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  • Send MIDI Messages from Your Browser with Updated Web MIDI Console

    Ben January 21, 2017     code, midi, open source, tools, web midi

    I released the first version of the Web MIDI console back in November of 2015.  I’d been thinking about adding support for message sending for awhile and Geert Bevin’s SendMIDI tool gave me the inspiration to finally implement it.  Thanks, Geert!  (And apologies if I mispronounced your name in the video.) The following video shows a quick

  • SendMIDI is a Nice MIDI CLI from Geert Bevin

    Ben January 18, 2017     code, midi, open source, tools

    Geert Bevin, a prolific developer of music software (e.g., he wrote the firmware for the Linnstrument and has been influential in developing the MPE extension for expressive MIDI controllers) has recently opensourced a utility called SendMIDI, which lets you send MIDI messages from a simple command line interface. For example, using SendMIDI, I can send the following

  • Use Bitwig Group Tracks for NI Stems

    Ben April 4, 2016     daws, recording, tools

    I was reading a post on Bitwig Beats a few days ago about how to create NI Stems files using Bitwig.  A Stems file – which uses the .mp4 container format – packs 4 audio tracks (“stems”), plus a master track, into a single file.   Each of the 4 stems in the file can be independently controlled for remixing using compatible

  • Demystifying AUM

    Ben March 5, 2016     ios music, midi, mobile, tools

    AUM, which recently hit Apple’s app store, is an audio integration toolkit for iOS.  The name works as an acronym (Audio Utility Mixer) and is ostensibly a reference to the spiritual symbol and perhaps even the trippy Coltrane album.  Like the name, the app works on multiple levels. As described in the in-depth review on Music App Blog, AUM

  • Making Music on the Web – Part 1: Workflow Managers

    Ben September 30, 2015     cloud, tools, web

    A lot of interesting instruments are popping up that make use of the Web Audio and MIDI APIs, and as a followup to my recent Web Synth Roundup post, I thought I’d take a look at web-based music production apps. After several hours reading about and playing around with these apps, I learned that they fall into two basic

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