I’ve been wanting them to make one of these for years now.
YES!!!
For wifi? How would the latency be over wifi? :S
For USB I have a pair of Midimate2 that has worked like a charm so far.
WiFi is not really what interests me.
Being able to run Bomes Templates without my laptop would be dreamy though.
what do you mean?
Bomes software translates midi messages, and you can make “presets” so to speak of multiple midi translations. So the Bomebox looks like it will be able to host those custom scripts standalone.
So an example of a translator I might make would be,
On Channel 15 of my midi keyboard, I could play RYTM kicks chromatically, snares chromatically, hats, toms, etc, all on coming from Channel 15.
Kind of like my own custom auto channel with a lot more customization.
You could do things like, take Note G3 on channel 10 and make it send out,
Note C4 on Ch 1
Note B1 on Ch 5
CC# 19 on Ch 13 with a value of 89 when pressed and zero when released.
So I could maybe make one note on my keyboard play a AR snare hit, and another key play and AR snare hit plus reverb, and another play a snare hit plus delay, and a series of keys that would change the parameters of the delay time.
You could send notes out on Ch 1, and translate them to also play all other channels, or which ever ones you want.
Basically anything midi you send to Bomes you can tell it to do something else.
I’ve never used the crossfader on the OT to send midi, but I think it sends midi, so you could make scenes for midi in someway.
so it’s a midi translator? What’s the difference with existing products like event processor etc ?
What a small world, went to university with the guy who makes these.
I think midi pal performs a small amount of functions.
If the Bomebox will host bomes scripts, you’ll be able to do thousands of things you cant with midi pal.
@Hans Olo, what kind of name is that?
@Hans Olo, what kind of name is that?
Hi Juan,
the idea was to express my affection for all things Star Wars and point to my nationality at the same time - I’m german. Seems like I’m not the only one who thought along those lines…
Best,
Hans
I’m not spanish, so you win this one Hans.
Im thinking the MidiPal got a massive update since I last checked, or maybe I am thinking about a different device.
I haven’t used Bomes in a while, not since I got an OT and ditched the laptop.
It doesn’t generate a clock as far as I know.
I’m thinking Bomebox will be an easy way to translate anything midi to anything midi.
So in many ways it looks like the MidiPal offers more fer sure.
a standalone user configurable ‘translator’ would be extremely powerful, though using lemur on an iPhone would probably cover my occasional needs e.g. make a dumb foot controller do interesting midi ‘macros’
agree with Avantronica, you can do pretty much all of the MIDI voodoo you need on iOS nowadays (MobMuPlat/Pd, lemur). and android is not far behind…
but then you still need a MIDI interface to go with the phone or tablet.
as a stand alone device, the Midisolutions Event Processor Pro has been doing MIDI translations for years, but it does not offer USB, ethernet etc., only 5pin – also the editor is only Windows, afaik.
so the bomebox seems like one of the coolest announcements from namm2015… (at least for me!)
any pricing out?
This is the greatest bit of gear news if had since I got my octatrack!
Yes I love running Lemur on my iPad(hooked up via iconnectmidi 2), but now I can hook up my PadKontrol to the octa and play it the same way (scales!) I have with ableton for years!
Urrrrray!
Shout out to Stray at nativeKontrol for the original template. http://www.nativekontrol.com/pKC_Series.html
I asked them, they’re aiming for under €200,-
is slice triggering still impossible with midipal and such devices?
you can do it with devices that allow you to sequence (with small delay) the right midi combo - works fine on Lemur, there’s a few threads on this w details
but i recall a problematic delay in the instructions received by the octatrack
I do too. Someone on here did the hard work testing this and if I remember right, they came up with a 70ms delay needed between the CC and note for reliable slice selection.
It was also dependent on how far apart the CC-selected slice is from the current slice. For example, playing slice 2 then slice 3 wasn’t a problem, but going from slice 2 to slice 5 would play slice 4 instead. Almost like there’s a slew limiter on the slice control.
so…it’s…not usable? 