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Surface Builder

Name: Surface Builder
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Rating: 4.17 (1 reviews)

Take total command of your iOS music workflow. Design custom AUv3 interfaces with professional knobs, faders, and pads to control your favorite DAWs and hardware with precision.

Key Figures

Downloads

4K+

User Rating

4.2/5

Total Ratings

Publisher

Limelight Software

Master Your Sound with Custom Control Surfaces

Transform your iPad into a professional, personalized MIDI command center. Surface Builder empowers you to design the exact interface you need to control your studio and live performances.

Bespoke Interface Design

Stop settling for generic layouts. Build your own MIDI controller using customizable knobs, faders, and XY pads that match your unique hand size and workflow.

Pro AUv3 Integration

Seamlessly integrate into your iOS ecosystem. Run as a plugin in AUM or Logic Pro, or use standalone with Bluetooth MIDI to control external hardware synths.

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Screenshots

Surface Builder - A custom MIDI control surface interface in Surface Builder featuring an audio waveform display, metallic volume and pan knobs, and playback buttons. — A custom MIDI control surface interface in Surface Builder featuring an audio waveform display, metallic volume and pan knobs, and playback buttons.

Surface Builder - Configuration menu for adding user chords and setting MIDI properties in the Surface Builder app — Configuration menu for adding user chords and setting MIDI properties in the Surface Builder app

Surface Builder - A custom MIDI control surface in Surface Builder featuring a grid of colorful drum pads for music production. — A custom MIDI control surface in Surface Builder featuring a grid of colorful drum pads for music production.

Surface Builder - Surface Builder app interface featuring a virtual piano keyboard and a MIDI monitor window with technical data. — Surface Builder app interface featuring a virtual piano keyboard and a MIDI monitor window with technical data.

Surface Builder - Custom MIDI controller interface with scene selection buttons and XY-pad controls for volume and pan — Custom MIDI controller interface with scene selection buttons and XY-pad controls for volume and pan

Description

Surface Builder is a tool for creating control surfaces that send MIDI data to one or more audio components in order to simplify remote control tasks. You start by creating a surface of a given size, adding buttons, knobs, faders, etc. to the surface and configuring them to generate the required MIDI output. Surface Builder allows you to send note on/off, controller change and program change values as well as being able to emulate modulation wheel and pitch bend data. Buttons can also be configured to send bulk MIDI data using a single key press. You can build surfaces that span multiple scenes and link between them for large complex interfaces. Incoming MIDI data can also be used to control or trigger elements of the interface, giving a bi-directional stream of MIDI data. Surface Builder can be added as a pure MIDI plugin which allows processing of MIDI only, or as an instrument plugin, allowing you to process audio passing through it. You can even load it as an intrument and configure a surface to start and stop audio clips either manually or remotely. Surface Builder was designed to be used as an AUv3 plugin within your favourite DAW, but it can also be used in standalone to send MIDI directly to MIDI hardware using direct access to their MIDI ports. Many different object types are supported including buttons, switches, lights, rotary knobs, faders, sliders, XY-Pad, keyboards, as well as text, image and box objects. Each object has many different styles and colours, so no two surfaces look the same. Drag and drop an audio file onto a button and that button becomes a clip player. Attach rotary knobs to control the clips volume and pan. Throw on top of that a LP/HP filter knob and you are cooking on gas. Drop PNG transparent image icons on buttons to customise the look and feel. A button can record and playback bulk MIDI commands, on both button press and release. So pressing a button could send the notes of a chord when pressed, and appropriate note offs on release. A surface can consist of up to 6 scenes for really complex designs. Buttons and switches can be used to switch scenes and also to show and hide other objects to make better use of screen space. Once your surface is complete switch to presentation mode to hide all the toolbars. Each surface can be saved with compressed audio and images all in a single surface file. Features ○ AUv3 and standalone modes. ○ Bluetooth MIDI support. ○ Drag and Drop interface. ○ Send and Receive Note On/Off. ○ Supports all Control Change parameters. ○ Supports Program Change commands with bank support. ○ Multiple Audio Clip playback. ○ Record and playback bulk midi data. ○ Multi-Scene. ○ Multi-level undo/redo. ○ MIDI Monitor ○ Presentation Mode. ○ iPhone and iPad compatible.