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IOS midi sequencer app most similar to Alesis MMT8?

omvibesomvibes
in General App Discussion

Hi all, looking to integrate an ios midi sequencer to my hardware set up, but my head is swimming with all the options available. I'm looking to keep it simple for band jamming, so something along the lines of an old Alesis mmt8 would be good. Ability to be a midi slave, good visual ui, real time recording etc.
Anyone able to guide me on this?

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  • AudiojunkieAudiojunkie
    edited November 2018

    Anthony Saunders is working on a "Realtime" sequencer that sounds most similar to what you are wanting. There is a thread here somewhere about it.

    Edit: I think it is @midiSequencer who is making it, and I believe this is the thread:

    https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/28149/real-time-sequencer-aum/p1

  • Telstar5Telstar5

    Jeez, I would buy that!

  • cooloutcoolout

    The MMT-8 was one of the first sequencers I owned. It was super easy to use but mine had a bug where a certain key combo would make it freak out and erase all the memory. After losing a few songs I upgraded to a Atari STe.

    There was a PC based emulation of MMT-8 years ago that was pretty accurate. I wish someone would port that to iOS. https://sourceforge.net/projects/vimmer/

  • Blipsford_BaubieBlipsford_Baubie

    That was my first sequencer too. I loved how the manual was underneath the cover; much like a scientific calculator.

  • rs2000rs2000

    @coolout said:
    ...
    There was a PC based emulation of MMT-8 years ago that was pretty accurate. I wish someone would port that to iOS. https://sourceforge.net/projects/vimmer/

    An MMT-8 clone - I don't believe it :D
    Thanks, I'm definitely going to try this one!
    Believe it or not, I had it after the Atari ST because I tried to build a more straightforward and immediate setup. To speed up usability, I even built a custom switch panel for it.
    While trying numerous hardware sequencers and groove boxes, I've got stuck at the idea of pattern-based sequencing however (with Roland's SYS-503 and SYS-553 being amongst the fastest) and Genome MIDI now does it for me. (MIDI clock slave, controller editing, pattern clip launching, realtime tweaks...)
    I'm glad I don't have to go back to these times ;)

  • Telstar5Telstar5

    @coolout said:
    The MMT-8 was one of the first sequencers I owned. It was super easy to use but mine had a bug where a certain key combo would make it freak out and erase all the memory. After losing a few songs I upgraded to a Atari STe.

    There was a PC based emulation of MMT-8 years ago that was pretty accurate. I wish someone would port that to iOS. https://sourceforge.net/projects/

    @coolout Ha ha that happened to me too several times. I lost lots of hours worth of work. No shuffle swing quantize though

  • omvibesomvibes

    @audiojunkie: thanks for the link, will check it out.

    Any already-available apps that would do the job?

  • u0421793u0421793

    My MMT-8 in the early 90s, when I first hooked up a recently-bought guitar to midi converter to it (Roland GM-70 – highly irritating to use, everything is in octal) I hit about three or four chords and the MMT-8 displayed “BUMMER DUDE! MEMORY FULL”.

    I also had an HR-16B. I very much liked the MMT-8. I used it a lot with my Emu Proteus (first ever model before it was called Proteus 1). Those two items were the peak of good usability at the time, and could still teach things today a thing or two.

  • AudiojunkieAudiojunkie

    You might look into Xequence. It's a full blown multitrack Midi workstation--possibly the most powerful midi sequencer in the iOS realm. I can guarantee that it has the capability to do what you are wanting to do. However, I got the impression that you were going for more of a simple realtime sequencer, so I didn't mention it at first. It's inexpensive, and the developer is a great guy that hangs out here with the rest of us. It's worth looking into. :smile:

  • stuck80sstuck80s

    .... to me the mmt8 is a midi looper. You can have multiple hardware synths midi’d Up than jam and it will loop what you’ve played, than you can come back and overdub by turning knobs and it will record that as well. I can do this on 4 hardware synths and each records on its own midi channel independently at the same time.

    To my knowledge I don’t think Xequence can do that.... or can it ???

    For example: I can finger drum on an Electribe for much longer than the bars allowed on the machine than it will loop and I can overdub on top of it.

  • KorakiosKorakios
    edited March 2019

    Modstep is cool but you have to pre-set the length of the loop which kills jamming, but StageLight is the best option .
    I believe the free version is already the best audio/midi looper....

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