Midi WorkShop (MWS) is an add-on for SAWStudio, and it requires SAWStudio, SAWStudioLite, or SAWStudioBasic as a host. The Midi WorkShop's interface is designed to work in a way consistent with the SAWStudio environment, maintaining similar keystrokes wherever applicable, and creating a new way to display and work with MIDI data.
MWS has 128 MIDI tracks arranged in its own MultiTrack view, separate from the SAWStudio MultiTrack, but locked to all SAWStudio MultiTrack cursor movements. It has the ability to maintain its own vertical and horizontal zoom levels while still maintaining precise synchronization with SAWStudio MultiTrack audio data.
MWS has its own set of workspace views, these can work independently or be linked to SAWStudio's F-Key or Alt-F-Key views, giving extreme flexibility for viewing and working with MIDI and audio data simultaneously.
A richly designed piano keyboard graphic offers extended flexibility as an effective visual reference to musical data, and as a miniature built-in controller for auditioning MIDI patches.
The Patch Library view window offers a powerful approach to organizing and accessing thousands of MIDI patches across all installed MIDI sound modules, along with unlimited grouping capabilities, making auditioning and selecting patches a breeze.
A unique measure mapping feature allows freeform performances to be easily and instantly mapped to a measure grid, which automatically calculates tempo variations, and allows for perfect Conductor/Click Track creation. The data may then be set or averaged into a perfectly smooth performance, allowing easy orchestration or quantizing of added data in perfect time.
When patching a VSTi on the SAWStudio MultiTrack, you have the option of selecting the source of MIDI data, which can be any one of the hardware MIDI port devices coming from your controller keyboard, or any one of the 16 virtual MIDI ports coming directly from the MWS engine. With low latency settings in SAWStudio, the VSTis provide a virtual real-time emulation of physical MIDI sound modules.
VSTi output may be easily recorded back to its own track or another track as audio data directly into the SAW MultiTrack with no external cable routing necessary.
The MWS add-on costs $300, a demo version is available.
