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iOS MIDI Connections Explained

It can be confusing understanding how to connect apps via MIDI in iOS. This article attempts to explain the concepts, common misconceptions, and troubleshooting techniques. The article is mainly focused on connections between apps, but also has a section about MIDI concepts within some common hosts.

Core MIDI is Apple’s name for its inter-app MIDI routing mechanism. Understanding certain concepts about Core MIDI can go a long way toward understanding how to connect things.

Certain things about Core MIDI are unintuitive (to some people). Getting past these also helps to reduce problems.

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