Violin Bow MIDI Controller using the Apple Pencil

Audio Motion said:

After some troubleshooting with nibor, we managed to find a setup that works on Windows 11. With the software rtpMIDI, a connection between the iPad and a PC can achieved via a network connection (for this, both the iPad and the pc need to be on the same network). Unfortunately, the virtual midi driver that comes with rtpMIDI does not seem to work on Windows 11. In that case, an additional virtual midi driver needs to be installed, e.g. loopbe1 (https://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html). In the control panel of rtpMIDI, there is an option to redirect it's output to another virtual driver (bottom right corner, the lowest line). Select "LoopBE Internal MIDI", then activate the LoopBE input midi port in your DAW.

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I'm very late to this party ... but starting to explore this now.

But as a newbie, I cannot get my iPad Pro and Logic/Swam to see each other. I'm trying to connect via USB. There were a few threads in here about a blog post and a SWAM video ... which doesn't work. Do you have any pointers for me?

Thanks!

bvaughn0402 said:

I'm very late to this party ... but starting to explore this now.

But as a newbie, I cannot get my iPad Pro and Logic/Swam to see each other. I'm trying to connect via USB. There were a few threads in here about a blog post and a SWAM video ... which doesn't work. Do you have any pointers for me?

Thanks!

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Did you enable your iPad in Audio Setup?

Welp, just found this and it looks cool, but I've only seen this demonstrated with SWAM. Does this work well on other string samples like CineStrings?

I believe it only works with physically modelled instruments such as SWAM or Sample Modeling’ strings where bow control is a parameter

I´ve made some really nice Productions with SWAM instruments and Pen2Bow. Thank you for this app!

There is a little adjustment I would like to make when it comes to Bow Pressure and Position. I´ve mapped Force and Orientation auf the Pencil to Bow Pressure and Position and it´s very intuitive for me to play.

But As like there is the smoothing Feature for the Velocity I would need to have this feature also for the other Parameters. Means that Bow Pressure is too jumpy even when I konzentrate that much to give konstant pressure.

Also it would be nice to have the ability to change some parameters of the smoothing feature. how much smoothing, maybe some delay time.

Does anyone have an idea about a workaround to smooth out midi cc´s?

Regarding, Mario