I tend to write percussion parts with a minimum of two bars, on average four bars and sometimes longer. I like that it allows me to take my eyes of the screen and lay down the basis of a groove quickly and easily. I strictly use it for it’s core purpose of adding drum hits quickly. But on the plus side they’ll be a ace learning journey even if you don’t get things working exactly as you’d like. But to get the breadth of the CrossFire workflow working would still require a lot of work.Īll of those options will require a pretty deep knowledge of MIDI and SysEx. If you’re an Ableton Live user you could make use of the nativeKontrol toolkit that’s provided with CrossFire to create something bespoke and midi out from Ableton to your iOS device via a laptop. I reckon to do something similar on iOS that maybe Mozaic won’t be enough, maybe exploring Midi Fire/Streambyter would get you closer, but that would require some deep scripting. Luckily a provider of control scripts for Ableton (nativeKontrol) did all the heavy lifting of mapping everything to work with Ableton Live as it’s no easy task to attempt it yourself. But I did purchase an Akai Fire as it’s wonderful to have a midi controller laid out X0X style as a drum programmer. I’m not an FL user although I adore Sytrus their FM synth (which I have as an individual plugin).

Fl studio fire controller