So tune up, set your mic level, pick a great synthesizer, turn up the volume and get ready to play!
Creative
Advances in ToneTap
- Play flute, saxophone, clarinet, or recorder.
- Voice a chord, then trigger it from any note, to any
channel.
- Hold a note, interval, or chord and play over it on
another channel.
- Assign your own bank/program settings by channel.
- Get clean, accurate tracking and articulation control.
- Stretch out over an 8 octave range.
- Play parallel harmonies in a second voice.
- Double your live playing to a second MIDI channel.
- Play walking harmonies as you improvise.
- Make creative use of MIDI sustain / release.
- Send program changes as you perform.
- Dynamically set synthesis knobs with MIDI Control Change.
- Tune up with an ensemble to ensure in-tune playing.
ToneTap (formerly known as
Thing-1) runs on Mac OS X 10.5 and later. With an
inexpensive add-on you can have right-thumb wireless
control over most of these features through the buttons you
see above.