I'm still amazed about this app and really want a Monotribe. Anyway, enough of that, here are the details:
Control the Korg monotribe's tempo with your iPhone!
SyncKontrol offers owners of Korg's monotribe Analogue Ribbon Station precise tempo control, plus the ability to sync their monotribe to WIST (Wireless sync) enabled apps!
SyncKontrol allows you to control the tempo and start/pause of the monotribe Analogue Ribbon Station via the audio output of your iPhone. The app also offers Tap Tempo, a Swing function, and WIST (Wireless Sync-Start Technology) to sync monotribe to WIST-enabled apps such as Korg's iMS20, iElectribe and iElectribe Gorillaz(tm) Edition. In addition, this application receives sync from Mac based DAW software by receiving MIDI clock and play/stop commands via Wireless Network MIDI.
Note: Wireless Network MIDI function is still new and developing technology and therefore there are no guarantees concerning stability which can be heavily affected by traffic over the wireless network.
Korg's monotribe is a new form of synthesizer that packs an amazing array of features and technology into its compact body. The monotribe shares the analog synthesizer voice of the in-demand Korg monotron, yet quickly delves deeper into the rich, organic, and often chaotic world of analog synthesis. In addition to analog synthesis, monotribe brings together intuitive ease of use and a three-part discrete analog rhythm section, plus the proven appeal of Electribe-style sequencing. Complete with a built-in speaker and battery power, monotribe is self-contained and highly portable.
[Specifications]
Sequencer Section:
- Tempo: 20.0 – 999.9 BPM
- Tap tempo
- Swing function: 50 – 75 %
- Supports WIST (Wireless Sync-Start Technology)
- mini jack cable is necessary to connect iPhone and monotribe.
- SyncKontrol for monotribe need iOS 4.2 or later.
10 comments:
This definitely increases my interest in the Monotribe by a lot. I only use my monotron for the filter, I would much rather have a more fully featured piece of kit.
Seems to work with network CoreMIDI, so you can hopefully also use it with MoDrum, FunkBox, Molten, etc running on a second iOS device too.
I don't have a MonoTribe (yet!) so I can't be sure how well the sync works this way, but it's basically just using an audio click for the sync, and that click seems to sync up with those apps as master MIDI clock running on a second device.
So can I link the monotribe to my NanoStudio on the iPad with this? Must buy then...
I'm guessing WIST is a proprietary solution to the latency on wireless network CoreMidi. Wonder how that works?
At best, over wireless, I get 3 to 5 ms latency and a lot more on some days so I can't see this working wirelessly with other, non WIST apps.
You can send CoreMIDI clock packets with a timestamp attached, and then send those packets early, so they arrive at the other side early and are delivered to the app right on time with little/no latency. So it should work okay here unless Korg is doing something weird.
I'm just pointing it out because they explicitly mention it works with Mac OS X, but I tested it and it seems to also work with other iOS apps that support making network connections.
Also, 3-5ms latency isn't that bad! You'll see worse with some hardware MIDI setups. 10ms and it starts to bug you. Some are more sensitive than others of course. But 5ms is equivalent to standing 1.5m away from a speaker, or your drummer.
You are right though that the latency gets a lot worse than that sometimes. My experience with CoreMIDI WiFI latency has been that it is fine generally, but spikes on occasion.
Sending those clock packets early, a lot early in some cases, helps overcome those spikes. Since a clock is a very regular thing, and the timing is happening on its own at regular intervals, you can send it early enough to (mostly) fix this.
The big problem with latency is using apps as touch controllers. You can't predict when someone will be touching the screen, so you can't send any of that data early, you just send it as soon as it happens. So you hear/feel the latency there, always.
Clocks though you can cheat a bit.
This app is proving handy with ims20, I can now get the tempo spot on which was bugging me!
Also works with the Camera Connection Kit and a USB MIDI interface on an iPad! So you should be able to use it to sync hardware MIDI synths and drum machines up with the MonoTribe.
Wow, I'm so looking forward to get my hands on it! =D
Do you know What type of connection/cable to my cck I would have to use if I want to record on My iPad and wich recording app would be suitable while performing on the Monotribe?
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