ShakeMidi is a wireless music app with a difference. Instead of controlling your software with touchscreen sliders and faders you just shake your iOS device and The app will send midi note information to your DAW.
This app is a lot of fun to play around with but I'm not sure that I could see myself making any serious music with it. But I suppose that's the main selling point of this app, it's fun. The App itself is set out really well, it's simple to understand and there's a built in help section just incase you run into any problems.
I've had a few issues with wireless midi apps in the past but I had no real trouble connecting ShakeMidi to my laptop. All that you have to do is download and install the free rtpMIDI program on your computer to set up a midi port. When you've done that Shake Midi will auto connect. Then there's the small matter of opening Ableton (or whatever DAW) you're using and selecting it in the settings. If this sounds a bit much there's a help page here.
The app also connects via core midi which means that if you have any supporting apps on your iOS device they can be easily controlled with ShakeMidi. This also works with multiple iOS devices on the same wifi network (for example: you can control GarageBand on your iPad with ShakeMidi on your iPhone).
It's always good when an app is universally compatible, especially music apps. Shake midi is indeed a universal app, meaning that it will work on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch with no problems. However, I can't really imagine anyone with an iPad using this as much. I tried it myself and I just felt a bit foolish shaking my iPad around (good fun though).
Anyway, here's a short YouTube video of my shaking my iPhone. I have ShakeMidi hooked up to Massive in Ableton Live.
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