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| - | ====== Introduction: | ||
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| - | MIDI Designer (MD) is a tool for musicians to create custom interfaces for controlling external hardware instruments, | ||
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| - | While MD controllers are often used by musicians for controlling hardware and software, they are also leveraged in lighting, robotics, VJ performances, | ||
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| - | The MIDI Designer Community of users creates and shares layouts and pages for important MIDItargets. The Community also provides expert advice and help for solving new problems in MIDIDesigner. | ||
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| - | //—The MIDI Designer Team at Confusion Studios LLC// | ||
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| - | ===== Where to Start ===== | ||
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| - | MIDI Designer provides you with many sources of information of many different kinds. | ||
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| - | - Check out the tutorial in the application itself, at More -> Config -> Actions -> Show Tutorial | ||
| - | - Watch the Walkthrough Video\\ \\ {{ youtube> | ||
| - | - MIDI Designer Manual (this document). | ||
| - | - **Search!**—The MIDI Designer website, the Q&A forums, and the MIDI Designer YouTube Channel very well indexed by Google. Search for what you need. | ||
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| - | If you have a problem or question, check the chapter on Troubleshooting—Getting Help to find out more information. | ||
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| - | ===== MIDI Designer Features ===== | ||
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| - | * Design a **beautiful, | ||
| - | * Create up to eight page banks of six pages each for a total of 48 pages of controls | ||
| - | * Create an unlimited number of controls, including knobs, sliders, buttons, XY pads | ||
| - | * Create decorative controls like panels and shapes for functional clarity and design | ||
| - | * Change background textures, colors, LED and text colors for pages | ||
| - | * Change LED color, size, and placement of individual controls | ||
| - | * Send **all commonly-used** types of **MIDI messages** including command changes, notes, **sysex** and NRPN. | ||
| - | * **Advanced Features** allow for powerful MIDI controllers without scripting: | ||
| - | * Create powerful relationships between using super* and sub-controls to solve many standard controller issues | ||
| - | * Other advanced features like Control Copies and Hidden Controls allow for total flexibility and control | ||
| - | * Page and Bank jump buttons allow for fast switching in performance mode | ||
| - | * Knob and Slider overlays allow you to see the value of a control that your fingers are obscuring | ||
| - | * **Catalog and Share**: save, load, mail and share layouts and pages | ||
| - | * Many Ways to **Get Connected**: | ||
| - | * Control External Hardware | ||
| - | * Synths | ||
| - | * Drum Machines | ||
| - | * Midi Enabled Guitar Pedals | ||
| - | * Control other iOS apps via Virtual CoreMIDI ([[http:// | ||
| - | * Control software on remote machines | ||
| - | * DAWs like Ableton Live, Reaper, Logic | ||
| - | * DJ Controllers like Traktor | ||
| - | * VST plugins (Mac, PC, Linux) | ||
| - | * Control other equipment and software | ||
| - | * Lighting | ||
| - | * Robotics | ||
| - | * Video | ||
| - | * Use external MIDI controllers to control MD | ||
| - | * Hardware pedalboards | ||
| - | * Hardware MIDI controllers | ||
| - | * Sequencers and other CoreMIDI Apps | ||
| - | * MIDI Designer as Pass-through with "MIDI Thru" | ||
| - | * Example: keyboard controllers | ||
| - | * Example: pedalboards | ||
| - | ===== Current Version ===== | ||
| - | MIDI Designer Pro, Lite and 12 are in version 1.7 since 2014-12-17. | ||
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| - | <WRAP callout> | ||
| - | :!: \_ Download MIDI Designer Pro on the iOS App Store. \\ | ||
| - | [[http:// | ||
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| - | **Note**: MIDI Designer Lite and MIDI Designer 12 [[http:// | ||
| - | only for existing users and by special arrangement. | ||
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| - | ===== Minimum Requirements ===== | ||
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| - | * iPad, iPhone or iPod touch | ||
| - | * iOS 5 or better | ||
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