Coming Soon: MIDI Integration, ASIO Support, Pedals and more!
Here's an update on what's coming next to Paradiddle. Some of these were slated for a late November release, but as features kept getting added this ended up taking a lot more time overall to manage the new complexity. Hopefully you won't mind hanging in there for a little longer - I've already implemented all of this, but am just doing additional testing until I can make sure it's ready to be released. This update will be going out some time in January.
I'm extremely excited to announce that MIDI In/Out support will be in the next update for Paradiddle! MIDI out support lets you send MIDI signals to any audio software that can take in MIDI, letting them use your own samples and apply your own effects to turn Paradiddle into a much more powerful audio creation tool. Each drum will have its own default MIDI note and channel that can be customized, and will send proper velocity information based on how hard the drum is hit.
MIDI in support will let you integrate any peripheral that can send MIDI signals to Paradiddle. This lets you do things like use electronic drum pedals that can send MIDI, and the drum will sound different based on the incoming velocity.
This has already been implemented, but I'm currently doing more testing to make sure I iron out some of the kinks. However based on my testing so far, it's been very satisfying to finally use Paradiddle with an e-drum kick pedal and trigger some fun samples in Ableton!
Several of you have asked for ASIO support on the Discussion forums, and this will be in the next update as well. Users will be able to choose the Audio Output Device and Driver that's used by the system. Currently the two choices for the Audio Output Device are WASAPI (the default for Windows when using Paradiddle) and ASIO, but feel free to let me know if you'd want to see support for any other options as well.
I've done some preliminary testing with this, and I haven't seen a noticeable difference in latency between WASAPI and ASIO, but I understand that the ASIO settings can be tuned even further on the user's end. So after the next update it'll be interesting to hear how many of you can hear a noticeable difference in latency.
As I mentioned earlier, users will now be able to use additional pedals such as e-drum pedals through MIDI in. The way I'm currently doing this is by having an e-drum kick pedal going to a drum module, which is then connected to the PC. However, I've seen a few of you ask whether you could directly connect your pedal to the PC, or through an audio interface. Support for this will also be in the next release.
On top of these big features, the next update will also introduce some basic drum sound controls, such as controlling the max volume and the pitch of a drum. If you have any requests for what additional controls you'd like to see for drum sounds, feel free to let me know!
As always, if you have any comments, requests or feedback, you can post in the discussion forums or email [email protected].
- Emre
[email protected]
Official Paradiddle website: http://paradiddleapp.com
FAQ: http://paradiddleapp.com/faq
Reddit: http://reddit.com/r/paradiddle
Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/wjHnTVr
Paradiddle drum covers Youtube playlist (your cover could be on here too!)
MIDI Integration
I'm extremely excited to announce that MIDI In/Out support will be in the next update for Paradiddle! MIDI out support lets you send MIDI signals to any audio software that can take in MIDI, letting them use your own samples and apply your own effects to turn Paradiddle into a much more powerful audio creation tool. Each drum will have its own default MIDI note and channel that can be customized, and will send proper velocity information based on how hard the drum is hit.
MIDI in support will let you integrate any peripheral that can send MIDI signals to Paradiddle. This lets you do things like use electronic drum pedals that can send MIDI, and the drum will sound different based on the incoming velocity.
This has already been implemented, but I'm currently doing more testing to make sure I iron out some of the kinks. However based on my testing so far, it's been very satisfying to finally use Paradiddle with an e-drum kick pedal and trigger some fun samples in Ableton!
ASIO Support
Several of you have asked for ASIO support on the Discussion forums, and this will be in the next update as well. Users will be able to choose the Audio Output Device and Driver that's used by the system. Currently the two choices for the Audio Output Device are WASAPI (the default for Windows when using Paradiddle) and ASIO, but feel free to let me know if you'd want to see support for any other options as well.
I've done some preliminary testing with this, and I haven't seen a noticeable difference in latency between WASAPI and ASIO, but I understand that the ASIO settings can be tuned even further on the user's end. So after the next update it'll be interesting to hear how many of you can hear a noticeable difference in latency.
Additional Pedal Support
As I mentioned earlier, users will now be able to use additional pedals such as e-drum pedals through MIDI in. The way I'm currently doing this is by having an e-drum kick pedal going to a drum module, which is then connected to the PC. However, I've seen a few of you ask whether you could directly connect your pedal to the PC, or through an audio interface. Support for this will also be in the next release.
And More!
On top of these big features, the next update will also introduce some basic drum sound controls, such as controlling the max volume and the pitch of a drum. If you have any requests for what additional controls you'd like to see for drum sounds, feel free to let me know!
As always, if you have any comments, requests or feedback, you can post in the discussion forums or email [email protected].
- Emre
[email protected]
Official Paradiddle website: http://paradiddleapp.com
FAQ: http://paradiddleapp.com/faq
Reddit: http://reddit.com/r/paradiddle
Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/wjHnTVr
Paradiddle drum covers Youtube playlist (your cover could be on here too!)