bismark bs-16i

bismark LLC

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About this app

bismark bs-16i is a 16 multi-timbral playback sampler. It loads SoundFont and DLS (Downloadable Sounds) as WaveTable and can be used for keyboard instruments, MIDI sound modules, and MIDI file players.

bs-16i has the synthesizer engine that has been adopted for many professional/commercial types of equipment. Using SoundFont / DLS libraries, you can play with your great number of instruments. The engine included as default, includes the high-quality and low-noise audio outputs by 100% floating-point calculations.

All standard MIDI messages are supported, and your Phone and Tablet can be used as a GM (General MIDI) sound module by using pre-installed GeneralUser GS SoftSynth v1.44.sf2 (S. Christian Collins).

As a keyboard instrument, you can play with the scalable screen keyboard, pitch bend wheel, and many control change controllers.

The internal MIDI file player supports SMF (Standard MIDI File) format as Song.

WaveTable / Song files can be imported from your Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.

Moreover, this application supports MIDI interfaces via USB and Bluetooth. With them, you can communicate with other external MIDI hardware like a synthesizer, or sequencer. Also, bs-16i can be a background and drive from other apps using MIDI.

Please be careful that the sound latency depends on each Android phone/tablet. So, this app is distributed as a free app and can be tested with all features free until 5 min from app launch. If it is OK for you, please remove this time limitation by In-App Purchase.

- To load the specified SoundFont / DLS file, the device has to ready free memory larger than its file size of it.
- This application collects the following information: Device name, OS version, SoundFont / DLS file name.

Ratings and reviews

No detailed description about the app. It worked fine by connecting my midi keyboard, but it is also a sequencer? Does it record? Am I able to export my recording as a .mid or .xml file? Hard to evaluate in just five minutes!

It seemed ok playing from the default sound library, but the UI for loading sound fonts is quite unintuitive and very buggy. I couldn't get it to work, and the very short trial window made that harder, and convinced me to give up after a few goes. Playing a midi instrument through Audio Evolution Mobile is a lot more reliable and powerful, though requires a bit more setup each time I start the app, so will stick to that...

Great to see this on Android, it's pretty much the only faithful soundfont player out there that allows you to tune instrument parameters, and it works great with MIDI input. Good job!

What's new

Fix the blue screen freeze issue on Android 10. Please note that Version 1.1.0's feature (document folder migration) is disabled for Android 10. Apologize for Android 10 users.