Friday 18 December 2015

Virtual Insanity


A few months ago, I was looking for some physical MIDI control device to use with iOS music creation/software synthesiser Apps on my iPad Mini. 

I had continued the search despite I wrote I had given up. Eventually I had end up with this iOS App, TB MIDI Stuff which does the quite opposite from what I had been looking for originally. It turns iPad/iPad Mini into a fully programmable versatile MIDI controller.

I have completed a couple of virtual controllers and my favourite is the one shown above. It is designed as a controller for Roland SYSTEM-1 Software Synthesiser. Of course, it can be controlled on a Mac's screen but mouse/track pad operations are not so intuitive as touch screen interface on iOS devices.

Here's the beauty of virtualisation. You still have some sense of touch without limitation of physical devices. Actually it really feel like operating on a physical gadget but the flexibility and potentials are  limitless.

I hope we could create similar experiences in Electronic Health Records.