So useful: Strips iPad Midi CC Controller by Michal Macura / sqsl / Seqsual: Not AUv3, but🔥

This is a walkthrough of Strips by sqsl / seqsual / Michal Macura. Links and info are down below, I’d advise reading the info and watching the video before buying to make sure this is the droid you’re looking for. I love it and it will come in so handy for me. Strips is marketed as an iPad controller for VCV Rack, but it can be used to send midi CC messages to anything that accepts them. Here I’m using it to control various AUv3 apps loaded inside the host app AUM on my iPad. Strips itself, sadly, is not AUv3, but still extremely useful. AUM doesn’t have its own automation system, and this is a very elegant and well-designed tool for automating anything that can receive CC messages. As long as your apps or hardware are able to receive midi messages from an iPad, this might be useful for you. You can dial in changes by hand or you can very easily record slider movements and play them back, with handy rate sliders that can be used to adjust the playback speed for each slider. IT also has a beautiful feature that allows you to morph between presets. Overall, a beautifully conceived and executed app. Setup in AUM and the UI controls are explained in detail in this video.

I forgot to mention one important thing. It seems that by default, the ‘Keep Setup’ button is on. If this is on, when you switch presets, the labeling, CC numbers and channel numbers from your current session will apply to the session you are switching to. This is not the behaviour I want usually, and caused a lot of confusion for me initially, so I always try to remember to toggle this off! There is one control in the Strips UI that I didn’t explain: ‘Force Send’. I’m not sure what this does. Still waiting for a reply from the developer on that. If you know, please drop a comment explaining its function. Thanks.

Check out this playlist for more videos I have made on apps by this developer:

   • sqsl / Michal Macura app vids  

Another thing—a shout out from the dev to a person who contributed many of the ideas that shaped this app:

“The Strips story is that I was working on Tactile and mentioned it is for VCV in prototype video and then Felix / Higaru (https://makunouchibento.bandcamp.com/) reached out and pretty much dictated a list of features of what he would find useful in CC controller app for his performances. So "idea credits" go to him for that.

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Appstore Description:

sqsl Strips is a MIDI CC controller app designed to work with VCV Rack. It features 48 MIDI CC control touch-strips. Each strip has a user-definable CC number, name, and MIDI channel. Each strip has its own simple gesture recorder, random-walk mode, and rate control that affects gesture playback and random-walk speed. There are 8x40 preset positions and an option to load presets progressively (manual crossfade to new values).
sasl Strips is a standalone application designed for iPad. It does not work in the background, nor does it produce any sound.