Easy MIDI — MIDI Controller 4+
Trigger MIDI with Keys & Mouse
Nikolozi Meladze
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- $29.99
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Description
Easy MIDI turns your Mac keyboard, trackpad and mouse into a powerful MIDI controller. It sends MIDI notes and control messages to any soft synth or DAW such as GarageBand, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase, Bitwig Studio, Reason and Pro Tools.
This is very useful when you want to jot down some musical ideas quickly and easily whilst travelling, sitting in a coffee shop or even on your couch at home. Experiment with melodies, chord progressions and drum patterns wherever you are with ease.
Key Features:
- Send MIDI notes and control messages to any DAW or MIDI driver
- Notes can be triggered using alphanumeric keys
- There are over 3 octaves under your fingertips
- Trigger chords using numeric keys
- Experiment with chord progressions and save them as Chord Sets
- Create custom scales
- Easily change keyboard octave with up/down arrow keys
- Use left/right arrow keys to change starting note
- MPC style drum pads layout
- Visual feedback eliminates the need to look down on your Mac keyboard
- Sustain on/off can be triggered with a space bar
- Vertical mouse scroll changes note velocity
- Pitch bend can be controlled with a pinch zoom gesture or a vertical mouse drag
- Modulation can be controlled with a rotation gesture or a vertical mouse move
- Trigger MIDI Bank Select & Program Change
- Mini View
- Supports Dark Mode
What’s New
Version 1.5
- Added support for Apple Silicon.
- Added support for the Dark Mode.
- Fixed many compatibility issues associated with macOS Sonoma / Ventura.
- Fixed an issue where the process name would show blank in Activity Monitor.
- Fixed the Status Menu mode not working.
- Many minor internal and user-facing improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Excellent App
This is really an excellent app. It was amazingly easy to get running and was just what I wanted in order to use my MacBook Pro's keyboard as a midi controller for JeuxdorgMini (will be using other music apps in the future as well).
Great Idea and Well Executed
This app is truly great for producers on the go, especially when you don't want to drag around a huge MIDI keyboard with you everywhere.
Pros:
-You can have two rows of keys to use for the piano, each with separate octave as well as "first white key" control so it can be set up however you like, and allows for hand arrangements other than C position.
-The "Chords" tab is probably the most interesting because it allows you to predefine chords and map them to numbers, so you can easily build a chord progression and play huge chords without being limited by the number of keys that you can press simultaneously on the keyboard.
-For example, "1" could be mapped to a chord with up to seven notes in various octaves, and "2" could be mapped to more notes, then playing both simultaneously allows you to play
enormous arrangements that wouldn't even be possible with two hands.
-Allows you to use mouse and touchpad input and gestures to control the mod wheel, pitch bend and note velocity
Cons:
-Haven't used it enough to discover very many, but there is no way to make it constantly override keyboard input, so if you were playing notes in an application that doesn't support keyboard MIDI input (Pro Tools!!) and you wanted to tweak your synthesizer's sound, you would have to switch applications back to Easy MIDI in order to test your changes.
-In any case, this is something you would probably use a MIDI controller for, so it's not that big of a deal
All in all, this is a great tool for not just playing notes on the fly, but also for easily mapping and saving chord progressions, so you dont' have to export MIDI files between programs.
Incredibly well thought out!
I decided to take a chance with this app thinking I'd only lose 15 bucs if it didn't work out. WOW! It turned out to be a fantastic buy!
I've able to compose on my mac keyboard using this app. Extremely useful when using BBC symphony app from Spitfire. It's enables you to use the full range of your Mac keyboard.
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Information
- Seller
- Nikolozi Meladze
- Size
- 838.8 KB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2013-2023 Nikolozi Meladze. All rights reserved.
- Price
- $29.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.