midi config air application

I made a little Air app the other day, needed something that could save and load my Midi settings. It particularly comes in handy when you have a Midi controller with multiple presets that you may want to switch between, nothing worse that having to hardcode Midi note values.

Providing you have Red5 server running with your Midi app as explained in the previous post, its just a matter of selecting your Midi-In and Midi-Out devices from the dropdowns, pressing connect and assigning your Midi notes.  Once you have all your inputs assigned you can then save your Midi settings in an xml file. Same goes if you want to load your old settings and make some changes.

I’ve built this app tailored for my Akai MPD24 but I’ve kept it robust enough so if someone else wants to come along and adopt it for their own Midi controller it is pretty flexible. I’d like to make a general tool for a range of Midi controllers but I’ve only got the one, so would be great to hear from anyone that adopts the app to their own controller.

As always, here is the code.
MidiConfig Air App.
MidiConfig Air App source.
Flex example on how to use the xml config along with small Midi library that I’ve put together for Red5 Midi applications.