Mobile MIDI

Turn your iPhone or iPad into a wireless MIDI controller. Almost any sensor in your phone can be a knob.

Touch:

• Drum pads, keyboard, XY, faders, build-your-own layouts

Motion:

• Accelerometer + gyro (6 axes)

• Gravity, attitude (pitch/roll/yaw), user acceleration

• Compass heading, magnetic field

• Barometric pressure

• Step cadence, shake triggers

Device & environment:

• Battery level, charging state, thermal state

• Screen brightness

• Microphone loudness (analyzed on-device, never recorded)

Tracking:

• ARKit face blendshapes — 52 expressions

• Hand gestures via Vision

• AirPods head tracking — nod, tilt, turn

Output: Bluetooth LE, USB, or Wi-Fi (Network MIDI) to any DAW. Save and share presets.

Built for musicians, producers, and experimentalists. No extra hardware. No subscription. Pay once.

TOUCH

• 16-pad drum grid with MPE polyphonic pressure

• Keyboard with configurable range and octave, MPE-capable

• XY pad for two-dimensional continuous control

• 8-fader CC bank

• Custom layout designer — drag-and-drop your own surfaces

MOVE

• 6-axis device motion — accelerometer and gyro

• Tilt, shake, gravity (X, Y, Z)

• Compass heading

• Barometric pressure

• Per-axis smoothing, deadzone, and scaling

EXPRESS

• ARKit face tracking — 52 facial blendshapes as continuous CCs

• Hand tracking — gesture-based control via the front camera

• AirPods head tracking — hands-free expression for live performance

SENSE

• Battery level and charging state

• Screen brightness

• Thermal state

• Any system signal can drive MIDI

MUSICAL TOOLKIT

• 27 scales, 31 chords

• Chord, strum, trigger, and toggle modes

• Intelligent note-off handling — no stuck notes

• MPE channel allocation with LRU across channels 2–16

PRESETS

• Save, load, import, export

• Five built-in templates to get started fast

• Share presets with other Mobile MIDI users

CONNECTIVITY

• Bluetooth MIDI (BLE)

• USB MIDI (via adapter)

• Wi-Fi / Network MIDI

• Auto-reconnect and device picker

DESIGNED FOR PERFORMANCE

• Low-latency native audio path

• Wakelock keeps the screen on during gigs

• MIDI activity indicator

• Clean, minimalist interface built for low-light stages

Every control source is mappable to any CC, note, or pitch bend, on any channel. Build the controller you actually want.

One-time purchase. No accounts. No telemetry. No subscriptions.

Made by Pounding Systems.