Single iPad use with MDP

Question

HI ALL, first post here, I watched all, or most of the videos on MDP, I really like it, want to buy it, but...is it usefull with ONE iPad?

 I can see its use controlling external hardware or software, but how do you use it if you have one iPad? (and a hardware midi controller)

Do you make templates and assign those to your hardware or just control apps on iPad with it? What is the advantage of controlling an app via MDP directly?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi there and thanks for your question.

The advantages of a virtual, customizable MIDI controller are usually because you need to:

• create a user interface because your target doesn't have one or has a very limited one
• customize a user interface because you would prefer it to be different (same as #1, pretty much), sometimes for a purpose like "performance" or "editing."
• aggregate several targets in one user interface

And if you have a hardware MIDI controller, the question is what it does, and what you want it to do. If it's just a keyboard, adding essentially unlimited knobs, sliders, XY pads, etc., via MIDI Designer is great no matter what you're controlling. 

Also: if you have a hardware MIDI controller and want to get multiple pages of control using the same hardware, that's what our pedalboards feature is for (see http://mididesigner.com/home/ultimate-hybrid/).

Comment under this answer to continue the discussion, thanks!

Answer 2

Hi there and thanks for your question.

The advantages of a virtual, customizable MIDI controller are usually because you need to:

• create a user interface because your target doesn't have one or has a very limited one
• customize a user interface because you would prefer it to be different (same as #1, pretty much), sometimes for a purpose like "performance" or "editing."
• aggregate several targets in one user interface

And if you have a hardware MIDI controller, the question is what it does, and what you want it to do. If it's just a keyboard, adding essentially unlimited knobs, sliders, XY pads, etc., via MIDI Designer is great no matter what you're controlling. 

Also: if you have a hardware MIDI controller and want to get multiple pages of control using the same hardware, that's what our pedalboards feature is for (see http://mididesigner.com/home/ultimate-hybrid/).

Comment under this answer to continue the discussion, thanks!