I cannot get direct touch to work correctly with VoiceOver and if I turn VoiceOver off I have a hard time knowing where I am so am thinking of either a mini controller or if there’s a way to play Virtual Instruments with a Bluetooth keyboard if I was to buy a media controller. How would I know which ones were Accessible? I am in Australia.
There's the Korg Nanokey Studio, or the Korg micro Air, if you want actual keys. Garage Band for Mac has what it calls musical typing, where you can play notes with computer keys, but GB for iOS doesn't include it. There are a few other midi controllers with Bluetooth but I don't remember what they are offhand. The Roland Go Keys probably has it.
The other alternative, if you really want to just use a computer keyboard, would be try yelling at Apple to add musical typing to the iOS version. I honestly don't know why it's not there, there are a bunch of keyboard shortcuts so they clearly expect somebody to use a keyboard with it. I will say that with a computer keyboard in particular, you're going to have to quantize a lot, because you'll get delays between hitting the key and the sound being triggered.
I get it if I try using musical typing with my iClever Bk-10 which is what I'm using on the Mac Mini. It's just inherent in Bluetooth I think, there's just some lag. Plus, if you're at all serious, you'll probably want some sort of actual musical keyboard anyway.
You don't get a ton of velocity control, contrast between loudness and softness based on how hard you hit a key, with a computer keyboard. In fact, I just checked, so let me correct myself, you get none at all. For some instruments that won't be so much of a problem, organ does dynamics either by a volume pedal or by adding more sounds, but piano uses key touch for that kind of thing.
I think I said this elsewhere, but GarageBand on iOS is a little buggy at the moment. It doesn't seem to allow you to adjust values on sliders, such as page values, etc.
Just a heads up on that.
A slight correction on musical typing. As far as I know, you can use V and C to adjust velocity. V increases it and C decreases it. Z and X to shift octaves, and3 through something like 5 or 6 to use the modulation wheel 1 and 2 to pitch bend up or down, and TAB to sustain the note. Not exactly convenient or easy, but it's there.
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The only one I can recomend is Symphoni. I wish Thumb Jam and Garage Band had that.
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Hello Guys!
I installed the simphony app, but I could not play the instruments with the keyboard. What can I do?
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I would love to know the answer to this as well.H
I cannot get direct touch to work correctly with VoiceOver and if I turn VoiceOver off I have a hard time knowing where I am so am thinking of either a mini controller or if there’s a way to play Virtual Instruments with a Bluetooth keyboard if I was to buy a media controller. How would I know which ones were Accessible? I am in Australia.
Any Bluetooth midi controller should work.
There's the Korg Nanokey Studio, or the Korg micro Air, if you want actual keys. Garage Band for Mac has what it calls musical typing, where you can play notes with computer keys, but GB for iOS doesn't include it. There are a few other midi controllers with Bluetooth but I don't remember what they are offhand. The Roland Go Keys probably has it.
The other alternative, if you really want to just use a computer keyboard, would be try yelling at Apple to add musical typing to the iOS version. I honestly don't know why it's not there, there are a bunch of keyboard shortcuts so they clearly expect somebody to use a keyboard with it. I will say that with a computer keyboard in particular, you're going to have to quantize a lot, because you'll get delays between hitting the key and the sound being triggered.
I get it if I try using musical typing with my iClever Bk-10 which is what I'm using on the Mac Mini. It's just inherent in Bluetooth I think, there's just some lag. Plus, if you're at all serious, you'll probably want some sort of actual musical keyboard anyway.
You don't get a ton of velocity control, contrast between loudness and softness based on how hard you hit a key, with a computer keyboard. In fact, I just checked, so let me correct myself, you get none at all. For some instruments that won't be so much of a problem, organ does dynamics either by a volume pedal or by adding more sounds, but piano uses key touch for that kind of thing.
GarageBand on iOS
I think I said this elsewhere, but GarageBand on iOS is a little buggy at the moment. It doesn't seem to allow you to adjust values on sliders, such as page values, etc.
Just a heads up on that.
When did that start?
I'm pretty sure it let me adjust stuff last time I messed with it, maybe about a month ago.
A slight correction on…
A slight correction on musical typing. As far as I know, you can use V and C to adjust velocity. V increases it and C decreases it. Z and X to shift octaves, and3 through something like 5 or 6 to use the modulation wheel 1 and 2 to pitch bend up or down, and TAB to sustain the note. Not exactly convenient or easy, but it's there.
Re: When did that start?
Don't really know when it started, but it is happening for me on version 2.3.17.