Setup

Right now they are tested on an iPhone5s connecting to Reason 8.3 on Mac OS X Yesmite (10.10)

Feel free to change, ask questions, send pull requests.

MIT-License

A comprehensive setup guide is following later. For now here is a short list of how to get started

Connect iOS to your host

  • Connect your iDevice to your Mac or PC to be able to receive MIDI messages
    • On my MAC I’m using MIDI over Bluetooth or MIDI over USB (low latency enough for me right now) with midiLE for Mac and iOS

USB

  • Start midiLE on your MAC (right click and open for the first time)
  • Put it to the App folder
  • Start midiLE (midimittr) on your iPhone

Bluetooth

  • iOS with midimittr
    • Click the menu icon
    • Advertisement
    • Enter a name for your Device
    • Advertise MIDI Service
  • MacOS
  • Open Audio MIDI Setup
  • Double Click the Bluetooth Icon
  • Wait for your Device name to appear in the list
  • hit the connect button when available
  • Open midiLE On iOS
    • Open the Menu
    • Go to Routing and click the sources and the destinations, so that the messages are routed properly
    • Now the midiLE icon on your Mac should flash and show you a new connection

Lemur

  • iOS
    • Start Lemur on the iDevice
    • Hit the settings button
    • Scroll down to MIDI Targets
    • Touch Add Target or use the existing one
      • The _From_ is left blank
      • Touch the _To_ field and select the destination
        • For USB it is: _YourPhoneName_ midiLE USB destination
    • Add a target for every connection type (USB and Bluetooth) when using them both
  • MacOS
    • Double click the lemur template
    • Lemur opens
    • Click the _Play_ button
      • A connection window pops up
      • if Lemur runs on your phone and is connected to the same Wi-Fi iy will be listed here
      • Select it and hit _Connect_ if you wanna upload the template.
        • Be cautious here. It will replace whatever you have on your phone and is unsaved
      • Or click download first, to download the template from your phone to the Lemur on your MAC

Remote Codec

Download the remote codec from https://github.com/schuster-rainer/refigur8tor/releases/

Extract the file and change into the directory. Execute ./macos-setup-reason-remote-code This will copy the files under ./Reason/Remote to ~/Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/Remote/

Reason

For Reason you have to go into the preferences (cmd+,)

  • Click Control Surfaces
  • Click Add
  • For Manufacturer select Lemur
  • For model choose refigur8tor
  • For name put in
    • Lemur refigur8tor midiLE USB
    • as we are using USB and the Surface driver here (or choose another Name, when using Bluetooth or something else. Just to distinguish your controller setup).
  • For MIDI input
    • Click MIDI Input and select midiLE USB Source or your bluetooth connection
    • Alternatively click _Find_ and hit a knob, multiball or button to generate a midi message. Reason will receive it and select the INPUT based on this