An astonishing and brilliant idea to create a completly any-hardware midi controller is the idea of MOGEES.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbyFxw3-pY
Neverthless the idea is brilliant. The four free software applications that come in ipad and iphone with the mogees microphone (mogees play , mogees pulse , mogees keys , mogees maestro) are also very nice and creative, and can be used as an excellent method to practice musical improvisation and composition.
In the next video, we see how by combining the Mogees keys, with garageband we can improovise and compose music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc0P8KcVFhU
The improvisational composition here utilizes
1) A loop with drums
2) An improvised and recorded loop with bass
3) An improvised and recorded arpeggio loop (of 3 notes and translated in two places) with a melodic instrument
4) An improvised and recorded chord progression loop (here 2 chords only)
5) A finishing improvised and recorded arpeggio of 6 notes.
https://www.mogees.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbyFxw3-pY
The astonishing part of the experience in playng with the Mogees is that the human subconsious is tricked to think that the sounds listened are created by the hiting of simple surounding everyday objects (which of course would be a very nice bautification of our material world).
This is not really the case. The microphone is not filtering the physical sound recorded by the little microphon neither it transforms it . It simply corresponds to it ,arbitrarily and by user preset method ,other stored musical digital sounds or sample musical sounds.
It corresponds natural hitting sounds mainly to digital (mainly hitng ) sound.
herefore because of the nature of natural surrounding objects sound as mainly hitting sound and the corresponding digital sound mainly of drums , percursions or metalophones , or string plucked instruments, the character of this midi controller is closer to percursion instrument or at best plucked string instrument.
It corresponds natural hitting sounds mainly to digital (mainly hitng ) sound.
herefore because of the nature of natural surrounding objects sound as mainly hitting sound and the corresponding digital sound mainly of drums , percursions or metalophones , or string plucked instruments, the character of this midi controller is closer to percursion instrument or at best plucked string instrument.
Neverthless the idea is brilliant. The four free software applications that come in ipad and iphone with the mogees microphone (mogees play , mogees pulse , mogees keys , mogees maestro) are also very nice and creative, and can be used as an excellent method to practice musical improvisation and composition.
In the next video, we see how by combining the Mogees keys, with garageband we can improovise and compose music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc0P8KcVFhU
The improvisational composition here utilizes
1) A loop with drums
2) An improvised and recorded loop with bass
3) An improvised and recorded arpeggio loop (of 3 notes and translated in two places) with a melodic instrument
4) An improvised and recorded chord progression loop (here 2 chords only)
5) A finishing improvised and recorded arpeggio of 6 notes.
https://www.mogees.co.uk/
