MIDI Wrench
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Free | Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
This app supports all hardware and software sources for MIDI, including Bluetooth LE MIDI !
Current Features:
• Lists all CoreMIDI devices (i.e. attached MIDI accessories) and all so called "virtual CoreMIDI ports" (i.e. audio Apps) on your iPad / iPhone / iPod touch.
• Displays incoming MIDI events of external MIDI hardware and local MIDI apps in real-time.
• Send MIDI Note-On, Note-Off and Control Change messages by using the virtual MIDI keyboard, buttons and rotary knobs.
• Virtual on-screen MIDI controls are fully configurable, so you may assign other MIDI controller numbers and more.
• The virtual keyboard keys, rotary knobs and buttons automatically update to the values sent by connected MIDI devices.
• JACK MIDI support.
• Filter out MIDI events you are not interested in.
• Copy MIDI events with one tap to the iOS clipboard, and paste them as text in another app like Mail.
This app is free, and it does not contain any ads or other annoying things. Really!
Anti-Spy Commitment: We take your privacy very seriously. None of our apps contain so called „spy” behaviors and we committed ourself to a very high privacy standard. MIDI Wrench does not collect any information. For more information about our privacy commitment, read our „Privacy Policy for Mobile Apps”.
Reviews
This one worked, the other one didn't
David NL
Simple as that. Writing a program to monitor MIDI data flow in a network doesn't seem like it should be like rocket science (although I could be wrong about that; it's not my area), so I expected the other monitor I tried (MIDI Monitor) to work. It crashed almost the instant MIDI data started to flow, over and over again. MIDI Wrench listened to the network, showed me what was happening, and stayed alive. That's all I needed it to do. Thanks for creating a product that does what it says! The rest of the interface is attractive and easy to use. The control knobs pop up to full-screen size for ease of manipulation and feature numeric readouts so you know exactly what MIDI value your setting them at. Basic ON/OFF buttons for pedals and an All Notes Off button to deal with "stuck keys."
Awesome
Gogogolt
I didn't imagine myself ever needing this app..today I saved hours of trouble shooting running this app..very cool
Great app - please update for iOS 10!
JesseBikman
Nothing wrong with the app, but a pop up occurs on my iPhone 7 saying that this app needs to be updated by the developers and hence may slowdown my phone. Love the app - hope you're reading this! Please update it for iOS 10!
Crudebyte
mrdogheadSHoGoAT
Why, Christian, do you refuse to maintain your apps? This is a very good, useful product that could be better still with the kind of active development most successful mobile-app developers embrace. You let JACK die for no obvious reason, and other apps just flounder once system versions change. If you worked on these apps - especially things with the potential to be useful to so many people doing music on this platform, like this and JACK - you might build communities that make the effort worth your while. Please consider regularly scheduling time to maintain your software.
Does what I need
wkrasl
I am using several midi compatible apps on my iPad. Each time I come back to my piano to do something, the first thing I do is power up my piano, turn on Bluetooth on my iPad, and open MIDI Wrench to reset the iPad connection with my piano's MD-BT01 Bluetooth adapter. It works every time. I do see that this app does a lot more, but I don't need any feature other than making the connection. The only reason I am not giving this five stars is because, if I take a break (20-30 minutes?) without turning off either my Piano or my iPad (and my iPad is set to never auto-lock), I sometimes discover my connection has been disconnected. Then I have to reopen this app (still running in background) and reconnect. As long as this app is still running in the background, it should wake up often enough to keep that connection alive.
