Synths that you can connect your iPad to, and do...what?

The Lounge Other Gear
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Oh cool, good to hear!
Hadn’t thought of Strokes. I found it pretty unintuitive to be honest, but just using the sequencer to trigger the DN is a good call!

Here’s a naive question for y’all: Could I , in theory, send 16 tracks of midi to all 16 tracks on the DN?
Fugue Machine, for example is limited to 4 outputs no? But if an app allows me to send more than 4, then presumably the DN will receive that many?
Or (and this is only just occurring to me right now) , could I send 2 different sequencers to DN simultaneously? One sending channels 1-4 and another 5-8, for example?

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I don’t know of any great videos on the use case I was describing.

You can send as much MIDI as you want on as many channels to the DN. Over USB MIDI you shouldn’t run into any throughput issues. You can have multiple sequencers sending data on the same channel no problem.

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absolutely, AUM is your friend. The midi routing matrix makes this a breeze. With Fugue you can just have 4 instances running and point them at whatever midi channels you want. Or asign the same midi channel to multiple tracks on the DN and layer sounds. Also you can record all the midi notes into the DN from your ipad

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Oh shit, this is so cool!
I feel like a kid in a sweet shop :grin:

Please tell me more about this - is it mentioned in the manual?

And thanks for engaging @malus_mons and @qqq !

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Yeah man, Live Recording (REC + PLAY) mode on any Elektron box will record the midi notes and any cc data coming into it

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So if I play something like a very rapid flurry of notes, or a super quick arpeggio, it will record that and then I could play that back without the ipad, next time I press play on the DN? (without it quantising it, I mean)

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That’s actually a limitation. It will only record what fits into the sequencers resolution ( idk if thats the right word) so you get 16 trigs per bar by default, you can increase or decrease from there. So its not as robust a midi recorder as say a DAW, still works really well tho

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Nice. Can’t wait to fuck around with it

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I use my iPad with Drambo as a sound source, fx unit, sequencer, midi transformer/effector etc. Alongside various synths but also other sequencers.

I love for example running my zaquencer into Drambo or my Force and recording loops of midi that I’m generating and manipulating live on the zaquencer. Then selecting nice shorter loops of midi notes & cc to develop an idea / track.

Also the wicked midi sequencers on iOS are awesome - so many cool ways to generate ideas. Recommend the AudioModern stuff like chordjam etc! I must try Fugue Machine too soon since so many people love it.

iPads are also super useful to edit rack mount synths - I’ve got a TG77 (epic 80’s FM synth) and using Patch Storage to edit patches is great! Especially with the apple pencil since the controls on the GUI for such an epic FM synth are numerous and super tiny.

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