Byron Hawkins
Lurker
I've seen several posts about controlling MIDI devices via Android app, and I'm trying to do something similar but I can't seem to find any discussion about it. My goal is to use an Android on-screen piano to generate MIDI controller messages over USB to a computer. This would make it possible for me to play notes on the tablet and have them appear in the Sibelius music notation program running on the computer. Currently I use a digital piano for this purpose--it works like this:
1. I press keys on my digital piano
2. the MIDI messages go through an ordinary MIDI/USB controller to Sibelius (running on the computer)
3. Sibelius notates whatever I played on the piano
When I am traveling, I can’t bring a giant 88-key piano with me—but I can bring my tablet. So I’d like to do this:
1. Run Sibelius on my laptop
2. Connect my tablet to the laptop via ordinary USB data/charging cable
3. Play notes into an on-screen keyboard app on the tablet and have Sibelius notate what I play
This requires Windows to perceive that the tablet is a MIDI controller. Does anyone know of an app that does this? If not, does the Android USB-interface-to-Windows allow such a thing? Thanks for your thoughts.
Byron
1. I press keys on my digital piano
2. the MIDI messages go through an ordinary MIDI/USB controller to Sibelius (running on the computer)
3. Sibelius notates whatever I played on the piano
When I am traveling, I can’t bring a giant 88-key piano with me—but I can bring my tablet. So I’d like to do this:
1. Run Sibelius on my laptop
2. Connect my tablet to the laptop via ordinary USB data/charging cable
3. Play notes into an on-screen keyboard app on the tablet and have Sibelius notate what I play
This requires Windows to perceive that the tablet is a MIDI controller. Does anyone know of an app that does this? If not, does the Android USB-interface-to-Windows allow such a thing? Thanks for your thoughts.
Byron
