Bagpipes Pro + MIDI

“Bagpipes Pro + MIDI” is five realistic sounding sets of per-note sampled bagpipes that may be played using standard Scottish piping fingerings on-screen or using a hardware MIDI chanter such as the Fagerstrom Technopipes. The app also may be used as a CoreMIDI sound module.

The app includes the following five sets of Bagpipes:

Great Highland Scottish Bagpipes - The most popular Scottish marching pipes, in the traditional key of Bb.

Scottish Border Pipes - A Scottish smallpipe in the key of A with a sound distinctly different from but similar to the Highland pipes.

Scottish Smallpipes - A Scottish smallpipe in the key of A, one octave lower than the Border Pipes, and has a rounder, bubbly sound.

Irish Uilleann Pipes - A set of bellows driven Irish bagpipes in D. This instrument has a full two octave range when played with a MIDI chanter.

Swedish Säckpipa - A set of Swedish bagpipes in E with a lovely haunting sound.

The instruments may be transposed up to +/- one octave in semitone increments as well as tuned up to +/- 50 cents

IMPORTANT: Since this app requires as many as 8 fingers on the screen at the same time if playing manually by touching the screen, before playing, you must disable "Multitasking Gestures" on your iPad (in the Settings app, under the General section, turn the Multitasking Gestures switch to the off position).

Start/stop the drones playing by touching the drone puck. Select standard or alternate drone note from the controls.

Use the Transpose slider to set the overall instrument transposition in semitones. Touch the transpose value to the left of the slider to reset the transposition to zero.

Use the Tuning slider to set the overall instrument tuning offset in cents. Touch the tuning value to the left of the slider to reset the tuning offset to zero.

Use the Volume controls to set the balance between the chanter and the drones.

Use the Reverb controls to change the reverb type as well as the drone and chanter reverb level.

Use the Drone Channel slider to set the MIDI channel for the drones.

Use the Chanter Channel slider to set the MIDI channel for the chanter notes.

Use the Chanter Lowest MIDI Note slider to set the MIDI note for the bottom note of the chanter. Range is from 55 to 79.

MIDI default parameter values are based on the Fagerstrom Scottish Technopipes:

Drone Channel: 15
Chanter Channel: 1
Chanter Low