MIDI Controllers are hardware and software systems designed to generates and transmits MIDI data to MIDI-enabled devices. The most common types of MIDI Controllers are music keyboards, MIDI control surfaces and DJ control surfaces.
Here are the most recent posts at Synthtopia about MIDI Controllers.
Instruments of Things has introduced IO-Lights, a MIDI controller that lets you control MIDI CC or MIDI Note signals with light.… Read More Instruments of Things Intros IO-Lights Light-Sensitive MIDI Controller
Pirate MIDI has launched a Kickstarter project to fund production of the Bridge6, a new MIDI foot controller that they say is designed to be ‘extremely powerful, full of features that don’t exist in other controllers, and extremely easy to configure.’… Read More Bridge6 MIDI Foot Controller Designed To Be Powerful & Easy To Use
Arturia co-founder and CEO Frédéric Brun shared an official response to Behringer’s Keystep knockoff. … Read More Arturia Responds To Behringer’s Keystep Knockoff – “Seriously?”
Polyhedra has introduced FormKey, a new App that turns your iOS device into an isomorphic MIDI controller.… Read More New App Turns Your iPad, iPhone Into An Isomorphic MIDI Keyboard
Behringer says that the Swing will retail for about $99, about $30 less than the street price for the Arturia Keystep.… Read More Behringer Intros Swing MIDI Controller, An Arturia Keystep ‘Knockoff’
Novation has announced that, with the introduction of Apple’s Logic Pro 10.6, the Launchpad Pro [MK3] is now ‘the most closely integrated grid controller for Logic Pro’.… Read More Logic Pro Live Loops & Launchpad Pro [MK3]
OpenDeck is a modular firmware, running on various development boards, that can be used to create complete MIDI controllers.… Read More OpenDeck v5 Lets You Create Custom Hardware MIDI Controllers
MP Midi is a combination of a hardware controller and software that runs in your DAW as a plugin. The combination let you control each of your plugins like a hardware unit.… Read More MP MIDI Controller Brings Hardware Control To Your Music Software
“The Joyst is a total rethink of what a MIDI controller can be,” they say. “Every note gets its own analogue joystick for expressive control of pitch-bending and after-touching.”… Read More Joystick MPE MIDI Controller Lets You Explore ‘The Joy Of Hex’
MPE is a method of using MIDI which lets you use multidimensional controllers to control multiple parameters of every note within MPE-compatible software.… Read More An Introduction To MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE)
