Is MIDI Designer compatible with Guitar Wing over Bluetooth?

Question

So I recently was able to connect MIDI Designer wirelessly to a Zivix PUC over WiFi:
http://mididesigner.com/qa/3879/midi-designer-compatible-with-zivix-puc

Works great to go MIDI Designer --> WiFi --> PUC --> Pedalboard.

Now I'm thinking a little bit longer down the road...if I wanted an additional external controller at my fingertips to control my most important MD functions and then send those on to my pedalboard, could I use this?
http://lividinstruments.com/products/guitar-wing/

It operates over Bluetooth.  This was the only thing I find about MIDI over Bluetooth with MIDI Designer:
http://mididesigner.com/qa/735/midi-designer-over-bluetooth

But according to this page, I could use MIDI LE to connect via Bluetooth, and it should work with anything that uses core-MIDI:
http://forum.lividinstruments.com/discussion/19194/guitar-wing-ios-8-and-osx-yosemite-direct-connection-open-beta

So, is there any reason this wouldn't work?
Guitar Wing --> Bluetooth (via MIDI LE app) --> MIDI Designer --> WiFi (via PUC Connect app) --> PUC --> Pedalboard?

Comments

Thanks, updated the Bluetooth Q&A to mention MIDI LE.

Answer 1

Thanks for the question. Using MIDI LE for Bluetooth, this solution will work fine. We'll also be rolling Bluetooth into MIDI Designer shortly as well.

Glad this is all working for you!

Comments

So just to clarify, using the two apps to create the connections, there is no reason I wouldn't be able to do MIDI In from the Guitar Wing via Bluetooth and MIDI Out via WiFi to the PUC?  (I'm mostly asking if MD will be able to recognize and communicate with the two simultaneously.)

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It's no problem. The thing is that you're going to need a supercontrol->subcontrol for every parameter that you wish to control in MD. Does that make sense?

Another limit here is that MD will send everything out to all ports. So in some cases that might cause a problem... my guess is that you won't have an issue with this configuration.

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Two follow-up questions:

(1) "Another limit here is that MD will send everything out to all ports."
Does this mean that MD would in principle be bidirectional with both the Guitar Wing and PUC, and send MIDI to both?  If so, I don't think that's a problem, because I don't think the GW would receive anything.

(2) "The thing is that you're going to need a supercontrol->subcontrol for every parameter that you wish to control in MD. Does that make sense?"
Not completely.  Are you saying that I can't just set my existing controls to "receive MIDI", that every control would need a "duplicate" to communicate with the Guitar Wing?  How about, let's say I already have a supercontrol in MD that has multiple subcontrols (mostly PC/CC messages).  If I set that supercontrol to receive MIDI, match the MIDI channel/message with the Guitar Wing, would that do what I want?

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#2 yes. If the supercontrol does what you want, you can set it to receive MIDI and everything will work out fine -- subcontrols will change values and send out as expected. What I was referring to was the simple case where you have a normal control in MD. If MD receives MIDI that moves the control, it won't send that MIDI back out.

Answer 2

Thanks for the question. Using MIDI LE for Bluetooth, this solution will work fine. We'll also be rolling Bluetooth into MIDI Designer shortly as well.

Glad this is all working for you!