Favorite Sequencer

SevenSystems

@rickwaugh it can record and playback MIDI, but not audio... it is very capable and quick for editing and arranging MIDI and also for recording, as it has a very flexible keyboard / controller interface... but unfortunately it doesn't do tempo changes, so I think it may not be optimal for your use case. Would love to tell you otherwise

SpookyZoo

@SevenSystems said:

@tja said:
And it is true that you cannot send MIDI to Xequence by "share" or "open in"!
You need to move the file to the Xequence folder within the Files App!
This is greatly confusing and strange.

To be honest, this was the easiest and quickest to implement. I really want to concentrate on "music" features in the app, and not add a lot of code that only works for a single platform (iOS). The rest of Xequence is completely cross-platform and runs on anything from a toaster to a spaceship that's why I try to do everything as generic as possible...

Love the app but this import limitation hinders our ability to get on with ‘the music’.

Open in functionality is in almost every other midi app. Please please consider this method. cheers.

IFiles is fine, when at home with Wi-Fi, but on the move, open in is perfect.

Appreciate you still have a long list, but this would be Awesome if possible. Ta.

cian

@rickwaugh said:

I could make multiple tracks, but this is the same problem as in all other iOS sequencers, and it’s a major short coming. You can’t get realistic acoustic orchestral sounds, as in real life the players are constantly changing stroke types, from staccato, to legato, to pizzicato, etc. On more mature platforms, you can switch, using key switches. Trying to do it on multiple tracks, for multiple instruments, is enough to make one stop dead right there. Don’t know enough about midi at this point to figure out whether the program changes would work.

It could certainly be made to work, it's more a question of whether the target app supports it. You might also be able to do it with ccs.

SevenSystems

@SpookyZoo said:
Love the app but this import limitation hinders our ability to get on with ‘the music’.

Appreciate you still have a long list, but this would be Awesome if possible. Ta.

Added to roadmap, sir!

rickwaugh

@cian said:

@rickwaugh said:

I could make multiple tracks, but this is the same problem as in all other iOS sequencers, and it’s a major short coming. You can’t get realistic acoustic orchestral sounds, as in real life the players are constantly changing stroke types, from staccato, to legato, to pizzicato, etc. On more mature platforms, you can switch, using key switches. Trying to do it on multiple tracks, for multiple instruments, is enough to make one stop dead right there. Don’t know enough about midi at this point to figure out whether the program changes would work.

It could certainly be made to work, it's more a question of whether the target app supports it. You might also be able to do it with ccs.

Also comes down to how labour intensive it is to produce the resulting piece of music.

SpookyZoo

@SevenSystems said:

@SpookyZoo said:
Love the app but this import limitation hinders our ability to get on with ‘the music’.

Appreciate you still have a long list, but this would be Awesome if possible. Ta.

Added to roadmap, sir!

Double thumbs up! Cheers!

JonLewis

re: tempo track, in the linear timeline piano roll of Caustic (not the Pattern piano rolls per instrument but the Song one) you can create accelerandos and ritards between measures. You can set a tempo change at any bar mark of the timeline, Caustic will then look for the previous time you established a tempo and create a smooth ramp between the first tempo value and the next tempo value. So like, if my song tempo is 114, and i want everything to slow down at bar 8, i'll put a tempo marker of 114 at bar 7 and a tempo marker of 94 at bar 8. Playback tempo will ramp down from 114 to 94 within the space of one bar. (Or if I don't put the 114 marker at bar 7 and just put the 94 marker at bar 8, the beginning of the song will serve as the first tempo marker and the ramp down will occur constantly across the first 8 bars.

I haven't used the feature much yet but I think it's really cool as long as you can roll with the smallest unit of measure for tempo changes being a whole bar (big fan of constant rubato myself).

RUST( i )K

@robosardine said:

@RUST( i )K said:

@rickwaugh said:
I do love Auria, but I’m wondering if there is a better sequencer/piano roll out there. I will have midi files to import from Notion, and I want to muck with them; assign sounds, so would need midi import, AU and IAA, and be able to tweak everything you can in midi, easily. Doesn’t have to be a full DAW, would prefer it wasn’t. Would need to be able to export either as midi, or as wav files.

If there is one thing I’m sure about on this board, there will be opinions. Would love to hear them, and why. Not much good to say, “X is great,” without saying why, as for all I know, its the only one you’d ever tried.

GENOME is my all time favorite for sequencing synth apps.

I use MODSTEP for AU and Drums.

I like INFINITE but I don't have the flow for moving things around on it but it is what I use on iPHONE

I use the new X equence app in an attempt to learn it. Still gaining basic knowledge but didn't get IAPs.

Thats just me.

Is Genome compatible with most midi synths? I quite fancy it but the list of compatible apps is pretty small on the official website- is it maybe just out of date?

Genome sends over network you name it.

Full modulation recording as well.

Old list fo sho

rs2000

A real bummer that Genome has seen no feature updates for a long time, especially its internal modular virtual instrument panel had great features (like a sampler) in the internal betas but never made it to any release.
I still use it often because it properly slave-syncs to MIDI Clock and Start/Stop messages and indeed I can't remember any CoreMidi synth that doesn't work with it.

Will

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u0421793

@syrupcore said:
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I did this

On one of those

CracklePot

@u0421793 said:

@syrupcore said:
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I did this

On one of those

Wut? That thing was able to do procedural graphics this whole time? How did I not know this?

Littlewoodg

@rickwaugh said:
I do love Auria, but I’m wondering if there is a better sequencer/piano roll out there. I will have midi files to import from Notion, and I want to muck with them; assign sounds, so would need midi import, AU and IAA, and be able to tweak everything you can in midi, easily. Doesn’t have to be a full DAW, would prefer it wasn’t. Would need to be able to export either as midi, or as wav files.

If there is one thing I’m sure about on this board, there will be opinions. Would love to hear them, and why. Not much good to say, “X is great,” without saying why, as for all I know, its the only one you’d ever tried.

You may want to look at MultiTrackStudio. It has a dedicated time sig./tempo editor

Song editor for working with sections

Multi-midi editor for same

And can turn midi into audio, and audio into midi

Also you can compose in score/staff mode

Imports midi in tracks and multitrack

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Littlewoodg

@tja said:

But turning MIDI into audio is the same as freezing in Cubasis, or?

Yep, with variations Auria and Cubasis do the same thing. MTS also lets you go the other direction audio-to-midi (for both melodic and groove content)

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cian

That does seem like an impressive list of features. The thing that has always stopped me from pulling the trigger are the limited number of tracks. If you're using MIDI then 16 tracks is essentially 8 (8 for audio, 8 for MIDI). The pro update gets me to 32 (for a total of $50) and even 60 only gets me to 64

Littlewoodg

@cian said:
That does seem like an impressive list of features. The thing that has always stopped me from pulling the trigger are the limited number of tracks. If you're using MIDI then 16 tracks is essentially 8 (8 for audio, 8 for MIDI). The pro update gets me to 32 (for a total of $50) and even 60 only gets me to 64

I get it. I’ve personally never reached the limit, but I know there are many of us that need that 65th track (my teacher years ago called it the “n+1 problem”: needing just one more channel on the mixing desk)

rickwaugh

@Littlewoodg, how good is the notation side of multitrack DAW? Can you put in dynamic markers, such as staccato, and does it then play them properly?

stormbeats

Are there any good tutorials for MultiTrack Studio - can't find any - I'am confused as to how to build an arrangement with this - How to repeat audio clips and how the song structuring works (vertical or horizontal)
Thanks in advance for any tips.
The manual isn't the best

cian

@Littlewoodg said:

@cian said:
That does seem like an impressive list of features. The thing that has always stopped me from pulling the trigger are the limited number of tracks. If you're using MIDI then 16 tracks is essentially 8 (8 for audio, 8 for MIDI). The pro update gets me to 32 (for a total of $50) and even 60 only gets me to 64

I get it. I’ve personally never reached the limit, but I know there are many of us that need that 65th track (my teacher years ago called it the “n+1 problem”: needing just one more channel on the mixing desk)

Well if you're doing MIDI it's probably more like 51st. Which sounds like a lot and maybe is sufficient (though EDM tends to encourage techniques that use more audio tracks for stuff like risers, reverse reverbs, etc). But TBH it's more a matter of principle. I can't bring myself to spend $50 for something that only has 32 tracks. And $60? That's reaper. None of the other serious DAWs on IOS have these kinds of limits and MultiTrackStudio is in all other regards pro level (it has curves on CCs/effects, supports tempo ramps and multiple time signatures, has what seem like good stock effects). You can edit multiple MIDI tracks simultaneously (which for me is huge), and it even supports notation entry. But with a maximum of 64 tracks it just feels like a toy. And $60 is too much for a toy.

Personally I think that the base version (at $30) should have unlimited tracks. And yes I would happily spend $20 on those extra features.

Littlewoodg

@cian said:

@Littlewoodg said:

@cian said:
That does seem like an impressive list of features. The thing that has always stopped me from pulling the trigger are the limited number of tracks. If you're using MIDI then 16 tracks is essentially 8 (8 for audio, 8 for MIDI). The pro update gets me to 32 (for a total of $50) and even 60 only gets me to 64

I get it. I’ve personally never reached the limit, but I know there are many of us that need that 65th track (my teacher years ago called it the “n+1 problem”: needing just one more channel on the mixing desk)

Well if you're doing MIDI it's probably more like 51st. Which sounds like a lot and maybe is sufficient (though EDM tends to encourage techniques that use more audio tracks for stuff like risers, reverse reverbs, etc). But TBH it's more a matter of principle. I can't bring myself to spend $50 for something that only has 32 tracks. And $60? That's reaper. None of the other serious DAWs on IOS have these kinds of limits and MultiTrackStudio is in all other regards pro level (it has curves on CCs/effects, supports tempo ramps and multiple time signatures, has what seem like good stock effects). You can edit multiple MIDI tracks simultaneously (which for me is huge), and it even supports notation entry. But with a maximum of 64 tracks it just feels like a toy. And $60 is too much for a toy.

Personally I think that the base version (at $30) should have unlimited tracks. And yes I would happily spend $20 on those extra features.

I see what you’re saying- I’ll drop a request on Mr Bremmers forum, he’s very open to requests, except for when he’s not, lol

EDIT: I see you already reached out on the forum, I’ll second you’re request.

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onkey

Are there any midi sequencers out there with native support for GM soundfonts? My current workaround is using Cubasis with bs-16i loaded onto each track but I’m looking for a simpler solution.

Littlewoodg

@onkey said:
Are there any midi sequencers out there with native support for GM soundfonts? My current workaround is using Cubasis with bs-16i loaded onto each track but I’m looking for a simpler solution.

MultiTrackStudio loads sf, as does Auria Pro.