Comments on: Android MIDI Controller, Musical App Updates with MIDI Over Wifi

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:31:48 +0000

I am developping an app for android which turns the touch surface into a 2d pad, with that you can control whatever you want over 2 axis, midi messages are sent and a server on a PC just transfer them to any virtual midi device you have installed.
It is open source and uses bluetooth, not wifi as a medium between the phone and the pc.
the google code website is here, I’ll put a verison on the market as soon as I have a nice version. For now it is working but the interface sucks, so stay tuned, and you’re welcome to participate/test with your phone as I only have a touch with android 1.6 at my disposal.

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:42:21 +0000

There is already an opensource Wifi/MIDI application that can be easily ported to the andriod. It was originally written for the DS and has since had a port for the iPhone. I own a ton of the iphone apps and almost all of them with midi use this code.

http://dsmidiwifi.tobw.net/
http://code.google.com/p/dsmi/

By: ex-fanboy

ex-fanboy — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:35:37 +0000

cooooooOOL! can hardly wait :-)

By: flat20

flat20 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:18:26 +0000

I would love to make FingerPlay open-source as soon as I’ve cleaned up the code a bit.

There is some latency involved as it has to send data over the wifi connection, but it’s not as bad as the video on youtube might make it seem.

By: proem

proem — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:49:16 +0000

ITS ABOUT FREEEEEKING TIME
I’m grabbing from the google marketplace this instant.

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Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:13:56 +0000

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By: ex-fanboy

ex-fanboy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:42:01 +0000

oops my last cpuple sentences did not get posted with my message:

that all said, you are to be complemented for your work chris! without guys like you out there, the app landscape would be a lot less imaginative and exciting.

like peter said, we know how hard it is to program fast ui for audio.

so; no, thank YOU!

By: ex-fanboy

ex-fanboy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:35:07 +0000

sorry chris, was out for awhile….

i mean both actually.

the latency over wifi is to be expected, and in my experience bluetooth is better – i use a wii controller in my vj sets for example (bluetooth).

but the lag/latency when “fingerplaying” is obvious….
whether it is actually either an app problem or a hardware problem, i’m not sure; i tend to think it’s a coding problem though.
look what nvidia did with physx in peter’s article on createdigitalmotion.com. just rewriting code changed everything!

in any case, using winmobile every music app i’ve used has the same latency irregardless if its on a 512 mhz ppc or a 226 mhz smartphone.

and i’m really not a fan of winmobile, believe me, but in this case, it realy does “just work”.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:39:12 +0000

@ex-fanboy: Are you talking about Musical or FingerPlay? (and if you are talking about Musical, do you mean playing on the device or over WIFI?) Thanks!

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:28:22 +0000

I’m going to talk to Chris Souvey about what he’s doing with those custom widgets. Basically, making UIs act as fast as we want for audio is hard in any context — worse in mobile. But it seems like a solvable problem.