Show HN: MidiPad 2 – A customizable Midi Pad Controller(midipadapp.com) |
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I wonder if there's a correlation between a domain name's age, and the HN rank of posts that link to them.
Any reason for not adding midi sliders and knobs too? Most MIDI apps include those and are used by many composers/musicians.
Sliders and knobs will be added in a future version. I wanted to put an MVP on the app store first before adding additional features.
Since it's an MVP you're working on I'm going to give you some insight that will hopefully help you out. I'm a composer who mostly works on film and tv. I'm also a hobbyist programmer so I usually end up making our own apps if needed. In the composer community we mostly use TouchOSC and Lemur but both of those apps haven't been updated recently. Lemur is pretty powerful but requires quite a bit of knowledge for non-tech oriented folks. If you'd be able to create interactive and dynamic midi/osc interface like people do with Lemur but much more user friendly I think you'd have an audience.
Another interesting thing is that there are also private APIs for reading out the estimated finger size of a touch. This can give you even more information to determine the velocity from, as light touches are usually done with the fingertips.