I have a 16n Faderbank and the Midi Out on the 16n is a mini-jack TRS cable. Is it OK to connect the 16n directly to the Ribbons using a TRS mini-jack to 1/4" TRS jack cable without any adaptors and do I need to change the jumper settings in the Ribbons?
Should work just fine. Just set the TRS setting on the 16n to the Korg/Make Noise setting and it will be compatible with Ribbons right out of the box. No need to change the jumpers.
I think I’m going to pick one of these up today from Thonk. Seems really similar to the Faderbank. Should also be directly compatible with Ribbons using TRS MIDI.
The iOS app Ribn (!!) is great for automating CC modulation. It runs up to 8 LFO with assignable CC’s. You just record the shape via touch screen. Defaults to looping, but can also act as single cycle multi stage envelopes. Meant to be
Just to be explicit in my boneheadedness here, and then how would that iOS app communicate to Ribbons itself? What is needed to connect a phone/screen?
I use the IO Connectivity Lightning to DIN-5 adapter. Then a standard DIN to mini TRS plus a 3.5mm to 1/4” adapter into the pedal. You can then config the app based on the Kinotone MIDI CC chart to have looping animations of up to 8 MIDI CC parameters, such as LP cutoff, Reverb mix and decay, Wow and Flutter depth, etc.
It’s like having 8 feet operating 8 Exp. pedals