MusiKraken 2.10 - App Store

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About MusiKraken

MusiKraken is a modular MIDI Controller Construction Kit, empowering you to fully harness the capabilities of your mobile device's hardware. Winner of a 2022 MIDI Innovation Award! Make music using device sensors like...

MusiKraken is a modular MIDI Controller Construction Kit, empowering you to fully harness the capabilities of your mobile device's hardware. Winner of a 2022 MIDI Innovation Award! Make music using device sensors like Touch, Motion Sensors, Camera (face, hand, body and color tracking, including TrueDepth and LiDAR support) and Microphone, or connected devices like Game Controllers, Apple Watch or AirPods. Choose from several types of modules in the editor and connect the ports to create your own personal MIDI controller setup. Route the MIDI signals through effect modules to control multiple instruments simultaneously or invent creative new MIDI controller combinations. MusiKraken supports sending and receiving MIDI data over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or via Core MIDI (for example by using Inter-Device Audio and MIDI (IDAM)). And it can host Audio Unit (AUv3) instrument plugins. Or send the sensor data via OSC. MusiKraken is also one of the first apps to officially support MIDI 2.0! You already own a very powerful device with all kinds of sensors and connection possibilities. With this app you can use these sensors as inputs, combine them with all kinds of MIDI effects and send the resulting MIDI events to your computer, synthesizer, any other MIDI-capable app or Audio Unit to to create your own, expressive MIDI controller setup. Your device for example has a multitouch screen. Use this with the Keyboard module to slide on the keys to control multiple musical parameters simultaneously. Using MPE, MIDI 2.0 or the Chord Splitter also allows you to control these parameters separately per key. Newer devices also support tracking the finger radius (or pressure on older devices), which adds another dimension of control. Multitouch is also used by the Chords Pad to play the chords of a selected scale, or the Touchpad, which allows you control values via touch gestures. Another unique input sensor is the camera: MusiKraken supports tracking your hands in front of the camera, your body pose, your face or objects with specific colors. This way you can for example use your iOS device as a Theremin, jump or dance around in front of the camera to generate notes or control audio parameters, use your mouth to control the sound of a virtual trumpet, or any other combination. If your device has a TrueDepth or LiDAR sensor, you can also use the distances as input values. Your device also has motion sensors: Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Magnetometer. They can be either used separately, or combined to get the current rotation of the device in three dimensions. Use this to generate sounds or control parameters while shaking or tilting your device. Your device also has a microphone, and MusiKraken can detect the pitch or amplitude of the signal. Your iOS device also allows you to connect to external devices. MusiKraken for example supports Game Controllers (trigger events on button or thumbstick changes, motion sensors, haptics and light on supported Game Controllers), Apple Watch (motion sensors, digital crown, touch, heart rate) or the motion sensors within AirPods. The real power comes once you start combining the sensors with the effect modules. There are effects that can be used to change or filter the MIDI events. Some effects allow you to combine multiple input sources into new output values. Or splits chords into separate notes so that they can be sent to different channels. Important: Please note that some of the modules only work on iOS devices with specific hardware: ARKit Face Tracking and the TrueDepth module need a TrueDepth front camera, and Hand and Body Pose Tracking needs at least iOS 14, and might be too slow on older devices. HealthKit is used in the app to access Apple Watch data like heart beat or motion sensors. The app only uses sensor data to generate MIDI events.

Version History Support for the MIDI 2.0 Note On Orchestral Articulation Profile. General MIDI 2.0 updates. 2.10 Apr 29 Use facial expressions and body poses to trigger chords. And you can now also add large buttons and sliders to the lower panels. 2.09 Apr 1 Bugfixes for Network MIDI 2.0 2.08 Mar 18 Bugfixes for Network MIDI 2.0 via IPv6. Added a new MIDI 2.0 Info panel. 2.07 Mar 11 Added an OSC Translator to translate any values to OSC. 2.06 Feb 14 New module: The Ghost Organ. Play notes by moving your fingers in the air (with MPE / MIDI 2.0 support). Improved SimpleSynth. Various bugfixes. 2.03 10/29/2025 You can now use computer keyboards and mice as MIDI controllers. And the keyboard now has the option to select 4ths, 5ths and 3rds in grid mode. 2.01 08/14/2025 Thank you for using MusiKraken. Really! Thank you! I mean it! New modules: Barcode Tracking: Allows you to track QR codes or other barcodes in front of the camera and use their position, size or angle as control parameters. Particles: Generates multiple short notes randomly distributed on incoming, active notes. Randomize and control the emission rate, duration and velocities. Randomizer: Adds random note, velocity or CC values. Scale Quantizer: Quantize all incoming notes to the nearest note of a selected scale. Now you can also change the color scheme of the app. 2.00 04/18/2025 Bugfix for Game Controller issues. 1.80 03/27/2025 Bugfix for camera selection issue. 1.79 03/19/2025 Bugfix for loading and saving setups. 1.78 03/13/2025 ARKit Face Tracking now supports tracking the eyebrows, cheek, eyes and jaw. Some design adjustments. 1.77 03/11/2025 MusiKraken now supports Network MIDI 2.0. 1.76 01/19/2025 New Boolean Logic module, and many small adjustments. 1.75 01/06/2025 Bugfixes for iOS 18 changes. New input ports for dynamic MIDI transposition. 1.73 11/07/2024 You can now send MIDI events from the editor when a Value to MIDI converter is selected (for MIDI-Learn). Bugfix for Arpeggiator issue. 1.72 09/11/2024 Bugfixes 1.71 08/25/2024 Threshold and Beat modules can now send the same events as buttons (and therefore can for example control the Sustain Pedal or send Program Change events). 1.69 07/04/2024 New effects: Gate: Only lets values or MIDI events pass through if the gate is open (= a note is active on the gate port) Velocity Replacer: Lets you replace the velocity of Note events. Minimum / Maximum: Computes the minimum or maximum value of multiple input values. ARKit Face Tracking now also tracks the nose position and distance. Better MIDI 1.0 to MIDI 2.0 translation 1.68 06/06/2024 Bugfixes 1.67 05/16/2024 Bugfix for MIDI Processor Audio Units. New ARKit Body Tracker that tracks the human body in 3D. New camera selection options for ARKit cameras, including support for LiDAR in ARKit World Tracking. 1.66 05/14/2024 MusiKraken now supports MIDI 2.0! Change to the MIDI 2.0 mode in the general settings to activate it. The app can now send higher resolution and per-note MIDI 2.0 events. It also uses MIDI-CI and UMP Endpoint communication to communicate with other MIDI 2.0 endpoints.  MIDI 2.0 can be sent to other apps or Audio Units (AUv3). And you can install the KrakenMidiConnector on your mac and connect to it from MusiKraken to send MIDI 2.0 events to your computer. There is also a new MIDI Log Viewer to show the MIDI communication. And there is a new Haptics module on iPhones to control the vibration of your phone via MIDI note and CC 1 events, to get haptic feedback for your MIDI controller. The game controller module now also has a haptics input port to get haptic feedback on your game controller. 1.65 04/24/2024 New Cat and Dog Tracker: Make music by tracking a cat or a dog with the camera. 1.64 04/01/2024 Bugfixes 1.63 03/12/2024 New OSC module to send sensor information via Open Sound Control (OSC). Mouth Tracking now also outputs pitch, roll, yaw and nose position. Generate Polyphonic Aftertouch in Value-to-MIDI-converters. Added curve settings to connections. 1.62 03/09/2024

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Previous Versions

Here you can find the changelog of MusiKraken since it was posted on our website on 2023-06-27 10:44:02. The latest version is 2.10 and it was updated on 2026-06-27 23:00:44. See below the changes in each version.

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