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Midi Poly Grid

Name: Midi Poly Grid
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Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

The powerful, open-source MIDI controller designed for producers who prefer grids to pianos. Master finger drumming and expressive melodies with polyphonic aftertouch, customizable layouts, and seamless DAW connectivity.

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Downloads

2K+

User Rating

5.0/5

Total Ratings

Publisher

Andreas Mueller

Professional Grid Control in Your Pocket

Transform your mobile device into a high-performance MIDI controller. Engineered for the modern producer who values expressive pads, open-source flexibility, and a distraction-free workflow.

Next-Gen MPE Expressivity

Unlock professional-grade performance with MPE and Polyphonic Aftertouch. Slide, bend, and modulate every note individually to add human emotion to your digital synths.

Optimized Finger Drumming Grids

Ditch the piano roll for customizable layouts inspired by the Ableton Push. Use built-in XpressPads support and harmonic intervals to master your rhythm and melody.

The following screenshots and description are sourced directly from the app's official store listing and are the property of the app developer.

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Screenshots

Midi Poly Grid - Midi Poly Grid app intro screen featuring a cartoon dog mascot and colorful title text — Midi Poly Grid app intro screen featuring a cartoon dog mascot and colorful title text

Midi Poly Grid - User interface of Midi Poly Grid showing a customizable 4x4 pad grid and layout configuration settings — User interface of Midi Poly Grid showing a customizable 4x4 pad grid and layout configuration settings

Midi Poly Grid - Midi Poly Grid app interface showing pad configuration settings and a colorful note grid — Midi Poly Grid app interface showing pad configuration settings and a colorful note grid

Midi Poly Grid - Advanced settings screen in the Midi Poly Grid app showing MPE modulation and pitch bend configuration sliders. — Advanced settings screen in the Midi Poly Grid app showing MPE modulation and pitch bend configuration sliders.

Midi Poly Grid - Midi Poly Grid app interface showing customizable pad grid and musical scale settings — Midi Poly Grid app interface showing customizable pad grid and musical scale settings

Midi Poly Grid - Midi Poly Grid app interface showing a colorful pad layout with active MPE modulation visual feedback. — Midi Poly Grid app interface showing a colorful pad layout with active MPE modulation visual feedback.

Midi Poly Grid - Midi Poly Grid app interface showing a colorful 3x3 grid of MIDI pads with a pitch slider and sustain control. — Midi Poly Grid app interface showing a colorful 3x3 grid of MIDI pads with a pitch slider and sustain control.

Midi Poly Grid - Midi Poly Grid interface featuring a colorful pad layout with visual feedback for MPE modulation — Midi Poly Grid interface featuring a colorful pad layout with visual feedback for MPE modulation

Description

# Midi Poly Grid This App is Open Source. Access the code here: https://github.com/anzbert/beat_pads ## Important Disclaimer This App is **ONLY** usable as a Midi Controller. It does **NOT** produce any sound on its own and requires a host application or a second device with a DAW or other sound production app. ## Information Midi Poly Grid is a lightweight Midi Controller app for mobile phones and tablets for melodies and finger drumming at home and on the go. Connections can be made virtually to other apps via platform midi channels, or via USB or Bluetooth Midi to other devices. This app aims to be an easy-to-use pad input device featuring a variety of layouts, intuitive playability and modern modulation options, such as MPE and Polyphonic Aftertouch. It was designed for people that prefer pads to pianos! The focus of this app is not to be a jack-of-all-trades Midi swiss army knife, but instead to be a great at one thing: Intuitive and versatile pad controls. ## Features - A size-adjustable grid of pads for finger drumming and melody input - Various layouts and colors, inspired by the Ableton Push - Presets can be saved with different pad setups - Innovative MPE and polyphonic Aftertouch modulation with graphical feedback - Push Style MPE pitchbend and slide - Send Velocity by Y position on pad, randomly or with a fixed value - Usable as a standard MIDI device with any PC, Mac or other USB or Bluetooth device - Optional controls, such as Pitch Bend, Mod Wheel and Sustain - Highligh a large number of musical scales - Receives Midi Notes, making the pads usable like a Launchpad - Custom grid creation based on the note intervals on the X and Y Axis to create Grids inspired by the Harmonic Table, Wicki Hayden, MidiMech and others - Supports virtual Midi connection to other apps on your device - Built-In support for the popular finger drumming courses from XpressPads.com - And more... ## Feedback and Contributions Anyone is most welcome to contribute, report an issue or start a discussion in the Github repository. Thanks! ## Licence Licenced under GPL3. The code in this project is freely usable in any other open source project. Enjoy! ## iOS Specific Information Can be used with any Mac via USB, Bluetooth Midi or WiFi. Usage with PC is limited to WiFi with free third-party software (rtpMidi), and USB with third-party USB midi connectors, due to Apple's limited implementation of USB Midi on iOS. AUv3 is unfortunately not supported at this time, as it is currently impossible with Flutter. More info about that here: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/16092