I suspect I’ll shortly have more to say about this re-emergent-for-me landscape in other posts, but I’ll give this particular nugget its own standalone post and get back to it when I’m ready to start digging in to its particulars.
The TL;DR of it all, is this: right as we arrived in Anchorage for a long weekend of two kids athletic tournaments, I noticed an email pop up in my inbox inviting me to beta-test the forthcoming new major release of the MIDI Guitar software I invested in a few years ago. Oh, that’d be cool, to be on the beta test group for MIDI Guitar 3 for Mac…
And then I started actually looking in to the promise of it, and what some people have been doing with the prototype that has now gone to beta.
Mind: blown. Immediately. Of course I didn’t have a suitable instrument with me to even test with (arrgh!), and even now that we’re home it may take me a few days to feng shui appropriate time to honorably dig in a little bit.
Mo Willems called it: Waiting Is Not Easy!
Anyway, among the truly gobsmacking resources available at LoFiLeif’s YouTube channel–which you’ll see more of referenced here, before long–check out this idea: the MusiKraken app, which turns your iPhone or iPad into a MIDI controller workshop:
I’m no expert in MIDI by any means, but I’ve seen a number of pretty creative controllers out there–but nothing like this. As it is now, the potential power is…intense. As a platform for further expansion, at least from what I can see, the word revolutionary just seems a bit…limited.
Will have to see where this goes, but I’m excited about it!
Craftygrass 