Published by Michael Eskin on 2022-12-03
What is Bagpipes Pro + MIDI?
Bagpipes Pro + MIDI is an app that offers five realistic sounding sets of per-note sampled bagpipes that can be played using standard Scottish piping fingerings on-screen or using a hardware MIDI chanter such as the Fagerstrom Technopipes. The app also functions as a CoreMIDI sound module. The app includes five sets of bagpipes, namely Great Highland Scottish Bagpipes, Scottish Border Pipes, Scottish Smallpipes, Irish Uilleann Pipes, and Swedish Säckpipa. The instruments may be transposed up to +/- one octave in semitone increments as well as tuned up to +/- 50 cents. The app also offers various controls such as volume, reverb, drone channel, chanter channel, and chanter lowest MIDI note slider.
1. “Bagpipes Pro + MIDI” is five realistic sounding sets of per-note sampled bagpipes that may be played using standard Scottish piping fingerings on-screen or using a hardware MIDI chanter such as the Fagerstrom Technopipes.
2. Use the Chanter Lowest MIDI Note slider to set the MIDI note for the bottom note of the chanter.
3. A MIDI Note-Off event with the same note number that started the drones on the drone channel will stop the drones.
4. The drones will start upon receiving any MIDI Note-On event with the note number less than 80 on the drone channel.
5. Next, touch the top three holes of the chanter starting with the tips of your left index, middle, and ring fingers.
6. Use the Chanter Channel slider to set the MIDI channel for the chanter notes.
7. Finally, touch the bottom four holes of the chanter with the tips of your right index, middle, ring, and little fingers.
8. This instrument has a full two octave range when played with a MIDI chanter.
9. Use the Drone Channel slider to set the MIDI channel for the drones.
10. Touch the tuning value to the left of the slider to reset the tuning offset to zero.
11. "GHB-A" is for chromatic chanters where there is no leading tone and the bottom note is the A tone.
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Or follow the guide below to use on PC:
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Install Bagpipes Pro + MIDI app on your Windows in 4 steps below:
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- Five realistic sounding sets of per-note sampled bagpipes
- Can be played using standard Scottish piping fingerings on-screen or using a hardware MIDI chanter
- Functions as a CoreMIDI sound module
- Includes five sets of bagpipes: Great Highland Scottish Bagpipes, Scottish Border Pipes, Scottish Smallpipes, Irish Uilleann Pipes, and Swedish Säckpipa
- Instruments may be transposed up to +/- one octave in semitone increments as well as tuned up to +/- 50 cents
- Various controls such as volume, reverb, drone channel, chanter channel, and chanter lowest MIDI note slider
- Enables Chromatic to GHB scale mapping using the Chromatic Map control
- MIDI default parameter values are based on the Fagerstrom Scottish Technopipes
- The drones will start upon receiving any MIDI Note-On event with the note number less than 80 on the drone channel
- Once set, the MIDI parameters are saved when exiting the app
- Touch the "i" to show/hide the audio and MIDI controls
- Touch the "?" for help
- The Scottish bagpipes samples are supplied by ePipes.co.uk from their "Studio Piper" VST
- Säckpipa samples were recorded from an instrument provided by Jonathan Parker.
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