Medusa Midi Transformer

An app for all your esoteric MIDI message transformation needs.

You can remap the faders on your favorite control surface, convert pitch bend data to CC and much more. You can halve the range of a fader or transpose a keyboard. Just about any conversion that can be described by adding, multiplying and diving can be set up quickly and easily.

The app is available for free from the Mac App Store here. The free version enables 2 connection and 4 transformations for testing purposes, and an unlock of unlimited connections and transformations is available for $10 (or your local currency equivalent.)

The genesis of this project was my personal need to connect a Behringer xtouch mini to the RME Totalmix interface. This required remapping the knobs from CC to the right pitchbend values the RME software was expecting. I made a quick mockup and decided it was something worth making available to other musicians. I still use this app every single day to control the RME software.

It can also be used to define your control surface in software and not having to worry about booting up a PC to run proprietary application (or go down the endless rabbit hole of assigning knobs via a hardware interface, if that is an option at all!) Plus, if you ever need to replace a control surface, you can just drop in a replacement with the default assignments and be back up and running.

Give it a try.

Video For Music Tool

Easily & quickly create visual cues for music for visual media

Video for Music Tool is an app to aid in the writing or performing of music synchronized to picture. It plays back video and audio synchronized with on-screen elements to visually aid in aligning music and picture.

VfMT generates all of the traditional film-music visual cues, such as timecode overlays, streamers, and punches. It can also generate text, count-down sweepers (useful for indicating points of interest over a longer period of time, such as the first piece of music after a long gap) and provides a clear and concise system of tempo, time signature and beat displays for keeping track of metric changes in a piece of music.

Other features include:

  • Import MIDI files to auto-create a set of streamers & punches based on the tempo changes, meter changes and markers present in the file. (some feature-sets only)

  • Sync playback to MIDI timecode (can be output by any leading DAW)

  • Click track generation (including volume adjustment for primary and secondary beats)

  • Audio routing and basic mixing capabilities (for reference dialogue tracks etc)

  • Comprehensive export options for when your project is finished (some feature-sets only)

  • Customizable presets to import MIDI files to your specifications.

Video for Music Tool is built on standard macOS frameworks and UI components for long-term reliability and stability. It is designed to be simple and intuitive to use even while managing the complexity of large projects and allowing for adjustments of the smallest details.

Video for Music Tool offers a 30 day free trial, and also includes an interactive guided tour to try out some of the app's features live.

There are two subscription options offered:

  • Basic features: $40/6-months, mainly intended for use as a video playback app with occasional marker creation

  • All Features: $60/6-months, for managing the most complex and involved wall-to-wall film scores and live performances

If you work with music for streaming media, film, TV, games, live performances, or any circumstance where music needs to be in sync with prerecording media, you will surely find a use for Video for Music Tool.

Try it now by downloading from the Mac App Store

A short demo video covering a few of the features of MfVT

 Background MIDI Recorder

An always-running background MIDI recorder to capture your musical ideas, whether or not your DAW is recording.

Background MIDI Recorder is a simple, no-frills app: whenever you play MIDI, it records the midi and saves it to a folder. Each MIDI device is recorded to a separate track in the file.

Never again lose your most fleeting or delicate of musical ideas.

Set up the app in less than a minute with the simple and straightforward interface, and always have a recording of all your most impromptu MIDI Performances!

Try it now on the macOS app store