Disklavier

I came across a device called the MIDI Mobilizer. It's a device that plugs into the 30 pin connector of the iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad and has two cables that terminate with standard 5 pin MIDI ends. The makers, line6.com, also have created a free app called MIDI MEMO. It will capture all incoming MIDI data, allow you to save it and email it or transfer it to a computer for further editing. It will also play it back out through MIDI. I think this is a great setup for recording and playing a disklavier or other MIDI controlled instrument such as MIDI pipe organ. This would be great option for those of us that have older disklaviers with floppy drives as floppys are getting harder to find. However, this program as it is has a few limitations. First, data can only be captured through it's MIDI input and then saved as a file. They cannot be imported as an already completed MIDI file. Second, no playlist is supported. Maybe somebody here in the group has overcome these l imitations somehow. The makers provide the SDK free for those who might know how to write an app to overcome these limitations. Unfortunately that kind of stuff is beyond my capabilities nor do I know the amount of work that that might involve, but if someone were interested or ambicious I might make a few suggestions. If anyone here is interested in such an app, maybe we can muster up some support to have someone write an app for us.

Thanks, Joe Slomka

Thanks for reading my post. I just checked out your app Home Concert. It seems very good. I was looking more for something that was just a sequencer function - recorder/player.

1. It could record midi data and create a midi file.
2. It could play midi data files.
3. It could play files in order or randomly from a playlist.
4. It could either pause and wait (possibly for an input on the screen from the user) before beginning the next file or just coninuously play the files.

Also Home Concert is only for the iPad. Many of us may already own iPods or iPhones that we could use with our instruments. If one were to invest the cost of an iPad for just this purpose, purchasing a laptop would be a cheaper investment. If the app were written for iPhone/iPod I think more of us might benefit. I think it would work on iPad too if it were written for iPod. The simplicity of just a recorder/player might benefit those of us who might not be so technically savy.

I apologise, I don't want to offend anybody, especially those who are so helpful here. I just had a vision of what something could be. Maybe it's just not possible or practical.

Thanks,
Joe Slomka

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, George Frederick Litterst wrote:
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> Good afternoon, everyone.
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> MIDI Mobilizer was created before Apple supported MIDI in the operating system. Starting with iOS 4.2 last November, Apple brought a technology called CoreMIDI into the picture.
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> Prior to CoreMIDI, it was necessary to use a special hardware-specific SKD in order to do MIDI I/O, hence the SKD for MIDI Mobilizer. Now that CoreMIDI is available, however, app developers can write apps for CoreMIDI and they automatically work with any CoreMIDI-compabilte device that is connected to the iPad, iPhone, or iPadTouch.
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> For example, my company, Zenph Sound Innovations, has a program called Home Concert Xtreme for iPad. It will work with any CoreMIDI-compatible interface.
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> At this point, I think it is safe to say that the original MIDI Mobilizer is a dead. However, the company has a new interface called MIDI Mobilizer II that is CoreMIDI-compatible. In addition, Yamaha has a CoreMIDI-compatible interface called iMX-1.
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> Regards,
> PianoBench
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> www.georgelitterst.com
> www.zenph.com
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> On Nov 30, 2011, at 1:38 PM, pianodiskman wrote:
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> > I came across a device called the MIDI Mobilizer. It's a device that plugs into the 30 pin connector of the iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad and has two cables that terminate with standard 5 pin MIDI ends. The makers, line6.com, also have created a free app called MIDI MEMO. It will capture all incoming MIDI data, allow you to save it and email it or transfer it to a computer for further editing. It will also play it back out through MIDI. I think this is a great setup for recording and playing a disklavier or other MIDI controlled instrument such as MIDI pipe organ. This would be great option for those of us that have older disklaviers with floppy drives as floppys are getting harder to find. However, this program as it is has a few limitations. First, data can only be captured through it's MIDI input and then saved as a file. They cannot be imported as an already completed MIDI file. Second, no playlist is supported. Maybe somebody here in the group has overcome these l imitations somehow. The makers provide the SDK free for those who might know how to write an app to overcome these limitations. Unfortunately that kind of stuff is beyond my capabilities nor do I know the amount of work that that might involve, but if someone were interested or ambicious I might make a few suggestions. If anyone here is interested in such an app, maybe we can muster up some support to have someone write an app for us.
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> > Thanks, Joe Slomka
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