Joué Play | 4-in-1 Portable Digital Instrument, with Powerful and Easy-to-use Musical App Included - Plug & Play Music

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Usefully, the actions you perform on the effects are recorded as part of the clips in the Joué app as automation, which makes it easy to spice up your loops and make them more intriguing. It's possible to pitch bend along a string (a gesture referred to as vibrato), but the most extreme pitch bending (which is upwards only) comes from the 'bending' gesture, pushing strings upwards or downwards. I didnt want to get stressed about it so rather than bang my head against a brick wall, I just put the device back in its box and mostly forgot all about it for several years.

Gestures and areas (X, Y or Z) can be mapped on each pad to control any parameters or modulate your sound. Ultimately, we are still limited to 4 notes per horizontal zone, and 4 horizontal zones, but judging by the play-styles of many MPE players, that might not be a problem (also probably why Joué decided to set up their boards this way). There's an additional 'vibrato' parameter which translates left-right (X) movement into pitch bend, where the overall range can be set in the editor. What is even more annoying is pressing hard will completely blow out the other notes aftertouch data, so with each note, you have to press lighter and lighter to not blow out their output. The domed button on each pad also varies by instrument, sometimes adding vibrato, sometimes changing pitch.With an increasing number of DAWs and instruments supporting MPE, which lets you control more than the standard MIDI controllers allow, it’s one of the few hardware controllers that can do it, and also one of the most affordable. There might be a slight loss in the granularity of pressure, as bit-space is divided between the two inputs (i. For the guitar and drum pads, these are a selection of different styles, and for the piano and key pads, there are pianos, synths, strings and the like.

Each one has play and record buttons for the app as well as octave up and down buttons for quickly extending the range of notes available. The silicone modules afford some 'give' when pressed, making the surface a bit more haptic than the Sensel Morph, but with a lot less movement than a ROLI Seaboard. A preset scale can be selected (there are 23 to choose from), and vibrato (left-right glide), Y position (slide) and aftertouch are all supported. Alternative strategy one is to detect colliding aftertouch data (this can be detected by a sudden drop in aftertouch output for a note, followed by another note on event) and use its output for all notes, until the collision stops.With the original Joue Im not sure if they ever released even a single firmware update for it during its lifetime, I know the software editor got updated sometimes but not sure the firmware ever did.

Scaler: A full-width 17-key chromatic keyboard layout oriented towards instruments like harp or vibraphone.The factory settings of the modules put them on distinct MIDI channels, while the MIDI controller numbers generally go from 1 upwards, but these settings are all editable. And then at some point I think they deleted their old forum where this communication happened, so I dont even have reference to that bit of history now. I don’t know if I’ll ever have the time, energy, or money to innovate, but I would love to see a product using the same idea behind the Joué, but usable in standalone.