Midi Poly Grid

anzbert

About this app

# Midi Poly Grid

This App is Open Source. Access the code here: https://github.com/anzbert/beat_pads

## Important Disclaimer

This App is **ONLY** usable as a Midi Controller. It does **NOT** produce any sound on its own and requires a host application or a second device with a DAW or other sound production app.

## Information

Midi Poly Grid is a lightweight Midi Controller app for mobile phones and tablets for melodies and finger drumming at home and on the go. Connections can be made virtually to other apps via platform midi channels, or via USB or Bluetooth Midi to other devices.

This app aims to be an easy-to-use pad input device featuring a variety of layouts, intuitive playability and modern modulation options, such as MPE and Polyphonic Aftertouch. It was designed for people that prefer pads to pianos! The focus of this app is not to be a jack-of-all-trades Midi swiss army knife, but instead to be a great at one thing: Intuitive and versatile pad controls.

## Features

- A size-adjustable grid of pads for finger drumming and melody input
- Various layouts and colors, inspired by the Ableton Push
- Presets can be saved with different pad setups
- Innovative MPE and polyphonic Aftertouch modulation with graphical feedback
- Push Style MPE pitchbend and slide
- Send Velocity by Y position on pad, randomly or with a fixed value
- Usable as a standard MIDI device with any PC, Mac or other USB or Bluetooth device
- Optional controls, such as Pitch Bend, Mod Wheel and Sustain
- Highligh a large number of musical scales
- Receives Midi Notes, making the pads usable like a Launchpad
- Custom grid creation based on the note intervals on the X and Y Axis to create Grids inspired by the Harmonic Table, Wicki Hayden, MidiMech and others
- Supports virtual Midi connection to other apps on your device
- Built-In support for the popular finger drumming courses from XpressPads.com
- And more...

## Feedback and Contributions

Anyone is most welcome to contribute, report an issue or start a discussion in the Github repository. Thanks!

## Licence

Licenced under GPL3. The code in this project is freely usable in any other open source project. Enjoy!

## Android Specific Information

Can be used with any Mac or PC via USB or Bluetooth Midi. Also usable with a virtual connection on your Android device to other installed Apps which support this feature.

Ratings and reviews

Perfect for what I wanted! I was looking for an app that would allow me to use my phone as a drum pad MIDI input device (so I could record drum parts "on the go" without having to drag my larger drum pad MIDI controller with me). This did not disappoint. It has an intuitive interface without having overly complicated settings. The app even shows a helpful reminder to connect to the MIDI device on your computer if you try to open the drum pads screen without having connected. Great app!

Awesome app. As a feature request could you, please, add a 'latch' button. i.e. when latch is active single-pressing a note makes it sustained indefinitely and the note is also highlighted as pressed. A second press is required to release the note. Chords could be formed by single-pressing individual notes to sustain or release them.

This is a special app that just keeps getting cooler the more settings I try out. I was able to customize the grid to a 8x8 layout and basically had the software version of my favorite controller with even more customization in scale layout. I can just relax and practice on my tablet now instead of hauling the heavy controller and laptop in my room and setting up the DAW. When I put it in MPE mode and realized each finger had XY control..mind blown. I'm using fluidsynth to test it out

What’s new

- Fixed iOS bug where the side drawer menu would close immediately after opening.
- Added experimental visualisation mode, inspired by PrimeChords