Uilleann - Pocket Irish Pipes for Android

11 things about Uilleann - Pocket Irish Pipes

1. Uilleann is an authentic sounding 3/4 set of Uilleann pipes (Irish Bagpipes) chanter, drones, and two regulators in the form of a standard two octave piano keyboard and also supports hardware MIDI bagpipes chanters connect to a hardware MIDI interface.

2. Touch the mixer icon at the upper right to bring up the settings page where you can select the key (D, C#, C, or B), set the volumes of the chanter, drones, and regulators, set the amount of drone chorus effect, overall reverb level, and MIDI chanter parameters.

3. The four regulator pairs now may be played on the MIDI channel one higher than the chanter starting on MIDI note 64 (E3).

4. Use the MIDI controls on the settings page to set the MIDI channel for the chanter and drone notes as well as the lowest MIDI note for your MIDI chanter.

5. The app responds to MIDI Pitch Bend messages on the Chanter MIDI channel.

6. Connect your MIDI chanter first using a hardware MIDI interface, then launch the Uilleann for iPhone app.

7. Since the real Uilleann pipes chanter doesn't play below D, the two regulators for chords may also be played on the upper and lower halves of the C and C# at the bottom of the keyboard.

8. MIDI notes 64 - 67 on the regulators channel play the regulator pairs.

9. The note C has an extended pitch bend range as typically used when playing a real chanter.

10. MIDI channel and lowest note values are saved on exit.

11. The app can also be used as a CoreMIDI sound module for MIDI file player apps.