iPad [slutty] Editor for Roland MKS-80

[surfny]

Hello Group,

We are moving our developments from Mackie Control C4 to the iPad under the iControlMIDI name.

First vintage analog out is Roland MKS-80 (namely iMKS-80).

iControlMIDI is Plug & Play (actually there is nothing to plug!).
In 3-clicks on your Mac or couple of clicks on your PC, you are up and running...
iControlMIDI uses your:
• iPad with WiFi connectivity
• WiFi router (like an AirPort)
• [MAC] MacOS / Utilities / AudioMIDISetup / Network (MIDI Network Sessions)
• [PC] rtpMIDI and Apple Bonjour

Please check our web site for more information, sound and video demos (http://www.icontrolmididesign.com/).

Or the App Store (iMKS-80 for iPad on the iTunes App Store).

Thanks for looking.

Michael

[STML]

Heh, Fk yeah.

[bentley]

Very cool! thumbsup

[syzygywell]

Super. really.

[AvS]

I like the concept but there are some things that strikes me as odd and not very professional:

- You website doesnt work on an iPad (cant click the links)
- The design of the interface for the iMKS-80 app seems very unintuitive.
- The video doesn't doesnt explain anything.
- The link to the video actually deosnt work (on my macbook) unless you right click and open in a new window.
- The price of the app is VERY high imo.

Theese things just makes me steer away from buying an app from you. Dont take this in a wrong way. Theese are just my initial thoughts that i hope you might find helpful.

[surfny]

Hello,
Thanks for your interest in iControlMIDI.
Couple of answers to your questions
- website: it works on mine, you may have to click twice the links on iPad
- the UI is meant to be simple and straight to the point + button, - button, slider, parameter name and value, super fast and intuitive
- video is a sample of additional sound creation you can be reaching with iMKS-80, it's not a tutorial. Check my support web site icontrolmidisupport.com for a step by step guide of how the software, Mac, midi studio should be configured. I happy to answer additional questions you may have @ michaelrosner_NYC@hotmail.com
- video link: ok, I have no clue why, I think it my hosting domain forwarding that prevents it, sorry for the inconvenience
- price: equal to a software editor for mks-80

Take care

Michael

[dougt]

I would ditch the whole Wifi/PC/Bonjour stuff and support direct MIDI connection thru the carmera kit. Those $2 USB MIDI cables on ebay work great with it.

[gordonwiebe]

Cool idea and I assume it works great, but... some (hopefully) constructive criticism:

You really need to get a better graphic designer working on those interfaces - they look awful and amateur and, thus, don't inspire confidence in the consumer.
With a price as high as you have one would expect an interface that mimics aesthetically and conceptually the machine they are controlling/working with.

While you're at it - work on the website design/writing - it's your storefront - and it looks like a going out of business dollar store.

Look out - I wouldn't be surprised if your competition in a few months time is a $9.99 (if not free) app that looks great.

[dougt]

There's already an app called MIDI Touch that let's you make your own MIDI controller layouts.

[AvS]

Originally Posted by surfny

Hello,
Thanks for your interest in iControlMIDI.
Couple of answers to your questions
- website: it works on mine, you may have to click twice the links on iPad
- the UI is meant to be simple and straight to the point + button, - button, slider, parameter name and value, super fast and intuitive
- video is a sample of additional sound creation you can be reaching with iMKS-80, it's not a tutorial. Check my support web site icontrolmidisupport.com for a step by step guide of how the software, Mac, midi studio should be configured. I happy to answer additional questions you may have @ michaelrosner_NYC@hotmail.com
- video link: ok, I have no clue why, I think it my hosting domain forwarding that prevents it, sorry for the inconvenience
- price: equal to a software editor for mks-80

Take care

Michael

If i need to click the links twice then it's not working right.
I can see you are using frames wich is ancient html and not very well supported anymore. That might very well be why its not working on an iPad.

About the video link: Try adding target="_blank" inside the a tag.
Or better yet; just embed the video on the page.

Remember that the pople that own an iPad are often techfreaks and are used to seeing really nice interfaces that work well so i think there is a big chance most of these are being scared away by all this.

I hope this is usefull. gordonwiebe also has some good points. The most expensive app i have is the Korg electribe - it cost less than 1/3 of the iMKS and looks a million times beter.

[boon]

step in the right direction but perhaps it could be made a little easier on the eyes and more "playable" and take advantage of more of what the ipad has to offer like this pulse editor

[msl]

I agree with gordonwiebe you've got a great list of synths your catering for and I hope it grows, but graphically its very unappealing. Especially compared to the Waldorf app above and others.




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[mamonu]

har har! typical....
2 days after i sell my MKS80 a new editor comes out!....

(o well i would have sold it anyway.. for financial reasons)

[KrisM]

I'd rather see one editor app with in-app purchases for each individual synth. And maybe the possibility to switch between synth UIs in-app and on the fly, and even duplicate synths for those that have multiple Jupiters, etc.

[Disease Factory]

I bought this, and i cannot get it to work, i mean i can hit the c3 button and sound comes out of my cubase, but nothing seems to work, i have the mks80 on the III setting as well.

[Disease Factory]

Wow, ok i had to change my preferences in cubase for sysex not to be filtered. Ok wow this little 39 dollar ipad app just made me a mks-80 lover
this synth rocks.