Donner Play

The MeDo is a wonderful little device to interface with, but this app just comes short of the customizability that I feel is necessary. The inability to edit MIDI, create your own drum kits, or do any of the synth editing on the phone (despite there being a button implying a fictional app exists) make it hard to get anywhere with precision, or without often needing to start from scratch from a single note slip in performance. The bugs completely erasing my tracks or disabling me from upload make things even more frustrating to deal with. It makes me wonder how much I can do on the MeDo at a time while connected to the app, as the device doesn’t have these issues on its own. It unfortunately makes what would be a tool innovative in terms of baseline ease of use, its portability, and range (particularly given what you can do with its limited 5 channels) better off as a simple MIDI controller for other programs. I find it a shame Donner seems to have neglected these, with the MeDo synth PC app taking a bit to track down, since they’ve removed it from the website. The MeDo itself is such a fun groovebox, and I think with a bit more love from Donner, it could be leagues better. It’s just a matter of opening more doors for its users on PC and phone.

I bought one of the practice guitars and was going to set this app up to use it, but I couldn’t even select the guitar in the app. Hopefully they’ll fix that cause the guitar is awesome.

Great device (medo) but the app is a bit clunky. The piano roll could do with an edit screen to remove or retune notes. Each sound would also benefit from having a mute option so that you don’t have to enter each sound and drop a volume fader down. The volume fader isn’t working as a fade but more as an incremental jump that happens after you touch it. If you could link the delay (wet/dry) to the sensor so you could tilt the device to get delay on the drums (or any sound) would be great. Otherwise it works ok. Fun to play this with another iPhone and mix elements together. Not going to use this live or on stage.