If you’re on a Mac, TouchOSC its super easy to set up with an iOS device over USB as a MIDI controller. Sorry Windows users, I have nothing for you today.
Some day I will cover making custom layouts and control surfaces with TouchOSC but for now we’re just using it as a portable MIDI controller.
Over USB you’ll get a low latency MIDI input into your DAW.
While it’s technically possible to do this all over WIFI, I would not recommend it.
TLDR
- Unlock iPad and connect with USB to lightning cable
- Launch Audio MIDI Setup utility on the Mac
- Enable the iPad/iPhone in the Audio page
- Open TouchOSC app on iPad/iPhone
- Enable TouchOSC Bridge and CoreMIDI
- Set Layout to Keys or Beatmachine
- Open REAPER and go to Preferences, Audio, MIDI Devices
- Enable Apple iPad/iphone for Input and control, apply preference change
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