Musical

WARNING: THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE DEPRECATED

Please update to Musical 6.0.4 and follow the new instructions at http://www.androidmusical.com/wifi

 

 

Desktop Client

Use Musical Pro as a MIDI input device over WIFI for your computer!  If you have any questions or can’t get it to work, email me using the “Contact” page above. Big thanks to Jason “Foxdie” Gaunt for the Mac OS X directions. Linux is not officially supported, but is known to work under Ubuntu.

Basic Setup

  1. Download Musical Desktop (click here)
  2. If you have Mac, see the directions below before continuing
  3. Open Musical Desktop (Java is required)
  4. Select your synthesizer/sequencer (if you don’t know what that means, try Java Sound Sequencer or Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth)
  5. Turn up your volume
  6. Connect the Android device (it must be on the same network–WIFI for the Android–as the computer) with the button under the Menu
  7. Play some notes on the keyboard and they should come out of your computer’s speaker

Advanced Setup (using as a MIDI input device for other applications)

  1. Setup a MIDI Loopback (aka Virtual Cable)
    It is up to you how you do this, however I have heard good things about the following free applications that do this:
    Windows: LooBe1, MIDI-Yoke, and Maple MIDI
    Mac OS X: IAC Driver (built-in to OS X)
  2. Follow the directions above for basic setup, but choose the output device for the loopback driver you installed in step 1 instead of a synthesizer
  3. Select the input device for the loopback driver in the program you want to use Musical as a MIDI input device for
  4. Play notes and they should be entered into your application!

Mac Setup Directions

  1. Download Java 6 from Apple’s developer site
  2. Run “Java Preferences” which is located in “Applications -> Utilities -> Java Preferences.app”
  3. Drag “Java SE 6″ to the top of the preferred order list and then quit the app
  4. Continue basic setup above