Zoot Link vs Midiary

Zoot Link is the companion app for Zoot™, the simple electronic wind instrument that unleashes your inner virtuoso. The app includes several high-quality built-in virtual instruments: (1) Zoot Clarinet, a physically modeled clarinet with a wide pitch range; (2) Zoot Brass, a wavetable-based spectral-interpolation synthesizer covering eight brass instruments; and (3) a Sine synth with adjustable skew that can morph toward a richer, sawtooth-like tone — great for theremin-like sounds combined with Zoot Link’s pitch-bend features. The app also accepts MIDI input from other controllers. Zoot is highly expressive yet easy to play. Whether you are playing one of the built-in synths or other virtual instruments like saxophone or violin via the app’s MIDI output, Zoot responds to the subtleties of breath and articulation for the control of dynamics and timbre, to finger positions for selecting the pitch, to motion gestures for vibrato and other effects, and to finger proximity for pitch bends. The essential range of Zoot Clarinet, where the timbre is most realistic, is from C3 to A#6. However, the instrument will respond from C1 (3 octaves below Middle C) to C8 (4 octaves above Middle C). The clarinet works best when paired with the Zoot hardware, which connects to your iPhone, iPad, or MacBook via Bluetooth, but you can also play it using any MIDI controller that produces a continuous breath value. Zoot Brass adds eight more instruments — Piccolo Trumpet, Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn, French Horn, Trombone, Bass Trombone, and Tuba — with breath control shaping dynamics and timbre just as it does for the clarinet, plus a Wander control that adds subtle, human-like variation for a more natural sound. Since Zoot uses standard recorder fingering by default, recorder players can simply pick up the instrument and play. If you’re new to wind instruments, try Zoot’s easy-to-learn simplified fingering system. Or choose whatever fingering system you’re already familiar with — you can even invent your own. Zoot is for everyone who wants to have fun expressing themselves musically! App Features: * Compatible with iPhones and iPads * Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connectivity for Zoot sensor data * Zoot Clarinet, a high quality physically modeled clarinet with wide pitch range * Zoot Brass, a wavetable-based spectral-interpolation synthesizer for eight instruments * Sine wave synthesizer with adjustable skew * Selectable fingering system, including standard recorder * Touch display to show finger positions * Motion gestures for vibrato, tremolo, octave control, and more * Finger-controlled pitch bends * Multiple options for easily setting base pitch and transposition of instrument * Chord strummer using motion gestures only * Named presets for saving and restoring all app controls * MIDI output to control other virtual wind instruments * MIDI input to play Zoot Link’s built-in synths using a different controller * Built-in fingering reference * Live graphs of breath pressure and pitch bend * Sip (suction) sensor for triggering user-defined actions * Proximity and Tilt modes for theremin-like effects * Graphical breath mapping curve for customized control For much more information, including video demos and user guides, please go to https://www.playzoot.com/.

NEW IN 5.0 — PLAY, PRACTISE AND CONVERT - Instrument voices: every part plays with a voice chosen by its General MIDI program family (piano, organ, guitar, bass, strings, brass, winds, synths) and channel 10 plays a drum kit. The voices are Midiary's own sounds; they sketch the arrangement rather than reproduce a General MIDI sound set. - Practice & mix: mute or solo any part, change speed from 25% to 200% without changing pitch, shift the key up or down 12 semitones for singers, and loop any range of bars. - Play to MIDI gear: send the file to a USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard, module or interface, with its own program changes. SysEx is sent only if you turn it on. - Key and chords: an estimated key and a chord for every bar, with a shareable chord chart. Tap a bar to play from it. - Lyrics and karaoke: lyric events and .kar files follow playback line by line. - File tools: convert format 1 to format 0 for keyboards, arrangers and player pianos, or split a file into one track per channel for your DAW. Set or scale the tempo, change resolution, set a channel's General MIDI instrument, rename, move or delete tracks. Every change is verified and undoable. - Extract: copy a range of bars and the parts you choose into a new MIDI file, with tempo and sounds set up at its start. - Audio export: render M4A or WAV with the current mix, key and speed — a practice backing track in seconds. - Bars and beats throughout: event list, note list, piano roll grid and a playhead. - Open MIDI files from Files, Mail or other apps, use Shortcuts actions (file info, format conversion, transpose, tempo), and iPad keyboard shortcuts. Midiary is an offline studio for Standard MIDI Files on iPhone and iPad. Your imported original always stays intact. MAKE MUSICAL CORRECTIONS Select tracks and channels, transpose, adjust velocity, or move note starts toward straight and triplet grids with variable strength. Drum protection keeps channel 10 out of batch edits. EDIT THE EXACT NOTE Search by pitch, filter and page through long files. Change a note's pitch, velocity, start and duration. Review the actual changes before saving; ambiguous overlaps and unsafe edits are blocked with an explanation. GROOVE BENCH Extract the timing and velocity feel of a passage and apply it to another part with separate timing and dynamics strengths. Up to 64 templates are kept on the device. KEEP THE ORIGINAL Imported MIDI bytes stay unchanged. Edits save locally with undo and redo that survive closing the app, up to 20 steps within 48 MB. Restore the original as an undoable step. Damaged sessions are preserved for recovery. INSPECT THE FILE Tracks with their instruments, channels and note ranges; tempo map; time and key signatures; markers; structural findings; a channel-coloured piano roll; and an event desk with bar, time and tick. Metrical and SMPTE timing and format 2 sequences are supported. EXPORT YOUR WORK Share the untouched original, the edited MIDI, a cleaned copy with missing End-of-Track events added and hanging notes closed, an event CSV, or rendered audio. Start with your own .mid, .midi or .kar file, or open the bundled piano sample or the band sample with lyrics. Imports support up to 8 MB, 1,024 tracks and 100,000 events. Playback runs in the foreground. No account, subscription, in-app purchase, advertising or tracking. Files and editing sessions stay on your device unless you export or share them. Midiary does not record from the microphone. Bluetooth is used only if you open Bluetooth MIDI pairing.