MidiWrist Unleashed turns your Apple Watch into a standalone MIDI controller that directly connects to any advertised Bluetooth LE MIDI device, without the need of your iPhone or any other proxy.
The tactile feel of the digital crown combined with haptic feedback, gives you control over any MIDI device by touching your wrist, even when you're not looking.
MidiWrist Unleashed makes no sound on its own and can't advertise itself as a Bluetooth LE MIDI device.
NOTE: The reliability of Bluetooth LE MIDI support in hardware devices varies. MidiWrist Unleashed was tested with iPhone, iPad, Mac and CME WIDI devices. We can't guarantee the connection stability nor MIDI message latency with other devices.
IMPORTANT: MidiWrist Unleashed can only connect to Bluetooth MIDI devices, and doesn't support Siri commands. If you need to connect to other MIDI devices or use the Siri features, the original MidiWrist app is still available with those features.
Features:
• Standalone MIDI controller for your Apple Watch
• Fully configurable on your Watch, no external app is required
• Watch face complication to launch the app straight from your watch face
• Any number of knobs can be controlled with the Digital Crown
• Macro control over multiple MIDI parameters from the Digital Crown
• Remotely Play / Stop / Pause / Record / Rewind / Fast Forward your DAW from your Watch
• Knobs can be controlled individually or simultaneously
• Knobs can be linked to preserve their offsets
• Any number of buttons can be toggled by tapping the Watch
• Buttons can either be stateful or momentary
• Double tap to actuate controls on Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 2 and later
• Buttons and triggers can send a single CC or channel pressure value instead of switching between a minimum and a maximum
• Pages can be created with any combination of controls choosing from buttons and knobs
• Program changes through the Digital Crown or by tapping the Watch
• Transport control over MIDI Machine Control (MMC) or Mackie Control Universal (MCU)
• Scrub transport with the Digital Crown
• Save / Undo / Redo / Toggle Cycle / Toggle Click / Enter through MCU
• XY pad with individual messages for each axis
• Stepper panel to step through MIDI values with plus and minus buttons, accelerating as you hold
• Motion data (pitch, roll, yaw, acceleration) can be sent in real time
• Trigger thresholds for motion data to send discrete messages instead of a continuous stream
• Configurable accelerometer range, so a strong movement can be told apart from an ordinary one when you wear the watch somewhere other than your wrist
• Optional haptic feedback
• Configurable colors for all knobs, buttons and panels
• Configurable labels for knobs, buttons and panels
• Configurable MIDI channels and MIDI messages (continuous control, program change, channel pressure, note)
• Create any number of controller pages you need
• Delete and rearrange controller pages
• Save your configurations to presets for easy retrieval
• MIDI learn for easy controller configuration
• Delete and rearrange presets
• Connect to other Bluetooth MIDI devices
• Low latency and fast response
i have a seperate focus & watch face for music production but this app has no complications and no iphone counterpart so i'm unable to add it to my watch face for easy access while producing, especially using multiple apps this would be a huge quality of life improvement & considering this is an app designed for apple watch, i assumed there would at least be a complication to launch the app.this is the only thing holding this otherwise absolutely perfect app back for me, otherwise it's great! i just really hope to see at least a "launch app" or similar complication in the near future, good job on the app! :)
Useful. Could be more useful.
Blind Henry McClean
I use it to trigger recording with Koala inside of AUM on my phone while an on-screen keyboard is in the forefront. I also have it set to show or hide Koala as I need to see it. My biggest gripe is that there is no duplicate or copy function. On each page, you can only add four buttons. I have each button mapped to a sampler pad. If I want to map sixteen pads I have to start from scratch with each new page of four. I want to be able to duplicate a page I’ve already made (which is unavoidably fiddly on a small watch screen) and simply modify the Channels or notes as needed. That would save SO much time and hassle. Also, why is the default note velocity set to: On - 96 and Off 64. “Off” should be 0 for off! I have to correct that for every button. Just set the default to 127 and 0 like other controllers.[This next part seems to not be an issue anymore]Lastly, if I close AUM (running Koala) and close Midiwrist Unleashed then open them both back up again, they are no longer connected. That’s fine and all except that Midiwrist will still say it’s connected (even though it’s not) which adds an extra step of disconnecting before I’m able to actually connect once I broadcast my iPhone (via AUM) as an open connection. If I don’t first disconnect in Midiwrist, I can’t re-establish the connection.Considering this app cost $15 (maybe the most expensive watch app there is), I really hope to see these issues addressed.
Inovative
mhoman
Connecting on iOS 26 fixed. Excellent app support via Discord. I can use my old SE watch also.
• Added support for the double tap gesture on Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 2 and later.
• Added a watch face complication to launch the app.
• Buttons and triggers can now send a single CC or channel pressure value instead of switching between a minimum and a maximum.
• The motion Accel control has a new Range setting, so stronger movements can be told apart from ordinary ones when you wear the watch somewhere other than your wrist.
• Switching between presets that use the same device now keeps the connection alive.
• The connection screen now shows when a connection is in progress.
• Improved BLE MIDI timing precision and reliability.
• Fixes for device discovery and connection edge cases.
• Fixed one of the default preset controls being given the wrong CC number.
• MidiWrist will no longer fail to launch when its database cannot be read.
Version 1.2.0
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