MIDI Bagpipes Control Surface for Android

11 things about MIDI Bagpipes Control Surface

1. To play the chanter, touch the three holes of the left side of the chanter starting with the tips of your left index, middle, and ring fingers.

2. Next, touch the left half of the chanter starting with the tips of your left index, middle, and ring fingers.

3. Next, touch the four holes on the right side of the chanter with the tips of your right index, middle, ring, and little fingers.

4. The app doesn't produce any sound on its own, it is designed for playing hardware and software VST-style MIDI synthesizers via a CoreMIDI compatible interface connected to the dock connector or virtual MIDI instruments like Roland Sound Canvas for iOS, Universal Piper, or Sonosaurus ThumbJam running on your iPad.

5. Touch the blue "Back-D" bar at the bottom left center with your left thumb to play the second octave "Back-D" selectable on either a press or release.

6. Finally, touch the right half of the chanter with the tips of your right index, middle, ring, and little fingers.

7. Touch the green "Octave" bar on the left side with your left little finger to play the notes one octave higher.

8. Use the "Transmit MIDI Port" switch to choose between "Omni" sending MIDI data to all CoreMIDI apps or "Virtual Port" sending to a named CoreMIDI virtual output port.

9. Touch the red "Stop" bar at the bottom right center with your right thumb to stop the chanter sound for staccato techniques.

10. You may select the MIDI channel, attack velocity and volume for the chanter and drones independently using the sliders at the top of the screen.

11. This app is a Irish/Scottish Bagpipes fingering based MIDI control surface for the iPad that can be used to play your hardware MIDI synthesizer/sampler modules or other MIDI apps.