MIDI Tapper Beta 50 - new microtonal features

September 14, 2015

Those of you who have been wondering if MIDI Tapper has any microtonal support now have an answer in the affirmative. Along with many bugs fixed and several other features added, Beta 50 sports a new synthesizer output options window which includes support for microtonal output, and importing six different types of tuning files. You can now select the patch, volume, and panning of each output MIDI channel. Since Mac has a nice built-in soundfont synthesizer (the Apple DLS Synth) this means you can now orchestrate the output without having to use an external application. I'm now using this for organ music that I have written, and it works very well. The image below shows three output channels assigned to three different timbres (MIDI patches) with a little differentiation in volume. A tuning is not assigned, but you can see the interface below the channels list which maintains a library of imported tunings, available to all your projects. All this data is of course now saved with your project, so when you open a project to work on it, you can immediately have the orchestrated output you want for that particular piece of music.

The full list of update details are as follows.

• Beta Test Cycle 50 (ends October 15, 2015)
• fixed viewport height sometimes calculated incorrectly
• fixed Note OFF / Note ON at the same time issue
• fixed hanging notes when clicking and selecting notes
• fixed Unset Tap sometimes not working
• fixed crash when editing a note and dragging it horizontally
• added marker numbers to the overview
• added separate view options for measure numbers and barlines
• added Command-G for "group with next tap" and Shift-Command-G for "group with previous tap"
• added right-click editing control of Skip parameter for notes
• added support for multiple monitors
• added a "replace MIDI file" option Command-R
• added synth window for MIDI output control (MIDI menu option, MIDI icon)
  • select patches, volume, and panning for 16 MIDI output channels
  • microtonal output mode (GM microtuning, 15 part monotimbral)
  • import .scl, .tun, .csv, .hz, .msf, .mtx, and .tonex tuning files
  • load soundfonts (Mac only)

Here is a screenshot of the marker numbers now shown in the overview area as well as the main view.

If you already have a beta license, this new version is a free download from the MIDI Tapper software page. If you would like to join the testing team, just purchase a beta license (it's only $2.99).

Regards,
Aaron