{"id":11096,"date":"2016-08-25T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=11096"},"modified":"2016-08-25T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T12:08:22","slug":"control-your-midi-instruments-by-movement-on-your-phone-with-ac-sabre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/control-your-midi-instruments-by-movement-on-your-phone-with-ac-sabre\/","title":{"rendered":"Control your MIDI instruments by movement on your phone with AC Sabre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>AC Sabre is a revolutionary wireless MIDI instrument and motion controller for electronic music producers, composers, performers and DJs, bringing dynamic performance energy to digital music.<\/h4>\n<p>AC Sabre is a new app from London based tech company Air Craft Media that uses your phone to control MIDI from your smartphone in a new way, with movement. AC Sabre reads your movements with the built in gyroscope and accelerometer and translates them into musical actions.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds simple enough but AC Sabre has been intelligently designed\u00a0to give you\u00a0incredible levels of dynamic control over your digital MIDI sounds. You can pluck invisible strings,\u00a0control up to 7 additional parameters with intuitive movements, incorporate performance into your playing and more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While\u00a0sound\u00a0technology has advanced leaps and bounds, the tools we use for\u00a0composition\u00a0and\u00a0performance\u00a0haven&#8217;t changed in 30 years. Buttons, knobs, and faders &#8211; handy for tweaking but linear and lifeless for the performance and riff-making.<\/p>\n<p>AC Sabre is a MIDI controller revolution. Experience a whole new dimension to your sound library that will have you giddy like the first time all over again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Powerful Interface<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>The elegant multi-touch interface is intuitive at first touch, with depth on-demand. Immediate proficiency, but with the potential for virtuosity.<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Intuitive, with Precision<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>Intuitive control of multiple parameters simultaneously with your movements. No gimmicks, or interpretive &#8216;magic&#8217;. Like all true instruments, what you intend is what you hear.<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Music, Mastered<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>Arpeggios, harmonies, trills, vibrato, modal key changes, 200+ scales, portamento &amp; legato. A maestro&#8217;s palette at your command.<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">And a little extra<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>Configurable touch ribbons and button, motion-mapping, note-locked pitch bending, polyphonic aftertouch, and&#8230; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/air-craft.co\/support\/ac-sabre-manual\/interface\/drone\/\">The Drone<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AC Sabre Professional MIDI Instrument &amp; Motion Controller\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yMvocIObfI8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The app connects to your computer via MIDI compatible software like Ableton or Garage Band, or via apps that support MIDI input like Animoog and Nave. <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/ac-sabre-professional-midi\/id1039046999?mt=8\">It is available now for \u00a319.99 on the Apple App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC Sabre is a revolutionary wireless MIDI instrument and motion controller for electronic music producers, composers, performers and DJs, bringing dynamic performance energy to digital music. 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