Nebojsa Petrovic has introduced Ribn, a MIDI controller for iOS that offers 8 MIDI ribbon controllers.
What makes Ribn unique is its ability to record and loop your finger movement. This allows you to add organic repeating modulation to your synths and effects, kind of like complex LFOs. You can assign a unique MIDI channel and CC# to each ribbon.
As long as your gear responds to MIDI CC messages you will be able to control it with Ribn.
Features:
- 8 MIDI CC ribbon pads
- Add modulation to your MIDI hardware synths, effects, eurorack modulars, drum machines, etc.
- Configurable MIDI channel and CC# per ribbon
- Ribbons record and loop your finger movement
- Looping can be turned off to enable standard ribbon sliders
- Choose 2, 4 or 8 ribbons
- Use a wired MIDI interface, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi
- All settings are saved automatically
- Works on iPhone (including iPhone X) and iPad
Pricing and Availability
Ribn is available now for US $.99.
Bought this and used it with my SE-02. Pretty cool.
This is really cool. I would like to see an option to have user defined text on each ribbon, so that the parameters could be labelled. (Filter, growl, etc)
That seems like a must-have feature. Two days from now, I’m not going to remember which ribbon represents resonance.
Yeah labels are important.
This requires iOS 11, so I cannot use older/cheaper iPod or iPhone :-/
There’s a lot of MIDi controller apps with sliders, X-Y-pads etc. requiring older iOS versions. Even MIDI Designer Pro2 is still on iOS 9 !
Great idea. Note that it’s iOS 11 only which is, to me, a bit of a shame. Perfect sort of app for older phones/tablets. But for $0.99, no complaints here—whatever works for the dev.
> All settings are saved automatically
Does that mean the current state of the app is saved only or can you save different CC setups for different targets?
+1 for text labels mentioned above (presuming you can save setups).
yep, add the custom labels….
:-/
or I could just use Lemur, hmmm. Forgot I had it.
Looks awesome. I’d gladly pay 5$-10$ for it if I didn’t have to “upgrade” to IOS 11 (crippling my older but perfectly usable phones/tablets). Props to the dev. Solid idea and implementation. Agree with the need for labels, though.
LINK sync would also be nice. And preset pages. I would pay 10$ for it