![]() As does editing via a screen or via tactile interfaces. Creating a track in Ableton, Bitwig or via Cubasis on iOS all leads you down different creative paths. But I’m a huge believer in switching modalities as part of the creative process. In truth I can work just as quickly via the computer directly as I’ve been using both trackballs and stylus’s to control my desktop for many years and I can work as quickly as one might with a touch screen. Crossfire enable you to quickly scan through the bars and you can enter velocity via one of the scroll wheels as you go. I tend to write percussion parts with a minimum of two bars, on average four bars and sometimes longer. I like that it allows me to take my eyes of the screen and lay down the basis of a groove quickly and easily. I strictly use it for it’s core purpose of adding drum hits quickly. But on the plus side they’ll be a ace learning journey even if you don’t get things working exactly as you’d like. But to get the breadth of the CrossFire workflow working would still require a lot of work.Īll of those options will require a pretty deep knowledge of MIDI and SysEx. ![]() If you’re an Ableton Live user you could make use of the nativeKontrol toolkit that’s provided with CrossFire to create something bespoke and midi out from Ableton to your iOS device via a laptop. I reckon to do something similar on iOS that maybe Mozaic won’t be enough, maybe exploring Midi Fire/Streambyter would get you closer, but that would require some deep scripting. Luckily a provider of control scripts for Ableton (nativeKontrol) did all the heavy lifting of mapping everything to work with Ableton Live as it’s no easy task to attempt it yourself. But I did purchase an Akai Fire as it’s wonderful to have a midi controller laid out X0X style as a drum programmer. ![]() ![]() I’m not an FL user although I adore Sytrus their FM synth (which I have as an individual plugin).
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