- Jailbreak your iPhone with ZiPhone (download for Windows and Mac)
- Download Masayuki Akamatsu’s akaRemote (download .zip here) and upload it to your applications folder with Fugu (Alternatively, use the Installer app that comes with ZiPhone, and find akaRemote under the “Network” category)
- Install i3L Midi Bridge software for Mac OS X (download .dmg here) This will allow you to intercept the controller data being sent from the iPhone
- Open akaRemote on your iPhone, and go to the configuration page. Double tap the series of numbers after “Host Address”. Change this to the ip address of the computer that will receive the MIDI data. On most home wireless networks, it will be something like 192.168.0.X, or 192.168.2.X on other routers. I don’t know if this will work without a wireless network router.
- Open i3L and then run akaRemote on your iPhone. When you press buttons and move sliders in akaRemote, you should see corresponding activity in i3L’s buttons and sliders.
- In Ableton Live’s preferences, under “MIDI Sync”, you should see “Input: from i3L_v0.2 1″. Turn on Track and Remote.
- In Live, hit Command + M (Ctrl + M for PC users) to access the Midi Map mode. Now click any button or slider that is highlighted in blue. Now press a button in akaRemote on your iPhone. If everything is correctly configured, you should see a number appear in a box over the blue highlight. This is the MIDI CC number of whatever button you pushed.
- Hit Command + M again to exit Midi Map mode. Now press the buttons that you have assigned and they should activate the ableton live buttons.
- Awesome!
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April 6th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
yes it will work without a wireless router, by creating a computer to computer network over airport. you also need to add the ip settings in 13L for it to work.
more detailed tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDtdxVJXn-E
May 15th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Hey, is there a way to do this with a Pocket PC, running any version of windows mobile? I can’t find one, you think someone would do this?
The only thing I can think to do is learc cylcling 74 and make an application that you can vnc remote to your computer and scroll to that part of your monitor… which probably wouldn’t work as good as it might sound.
June 17th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Is there a source code for this program out there somewhere Id love to get my hand on it so i could mod it and possibly have it control some macro’s that I build for other projects
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
does anybody know if the creator of this app will be making it for unlocked iphone 3G?