide that you want to turn a single knob (“reverb,” for instance). The higher (to the right) you go on the keyboard, the louder the reverb gets.

That’s a single line match/transform Stream Byter Input rule:

9X = BX 5B X2

The above rule can be summarized as follows: For every note event received, set the value of the ‘reverb’ controller number (on same channel as note) to the MIDI note number of the note.

Rules can be joined. Imagine you want to toggle the value of another knob from top to bottom every time you hit an A3 on the keyboard, but you don’t want the message to go out for 10 seconds? That’s another rule. Generally rules do one or more of these things, and often combine them:

• decompose and recompose longer MIDI messages
• filter MIDI messages
• transform MIDI messages
• produce more MIDI messages

The first case, decompose MIDI messages, will be useful for parsing incoming sysex dumps for hardware synths that produce parseable sysex dumps for patches.

Writing Stream Byter rules does require knowledge of the MIDI protocol and how to construct rules correctly. There is an introductory tutorial on the Audeonic site and the full Stream Byter manual is available there too. There is also a dedicated section to the Stream Byter on the Audeonic forum. Midi Designer customers are welcome to post questions or requirements there where the developer and other Stream Byter users will help out.

Stream Byter input and output rules are saved and shared with your layout. Any MIDI Designer Pro 2 user may open a layout with rules someone else has authored free of charge. There’s an in-app purchase to author or edit Stream Byter rules. This IAP will be available upon release of MIDI Designer Pro 2.96. It will be priced at $1.99 for the first three months, and then return to its normal price of $8.99.

In addition to the Stream Byter Plugin, Version 2.96 provides Slow Reset to Default. When a supercontrol button is set to “Reset to Default,” it can now also snap the subcontrol to its value over time. This gives you a slow reset and a precursor of what’s to come with presets.

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MIDI Designer Pro 2.9.5 fixes an issue with the Automatic Backups In-App Purchase (with the Dropbox API). Thanks Angelo for reporting and testing.

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Our users continue to push ahead, share new layouts and spread the word about MIDI Designer Pro 2.

Back at the lab, we’re making small, incremental changes to improve your experience with the only professional MIDI controller for iOS. Version 2.9.4 fixes some smaller defects:

• FIXED: Label sizes not being displayed correctly after Make Similar
• FIXED: Make similar crashing for panels with members on Pedalboard Pages (thanks John)
• FIXED: Page Arranger crashing on iOS 11 devices (thanks Mike, User #1)
• FIXED: Panel highlight issues on pedalboards

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MIDI Designer 2.9.3 is a service release, fixing just a few bugs and annoyances.

• FIXED: Issues on startup on iOS 9 and iOS 10 in portrait mode (thanks Thomas!)
• FIXED: Image Manger unable to load images on iOS 11 on iPhone only (thanks Nicholas!)
• FIXED: Removed yellow from bottom toolbars.

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MIDI Designer 2.9.2 is a service release, fixing many bugs and annoyances.

• FIXED: Home/Welcome screen and task switcher issues
• FIXED: Scaling not working correctly on iOS 11
• FIXED: Log Panel was disabled on iOS 11
• FIXED: Bottom toolbar buttons in Design Mode were not showing correctly on iOS 11. Also, we made them yellow.
• FIXED: The styling of the Apply (Back) button was not correct on iOS 11.
• OPTIMIZED: The UI to be snappier in Design Mode.
• UPDATED: File Save dialog to make more sense.
• FIXED: Crashing bug with panels (thanks Michel and Richard for your patience and reporting)

Translations thanks to François, Matteo and Pol.

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Nous sommes désolés, le texte des descriptifs des nouveautés ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais.
Lo sentimos, la descripción de las novedades está disponible sólo en inglés.
Siamo spiacenti, la descrizione delle novità è disponibile solo in inglese.
翻译即将推出
注: 恐縮ながら、我々は新機能の説明の日本語訳を提供しておりません。

2.9.1 is a small release focusing on compatibility and bug fixes.

• UPGRADED Dropbox to v2 API. You will have to relink your Dropbox.
• FIXED Bug via QA site, knob etc. don’t resize (thanks Lenny)
• FIXED Display Version not copying (midiDR.com/qa/6051)
• FIXED Make Similar Bug for XY Pads (thanks Todd)
• FIXED Default and other value pickers not showing correct percentage (thanks Ibo Kai!)
• FIXED Temporary patch for iOS 11: Disable log pane
• FIXED startup crash on iOS 11 Beta 4

Translations thanks to François, Matteo and Pol.

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Nous sommes désolés, le texte des descriptifs des nouveautés ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais.
Lo sentimos, la descripción de las novedades está disponible sólo en inglés.
Siamo spiacenti, la descrizione delle novità è disponibile solo in inglese.
翻译即将推出
注: 恐縮ながら、我々は新機能の説明の日本語訳を提供しておりません。

2.9 is a major release focusing on panels, smaller new features and fixes.

• NEW: Panels can be grouping or not grouping (‘Allow Member Controls’ toggle, thanks Terry and others)
• NEW: Panel Channel and Starting CC (thanks Todd)
• NEW: Changed Snap to Value and Snap to Default Value timer under the hood to allow for smaller values to work properly (thanks Steven!)
• ADDED: Song Select MIDI message for Songbook and other apps (thanks Peter)
• ADDED: 4-byte device ID Roland Sysex Checksum (thanks fingerstyler)
• FIXED: Reappearing MIDI Dude
• FIXED: Picker values not being set/shown properly on layout load (thanks Michel!)
• FIXED: Buttons with no label showing “Distortion 1” (thanks Gary!)
• FIXED: Page Jump buttons on other side on phone not working (thanks Scott!)
• FIXED: iPhone 6, 6+, 7, 7+ not showing arrows
• FIXED: iPhone default layout not centered
• FIXED: Panel layering didn’t make much sense (Thanks Michel!)
• FIXED: Panel selection and multiline-label control slowness. See mididr.com/qa/5820 for details (thanks Byron)
• FIXED: Bug in Channel Changers with no presets overriding presets (thanks Giovanni)
• FIXED: Bug on first load with controls that bridge left and right pages (iPad only, thanks Michel!)

Translations thanks to François, Matteo and Pol.

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Nous sommes désolés, le texte des descriptifs des nouveautés ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais.
Lo sentimos, la descripción de las novedades está disponible sólo en inglés.
Siamo spiacenti, la descrizione delle novità è disponibile solo in inglese.
翻译即将推出
注: 恐縮ながら、我々は新機能の説明の日本語訳を提供しておりません。

MIDI Designer Pro 2 Version 2.8.1 is a minor patch release, removing some minor pain points and fixing some bugs:

• Option to remove welcome screen requires no IAP
• New Tutorial Nag: just hit NO and it won’t bother you until the tutorial changes (rarely)
• BUG FIX: Channel Changer No Presets, channel for subcontrols was not being set correctly (thanks Georgios, helping push MD forward since 2012!!!)
• Added more URLs to the list (PPG stuff, thanks Richard for helping!)

Getting ready to release updated versions of ALL the standalone versions of MD (MDXG, MDClav, MD77 and MDXW) and we’ll be announcing two more later this week, too (Ibo Kai’s second, and Helfried’s first)!

Translations thanks to François, Matteo and Pol.

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MIDI Designer Pro 2 Version 2.8 is a major leap forward, providing several of your most-requested features for iPad:

• Support for portrait mode
• Support for slide-over multitasking on iPad. You can use Slide Over with iPad Pro, iPad Air and later, and iPad mini 2 and later
• Support for side-by-side multitasking on iPad. You can use Split View with iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, or iPad mini 4
• Pan and zoom (both in portrait mode and in split-screen multitasking for iPad)
• Choice to delete panel with/without member controls

2.8 also fixes the following issues on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch:

• FIX for reliable Wi-Fi reconnection on startup (we’re still waiting for Apple to fix Wi-Fi connections to Sierra)
• FIX for Panel Delete Crash (thanks Ibokai and others)

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2.5.3 fixes a bug with Global Presets not sending. See mididesigner.com/presets for the manual entry on Global Presets.

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2017 kicks off with 2.52… Happy New Year! 2.5.2 is a small correction.

• It fixes a bug that affects momentary buttons that are automatically send-on only (e.g., program change). In 2.5 and 2.51 these required two taps to send after a clean start.
• 2.52 also fixes a crash in the IAP purchase process for older devices (iPad 2, iPad Retina). Just hit “already bought” and your purchase will finish successfully.

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2.5.1 handles backwards compatibility problems with panel colors introduced in 2.5 or earlier. As my dog told me: “if the Platinum layouts don’t look right, then the problem is the Platform.”

Particularly broken was the TG77/SY77 layout by Ibo Kai. This fixes that and gets panel colors right, too.

This version also handles a problem where “send on only” buttons — including ALL program change buttons and bank/program change buttons — were not sending the first time they are hit (thanks Nikolai).

Hello MIDI Designer Community! We’re adding new features and fixes to make the best MIDI controller experience for iOS even better.

MIDI Designer Pro 2 v2.5 is a heavy upgrade, providing more flexibility for your rig design.

New Features

• Moveable (i.e., “Movable”) Panels: put controls on panels, move them around, and even use “make similar.” This feature is very useful as is, and we’ve got big plans for it.
• Display Zero for Knobs, Sliders and Crossfaders: now the LED ring (knobs) or LED track (sliders/crossfaders) can extend out from any point along its path. Two typical cases are pan knobs (Display Zero is 50% up) and Hammond-organ bars (Display Zero is 100% up). Requires Extra Features Pack to include in a layout; free to use for all.
• Rotary action for knobs. This is useful to place knobs near the top or bottom of your pages. It also means we’re compatible with gadgets that stick on your screen and rotate, if that’s your thing. Requires Extra Features Pack to include in a layout; free to use for anybody.
• Now you can slide your pages down or up to expose pedalboards. And if you don’t allow pedalboards in Play Mode, they’ll snap shut when you exit Design Mode.
• Choosing the default value: the experience has been upgraded in all ways. And now, Default Values work properly with Named Ticks, even if your ticks’ MIDI values are out of order (e.g., 5, 127, 2)

Xcode 8, iOS 10

Lots and lots and lots of code changed in the upgrade to iOS 10 (Swift 3 and Xcode 8). See something, say something! Please report all bugs to wtf [at] mididesigner.com

Fixes

• Fixed: Now no MIDI values are sent on MIDI Designer start, layout load, page load, nor reset to default template (Config -> Actions -> New)
• Fixed: Default values for named ticks
• Fixed: Bluetooth popup bug for iPhone introduced in 2.4.6
• Fixed: Smaller bugs, and lots of under-the-hood improvements to make MD even better.

Thanks for using MIDI Designer Pro 2!

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Hello MIDI Designer Community! We’re adding new features and fixes to make the best MIDI controller experience for iOS even better. 2.4.6 is a service release:

• Fixed: Bug introduced by Apple in iOS10 with inbound MIDI-over-Wi-Fi connections.
• Fixed: Make Similar with Snap and Return.
• Fixed: Restoring Wi-Fi Connections with certain hosts.

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Hello MIDI Designer Community! We’re adding new features and fixes to make the best MIDI controller experience for iOS even better.

• New! Vintage Throttle to limit outgoing message throughput: [ Read More ]
• New! Snap to Value and Return [ Video and Documentation ]
• Many more values added to Snap to Value and Snap to Default Value
• Redid Sysex input for iPad
• Fixed: Recall and Store Preset buttons sending values
• Lots of smaller fixes and optimizations for incoming and outgoing MIDI

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MIDI Designer 2.4.0 keeps it all moving forward:

• Fixes for outbound connections over Wi-Fi on iOS 10
• Single-level design-mode undo… finally! (simple but effective, see How does undo work)
• Improved speed of in-app browser by up to 400x, and we’re adding new Community-created layouts daily!
• Status bar is now visible in config (thanks Byron!)
• Fixed buggy toolbars on iPhone
• Small Improvements to File Save and Load
• Better newsletter signup: it’s a bit more insistent, but it’s the main way I have to talk to the users. You can opt-out at any time.

A huge thanks to all the users who have contributed layouts over time. We’re working on getting them to look great and in as many users hands as possible. Please see the Community Layout list to get an idea of just how we’re growing as a community…

Thanks!

MIDI Designer 2.3.0 includes one big performance enhancement (for buttons in glow), a revamp of the Community Browser, and some smaller bug fixes.

A huge thanks to all the users who have contributed layouts over time. We’re working on getting them to look great and in as many users hands as possible. Please see the Community Layout list to get an idea of just how we’re growing…

MIDI Designer 2.2.0 allows all users to download and use layouts created with the Extra Features Pack IAP (authored in MDP 2.2 or later).

The Extra Features Pack IAP is new to MIDI Designer Pro 2 and allows users to use:

• Custom Images in Image Panels
• Meter controls (with a free DAW plugin from musicIO, find out more here)
• Picker controls

See the flyer for more information.

Also, another round of minor bugs were fixed, including an issue with the Y dimension of XY Pads not being indexed correctly on Page Load and Page Make Similar. This has been fixed, and “Fix Current Layout” now corrects this issue in existing layouts.

Thanks to users Joel Braverman for the suggestion regarding the EFP and Paul Northfield for the bug find with XY Pads.

MIDI Designer 2.1.1 fixes an issue with 2.1: now ANY device with iOS 9.2 or better can update (as it should be).

MIDI Designer 2.1 introduces one new, exciting feature — Automatic Cloud Backup with Revision History — and several bug fixes.

• New: Automatic Cloud Backup IAP. Keeps all of your layouts, presets and pages backed up. Access your files from anywhere. 30-day revision history. See instructions here (Requires Dropbox)
• Fixed: App Store Review links (François, big ups!)
• Fixed: Occasional glitch open layouts from Mail, Dropbox, etc. (François)
• Fixed: Custom URL crash (Byron Santo)
• New: URL list now populates with awesome stuff (Byron Santo)
• Fixed: Several smaller issues with Design Mode and Config mode on iPhone and iPad

You, our users, inspire us to keep pushing MIDI Designer forward. What’s New in MDP2?

• Completely-redesigned look: Glow. More beautiful, practical and functional
• A new Home screen for easier navigation
•  Extra Features Pack IAP Flyer for 2.0: Image Panels, Pickers and Meters (free DAW plugin from musicIO)
• Preset Packs: share global presets with users of the same layout
• New Message Type: Combined Bank and Program Change
• Variable Tick Markers (up to max 25 ticks for knobs, 18 for sliders) to make more sense of your values faster
• Interact seamlessly with the Community: download and upload layouts, pages and preset packs directly from MDP2
• New features for power users: Accelerometer Zero, Medium Throw and Steppers Without Wrapping
• Improved MIDI send, receive, and logging to be even faster and more stable
• Hundreds of smaller new features, bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements for greater flexibility, stability and speed

You, our users, inspire us to keep pushing MIDI Designer forward. New in 1.7.3:

• Integrated support for Bluetooth LE (for devices that support it: See Here)
• Notable optimizations for incoming MIDI processing for faster interaction with external MIDI controllers.
• Fixes several smaller issues for incoming MIDI and Design Mode UI

Huge thanks to Terry, Gutbag and John Morgan for the special help with this release.

1.7.2 is a small update with three fixes:

• Add-label crashing bug squashed
• Launch icons transparency fixed
• Slightly higher performance on all outgoing MIDI

1.7.2 is our 29th update. We’ve been the App Store for over three years and have hundreds of thousands of downloads. Our users are smart, passionate and articulate. Thank YOU for your invaluable feedback, testing and dialog: with your help we keep pushing MIDI Designer forward.

Be sure to see how our Community has grown as well (midiDR.com/community#list)! You’ve shared layouts to control gear and apps from Akai, Casio, Dave Smith Instruments, EnergyXT2, Eventide, IK Multimedia, Jomox, Kawai, Korg, Line6, Moog, Mutable Instruments, Novation, Peavey, Pioneer, Roland, Sequential Circuits, Sugar Bytes, Sonic Charge, Sonic Potions, Strymon, A Tasty Pixel, TC Electronic, ValhallaDSP, Waldorf, WTPA, and Yamaha.

Our users know that we love feedback! [ Contact Form ]

Do you love MIDI Designer? Please take the time to leave a positive review in the App Store.

1.7.1 is our 28th update. We’ve been the App Store for over three years and have hundreds of thousands of downloads. Our users are smart, passionate and articulate. Thank YOU for your invaluable feedback, testing and dialog: with your help we keep pushing MIDI Designer forward.

Be sure to see how our Community has grown as well! You’ve shared layouts to control gear and apps from Akai, Casio, Dave Smith Instruments, EnergyXT2, Eventide, IK Multimedia, Jomox, Kawai, Korg, Line6, Moog, Mutable Instruments, Novation, Peavey, Pioneer, Roland, Sequential Circuits, Sugar Bytes, Sonic Charge, Sonic Potions, Strymon, A Tasty Pixel, TC Electronic, ValhallaDSP, Waldorf, WTPA, and Yamaha.

1.7.1 is a compatibility release for iOS 9. Features:

• Bug fixes for CoreMIDI-related crashes on iOS 9
• Bank Select now shows MSB/LSB for MIN/MAX (or OFF/ON)
• Sliders that are to snap to default don’t do triple tap for reset
• Toggles responding to momentary hardware now feed back with supercontrols send own value set….
• Stability improvements, performance enhancements and bug fixes

Our users know that we love feedback! feedback2014 [at] midiDesigner.com

1.7 is our 27th update. We’ve been the App Store for over three years and more than 200,000 downloads. Our users are smart, passionate and articulate. Thank YOU for your invaluable feedback, testing and dialog: with your help we keep pushing MIDI Designer forward.

Be sure to see how our Community has grown as well! You’ve shared layouts to control gear and apps from Akai, Casio, Dave Smith Instruments, EnergyXT2, Eventide, IK Multimedia, Jomox, Kawai, Korg, Line6, Moog, Mutable Instruments, Novation, Peavey, Pioneer, Roland, Sequential Circuits, Sugar Bytes, Sonic Charge, Sonic Potions, Strymon, A Tasty Pixel, TC Electronic, ValhallaDSP, Waldorf, WTPA, and Yamaha.

MIDI Designer 1.7 is regular update: some new features, enhancements, and multiple fixes.

New Features & Enhancements

• New: Page Copy (clone) and Page Make Similar
• Subcontrols that only send on supercontrol change: works in conjunction with “Subcontrols Send Current Value” Discussion
• Bit Changers can alter bits on a subcontrol (for DX-7 and other older synths) — see Q&A Entry
• First Available Sub allows the user to turn on the first button in a group that is not on
• Global option to shut off duplicate send of bank and program changes
• Sysex Variable Bytes can be up to 4 bytes
• New: supercontrol button can set sub to default value [Send Default Value]
• Button Off Sets to Default now works for hardware controls
• Force toggle with momentary hardware now works off pedalboards (optional)
• Metadata will log to log pane if no mail account is set up

Fixes

• Multiple fixes to super- and subcontrol relationships to:
  — provide greater coherence and predictability
  — avoid unnecessary looping
  — handle MAX “on” values of 0 for “send on only”
• Presets for Groups/Channel Changers were not being preserved on page save/mail & load
• Presets for Groups/Channel Changers were not being preserved on layout append
• Sliders, knobs and crossfaders were sending multiple values with “send on release only”
• Sysex keyboard was not appearing in iOS 8
• With “Stay Alive in Background” on, MIDI Designer was emitting low-level white noise
• Tall text boxes in Design Mode (Named Ticks and Multiline Labels) were going off screen
• Make Similar: MIDI Min and Max were handled incorrectly for 14-bit controls (or higher)
• Several problems were identified with append layout and the Page Arranger
• Buttons as subcontrols were scaling their on and off values to supercontrols — they now send only on and off values, always
• Fixed subcontrols not affecting supercontrols correctly with normal (not “named”) ticks
• Fixed momentary down steppers with 2-tick subcontrols
• Fixes for page up/down with inverted min-max
• Lite only:
  — Restored “Restore Purchases,” button
  — Localized unlock process to Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish

Our users know that we love feedback! feedback2014 [at] midiDesigner.com

MIDI Designer 1.6.5 is now international, and it’s also more stable and flexible than ever.

• New Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian and Spanish translations.
• Bug fixes relating to MIDI receive
• New: a relative control can send two or three different MIDI messages [ Q&A Entry]

Our users know that we love feedback! feedback2014 [at] midiDesigner.com

In Version 1.6.2, the best-selling professional MIDI controller for iOS gets several important defect fixes, particularly regarding presets for groups (and channel changers). Several significant new features — like multiline labels and bank/page jump buttons — are also included.

Our users know that we are listening: feedback2014 [at] midiDesigner.com

New Features

• Multiline labels for sliders, knobs, buttons and crossfaders
• URL launching (launch AudioBus apps, open messages App, URLs, etc.)
• MIDI Designer can optionally avoid being suspended in background
• Page and Bank Jump Buttons, including jump back to last page
• Create menu systems: All Page and Bank Jump, Next-Previous Buttons now can work on “other” side (iPad only)

Minor New Features

• New design-mode marker for Hide in Performance
• Lines extend from controls in design mode for easier alignment
• Gridlines on pedalboards in design mode
• New textures: Cheese Grater, Tripping Bubbles, Pulsar, Hemoglobin
• Bring to Front in Performance (Toggle)
• Bank button will not be visible if one bank (and other, similar cases)

Major Fixes

• Big fixes to presets for groups and global presets (their interaction)
• Presets not being saved with rig when saved/mailed ( see on the Q&A Site )
• Fixed snap-to-default and snap-to-value times, should be right on
• Fixed behavior for both inverted ticks and named ticks relating to MIDI Receive
  • Channel Changer/Preset supercontrols
  • Subcontrols spinning supercontrols
  • Supercontrols spinning subcontrols
• Deep fixes and simplification of Page Organizer
• Deleting banks is no longer possible (it was just confusing before)

Fixes

• Fixed “latch” (also called “make toggle and hold”)
• Fixes for button groups, latch (“make toggle”) and momentary buttons
• Fixes for consistency with send-on-only for controls and supercontrols of buttons
• Fixed subcontrols not spinning supercontrols if not visible

Minor Fixes

• Updated splashes to show new company name: Confusion Studios
• Adjusted Casio and Antares layouts to have one bank (bank selectors disappear)
• Obscure annoyance with new installs on iPhone and adding first control
• Removed mail-signup nag

The most-downloaded and best MIDI controller for iOS gets a smaller upgrade with 1.6.1. 1.6.1 builds on the huge progress of 1.6.0, while introducing several new features, increasing stability and fixing defects and minor annoyances from past versions.

Our users know that we are listening: feedback2014 [at] midiDesigner.com

New Features

• Octave Transpose and (step) transpose
• Two new button types: Send All and Reset to Defaults
• Config Options:
  • Output throttle option reworked to be more effective (layout-wide)
  • Global Preset Send All forces presets to send values even if they are not changes (layout-wide)
  • Option to shut off high-precision sliders in Config
• New design options (per control)
  • Option to disable MIDI Receive for individual controls
  • Option to force high precision sliders on per control
• Newsletter signup
• New version check

Optimizations

• Exiting design mode now instant
• Saving presets is now instant
• Saving presets for groups is now instant

Fixes

• MIDI Designer 12: Multiline Labels and Shapes are no longer counted towards 12 limits
• Updates to build-in layouts (Casio XW and Antares AT-200)
• Fixed “Button Off Set This to Default” for NRPN 14-bit
• Fixed NRPN 7- and 14-bit receive “overflow” issue
• Now, bank change and program change ALWAYS send out in Control Lists, even if the value is unchanged
• Fixed bugs for Default Value Picker
• Fixed log for leading zeroes
• Fixes for Custom Color for One Big Page
• Fixed Add Control panel for iPhone/iPod touch
• Fixed Extra CC & Hold delete-crash bug (Kyros)
• Bug with pickers showing “Default” instead of “—“
• Fixed File Save box text cursor
• Removed automatic send all of FIRST layout loaded

The most-downloaded and best MIDI controller for iOS gets a major upgrade with 1.6.0. This upgrade introduces multiple new features, increases stability and fixes defects and minor annoyances from past versions.

As you can see, we listen to our users: feedback2014 [at] midiDesigner.com

Game Changers for Performance

• Presets for subsets of controls + additions to channel changers: optional store and recall buttons
• Option to make sliders and crossfaders “ribbon strips.” Ribbon strips use the absolute touch position
• High-precision sliders, knobs, crossfaders (move away in 2nd dimension for more precision)
• “Make Toggle & Hold” for momentary buttons: momentary buttons can be switched to toggles temporarily with another (toggle) button

Game Changers for Design

• 4 different locks in design mode allow users to lock control types (e.g., panels) making the design process much simpler
• Custom page colors allow for lots of design flexibility Video on Custom Page Color Here
• New control type: Multiline Labels
• New control type: Shapes (vertical and horizontal lines for now)
• Labels and multiline labels have adjustable alpha and LED color

Important Bug Fixes

• Fixed: Bug with knob max values for non-retina devices and odd-numbers of ticks
• Fixed: Bug with front-back layering when same page is showing on both sides (iPad)
• Fixed: Lag and slowness on iPad retina
• Fixed: Page color picker for iOS 7
• Fixed: LED color picker (for controls)
• Fixed: Y dimension of XY pads wasn’t participating in any presets, including first load and other, similar cases
• First fix for MIDI loops in button groups with bidirectional hardware. Buttons sending off that have same MIDI message as button sending ON value will not send

Other New Features

• Design refresh to Antares Peavey AT-200 Auto-Tune Guitar Layout by Chris Gretton
• “Smart-naming” for make similar is now an option
• Slightly reduced file-sizes for layouts and pages
• Throttle for batch sends (send all, reset to default, presets) See Here for More Details
• Changes to Lite Bar (for users who have not unlocked MIDI Designer Lite yet): the size has been reduced slightly, the Bar now shows iAds (when available), and the purchase process has been greatly simplified
• New button shape: round (ellipse)

Other Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Panels are always behind all other controls, but now respect their order. Use send-to-back for all ordering options
• Fixed: bug with bidirectionality and named ticks
• Fixed: changing color highlight color doesn’t update buttons
• Labels can now be layered at any level above panels
• Label shading fixed for non-retina and retina displays
• Some assets updated for retina display
• Fixed: supercontrols no subs warning
• Removed pedalboards feature warning
• Fixed sticky editing for control names
• Page highlight color white was not persisting (older problem)

1.5.7 is a follow-up for additional iOS 7 compatibility and look and feel.

• Fixes for design mode property box size (iPad, Design Mode only)
• Fixes for sticky button background (iPad, Design Mode only)
• Fixes for named ticks UI (iPad and iPhone, Design Mode Only)
• Small cosmetic fixes (iPad and iPhone, Design and Config Mode Only)
• Fixed: several unreported issues with XY Pad named ticks (iPad and iPhone)