MDM Resource Centre
Welcome to the MIDIDeviceManager documentation centre.
Here you’ll find the latest official documentation, CSV Device Indexes, and other resources to help you get the most from MIDIDeviceManager.
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CONTENTS
MDM QUICK START GUIDES AND MANUAL
OTHER DOCUMENTS AND RESOURCES
MDM INDEXES QUICK START GUIDES
- 🚀 MDM CSV Device Indexes Quick Start Guide
- 🚀 MDM Manufacturer Resource Import Quick Start Guide
- 🚀 MDM Patch Walk MIDI Mapping Quick Start Guide
CORE FEATURES GUIDES
INTERFACES AND HARDWARE QUICK START GUIDES
🚀 Quick Start Guide
New to MIDIDeviceManager?
Get up and running in just a few minutes. Learn how to connect your MIDI devices, create your first Device, Scene and Pads, and start using Live Mode.
📘 Download Quick Start Guide PDF
🚀 Latest Build Release notes: What’s New in Build 108
Already using MIDIDeviceManager?
Build 108 opens nearly everything from the first launch. Easy, Advanced and Pro are gone — MIDIDeviceManager now has two modes, Standard and Pro, and most of what used to require Advanced is there from the start: triggers, a Control Change alongside a Pad’s patch change, the MIDI Trigger Manager, MIDI Health Monitor, Network MIDI. Pro now means one thing — the SysEx Lab, for building and sending raw SysEx by hand.
Devices can now carry Sliders and Buttons of their own, separate from Pads — a level, an effect, anything your equipment accepts as a Control Change, adjusted live without touching the patch. A Button is always a pair, On and Off, because MIDIDeviceManager has no way to know what your equipment is actually set to — two known sends, not one control guessing at a state it can’t see. And a Pad can drive more than hardware: it reaches other MIDI-enabled apps on the same device — Stage Traxx, BS-16i, AmpliTube among them — the same way it reaches an instrument.
While a Background Session is running, iOS already shows it in the Dynamic Island. Now, if a Device drops, MIDIDeviceManager names it directly there too, with one silent notification the first time it happens — nothing to turn on, nothing to watch for.
A Device could sometimes borrow another one’s identity. On a shared connection, if exactly one reply came back and it didn’t match what MIDIDeviceManager expected, it was sometimes accepted anyway — so a Device already confirmed could show green from an unrelated interface’s own reply, even while the real instrument was switched off. That’s fixed for any Device with a confirmed history.
Build 108 also lets a Device that’s gone quiet find its way back on its own, colours a Pad however helps you find it fastest, and confirms a tap — Reconnect BLE MIDI, Copy Diagnostics — with a checkmark rather than leaving you wondering whether it registered.
The Manual and Quick Start Guides have been updated throughout for Build 108, and a new Sliders and Buttons Quick Start Guide walks through creating and using them, start to finish. Both are available from the Resource Centre.
📘 Download Build 108 What’s New Guide
🚀 CSV Device Index Import Quick Start Guide
New to CSV Device Indexes?
This guide explains how to import a CSV Device Index into MIDIDeviceManager and start using it in just a few minutes.
📘 Download CSV Device Index Import Quick Start Guide (PDF)
📥 CSV Device Indexes
Many MIDI devices can be used with MIDIDeviceManager by importing a CSV Device Index.
A CSV Device Index provides meaningful patch names, making it easy to search, browse and assign patches to Pads, Scenes and Live Mode.
Browse the complete list of supported devices below.
🚀 Sliders and Buttons Quick Start Guide
Give every Device its own continuous and on/off controls — a level, an effect, anything your equipment accepts as a Control Change — right alongside its Pads. This guide walks through creating a Slider and a Button pair, using them live across Devices, Scenes and Live Mode, and the one habit worth knowing before a Scene ever spans more than one piece of gear.
📘 Download the Sliders and Buttons Quick Start Guide (PDF)
⌚ Apple Watch Companion Quick Start Guide
Your phone and your wrist can now control two different pieces of equipment at the same time. MDM’s new Apple Watch companion stays independently in sync with your phone or iPad — not just a mirror of it — so one hand can be on a guitar processor while the other recalls patches on something else entirely. This guide covers installation, pairing, and getting started.
📘 Download the Apple Watch Companion Quick Start Guide (PDF)
🚀 Manufacturer Resource Import Index Quick Start Guide
Already have a backup or patch dump from your equipment’s own software? Build a Searchable Instrument Index straight from it — no cable, no Bluetooth, no Pro mode required.
📘 Download Manufacturer Resource Import Index Quick Start Guide (PDF)
🚀 MDM Patch Walk MIDI Mapping Quick Start Guide
Captures exact patch addresses by listening while you step through your equipment by hand — the one thing it can’t get is the names, which you add yourself afterward, often just by copying them from the manual into Excel or Numbers.
📘 Download Manufacturer Resource Import Index Quick Start Guide (PDF)
📡 Using CME WIDI Devices with MDM
Connecting a CME WIDI Master or WIDI Jack to MDM?
This guide covers Bluetooth MIDI pairing, the recommended Force Peripheral setting that stops WIDI devices connecting to each other instead of your iPhone or iPad, LED status colours, and what to do when a device won’t reconnect.
📘 Download the Quick Start Guide (PDF)
📖 User Manual
The complete MIDIDeviceManager User Manual provides detailed information about every feature of the application.
📖 Download the User Manual PDF
🆘 Live Emergency Guide
One page, for printing and keeping with your equipment. Seven steps for the ten minutes before you play, in the order that gets you back on stage rather than the order that finds the cause. Print it, fold it, put it in the gig bag — it is written to be read in a hurry, in bad light.
PDF · one page · Build 107