TL;DR
Can Pisound do some/all of what Midihub can do with ease? Is there anything similar to the Midihub editor for Pisound?
Background:
I’ve been researching for months, and am delighted by both Midihub and Pisound.
I’ve been on the fence deciding between these, leaning towards Midihub,
My rig: Novation Summit, Akai Force, TR-6S. Each can do USB mid or 5-pin.
Primary use-cases:
Triggering chords with one-finger (and sometimes feeding said chords into advanced arps)
Quantizing keyboard input pitches to adhere to scales (when my five-year-old is pressing All The Notes on the Summit, I want it to sound musical )
I’m comfortable working in a Linux environment, and the prospect of working with PD patches, and maybe playing with the audio IO is appealing . . .
But I’m also really keen on “ease of use”, and Midihub’s ease of use seems hard to beat.
Your use cases and gear suggest you’d be up and running in minutes with MH via MIDI DIN and very quickly getting creative with one device, say, triggering stuff in the other two, etc.
(man, when you get really into pipes like Chance,Dispatcher –and virtual mappings– your bairn will be amazed at their accidental musical skills!)
While your Linux chops and enthusiasm to dive into PD would enable you to recreate MH functionality with Pisound, you may just end up thinking you’re reinventing the wheel a bit and then use it for non-MH capabilities.
Pisound is often used with Patchbox OS which will give you a MODEP pedalboard when you’re not exploring the wonders of PureData or ORAC. (I’ve used it for MIDI –when the maths involved is beyond MH– but tend to think of it more as an audio device )
Time for a priorities list, maybe – you want both but which do need first?
PS. I’ve no link to @Blokas, just a fan of their work…
While there are many who make good use of just(!) its routing and filtering capabilities,
you’ll probably find yourself among those who find yourself doing stuff with Miidihub you never imagined…
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– you want both but which do need first?