ISO: iPad keyboard practice app with headphone support

November 19, 2019 8:45 AM

I have a MIDI keyboard hooked up to my iPad and I want to use an app to learn piano. Unfortunately, a lot of apps seem to recognize/rate your playing by listening to the speaker output, and I want to play with headphones. Which apps will recognize my notes from the MIDI input itself?
posted by overeducated_alligator to Technology (1 answer total)

I preordered a couple LUMI keyboards by ROLI, and the sort of scenario you describe is their main intended use case. That said, they haven't been released yet (but should be very soon - this month or next), so overall quality of the solution is still a grey area. However, I do own several other ROLI devices (Seaboard, Blocks) and they're super high quality with absolutely fantastic supporting software, so I expect ROLI will deliver something equally excellent with LUMI. This might be something to keep an eye on once some post-release reviews come out.
posted by BrandonW at 10:35 AM on November 19, 2019