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SlideControl FS (iPad)
Date Added: Oct 1, 2011
Slide Control is an iPad music application for musicians. This application makes improvisation easier. You can choose any scale (major, minor, pentatonic, blues etc.) and slide your finger to play any melody. With Slide Control it does not have bad grades, your movements are in harmony. Easier to play! Easier to improvise! Easier to create! More imagination!
FEATURES:
- Very simple application for very simple improvisation
- Synth with 890 sound, and over in a web (sound font player base on fluidsynth)
- Reverb & chorus effect
- 20 fast switch preset change
- Midi transport (tempo / start / stop)
- Video tutorial Include
- Video community page (you can send your video)
- Many scales for best improvising (major, minor, pentatonic, blues …)
- Polyphonic Control
- Split screen
- Support of virtual midi for communicate with other musical apps
- Choose from 60 different wallpaper (thanks to robert handline)
- Program change/ Bank change
- All Midi CC support on Y direction
- 16 Midi channel
- Quick switch Sustain / Partamento / Legato
- Quick switch Oct +1/ Oct – 1/ # / b
- Pitch Bend
- Glissendo in Midi !! (Exclusive function)
- Switch mod
- Velocity capable
- MIDI Device support – connect devices via the Camera Connection Kit (near zero latency)
- Measured latency over WiFi to OS X: 2-5ms
- Fullscreen
- Cool Animation
- More to come!
Slide Control FS and Virtual MIDI:
Wifi Works without additional server software on OS X “Tiger” and above.
Also works on Windows XP, Vista, And 7 with free rtpMIDI driver.
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Sound Fonts are a good way to go for midi orientated apps like this. That way, anything you play in-app is guaranteed to be compatible when transmitted to your choice of midi compatible device.
@ robert. Totally agree. Its a good straight forward solution, giving you the ability to practice a composition before using midi to control hardware or software VST.
Does it have virtual MIDI IN ports? To use the soundfonts via an other instruments that can send program change and/or control multiple distinct instruments / send on more than channel? The only app that I know of – and use extensively for these purposes – that offers this is bs-16i. It too works with soundfont libraries, also expandable/downloadable from the net. Thanks.
@The.Metaphysical.Crook Yes, both SlideControl and SlideControl Fluid Synth support Virtual MIDI. This is one of my favourite apps – it’s a it like ThumbJam but it’s also a MIDI Controller and can load SoundFonts. You can also layer up more than one sound within the app :-)
I own both slide control and slide control Fluid and they are my most used controllers. To have the sound font abilities are simply a plus for live or recording. The app as a controller is simply the best. Also today I was using the sound fonts to record a sound live into Logic, while using the controller to track the midi notes to a VSTI. Really I think you folks giving copy and paste too much credit. Really are you going to produce real tracks with a 16 bit Audio IPad? Slide control is amazing if you really compose music.
Well, don’t blame the others. It is actually just me bitching so far. But you are right. It is a fine controller and a fine addition to an existing set up in a studio. However, some of us (meet “us” at KVR) love to make music internally on the iPad on the go, independently of Computers. Therefore it is essential to us. Whether our tracks are “real” and whether this matter to people I don’t know. It doesn’t matter to me. I make electronic music for myself and distribute it for free. But more importantly: The difference between making “pro sound” and “garage sound” does not depend on the samplerate. It depends on your skills. Actually, so far it seems to be a myth that people systematically can hear differences between 16 bit 44 khz and 24 bit 96 khz. Take a look at this classic study:
http://mixonline.com/recording/mixing/audio_emperors_new_sampling/
Cheers
I think you cannot record the sound of the other apps play in virtual midi. nobody to confirm that?
Wrong. You can not record at the same time. No app does this yet. But say you make a riff using Genome + Nlog + MoDrum + Bassline. First you make some lines that work together. After that , you record each of the lines, and say, export and gather them in Beatmaker 2.
Here are some of the apps which has both virtual midi and recorder with pasteboard transfer:
Nlog pro
Nlog mid
Sunrizer
MoDrum
Finger Bassline
Molten
+ the upcoming artic keys synth
FYI that is actually the majority of virtual midi apps.
Slide control is like an instrument. if you need to record, use a computer like logic or cubase !!
Well, I can name a whole bunch of iPad synths which are also instruments but have copy and paste and therefore it does not follow that you have record it to pc, just becase a synth ia an instrument. You have no argument here. Case is that SC Fluid Synth thus far is among those synths released without copy and paste, which more and more people request as standard feature. Namely those of us that use them for music production on the ipad itself. But it is okay with me. I own a lot of useful ipad synths already so I will just pass it.
Maybe. But a synth with virtual midi but no audio recorder and pasteboard transfer is like buying a porche with a top tuned motor but no wheels.
Eeeeh!
@IncarnateX: This is primarily a MIDI Controller. It has Virtual MIDI out ports so you send MIDI data (notes, breath, Modulation, CCs etc.) to other apps. The audio comes from the other apps running in the background, not from the MIDI controller app (audio is not routed anywhere with Virtual MIDI). It’s more important that the apps that Slide Control FS is controlling have audio record and AudioCopy.
It would be useful when using the SoundFont player for SlideControl FS to have AudioCopy, but it’s by no means essential when using it for MIDI Control purposes.
Thanks Mate but I am fully aware of how virtual midi works and that it doesn’t depend on pasteboard transfer. That would be rather lame, wouldn’t it? Initially Slide control was a midi controller and now it wants to be a synth too. A “fluid synth” right? In that case: Make it useful mobile for music production and add an audio recorder and pasteboard transfer. Period.
James wrote: “The sound comes from other apps running in the background, not from the midi controller app”.
God, you must take me for the most lame newbie on Earth. How flattering…but FYI I have been into midi since it was invented in the 80ies, which is probably more than a decade before you were even born, if I were to judge from your immature patronizations.
Sorry mate, I didn’t mean anything by it :)
It just looked like you might have thought that an app with virtual MIDI needed AudioCopy (not everyone has the same understanding of MIDI as you so some might think that). Was just trying to be helpful.
Yes I agree it would be handy if Slide Control FS had AudioCopy for the SoundFont side of things. The app is only at version 1.0 so maybe they will add it in the future.
Very good application !!