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3QSWiFi - Wireless Uilleann Pipes 3/4 Set MIDI Controller

iOS iPhone

3QSWiFi is a WiFi-based wireless Uilleann Pipes 3/4 Set MIDI Controller for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The app doesn't produce any sound itself, it is designed for controlling hardware or software VST-style MIDI synthesizers via a WiFi connection to a Windows or Mac OS X based computer.

3QSWiFi provides a wireless MIDI control surface modeled on the drones and two regulators (tenor and baritone) found on a 3/4 set of Uilleann pipes. In addition, sets are made in different keys, commonly D, C#, C, B, and sometimes B-Flat, and a piper must have a completely different instrument for each key.

You can use 3QSWiFi to have drones and regulators that sound like any instrument patch available on your software VST or hardware MIDI synthesizer connected to the PC or Mac. Since the drones and regulators messages may be sent on two different MIDI channels, each can play a different patch.

3QSWiFi allows you to easily transpose the entire instrument to any key (+/- 12 semitones) using the "Transpose (semitones)" slider on the settings page.

Using the iPhone/iPod Touch screen mounted on the leg, it is possible to play 3QSWiFi exactly as one would the physical instrument, turning the drones on and off with a switch and picking out the chords with the side of the hand.

Touch the regulator play mode icon just below the drone switch to toggle between regulator auto-chord play and single play modes.

If you are already familiar with 3QuarterSet, this application is played exactly the same way, but the sound will be produced by the hardware or software MIDI sequencer connected to the networked computer, not by the iPhone/iPod Touch.

3QSWiFi requires two pieces of software to do its job. The first is the 3QSWiFi app itself, running on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

The other is a small free open-source DSWiFiMIDI server application that you run on your PC or Mac before launching 3QSWiFi.

The server application receives the MIDI messages from the app via WiFi, and sends them along to either an external MIDI interface or a loopback MIDI driver to talk to software synthesizers running on the same computer.

For the most reliable and lowest latency performance, I highly recommend that the PC or Mac be on a wired Ethernet network. The computer and the wireless gateway that the iPhone or iPod Touch is connected to must be on the same network.

Please visit the 3QSWiFi website at http://www.tradlessons.com/3QSWiFi.html for information on downloading and installing the free DSMIDIWiFi server application for your system.

To get the full benefit from the app, you should be familiar with the use of MIDI control surfaces, hardware and/or software VST synthesizers.

If you have any concern about the compatibility of the app with your own MIDI setup, please try any of the other free WiFi MIDI apps on the store that use DSMIDIWiFi as a WiFi to MIDI bridge before purchasing 3QSWiFi.