Hard to Access
Could you make the next update more accessible to screen readers like VoiceOver?
Flawed
I would love to buy a ‘hardware’ Mellotron, but despite their seemingly quite modest specs and abilities, the digital versions are *way* out of my league, price-wise. Thought I’d try this just to access some classic sounds, in any case, and attempt some simple monophonic lines for a couple of songs.
Some lovely sounds are included, anyway - but getting them cleanly off my iPhone (no headphone jack…) meant buying a Bluetooth speaker with an ‘Aux’ out (fiddly, expensive). The Mellotron app, however, proved almost impossible to play on a phone, however… unless you were content with single-note drones. You *can* ‘concertina’ the graphic keyboard to around an octave-and-a-half (but why no documentation describing this feature..? It took me weeks to work it out…), though it’s still hell to ‘play’. Trying to access the sounds via Midi (using Audiobus and Sidecar) did work - eventually - but introduced a loud ‘click’ on the attack to each note rendering the sounds unusable (there was already a marked ‘lag’, even using the screen interface to trigger sounds…).
In all, I spent many hours (and over £100, in ‘support’ apps and additional bits of hardware) just trying to record a ‘real’ Mellotron tune on to a song… before giving up and just recording an actual flute part instead. So much for convenience.
So… the sounds are in there, but you’ll never find any serious application for them, sadly… and unless you’re thoroughly minted, you’ll never be able to be able to afford the (presumably far superior..?) hardware equivalent. Such a shame, and such a wasted opportunity. I love Mellotrons… but this could easily make me go off them…
Some lovely sounds are included, anyway - but getting them cleanly off my iPhone (no headphone jack…) meant buying a Bluetooth speaker with an ‘Aux’ out (fiddly, expensive). The Mellotron app, however, proved almost impossible to play on a phone, however… unless you were content with single-note drones. You *can* ‘concertina’ the graphic keyboard to around an octave-and-a-half (but why no documentation describing this feature..? It took me weeks to work it out…), though it’s still hell to ‘play’. Trying to access the sounds via Midi (using Audiobus and Sidecar) did work - eventually - but introduced a loud ‘click’ on the attack to each note rendering the sounds unusable (there was already a marked ‘lag’, even using the screen interface to trigger sounds…).
In all, I spent many hours (and over £100, in ‘support’ apps and additional bits of hardware) just trying to record a ‘real’ Mellotron tune on to a song… before giving up and just recording an actual flute part instead. So much for convenience.
So… the sounds are in there, but you’ll never find any serious application for them, sadly… and unless you’re thoroughly minted, you’ll never be able to be able to afford the (presumably far superior..?) hardware equivalent. Such a shame, and such a wasted opportunity. I love Mellotrons… but this could easily make me go off them…
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Beautiful sounds, currently weird MIDI behavior
I love the sounds this app has to offer. I’ve tried controlling it with MIDI for the first time, though, and every note has an unpleasant click when I press and release a key. I’m not sure what’s causing this. MIDI is coming from an Elektron Digitakt, and the only workaround I’m finding is lowering the trigger velocity almost to zero. This is not ideal as the notes play back very quietly, and the clicks still occasionally appear.
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Need to control volume via MIDI CC!
Love this app and integrated with my midi keyboard but I want to map the volume knob to an expression pedal. It’s of that pitch knob is mapped to the right place automatically but not volume. It’s neither mapped to midi cc 7 or cc11. It seems the volume isn’t mapped and can’t be mapped to any midi cc. Adding this feature would allow me to use this…
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Midi isn’t working.
Midi isn’t working, shows up in Audiobus and AUM but doesn’t trigger. The update history says midi support was added. I feel misled. Sounds are beautiful though, shame it appears the only way I can use them is to manually sample them. Can’t even use software to due that without midi working.
