4Pockets Surface Builder - Tutorial 1: Getting Started - Preview 1.01
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- 4Pockets Surface Builder - Tutorial 1: Getting Started
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Surface Builder is a tool for creating control surfaces that send MIDI data to one or more audio components in order to simplify remote control tasks. You start by creating a surface of a given size, adding buttons, knobs, faders, etc. to the surface and configuring them to generate the required MIDI output. Surface Builder allows you to send note on/off, controller change and program change values as well as being able to emulate modulation wheel and pitch bend data. Buttons can also be configured to send bulk MIDI data using a single key press. You can build surfaces that span multiple scenes and link between them for large complex interfaces.
Incoming MIDI data can also be used to control or trigger elements of the interface, giving a bi-directional stream of MIDI data.
Surface Builder can be added as a pure MIDI plugin which allows processing of MIDI only, or as an instrument plugin, allowing you to process audio passing through it. You can even load it as an intrument and configure a surface to start and stop audio clips either manuall or remotelv.
Surface Builder was designed to be used as an AUv3 plugin within your favourite DAW, but it can also be used in standalone to send
MIDI directly to MIDI hardware using direct access to their MIDI ports
Many different object types are supported including buttons, switches, lights, rotary knobs, faders, sliders, XY-Pad, keyboards, as well as text, image and box objects. Each object has many different styles and colours, so no two surfaces look the same.
Drag and drop an audio file onto a button and that button becomes a clip player. Attach rotary knobs to control the clips volume and pan. Throw on top of that a LP/HP filter knob and you are cooking on gas. Drop PNG transparent image icons on buttons to customise the look and feel.
A button can record and playback bulk MIDI commands, on both button press and release. So pressing a button could send the notes of a chord when pressed, and appropriate note offs on release.
A surface can consist of up to 6 scenes for really complex designs. Buttons and switches can be used to switch scenes and also to show and hide other objects to make better use of screen space. Once your surface is complete switch to presentation mode to hide all the toolbars. Each surface can be saved with compressed audio and images all in a single surface file.
Features
O AUv3 and standalone modes.
O Bluetooth MIDI support.
O Drag and Drop interface
O Send and Receive Note On/Off.
O Supports all Control Change parameters
O Supports Program Change commands with bank support.
O Multiple Audio Clip playback
O Record and playback bulk midi data.
O Multi-Scene.
O Multi-level undo/redo.
O MIDI Monitor
O Presentation Mode.
O iPhone and iPad compatible
This video contains the following product demonstration:
- Intro to the standalone version and AUv3
- Use as Audio Instrument and as Midi Processor
- How to load and create surfaces
- How to save and clear surfaces
- How to move from edit to presentation mode
- How to select the scene window and move between scenes
- How to open the midi monitor window and the stack images window
- How to change settings of the app and settings for editing
- How to create a button to control play of audio clips
- How to create a switch to pause the audio clip playing
- How to link Surface Builder to other AUv3 inside AUM
- How to create a keyboard object and use it to play a piano app
- How to create a chord strip object
- Demo using LogicPro for iPad
- Etc.
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I love 4Pockets apps. Paul once again shows his genius skills. Thank you very much for this tutorial.
Paul the genius…
First baby, woooohoooo! Lol. I’d love to win a copy of this app! This is exciting.
Oh yes, it is superb… so useful…
Very nice to see how this can be customized!
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Wow! Looks like a great utility to any of the iOS DAWS! Thanks for the demo!🤙🏼
You are welcome
I think I'd use this app a lot. Thanks for the demo!
You are welcome
Brilliant introduction, thanks Leo. Going to be especially interesting when people start sharing their custom surfaces.
True
Woooow! This is EXACTLY What I need! Pleaaase choose me, Leo! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Good luck
This is just like what NuRack is, if I’m right but in midi form. 4pockets should do a drum sequencer or make DigiStix into midi. We do have our lives ahead of us so by that time 4pockets will have everything you could think of
Always opportunities
This looks epic. As a guitarist using an iPad live, this is a dream come true. And actually something I contacted Paul about, thank you for listening ❤ This will be a gamecharger for me and drastically lessen the need for any tap dancing to switch FX for songs and sections. Epic!!!
Oh yes and for keyboard players you can integrate it to Layers as well from 4Pockets…
Great demo .. thanks Leo! Looks interesting, for sure ..
Thanks
Others have said it, but gosh, Paul is a clever engineer/designer. Another great addition to the arsenal.
Absolutely
I do not have any 4pocket app, but this one seems super useful!
Oh yes
Oh wow, that wasn't so inspiring until I watched your video, nice app!! (and video of course :))
Thanks
Oh boy, Paul is a real wizard, isn’t he. He’s mastered that (for us normal folks) magical-looking science called programming to perfection and surprises us time after time with a new, unexpected gem.
Indeed
Great and useful video!!!!
Thanks
Another great app from Paul!
Oh yes
looks very cool! great for AUM or Loopy.
Yep
Super Cool! Paul has provided a powerful toolkit for us to build what we need.. Genius..
I’m sure everyone has wished that they had a specific layout of buttons, sliders etc… to help with performing their music.. this will definitely fill that need.. and once we’ve built something, it would be cool to share with others.. it would be extremely handy if surfaces could be shared on patchstorage.. all of a sudden this one app becomes many surfaces.. that’s exciting..
Thanks for the intro tutorial Leo.. I’ll be watching to see what you end up building.. I would absolutely love to win this..
Thanks, good luck
Your description of Paul's apps is as always spot on!
Thanks
Hi Leo … thanks for creating this helpful video. I see all sorts of uses for this app. I think Paul has definitely produced a winner!
Yep
Yeaaaa love your tutorials!
Thanks
Very cool, cheers Leo 🍻
You are welcome
I use my iPad at the centre of my live sets. Adding this to AUM is going to allow many interesting new ways to control hardware and software and open new performance possibilities for me. Looking forward to the rest of the series! 😀
Thanks
very nice demo!!!
Thanks
Parece excelente! Ainda estou estudando seu funcionamento, mas principalmente na formação de acordes parece muito útil.
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Groundbreaking, brilliant conception. thanks in advance…
You are welcome
Brilliant, I love 4Pockets Paul’s apps. This looks amazing 😻
And it is amazing
Awesome. 4P never let you down. Thx Leo
So nice, and works well inside Logic Pro for iPad too…
Looks a lot like the old MIDI Designer app, but with some added functionality.
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Review more 4pockets that work with logic iPad pls this one was super helpful I never knew u could do this
Thanks
Nice tutorial!
Thanks
Paul has a lot of apps. I think he by far has the most done in iOS
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This is what Mididesigner should have done years ago.
Great
amazing app! i
Yes
Great demo. I grabbed this today and already tried a few things, and these are great examples. I'm very interested to see how a button can record bulk MIDI commands. It would be very helpful to record those from a session instead of having to program in each command on each button. Note: I don't see Chord Strip or Stepper object in my version.
Thanks
I asked Paul about this and he said the chord strip and the stepper object will be in the next version.
Yes they will, I added to the title that this is for V1.01
I bought this immediately after watching your video but the Chord Strip Object and the Stepper Object are missing from the app. Why?
It is coming shortly… next release which is imminent with other features as well… sorry about that…
Thanks, does the app have the ability to set background wallpapers (like NuRack)?
You can do that vis objects…
Cool demo, thanks! Looks very powerful. How do you feel this compares with Loopy Pro as a surface controller?
This gives you more control to the surface and midi for now… Loopy Pro is far ahead at controlling loops and audio clips but it was built for that… I have been pushing for a more advanced midi implementation for Loopy Pro and it is in the roadmap…
@@soundformore Thanks for the info. Nice to hear that midi implementation will get more sophisticated with LP. Actually as expected from Michael.
The real question is the timeline
@@soundformore As far as I know, the midi loop feature is first and more DAW functionality in general. So it could take a year or more until more OSC comes in.
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if i make multiple scenes with stacks of auv instruments, and i toggle between those scenes on a live setup, will it support seamless transitions? instruments wont cut off? thanks
It is based on notes release… from what I can see…
I want this app please.
It is great, superb… another masterpiece from Paul
It says Audioscope in the description but this is only for surface builder correct?
Changed it already, sorry about that
No worries, just wanted to help you out. Cheers.
Thanks