MIDIFlute - Irish Flute/Whistle CoreMIDI Control S

MIDIFlute is an Irish Flute/Whistle CoreMIDI control surface for the iPad.
The fingerings are based on those used for the 6-hole keyless Irish flute or whistle.

MIDIFlute doesnt 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 IK Multimedia SampleTank® for iOS or Sonosaurus ThumbJam running on your iPad.

Please visit the app support website to see some amazing live demo videos and for the settings you will need to enable in the synth app you are using to have it work with the control surface.

To get started playing, first show the on-screen fingering chart and hole labels by touching the ? icon at the lower right corner of the screen.

Start by touching the top half of the flute starting with the tips of your left index, middle, and ring fingers on holes #6, 5, and 4. The holes light up when touched.

Next touch the bottom half of the flute with the tips of your right index, middle, and ring fingers, on holes #3, 2, and 1.

Using the fingering chart as a guide, play each note of the scale starting from the low-D and working up to C#.

To play the second octave, touch the bar next to the flute with your left little finger while using the same fingerings as the first octave.

Touch the bar at the top of the screen with your left thumb to stop the sound while fingering a note. This can be used for repeated notes in the place of doing a cut or tap.

Finger vibrato may be done with the middle finger of the right hand on many notes. The amount of vibrato is adjustable using the MIDI control sliders.

Touch the MIDI icon at the bottom left corner of the screen to show/hide the MIDI controls. All settings are saved and restored the next time the app is run.

You may select the volume, attack velocity, vibrato depth and MIDI chanel using the sliders.

The entire range may be transposed up or down up to one octaves (zero transpose is "C") in semitone increments using the transpose slider.

All MIDI settings are saved when the app quits and restored the next time it is run.

Touch the ! icon at the top left to quiet any "stuck" notes if they occur.

Heres the settings changes required for two popular synth apps

IK Multimedia SampleTank

- In Settings (touch the gear icon), enable "Background Audio"

Sonosaurus ThumbJam

- In "Prefs", under "MIDI Control", in "MIDI General Options" enable "Use CoreMIDI" and "Active in Background"

Other CoreMIDI compatible synth apps will have similar settings.