MIDI FX vs ShowMIDI Usage & Stats
Buy once and get the iOS and Mac apps (with Family Sharing)
Control your MIDI signals and process them in any combination of ways: Harmonize, Transpose, Arpeggiate, etc... Or use the Sequencer to play any external or virtual synth. Use a MIDI interface to unlock the power of the app to control multiple synths with one keyboard, play one note and generate chords, basslines, etc... Use the delay/looper or filter notes based on velocity or other parameters to send to different synths/effects.
A MIDI workstation in your pocket (or your iPad/Mac)
You can also use some internal instruments (drums sampler, piano or synth) if you are away from your MIDI gear, and sequence whole songs inside the app, or use other synth apps as input/output for MIDI FX. Your imagination is the limit!
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Music
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ShowMIDI is an open-source multi-platform GUI application to effortlessly visualize MIDI activity.
Instead of wading through logs of MIDI messages to correlate relevant ones and identify what is happening, ShowMIDI visualizes the current activity and auto-hides what you don't care about anymore. It provides you with a real-time glanceable view of all MIDI activity on your computer.
ShowMIDI is designed to be always on, using the spacebar or play/pause button you can pause the flow and focus on a data snapshot with the latest state of any MIDI entity.
ShowMIDI can be ran as a standalone application that automatically detects all your MIDI devices, or as an AUv3 plugin in your DAW or host to visualize MIDI data in your sessions.
ShowMIDI visualizes:
* MIDI ports
* channels
* program change
* note on/off
* channel pressure
* polyphonic pressure
* continuous control change
* pitchbend
* RPN and NRPN
* MPE configuration and channel modes
ShowMIDI supports:
* themes
* standalone operation
* AUv3 operation
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- Free
- Music
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MIDI FX VS. 
ShowMIDIJanuary 11, 2025