WIDI Master

£53

Web cme-pro.com, handinhand.uk.net Format Mac/PC/iOS

Wireless MIDI is the order of the day here, with a device that can plug into the output of your MIDI controller (along with an additional plug that can connect as an input) and will then be picked up by your computer or mobile device via Bluetooth. If it works, it is surely one of those ‘why haven’t we seen it before?’ inventions, and happily it does! You’ll need to manually connect it up via your settings (we tested with a Mac and iOS via Cubasis) but the device simply appears as an external device MIDI option which you select and then play away on your keyboard for it to trigger whatever app or DAW you have loaded up. Latency is, as you might expect, an issue, although we managed to thump this down to ‘barely negligible’ by reducing our buffer settings. For hardware lovers, connect two devices to each piece of hardware and they automatically sync so one controls the other (it does only work with two devices, however), and for mobile lovers it gives you even more wireless connectivity. What with MIDI 2.0 and now this, there’s a lot of life in the old format yet.

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