Hi all, just taken delivery of a Tracker Mini and loving it, had reservations the lack of jog wheel and keys would make the workflow difficult but it doesn’t and the note feature is a brilliant addition. That said I want to connect either my iPhone or iPad up to it and use as a midi keyboard so looking for recommendations for the best IOS app to do this? Both Apple devices are USB-C so assume I don’t need a converter and can go straight USB-C to USB-C? Sorry it’s a bit of a basic question and all but searches don’t seem to give a definitive answer.
Hello and welcome!
Good question, I usually if I want a keyboard I’ll use my Roland S-1 (with a midi TRS crossover cable) but I will try with the iPad with some of the apps I have and see which ones work well.
Without having tried I would say if AUM works that’s a nice versatile app. Maybe Audiobus works too. Some of the sequencers might also be interesting, and I now wonder what an MPE like keyboard would do 
I’ll report after doing some tests.
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I seem to have hit a config issue, I can’t seem to have it show up as connected on the iPad. I’m trying with an iPad mini (a new one with USB-C), if I plugin a synth it shows up but I’ve fiddled with various settings on the Tracker Mini but no luck.
Maybe @Sandroid has a hint? I know he’s posted screenshots in the past with AUM I the past. Is there a trick on the tracker or on iOS?
Sidenote: If I’m not mistaken Audiobus is free currently on the app store, it doesn’t have a keyboard but you should be able to route a keyboard from another app through it, so it’s probably worth grabbing 
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There’s a video here showing it with AUM in a thread already:
If I get it working I’ll try some of the other apps with keyboard inside of AUM and try to post some screenshots/feedback.
I found the IOS Kbds troublesome, need a new phone with USB-C maybe?
Any way… I got
the Korg Nanokey, and with the MIDI crossover cable it’s genius in small spaces, like an airplane seat tray!
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The nanokey fold seems to be perfect for the Tracker Mini. Shame there aren’t more portable keyboards with TRS Midi connection.
Make yourself a trs to rts cable and you’re really portable
Though i think they missed the mark because you still need an usb power supply. An included battery would be killer
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Going slightly off topic, but I think the Roland S-1 might also be worth considering. It has two octaves, a MIDI TRS out, arpeggiator, and built in battery. And it’s also a powerful synth! And the price is not much more than the nanokey fold.
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did consider getting something like the nanokey but you’re right for £50 more you can have this!
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Indeed! I think it would be great if there were a £50~60 battery powered midi keyboard with a TRS port as a portable option. But yeah it seems the S1 is better value for money than a nanokey fold. Alternatively there’s the Korg Volca FM2 which is the only Volca that has midi out built in afaik. Again powerful synth engine, 2 octaves, arpeggiator, although the keyboard is a touchstrip rather than buttons.
I restarted my iPad last night and then it all worked. I tested the builtin keyboard in AUM (as per the link above). As well as Salome (technically an MPE looper/sampler), that worked great and I was able to get velocity from it (which I can’t do from the S1).
With velocity enabled on the tracker I was able to get the note velocity in no problem (low on the bottom of the key button, and high on top). Here’s what it looked like:
The rest of the data (aftertouch, …) was as I expected ignored.
I didn’t try with Moog Mariana which has a similar keyboard, but it would probably end up sucking too much battery to use it only for the keyboard.
Some other ideas (I don’t have these apps so I can’t say how well they work):
A dedicated keyboard app would probably be even better (save more screen space). For me Salome will do for now since I have it already