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midiSequencer & all IAPs on holiday sale
Greetings and happy holidays!
Those of you who don't yet have midiSequencer (you don't know what you're missing!) - I've reduced the price until end of Nov to just $3.99(£2.99) and both IAPs(Chords & midiFx) to 99c (£0.79)
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/midisequencer/id787934896…
You can hear some audio demos of it (and the up and coming extensions to it) in use on my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/manowargoblin
It's a great way to extend your enjoyment of the many fantastic synth apps now on IOS - Moog Model 15, Animoog, Korg Odyssei, Sunrizer, Magellan, Nave, and well any synth that supports midi (which is now most of them!)
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Thanks, Tony. Any news to share on the update?
soon is all I can say. I'd like to submit it to Apple within next couple of weeks.
It will add (for free):
. new panel for RealTime Midi CC controls (you define up to 8 of them on one page using Controller Panel style) - you can play over the top of a running sequence.
. Updated MidiBus library
. FixedReset Step FX option on Reset Button
. New loop types Forward+1 .. 7 (this plays a step and then skips).
. New loop type STOP (to allow you to play faders as audition notes)
. Removing IOS7 support (Needed for Link anyway)
. Bug fix - was not saving correct controller CC keybord type
. Bug fixed - was not always renabling CC's on snapshot load
. Fixed IOS7 not starting on retina devices
. Save always saves all controls now.
. fixed AudioBus icon for midi unmute missing
. improved random - cycle reset on start/end notes of range
Nice!
this was my pick for the Friday sales, pretty much a midi dream come, didn't know an update was coming either. Impressive stuff @midiSequencer
Nice work Tony - I love this app & look forward to the update. Cheers
If I understand it correctly the next update will have Ableton LINK?
Thanks
Quite tempted by this for iPhone use. but trying it out on the SE and it's pretty impossible to use on the SE screen. Perhaps, rather than redesigning the iphone layout, to add a "fit to screen" option then you can scroll up or down and a zoom and scroll option could also be good.
@ocsprey - thx. I've put an enormous amount of functionality into MS, but it does need a facelift. I'm a one man indie developer so have to do everything myself.
@mannix - yes Live tempo sync, as midi sync isn't the best on any app/device.
@Carnbot - I have a partial zoom feature (three buttons on the LHS zoom to full-width), but fully developing for iPhone has 2 problems a) only 1% of sales are for iPhone b) I need the new skins first to ensure everything is more crisp with better contrast. That way I could do the pinch/scroll to best benefit too. It's on my list to do - I have the code for pinchZoom already (MS is built on a games engine framework).
I love midiSequencer, it's probably my go to midi noodler
ok great thanks
I should perhaps give a little more detail about the realtime controls....... I created them as a perfect companion for Model 15 app 14bit controllers. Being on the beta test team I wanted more knobs to twiddle to animate patches!
M15 uses two Midi CC's to move from 7bit to 14bit. The 2nd CC (low 7 bits) is exactly 32 higher than the first (the high 7 bits).
I also created a mapping setting (just like Moog Sub 37 etc) which you can use to make it easier to dial in names rather than numbers so 30 is the fixed filter high pass knob.
@Fruitbat1919 thx - mine too
I prefer to noodle than compose myself...
Yum! Noodle heaven.
wow this thing is awesome! wish i would have purchased it a long time ago
Looked interesting. So I bought it, while the going is good. Now I have to work out how to use it properly. Are there any good tutorials?
lovely app, soooooo very excited by the update!
I didn't realize this one went universal!
Thanks for that, and the sale!
Not sure there are many tutorials out there or if there really is a way to use this particular app 'properly'. Lots of possibilities. What are you hoping to do with it? Maybe someone can help.
I started on hardware-based MIDI step sequencing such as the Yamaha QX-1 and the Roland MC500 II (still have them). Does midiSequencer accomplish the equivalent of hardware-based MIDI step sequencing, and/or does Cubasis or Auria Pro do the equivalent of hardware-based MIDI step sequencing?
I am most interested in MIDI step sequencing (not MIDI real-time recording) and I just need a few answers before I make this purchase.
It's an entirely different beast from sequencers like the QX1 or the MC-500. Those are both polyphonic multitrack sequencers with high event resolution (like 96 pulses per quarter note) and step recording as well as song modes and some midi editing features... This is more like the sequencer from a Moog Modular system (on steroids). It has 16 total pulses (or steps) that can be set to any musical subdivision but usually correspond to 16th notes by default. You can record (or program) a chord to any step(s) with an IAP.
Each step can be randomized, set to skip steps, have midi fx like echo (IAP), send MIDI CCs etc.... You can fix the notes each step sends to a key/scale. You can transpose the whole sequence like you might with an arpeggiator or for 'berlin school' stuff like older tangerine dream or kraftwerk. It's a wonderful app. Lots of great/fun/musical/creative features, just a very different set of features as compared to a more 'song' oriented sequencer like those you mentioned (I owned both in the 80s!).
You can basically do all of the stuff from this playlist with midiSequencer other than the three separate melodic sequencers (though you can kind of do that via the chords IAP and/or 4 CC per step). Quite a lot of it is made easier by software. Plus, it's actually 16 steps.
Anyway, this will give you a basic idea of its roots:
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Not meaning to be facetious, but the answer is something I can't do with other apps. So, the best course is probably to dive in and start pushing buttons.
Thanks so much syrupcore! I am reasonably well versed in linear MIDI event editing from a hardware perspective (QX-1, MC500 II) and somewhat so from a software perspective (Sonar) however not so much from an iOS pattern-based perspective. I wonder if midiSequencer would be redundant given I just bought Genome MIDI Sequencer, Fugue Machine and Arpeggionome Pro (I have not used any of these three iOS apps enough to form opinions of them.
I am sure midiSequencer is a fine product now that I know its intent (pattern based MIDI sequencing) and given its sale price I would not mind owning it. The question is can I find a use for it that my other listed iOS apps cannot already accomplish?
@puppychumful
Yes, MS is a different sort of sequencer to something like Genome or FugueMachine in both presentation & use.
It is based on old style analog hardware sequencers (like the moog 960 or Doepfer MAQ 16/3) which work on altering melody lines (basically cv voltages fed into a VCO) on the fly to create interesting rhythms & patterns.
But MS goes further than these - adding chords, midi effects (like note echo), trills, ratcheting etc.
Everything is about performance - tweaking a sequence whilst it is playing. E.g. The cycle mode allows you to make changes and only apply them on the cycle reset.
For example, the loop type Forward+n mentioned earlier is a way of playing a melody but skipping n notes. This sort of feature creates interesting patterns & ideas from an already good melody say.
And of course MS can play extreme tempos : as low as 1 BPM for drones and 300+ BPM (it goes to 1020!) for really pushing iOS (or hardware) synths out of their comfort zone. This leads the getting very interesting sounds out of synths you wouldn't get by playing via a keyboard or most other sequencers (that don't go beyond 300 or below 20).
If you ever listened to Tangerine Dream's Phaedra album - shimmering effects are achieved by this method of fast sequencing.
It's designed very much from the single step up (so a step having a lot of functions) rather than phrases (like Genome).
This is a list of what, imo, make MS unique:
. sliders to visually represent notes & values - which you can draw or link-move together.
. Human readable note values according to music scales - transpose, drawing etc can all optional conform.
. idea of cycle delay - make changes which are not applied until the current sequence cycles - including loading sequences
. mute or latch(no note off for drones) individual step notes
. audition notes - even whilst sequencer is playing - e.g. touch locked controls to play a tune!
. midi channel per step - allows you to allocate steps to different synth voices.
. multiple device output with tuneable latency & filtering of notes, midi CC's or fx. So you could send midi fx to only one synth say!
. up to 16 defineable midi CCs which can be set to CCs, NRPN, RPN, Prog Chg, Pitch Bend, Aftertouch or sysex data. Each step can then have data (7 or 14bit) associated with these controls.
. Unique midi FX - echo, ostinato, filter, rotator, probability%, remapping etc
. midi thru - lets you process input notes with step fx. So use MS as a midi processor.
. Swing & Probability of play settings per step
. humanise % chance and with variation in note & velocity - can all be set by step.
. Ability to play in tempo interval time(traditional step) or note length time(legato mode)
. sequence note inversion around a defineable key note.
. Chords - up to 128 note chords can be played on each step .
. Highest tempo ranges of any sequencer 1020 BPM for special fx.
. step ornamentation (appoggiatura, acciacutura, tremolo, etc)
. rachets - divide step notes x6 and define how those divisions are played melodically. Next update adds types too (so ratchet notes can vary pitch).
. midi learn to automate changes
. record input into steps
@syrupcore thx for that posting
It's never easy explaining what MS can do!
@Nkersov that's the spirit!
@midiSequencer was thinking of this for the iPhone, but I tried your lite version and found the controls so small as to be nearly unusable on an iPhone 5. Is the lite version essentially the same as the full version, only with some features turned off? If so, will anything change with regard to iPhone UI in the upcoming update?
I had a look at the sysex function...is it possible to paste the sysex or learn it? Tapping it in would be way too laborious.
Thanks
@skiphunt - yes lite is same display as full version. I myself use an iPhone 6+ so not really a phone as a phablet!
Saying that - let me rework the screen on iPhone 5 & 6 to something easier to use....
@chris_foster - let me look at that option too (copy/paste & possibly learn).
Groovy. I'll get a new phone eventually... but was leaning toward the SE which also has the smaller screen on my iPhone 5. I don't really have a sequencer that's easy to use on the iPhone. Xynthesizr is usable, but not very flexible. Aleph Looper is very cool, but extremely fiddly and very difficult to edit a sequence on a 4in screen.
I don't really need the sequencer, but your last breakdown of what sets it apart from others has me intrigued... especially the random controls and extreme BPM settings.
This is a great way to mentally frame mS. If it's not already at the top of the manual, I reckon it orta be.