Midiboard - MIDI Controller

Your phone, as the controller you actually wanted.

Midiboard turns an iPhone into a Bluetooth MIDI controller you lay out yourself. Drop a widget on the grid, drag it where your hand goes, size it to the reach you actually have. Save the screen, build the next one, and flip between them with one tap while the song is running.

Every other phone controller hands you someone else's idea of a surface. This one hands you the grid.

BUILD THE SURFACE

• Pad grids of any size, tuned chromatically or in fourths, fifths, thirds or octaves — a grid in fourths keeps every chord shape the same wherever you move it • Keyboards of any span, starting on any note, with glissando between keys • Chord buttons you write note by note. C, E, G#, D is as valid as a minor triad • Pitch and mod wheels shaped like the ones beside your keyboard, plus 270° arcs and endless rotaries • Faders and two-axis XY pads, with relative pickup so grabbing one mid-song does not throw the sound • Step sequencers where every step names the note it plays, each with its own run button • Footswitch banks where exactly one lamp is lit — press a switch and the last one goes out, so a glance tells you which preset you are actually on • Transpose controls that move a group of widgets, so a bass bank and a lead move independently on the same page

PLAY IT

• Set a key per widget: notes outside it either step back but stay playable, or snap into the key • Poly, mono, legato and glide, per widget • A clock with tap tempo, MIDI clock out, note repeat and an arpeggiator — or follow your computer's tempo instead • Set the travel of any control, so a fader only ever moves between two settings that are useful on the other end • Panic always within reach, and haptics you can tune per control

KEEP IT

• As many saved layouts as you like. Export one to a file, send it to someone, import theirs • Two colour palettes, and note names that match whatever your software calls them

CONNECTS TO WHATEVER YOU PLAY

Midiboard sends standard Bluetooth LE MIDI. Mac, iPad and iPhone connect directly. On Windows it pairs through the Bluetooth MIDI bridge you already use. No cable, no dongle, no account, and nothing to sign into.

Midiboard collects nothing. There is no analytics, no crash reporting and no network code in it at all — the only thing it sends is MIDI, to the device you paired with.