Midimux / AudioMux : iPad Will Be Wired Into Your Music Studio

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/midimux/id963133945?ls=1&mt=8









Description
midimux talks MIDI to your Mac - using the standard usb to lightning or 30 pin cable.
Finally.

With midimux, you are no longer forced to rely on wifi-packets or external hardware to communicate MIDI data between a Mac and an iOS Device.
It seamlessly integrates your iPad/iPhone into your studio. worry-free, reliable and at an ultra low-latency.
And it works with all apps that speak MIDI.


midimux lets you..

- control iOS apps with hardware controllers that are connected to your Mac.
- sequence and play iOS apps using a DAW running on your Mac.
- control Mac applications or hardware connected to it, using Lemur, TouchOSC or any other app that uses MIDI.
- use iOS apps to play and sequence hardware instruments that are connected to your Mac.
- create virtual MIDI ports on the iPad/iPhone that can be mirrored to the Mac or other iDevices.
- connect more than one iOS device to the Mac - and send MIDI data between them.

all this wired - via the simple usb to lightning/30 pin cable.


In short: midimux creates virtual copies of MIDI devices connected to the other si.

In long: If you have a MIDI device connected to your Mac, midimux will create a copy of it on the iDevice - and thus allowing other apps to talk to it directly. Any byte of MIDI received by the MIDI device on the Mac will be piped to and received on the virtual copy of that device on the iOS device - and is then usable by its apps.
Data sent out by apps to the virtual copy on the iOS device will be piped back via usb, and then sent to the real device on the Mac.

The same is true the other way around. If an app creates a virtual MIDI port (e.G. Animoog), midimux will create a copy of that port on the Mac, naming it 'Animoog @ iPad'.

If an app does not create a virtual MIDI port, midimux always gives the possibility to create virtual ports manually. these can then be used by any apps on any of the iOS devices to pipe data to the Mac. or other iDevices. or both. and back. at the same time ;)

Features:
- Creates Mirrors of all MIDI devices that are connected to the computer on the connected iOS devices.
- Creates Mirrors of all MIDI devices that are connected to the iOS devices on the Mac.
- Lets you create custom virtual Ports that can be used by both sides of the connection to communicate.
- does it all via a wired usb connection - using the standard charge & sync cable.
- works on all iDevices from iOS 5.

*** midimux currently only works with Mac ***

To work, a lightweight server app has to be installed on the Mac.
Download it from here: http://www.midimux.com -
Or find it in this apps documents folder via iTunes file sharing.


midimux Support

http://midimux.com/


http://www.facebook.com/midimuxApp?Web: http://www.midimux.com?App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/midimux/id963133945?ls=1&mt=8



Midimux : Soon Your iPad Will Be Wired Into Your Music Studio

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/02/soon-ipad-will-wired-music-studio-midimux/#more-36264
Soon Your iPad Will Be Wired Into Your Music Studio: Midimux
BY PETER KIRN




What if any iOS app could talk to any gear, and any gear could talk to any app – none of this stumbling around with wireless, but over good, stable wires and plugs?
What if, from your Mac, you could see any app or connected hardware on your iPad or iPhone? And what if on your iPad or iPhone, you could see any MIDI device connected to your computer? (Mmm... remember when Apple talked about "hubs of your digital life"? Well, for MIDI now.)
I bet if you could do that, if you could make any instrument talk to any other instrument, you might be what we call in the business reasonably happy. Instead of apps being things you open up, mess about with, and then close, forgetting the original intention, you might actually spin melodies and rhythms into actual tracks.
Let's be blunt: part of the reason we keep talking about the iPad is that it has some catching up to do. It's a computer, but it doesn't always do things we take for granted on conventional computers. And so a lot of the saga of the device has been following as it's trained, slowly, to be as good as your laptop – or even better.
This feels like one of those moments. It's a simple tool, but it really opens up the device to connecting to the other things you use. And in doing so, it could change the way you think about the iPad in your music making.
So, in addition to today being the first to get to reveal Modstep, touchAble creator Christian Blomert's step sequencer app (with Benjamin Weiss), we also get to see the MIDI-connecting offspring of that project. It's also coming very soon.
First, let's talk about what Midimux doesn't need. It doesn't require external hardware adapters. It doesn't require a cold sweat-inducing wireless connection. (Seriously, am I the only one who's had these things totally blow up live?)
What it does do is connect stuff that's connected to your computer to apps. Here's how Christian neatly describes it:
In short: midimux creates virtual copies of MIDI devices connected to the Mac or the iPad.
In long: If you have a MIDI device connected to your Mac, midimux will create a copy of it on the iDevice – thus allowing other apps to talk to it directly. Any byte of MIDI received by the MIDI device on the Mac will be piped to and received on the virtual copy of that device on the iOS device – and is then usable by its apps.
Data sent out by apps to the virtual copy on the iOS device will be piped back via usb, and then sent to the real device on the Mac.
The same is true the other way around. If an app creates a virtual MIDI port (e.G. Animoog), midimux will create a copy of that port on the Mac, naming it 'Animoog @ iPad'.
If an app does not create a virtual MIDI port, midimux always gives the possibility to create virtual ports manually. these can then be used by any apps on any of the iOS devices to pipe data to the Mac. or other iDevices. or both. and back. at the same time ;)
Full description:
midimux talks MIDI to your Mac – using the standard usb to lightning or 30 pin cable.
Finally.
With midimux, you are no longer forced to rely on wifi-packets or external hardware to communicate MIDI data between a Mac and an iOS Device.
It seamlessly integrates your iPad/iPhone into your studio. worry-free, reliable and at an ultra low-latency.
And it works with all apps that speak MIDI.
midimux lets you..
- control iOS apps with hardware controllers that are connected to your Mac.
- sequence and play iOS apps using a DAW running on your Mac.
- control Mac applications or hardware connected to it, using Lemur, TouchOSC or any other app that uses MIDI.
- use iOS apps to play and sequence hardware instruments that are connected to your Mac.
- create virtual MIDI ports on the iPad/iPhone that can be mirrored to the Mac or other iDevices.
- connect more than one iOS device to the Mac – and send MIDI data between them.
all this wired – via the simple usb to lightning/30 pin cable.
In short: midimux creates virtual copies of MIDI devices connected to the other si.
In long: If you have a MIDI device connected to your Mac, midimux will create a copy of it on the iDevice – and thus allowing other apps to talk to it directly. Any byte of MIDI received by the MIDI device on the Mac will be piped to and received on the virtual copy of that device on the iOS device – and is then usable by its apps.
Data sent out by apps to the virtual copy on the iOS device will be piped back via usb, and then sent to the real device on the Mac.
The same is true the other way around. If an app creates a virtual MIDI port (e.G. Animoog), midimux will create a copy of that port on the Mac, naming it 'Animoog @ iPad'.
If an app does not create a virtual MIDI port, midimux always gives the possibility to create virtual ports manually. these can then be used by any apps on any of the iOS devices to pipe data to the Mac. or other iDevices. or both. and back. at the same time ;)
Features:
- Creates Mirrors of all MIDI devices that are connected to the computer on the connected iOS devices.
- Creates Mirrors of all MIDI devices that are connected to the iOS devices on the Mac.
- Lets you create custom virtual Ports that can be used by both sides of the connection to communicate.
- does it all via a wired usb connection – using the standard charge & sync cable.
*** midimux currently only works with Mac ***
To work, a lightweight server app has to be installed on the Mac.
Download it from here: http://www.midimux.com/
Or find it in the apps documents folder via iTunes file sharing.
In case you hadn't guessed, this magic is exactly what's allowing the Modstep sequencer to connect to anything, anywhere, conveniently. It's nothing new for computer users (hello, JACK on Linux!), but it's fantastic that the iPad finally has the same functionality.
"Soon" is when we get this. You can follow the official site:
http://www.midimux.com/
- or the latest is on the associated Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/midimuxapp/
And of course, you can keep up with the latest simply by staying on CDM, because I will haunt the app developers like a shadow — drifting after them by day and night, everywhere they go. (Creepy!)


MIDI 4EVER!!

Elantric

Midimux looks interesting for iPad to Mac wireless MIDI I/O integration 

Quicco Sound Mi.1 Bluetooth MIDI Controller for  iPad to MIDI Hardware wireless MIDI I/O integration
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11231.0


PUC+ MIDI Hardware wireless MIDI I/O

What are the best solutions for  "iPad to iPad"  wireless MIDI I/O  ?


Elantric

Now, Across iOS and Mac, Everything is Musically Connected [Video]
BY PETER KIRN
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/03/now-across-ios-mac-everything-connected/#more-36639


There's a high-bandwidth cable connecting that iPad or iPhone to your Mac. And yet ... and yet, until recently, music apps treated that very connection as an impossible-to-cross canyon.
No more.
We already took a look at midimux, a tool that makes everything that speaks MIDI on an iOS gadget available to your Mac, and visa versa. That's already cool. You can use a keyboard controller plugged into your Mac to play a soft synth on your iPad. You can sequence an instrument on your computer from an iPad step sequencer, with touch control. Hardware and desktop software and apps all work. This also means controller apps no longer need to use fidgety wireless connections. So long as they support MIDI, you can use a cable. (That's important, as I've found ad-hoc networking has recently gotten even more unreliable – to use OSC, I've taken to carrying around a standalone wifi router.)
But it's when you put MIDI together with audio that things get really interesting. In an exclusive first look, CDM gets the scoop on a video demo showing how it all works. (Okay, it's an exclusive first look because I spent yesterday nagging the developers to shoot it and wouldn't leave them alone until it was done. You're welcome. And, uh — sorry, guys.)
With audiomux, you can pipe sound digitally in both directions between the Mac and iOS, with no loss in fidelity. That means you can finally take some interesting bits you're working on in an iPad drum machine or synth or soundmaker and immediately pipe them into a session in your DAW – no futzing about with extra cables and interfaces. And you can go the other direction, too, making an iPad or iPhone a powerful mobile recording device for sampling or taking audio on the go or recording live or DJ sets.
audiomux

There are other competing efforts to do the same thing as you see here – the basic underlying frameworks that make audiomux and midimux possible are available to everyone. But so far, I haven't seen anything as complete as this solution. (MIDI LE, for instance, is cool and free, but it only offers comparatively limited connectivity.) The people behind midimux and audiomux are the same talented developers behind the likes of touchAble.
And there are few disadvantages to using audiomux. Audio is extremely low latency. Audiobus compatibility means a whole host of apps become instantly inter-connected. And if you have more than one iOS gadget, each becomes a separate audio device, making a little studio of Apple stuff.
In each case, you only need the app on the device, plus a free server for Mac.
midimux is available now – it landed on the App Store this week:
midimux @ iTunes App Store
There's good news about backwards compatibility for midimux, too. It works with iOS 5 and later devices and all the way back to Mac OS X 10.6. That means that this app could save older iOS gadgets from being discarded, by turning them into useful MIDI tools.
audiomux is currently awaiting Apple approval. It's requirements are necessarily more stringent, but the developers are still supporting systems back to iOS 7 and OS X 10.7.
Individually, they're US$9.99, but when audiomux becomes available you'll be able to get the bundle for $14.99.
Scratch that! Price drop!
Buy midimux now at US$9.99, and get audiomux free.
US$9.99 for the bundle once audiomux is out. (Or U$6.99 for each individually.)
Official website:
http://midimux.com
And Facebook pages:
https://www.facebook.com/midimuxapp/
https://www.facebook.com/audiomuxApp/

Elantric

AudioMux was released last Friday

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/03/midi-audio-ios-cable-heres-available-now/#more-36913

MIDI and Audio Over iOS Cable: Here's How, Available Now
BY PETER KIRN
audiomux-midimux
We've seen the future, and it's ... back to wires.
First, we saw midimux connect any MIDI app or hardware on your iOS device to any MIDI software or hardware connected to your Mac. Plus in a 30-pin or Lightning cable, run some software on each end, and connect anything. Then, we saw the promise of audiomux – doing the same thing for audio streams.
Now, audiomux is available on the App Store, not only individually, but as a bundle with midimux. (The developers initially asked midimux users to wait while that bundle became available, to avoid overspending.)
And, as all of this have unfolded, a number of videos and hands-on tests have demonstrated what it can do. Plus, there's a new (competing) solution out for Windows users, too, so you don't have to feel left out. Let's get caught up.
Here's a great video walkthrough of both midimux and audiomux by the folks at thesoundtestroom:

If you're low on cash, they'll actually reward you with a free license for a short "essay contest" – clever!
Midimux & Audiomux Essay Contest
For just a glimpse of what audiomux can do, here's a one-minute video:

audiomux and midimux are powerful – maybe more powerful than some people need. If you just need one connection for MIDI between an app and your computer, MIDI LE will do the job free. (I think midimux is well worth the money, but sometimes people do prefer simpler solutions!)
MIDI LE also has one very significant advantage: it's available now in beta on Windows, whereas midimux is OS X-only.
http://www.s-r-n.de/midile/
Windows beta FAQ
It's the work of Matthias Frick, who originally made it for himself but was inspired – partly by your comments here on CDM – to go ahead and release it.
midilewindows
For more on audiomux/midimux, see our past coverage:
Soon Your iPad Will Be Wired Into Your Music Studio: Midimux
Now, Across iOS and Mac, Everything is Musically Connected [Video]
Here's How To Connect the iPad's Easiest Pattern Maker to Your Mac [Video Tutorial]
But regardless of which tool you choose, it's great to see something simply work over a wire. Wireless can be a wonderful thing, but there's no reason to be forced into it, or allow it to devolve into something that costs time and effort instead of saves it.

tracy

Wow, this looks like a great solution. I will likely cancel my iConnectAUDIO4+ preorder since this looks like it will do all I needed from that device.
@tracyevans    •     http://www.exhibitry.com

Elantric

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/06/audiomux-v2-turns-ipad-iphone-ultimate-plug/
Audiomux V2 Turns Your iPad, iPhone into the Ultimate Plug-in
BY PETER KIRN


Audiomux already changed how we use our iPhones and iPads. Out: juggling cables and audio interfaces just to record an app. In: using apps seamlessly on your computer via just a Lightning or (30-pin) Dock cable.
Well, if that didn't make you interested in plugging your iPad into your DAW, this should. Using an app as a synth or effect on iOS is now about to be as easy as adding a plug-in — even on Windows.
Audiomux isn't the only game in town. Apple announced this month at its developer conference that was baking some basic functionality into iOS for routing audio to a connected computer. What Apple calls "Inter-Device Audio" will turn your iOS gadget into a USB 2.0 audio class-compliant device – meaning it'll appear as an audio interface on any computer, without installing a driver. It also mutes system sounds over that connection, so an alert won't screw up your audio. But the new feature supports stereo output only, so it's only useful for recording apps. And it requires iOS 9 – so it's not out yet.
Audiomux already does more than that, and Audiomux 2 adds icing on the top.
Fundamentally, Audiomux lets you ditch the audio interface and integrate your iOS gadget via a single cable. It works with output – so you can record, or make samples, or add effects on your computer. It works with input – round-trip, even, so you can add iOS effects to projects you're working on via your computer. And it works with multiple apps and even multiple devices, making iOS tools part of your studio rather than just the thing you use to distract yourself while waiting at a bus terminal.
Now, the power features:
VST and AU plug-ins. You can now add Audiomux support as a plug-in, so a synth or effect app on your iPad is the same as one on your computer – just with touch support and extra processing power.
IAA and Audiobus integration. By supporting Inter App Audio and Audiobus, you can use Audiomux with your favorite apps.
Mixing. IAA and Audiobus also integrate a mixer so it's easier to keep track of volume, muting, and monitoring. There are send channels, too, so you can easily route apps and effects. In short, Audiomux is as much a centralized mixer as it is a tool for connecting to the computer – and using it means that using all those apps feels almost like having a studio full of gear attached to a mixer.
Windows support. Oh, yeah, all of this is no longer limited to Mac users – Windows works too (Windows 7 or later). And OS X support still works back to OS X 10.7. (I'm sorry, to anyone sticking with 10.6 – if you want the latest and greatest, it's time to upgrade.)
You can grab Audiomux in a US$9.99 bundle with the also-essential Midimux. (I've been using that to sequence outboard gear, in fact.)
We'll have a video tutorial or two in July, so stay tuned. In the meantime, there's a great new guide to get you started:
Midimux / Audiomux installation guide
http://midimux.com/?page_id=282

http://midimux.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audiomux/id966554837?mt=8