Basic chord layout

Question

MIDI Target Manufacturer(s): Original, Generic

Hi. Total noob here.

Trying to do a chord trigger control surface on ipad for PC arranger OMB (One man band), so it changes key of style.  What I want to have is about 60 pads on the screen that would trigger chords of my choice. Do not know where to start. The layout part (creating visual buttons and such) is more or less clear. But how do I program the actual button? Can somebody give me an example of how to program Em chord on a pad, so I can try to do all others from example.

Please see attached image. It was easy to set this up within the PC program, since all the midi parameters were entered for me by the program. I just assigned chords to pads. I want to make similar layout control for ipad.

Would very much appreciate your help.

Thank you.

P.S. There is an ipad app called Chordion, which is very clean and robust and does exactly what I want, but it only allows 24 chords on one page.

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sounds like MidiMux is causing a loop. You can check the log to verify this, but you can also just shut off MIDI Receive for the supercontrols: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/i67mxzfqo5hzcmp/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-01%20at%203.19.50%20PM.png?dl=0

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Dan,
Than you very much! Yes that worked.

One other thing. App store shows that there is an update 2.8.0, but once I click on it, it starts the download "circle" and than stops, showing that update is "still" available. All other apps that needed update, were updated without a problem. Restarted ipad, same thing.


P.S. Minor suggestion. I wish that app would open straight to the layout. I am guessing here, but I believe most of people who use MidiDesigner bought it for very specific tasks and once they designed their layout they going, most likely to stick to it or implement minor changes.  Or have an option of "Start app with layout X,Y..."   I am sure it was done as it was done for a reason, but I though to share my opinion.

Please let me know about the update.
Thanks!

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Thanks, regarding your issues with the App Store update: Apple is a multi-billion dollar company that runs the App Store and the App Store app is indeed created by Apple. And there are 36.6 million results on your question:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6yp8seotxj87763/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-02%20at%206.57.02%20PM.png?dl=0

But let's see: when you say "restarted the iPad" you mean that you did a hard boot?

Regarding the minor suggestion: we're working on it: http://mididesigner.com/qa/5382/remove-welcome-screen-in-mdp2?show=5382#q5382  2.81 will allow you to do this, but if it's urgent, purchase the EFP and you'll see this button.

Thanks!
Dan

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Dan,
Thanks. Yes, I did a hard reset and and many other things. What helped was completely signing out of ipad / app store and signing back in. Finally, that way it was updated to 2.8
You must be tired of me by now already :)  Couple of other things please.
Is it possible to connect to PC via bluetooth? I enable and made discoverable BT on my PC.  My PC says connected to ipad. MidiDesigner loops on "Searching for Bluetooth LE MIDI device... Also loops on Searching for WiFi connections.

Thank you.

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Hey there, not tired at all!

So regarding BT: do you Win 10 Anniversary Edition: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/09/21/midi-enhancements-in-windows-10/
??

Also: rtpMIDI for Windows should let you do MIDI over Wifi: https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/rtpmidi.html

Thanks!
Dan