Xequence 2 is now available!

hellquist

@SevenSystems said:
@hellquist, nice to see you back. A good starting point is this page:

http://www.seven.systems/xequence2/en/new-in-2/

At Xequence's usual breakneck development speed though, that's already extremely old news and the app has again seen many major improvements and new features since 2.0.0. So another look at the version history in the App Store would also be a good idea 🙂

I can also say that 2.2 is right around the corner and again introduces some significant stuff.

You can't go wrong with Xequence 2! 😉

Hehe, did you create that link for me? Good stuff indeed, thanks.

SevenSystems

@hellquist said:

@SevenSystems said:
@hellquist, nice to see you back. A good starting point is this page:

http://www.seven.systems/xequence2/en/new-in-2/

At Xequence's usual breakneck development speed though, that's already extremely old news and the app has again seen many major improvements and new features since 2.0.0. So another look at the version history in the App Store would also be a good idea 🙂

I can also say that 2.2 is right around the corner and again introduces some significant stuff.

You can't go wrong with Xequence 2! 😉

Hehe, did you create that link for me?

Good stuff indeed, thanks.

You're very welcome. Let me know if anything's unclear after you've digested everything

SevenSystems

Xequence 2.2 has been released!

The updated manual will go online later today, so if there's any questions in the meantime, just post them here!

NEW ARRANGER FEA­TURES:

• CLIP MUT­ING: Any clip(s) can now be in­di­vid­u­al­ly mut­ed, sig­nif­i­cant­ly en­hanc­ing arrange­ment work­flow -- just keep du­pli­cat­ing all your ideas on all tracks and then in­tro­duce vari­a­tion by mut­ing in­di­vid­ual clips. Can be tog­gled in the new "Op­tions" menu.
• New se­lec­tion op­tion "Mut­ed" for se­lect­ing all mut­ed clips (for ex­am­ple, to delete them once arrange­ment is done).
• New "DU­PLI­CATE & JOIN" fea­ture in the bot­tom tool­bar: this works like "Du­pli­cate", but joins the orig­i­nal and the copy to­geth­er so that the re­sult is a new clip twice the length of the orig­i­nal. A very use­ful tool for ar­rang­ing elec­tron­ic mu­sic, for ex­am­ple when you have a short idea in a clip that you would like to ex­tend to your reg­u­lar "sec­tion" length, like 8 bars. If the idea is 1 bar long, just tap "Du­pli­cate & Join" 3 times.
• New GLOB­AL "SOLO" tog­gle above the track­list (only while ruler is vis­i­ble): Un-solo all soloed tracks with a sin­gle tap.

IM­PROVE­MENTS:

• All clip tog­gles ("Loop", "Cut at end" / "Play through", and the new "Mute") are now in a sep­a­rate "Op­tions" menu.
• All scrol­lable lists (file se­lec­tor, drum maps, etc.) now sup­port mo­men­tum scrolling (iOS 13 and lat­er only).
• If a project has text in the notepad, the notepad icon will be more prom­inent.
• More log­i­cal arrange­ment of track area but­tons.
• Re­duced bat­tery us­age in the back­ground.

FIX­ES:

• MIDI Im­port: Fix po­ten­tial­ly odd start­ing / end po­si­tions of im­port­ed clips if the time sig­na­ture of the im­port­ed MIDI file is dif­fer­ent from the cur­rent project's.
• MIDI Im­port: Fur­ther im­prove­ments to com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with many MIDI files.
• Pi­anoroll: Pre­vent "Fill clip" from run­ning out of mem­o­ry when us­ing an ex­treme­ly short se­lec­tion and no grid.
• Fix "Notes longer than clip" set­ting not be­ing tak­en into ac­count for looped clips.
• Fix track menu stay­ing open af­ter delet­ing the last track of an in­stru­ment.
• Small cos­met­ic tweaks.
• Fur­ther sta­bil­i­ty im­prove­ments.

crony

gregsmith

@SevenSystems said:
Xequence 2.2 has been released!

The updated manual will go online later today, so if there's any questions in the meantime, just post them here!

NEW ARRANGER FEA­TURES:

• CLIP MUT­ING: Any clip(s) can now be in­di­vid­u­al­ly mut­ed, sig­nif­i­cant­ly en­hanc­ing arrange­ment work­flow -- just keep du­pli­cat­ing all your ideas on all tracks and then in­tro­duce vari­a­tion by mut­ing in­di­vid­ual clips. Can be tog­gled in the new "Op­tions" menu.
• New se­lec­tion op­tion "Mut­ed" for se­lect­ing all mut­ed clips (for ex­am­ple, to delete them once arrange­ment is done).
• New "DU­PLI­CATE & JOIN" fea­ture in the bot­tom tool­bar: this works like "Du­pli­cate", but joins the orig­i­nal and the copy to­geth­er so that the re­sult is a new clip twice the length of the orig­i­nal. A very use­ful tool for ar­rang­ing elec­tron­ic mu­sic, for ex­am­ple when you have a short idea in a clip that you would like to ex­tend to your reg­u­lar "sec­tion" length, like 8 bars. If the idea is 1 bar long, just tap "Du­pli­cate & Join" 3 times.
• New GLOB­AL "SOLO" tog­gle above the track­list (only while ruler is vis­i­ble): Un-solo all soloed tracks with a sin­gle tap.

IM­PROVE­MENTS:

• All clip tog­gles ("Loop", "Cut at end" / "Play through", and the new "Mute") are now in a sep­a­rate "Op­tions" menu.
• All scrol­lable lists (file se­lec­tor, drum maps, etc.) now sup­port mo­men­tum scrolling (iOS 13 and lat­er only).
• If a project has text in the notepad, the notepad icon will be more prom­inent.
• More log­i­cal arrange­ment of track area but­tons.
• Re­duced bat­tery us­age in the back­ground.

FIX­ES:

• MIDI Im­port: Fix po­ten­tial­ly odd start­ing / end po­si­tions of im­port­ed clips if the time sig­na­ture of the im­port­ed MIDI file is dif­fer­ent from the cur­rent project's.
• MIDI Im­port: Fur­ther im­prove­ments to com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with many MIDI files.
• Pi­anoroll: Pre­vent "Fill clip" from run­ning out of mem­o­ry when us­ing an ex­treme­ly short se­lec­tion and no grid.
• Fix "Notes longer than clip" set­ting not be­ing tak­en into ac­count for looped clips.
• Fix track menu stay­ing open af­ter delet­ing the last track of an in­stru­ment.
• Small cos­met­ic tweaks.
• Fur­ther sta­bil­i­ty im­prove­ments.

These new tweaks sound really good. Love the idea of muting clips whilst composing then deleting them easily.

SevenSystems

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:
Xequence 2.2 has been released!

The updated manual will go online later today, so if there's any questions in the meantime, just post them here!

NEW ARRANGER FEA­TURES:

• CLIP MUT­ING: Any clip(s) can now be in­di­vid­u­al­ly mut­ed, sig­nif­i­cant­ly en­hanc­ing arrange­ment work­flow -- just keep du­pli­cat­ing all your ideas on all tracks and then in­tro­duce vari­a­tion by mut­ing in­di­vid­ual clips. Can be tog­gled in the new "Op­tions" menu.
• New se­lec­tion op­tion "Mut­ed" for se­lect­ing all mut­ed clips (for ex­am­ple, to delete them once arrange­ment is done).
• New "DU­PLI­CATE & JOIN" fea­ture in the bot­tom tool­bar: this works like "Du­pli­cate", but joins the orig­i­nal and the copy to­geth­er so that the re­sult is a new clip twice the length of the orig­i­nal. A very use­ful tool for ar­rang­ing elec­tron­ic mu­sic, for ex­am­ple when you have a short idea in a clip that you would like to ex­tend to your reg­u­lar "sec­tion" length, like 8 bars. If the idea is 1 bar long, just tap "Du­pli­cate & Join" 3 times.
• New GLOB­AL "SOLO" tog­gle above the track­list (only while ruler is vis­i­ble): Un-solo all soloed tracks with a sin­gle tap.

IM­PROVE­MENTS:

• All clip tog­gles ("Loop", "Cut at end" / "Play through", and the new "Mute") are now in a sep­a­rate "Op­tions" menu.
• All scrol­lable lists (file se­lec­tor, drum maps, etc.) now sup­port mo­men­tum scrolling (iOS 13 and lat­er only).
• If a project has text in the notepad, the notepad icon will be more prom­inent.
• More log­i­cal arrange­ment of track area but­tons.
• Re­duced bat­tery us­age in the back­ground.

FIX­ES:

• MIDI Im­port: Fix po­ten­tial­ly odd start­ing / end po­si­tions of im­port­ed clips if the time sig­na­ture of the im­port­ed MIDI file is dif­fer­ent from the cur­rent project's.
• MIDI Im­port: Fur­ther im­prove­ments to com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with many MIDI files.
• Pi­anoroll: Pre­vent "Fill clip" from run­ning out of mem­o­ry when us­ing an ex­treme­ly short se­lec­tion and no grid.
• Fix "Notes longer than clip" set­ting not be­ing tak­en into ac­count for looped clips.
• Fix track menu stay­ing open af­ter delet­ing the last track of an in­stru­ment.
• Small cos­met­ic tweaks.
• Fur­ther sta­bil­i­ty im­prove­ments.

These new tweaks sound really good. Love the idea of muting clips whilst composing then deleting them easily.

Yes, that's the plan... works really well to quickly try different arrangements, and then simply delete all muted clips with SELECT -> Muted -> Delete, and refine.

gregsmith

@SevenSystems said:

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:
Xequence 2.2 has been released!

The updated manual will go online later today, so if there's any questions in the meantime, just post them here!

NEW ARRANGER FEA­TURES:

• CLIP MUT­ING: Any clip(s) can now be in­di­vid­u­al­ly mut­ed, sig­nif­i­cant­ly en­hanc­ing arrange­ment work­flow -- just keep du­pli­cat­ing all your ideas on all tracks and then in­tro­duce vari­a­tion by mut­ing in­di­vid­ual clips. Can be tog­gled in the new "Op­tions" menu.
• New se­lec­tion op­tion "Mut­ed" for se­lect­ing all mut­ed clips (for ex­am­ple, to delete them once arrange­ment is done).
• New "DU­PLI­CATE & JOIN" fea­ture in the bot­tom tool­bar: this works like "Du­pli­cate", but joins the orig­i­nal and the copy to­geth­er so that the re­sult is a new clip twice the length of the orig­i­nal. A very use­ful tool for ar­rang­ing elec­tron­ic mu­sic, for ex­am­ple when you have a short idea in a clip that you would like to ex­tend to your reg­u­lar "sec­tion" length, like 8 bars. If the idea is 1 bar long, just tap "Du­pli­cate & Join" 3 times.
• New GLOB­AL "SOLO" tog­gle above the track­list (only while ruler is vis­i­ble): Un-solo all soloed tracks with a sin­gle tap.

IM­PROVE­MENTS:

• All clip tog­gles ("Loop", "Cut at end" / "Play through", and the new "Mute") are now in a sep­a­rate "Op­tions" menu.
• All scrol­lable lists (file se­lec­tor, drum maps, etc.) now sup­port mo­men­tum scrolling (iOS 13 and lat­er only).
• If a project has text in the notepad, the notepad icon will be more prom­inent.
• More log­i­cal arrange­ment of track area but­tons.
• Re­duced bat­tery us­age in the back­ground.

FIX­ES:

• MIDI Im­port: Fix po­ten­tial­ly odd start­ing / end po­si­tions of im­port­ed clips if the time sig­na­ture of the im­port­ed MIDI file is dif­fer­ent from the cur­rent project's.
• MIDI Im­port: Fur­ther im­prove­ments to com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with many MIDI files.
• Pi­anoroll: Pre­vent "Fill clip" from run­ning out of mem­o­ry when us­ing an ex­treme­ly short se­lec­tion and no grid.
• Fix "Notes longer than clip" set­ting not be­ing tak­en into ac­count for looped clips.
• Fix track menu stay­ing open af­ter delet­ing the last track of an in­stru­ment.
• Small cos­met­ic tweaks.
• Fur­ther sta­bil­i­ty im­prove­ments.

These new tweaks sound really good. Love the idea of muting clips whilst composing then deleting them easily.

Yes, that's the plan... works really well to quickly try different arrangements, and then simply delete all muted clips with SELECT -> Muted -> Delete, and refine.

Still want help debugging state saving? It’s been working a bit better for me recently (I think!)

SevenSystems

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:
Xequence 2.2 has been released!

The updated manual will go online later today, so if there's any questions in the meantime, just post them here!

NEW ARRANGER FEA­TURES:

• CLIP MUT­ING: Any clip(s) can now be in­di­vid­u­al­ly mut­ed, sig­nif­i­cant­ly en­hanc­ing arrange­ment work­flow -- just keep du­pli­cat­ing all your ideas on all tracks and then in­tro­duce vari­a­tion by mut­ing in­di­vid­ual clips. Can be tog­gled in the new "Op­tions" menu.
• New se­lec­tion op­tion "Mut­ed" for se­lect­ing all mut­ed clips (for ex­am­ple, to delete them once arrange­ment is done).
• New "DU­PLI­CATE & JOIN" fea­ture in the bot­tom tool­bar: this works like "Du­pli­cate", but joins the orig­i­nal and the copy to­geth­er so that the re­sult is a new clip twice the length of the orig­i­nal. A very use­ful tool for ar­rang­ing elec­tron­ic mu­sic, for ex­am­ple when you have a short idea in a clip that you would like to ex­tend to your reg­u­lar "sec­tion" length, like 8 bars. If the idea is 1 bar long, just tap "Du­pli­cate & Join" 3 times.
• New GLOB­AL "SOLO" tog­gle above the track­list (only while ruler is vis­i­ble): Un-solo all soloed tracks with a sin­gle tap.

IM­PROVE­MENTS:

• All clip tog­gles ("Loop", "Cut at end" / "Play through", and the new "Mute") are now in a sep­a­rate "Op­tions" menu.
• All scrol­lable lists (file se­lec­tor, drum maps, etc.) now sup­port mo­men­tum scrolling (iOS 13 and lat­er only).
• If a project has text in the notepad, the notepad icon will be more prom­inent.
• More log­i­cal arrange­ment of track area but­tons.
• Re­duced bat­tery us­age in the back­ground.

FIX­ES:

• MIDI Im­port: Fix po­ten­tial­ly odd start­ing / end po­si­tions of im­port­ed clips if the time sig­na­ture of the im­port­ed MIDI file is dif­fer­ent from the cur­rent project's.
• MIDI Im­port: Fur­ther im­prove­ments to com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with many MIDI files.
• Pi­anoroll: Pre­vent "Fill clip" from run­ning out of mem­o­ry when us­ing an ex­treme­ly short se­lec­tion and no grid.
• Fix "Notes longer than clip" set­ting not be­ing tak­en into ac­count for looped clips.
• Fix track menu stay­ing open af­ter delet­ing the last track of an in­stru­ment.
• Small cos­met­ic tweaks.
• Fur­ther sta­bil­i­ty im­prove­ments.

These new tweaks sound really good. Love the idea of muting clips whilst composing then deleting them easily.

Yes, that's the plan... works really well to quickly try different arrangements, and then simply delete all muted clips with SELECT -> Muted -> Delete, and refine.

Still want help debugging state saving? It’s been working a bit better for me recently (I think!)

Absolutely, I have you on my list and will contact you as soon as time allows! (extreme turmoil recently so I can only do the absolutely most urgent things...)

gregsmith

@SevenSystems said:

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:
Xequence 2.2 has been released!

The updated manual will go online later today, so if there's any questions in the meantime, just post them here!

NEW ARRANGER FEA­TURES:

• CLIP MUT­ING: Any clip(s) can now be in­di­vid­u­al­ly mut­ed, sig­nif­i­cant­ly en­hanc­ing arrange­ment work­flow -- just keep du­pli­cat­ing all your ideas on all tracks and then in­tro­duce vari­a­tion by mut­ing in­di­vid­ual clips. Can be tog­gled in the new "Op­tions" menu.
• New se­lec­tion op­tion "Mut­ed" for se­lect­ing all mut­ed clips (for ex­am­ple, to delete them once arrange­ment is done).
• New "DU­PLI­CATE & JOIN" fea­ture in the bot­tom tool­bar: this works like "Du­pli­cate", but joins the orig­i­nal and the copy to­geth­er so that the re­sult is a new clip twice the length of the orig­i­nal. A very use­ful tool for ar­rang­ing elec­tron­ic mu­sic, for ex­am­ple when you have a short idea in a clip that you would like to ex­tend to your reg­u­lar "sec­tion" length, like 8 bars. If the idea is 1 bar long, just tap "Du­pli­cate & Join" 3 times.
• New GLOB­AL "SOLO" tog­gle above the track­list (only while ruler is vis­i­ble): Un-solo all soloed tracks with a sin­gle tap.

IM­PROVE­MENTS:

• All clip tog­gles ("Loop", "Cut at end" / "Play through", and the new "Mute") are now in a sep­a­rate "Op­tions" menu.
• All scrol­lable lists (file se­lec­tor, drum maps, etc.) now sup­port mo­men­tum scrolling (iOS 13 and lat­er only).
• If a project has text in the notepad, the notepad icon will be more prom­inent.
• More log­i­cal arrange­ment of track area but­tons.
• Re­duced bat­tery us­age in the back­ground.

FIX­ES:

• MIDI Im­port: Fix po­ten­tial­ly odd start­ing / end po­si­tions of im­port­ed clips if the time sig­na­ture of the im­port­ed MIDI file is dif­fer­ent from the cur­rent project's.
• MIDI Im­port: Fur­ther im­prove­ments to com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with many MIDI files.
• Pi­anoroll: Pre­vent "Fill clip" from run­ning out of mem­o­ry when us­ing an ex­treme­ly short se­lec­tion and no grid.
• Fix "Notes longer than clip" set­ting not be­ing tak­en into ac­count for looped clips.
• Fix track menu stay­ing open af­ter delet­ing the last track of an in­stru­ment.
• Small cos­met­ic tweaks.
• Fur­ther sta­bil­i­ty im­prove­ments.

These new tweaks sound really good. Love the idea of muting clips whilst composing then deleting them easily.

Yes, that's the plan... works really well to quickly try different arrangements, and then simply delete all muted clips with SELECT -> Muted -> Delete, and refine.

Still want help debugging state saving? It’s been working a bit better for me recently (I think!)

Absolutely, I have you on my list and will contact you as soon as time allows! (extreme turmoil recently so I can only do the absolutely most urgent things...)

I know exactly how you feel - lots of plates spinning at the moment!

SevenSystems

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:
Xequence 2.2 has been released!

The updated manual will go online later today, so if there's any questions in the meantime, just post them here!

NEW ARRANGER FEA­TURES:

• CLIP MUT­ING: Any clip(s) can now be in­di­vid­u­al­ly mut­ed, sig­nif­i­cant­ly en­hanc­ing arrange­ment work­flow -- just keep du­pli­cat­ing all your ideas on all tracks and then in­tro­duce vari­a­tion by mut­ing in­di­vid­ual clips. Can be tog­gled in the new "Op­tions" menu.
• New se­lec­tion op­tion "Mut­ed" for se­lect­ing all mut­ed clips (for ex­am­ple, to delete them once arrange­ment is done).
• New "DU­PLI­CATE & JOIN" fea­ture in the bot­tom tool­bar: this works like "Du­pli­cate", but joins the orig­i­nal and the copy to­geth­er so that the re­sult is a new clip twice the length of the orig­i­nal. A very use­ful tool for ar­rang­ing elec­tron­ic mu­sic, for ex­am­ple when you have a short idea in a clip that you would like to ex­tend to your reg­u­lar "sec­tion" length, like 8 bars. If the idea is 1 bar long, just tap "Du­pli­cate & Join" 3 times.
• New GLOB­AL "SOLO" tog­gle above the track­list (only while ruler is vis­i­ble): Un-solo all soloed tracks with a sin­gle tap.

IM­PROVE­MENTS:

• All clip tog­gles ("Loop", "Cut at end" / "Play through", and the new "Mute") are now in a sep­a­rate "Op­tions" menu.
• All scrol­lable lists (file se­lec­tor, drum maps, etc.) now sup­port mo­men­tum scrolling (iOS 13 and lat­er only).
• If a project has text in the notepad, the notepad icon will be more prom­inent.
• More log­i­cal arrange­ment of track area but­tons.
• Re­duced bat­tery us­age in the back­ground.

FIX­ES:

• MIDI Im­port: Fix po­ten­tial­ly odd start­ing / end po­si­tions of im­port­ed clips if the time sig­na­ture of the im­port­ed MIDI file is dif­fer­ent from the cur­rent project's.
• MIDI Im­port: Fur­ther im­prove­ments to com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with many MIDI files.
• Pi­anoroll: Pre­vent "Fill clip" from run­ning out of mem­o­ry when us­ing an ex­treme­ly short se­lec­tion and no grid.
• Fix "Notes longer than clip" set­ting not be­ing tak­en into ac­count for looped clips.
• Fix track menu stay­ing open af­ter delet­ing the last track of an in­stru­ment.
• Small cos­met­ic tweaks.
• Fur­ther sta­bil­i­ty im­prove­ments.

These new tweaks sound really good. Love the idea of muting clips whilst composing then deleting them easily.

Yes, that's the plan... works really well to quickly try different arrangements, and then simply delete all muted clips with SELECT -> Muted -> Delete, and refine.

Still want help debugging state saving? It’s been working a bit better for me recently (I think!)

Absolutely, I have you on my list and will contact you as soon as time allows! (extreme turmoil recently so I can only do the absolutely most urgent things...)

I know exactly how you feel - lots of plates spinning at the moment!

Yep, and some of them stink! But I'll win this fight just like most others in the past

@everyone: The manual is updated as well. Happy playing!

bounce

I own v1 and never got around to playing with it. Not for any fault of the app, mainly because I commit to audio on iOS and do MIDI on desktop. Thinking that might change since IOS feels a lot more mature lately with the latest updates etc.
This time I want to make sure I really need it though. Looked through the online manual and didn’t see, does it allow multiple piano views at one time? Seems MIDI import is one at a time, but once MIDI is in it, is it super quick to preview MIDI files that have been saved previously?

rs2000

@bounce said:
I own v1 and never got around to playing with it. Not for any fault of the app, mainly because I commit to audio on iOS and do MIDI on desktop. Thinking that might change since IOS feels a lot more mature lately with the latest updates etc.
This time I want to make sure I really need it though. Looked through the online manual and didn’t see, does it allow multiple piano views at one time? Seems MIDI import is one at a time, but once MIDI is in it, is it super quick to preview MIDI files that have been saved previously?

Multiple piano views?

Yes, previewing and editing is super-quick even with long and dense MIDI files, and that's exactly what I'm using Xeq2 for. Editing is just more fun than on the desktop. It can't do everything but it gets better and better over time.

SevenSystems

@bounce said:
I own v1 and never got around to playing with it. Not for any fault of the app, mainly because I commit to audio on iOS and do MIDI on desktop. Thinking that might change since IOS feels a lot more mature lately with the latest updates etc.
This time I want to make sure I really need it though. Looked through the online manual and didn’t see, does it allow multiple piano views at one time? Seems MIDI import is one at a time, but once MIDI is in it, is it super quick to preview MIDI files that have been saved previously?

Thanks for considering Xequence -- it cannot however show multiple pianoroll editors at once (I think that was your question). It would probably still get a bit cramped on even the biggest iPad screens, so I'm not sure that support for it would be worthwhile?

bounce

Appreciate the answers and I think you’re right about it being cramped with multiple piano roll editors. I’m used to doing multi-clip editing on a large monitor in Ableton/Max. The long and dense MIDI file comment has me intrigued and I‘ll probably pick it up after a long read of the remarkably clear manual. Thanks

SevenSystems

@bounce said:
Appreciate the answers and I think you’re right about it being cramped with multiple piano roll editors. I’m used to doing multi-clip editing on a large monitor in Ableton/Max. The long and dense MIDI file comment has me intrigued and I‘ll probably pick it up after a long read of the remarkably clear manual. Thanks

No problem! What is definitely on the roadmap and should come in the mid-term is "ghosting", so that notes and controllers from other clips for the same instrument would show greyed out in the background. That might help in a lot of situations already.

aaronpc

@SevenSystems said:
What is definitely on the roadmap and should come in the mid-term is "ghosting", so that notes and controllers from other clips for the same instrument would show greyed out in the background.

Yay!

gregsmith

@aaronpc said:

@SevenSystems said:
What is definitely on the roadmap and should come in the mid-term is "ghosting", so that notes and controllers from other clips for the same instrument would show greyed out in the background.

Yay!

+1

Also is there any chance of midi cc ‘preset’ support for au parameters? Eg. If the track was for DRC I could load a map of all the parameters for automation instead of looking them up, just like with the drum pad maps?

SpookyZoo

@SevenSystems said:

...What is definitely on the roadmap and should come in the mid-term is "ghosting", so that notes and controllers from other clips for the same instrument would show greyed out in the background. That might help in a lot of situations already.

Cool stuff. Think that feature will be popular.

Love this app!

SevenSystems

@gregsmith said:

@aaronpc said:

@SevenSystems said:
What is definitely on the roadmap and should come in the mid-term is "ghosting", so that notes and controllers from other clips for the same instrument would show greyed out in the background.

Yay!

+1

Also is there any chance of midi cc ‘preset’ support for au parameters? Eg. If the track was for DRC I could load a map of all the parameters for automation instead of looking them up, just like with the drum pad maps?

Not exactly that, but something similar is planned for the short term: the ability to save and load entire instruments. That should probably cover these bases as that would include the controller mapping?

gregsmith

@SevenSystems said:

@gregsmith said:

@aaronpc said:

@SevenSystems said:
What is definitely on the roadmap and should come in the mid-term is "ghosting", so that notes and controllers from other clips for the same instrument would show greyed out in the background.

Yay!

+1

Also is there any chance of midi cc ‘preset’ support for au parameters? Eg. If the track was for DRC I could load a map of all the parameters for automation instead of looking them up, just like with the drum pad maps?

Not exactly that, but something similar is planned for the short term: the ability to save and load entire instruments. That should probably cover these bases as that would include the controller mapping?

Sounds like it would do the job! The biggest workflow killer I’ve found so far is routing midi into AB or AUM and having to hook it all up. Like magic once it’s all setup mind.

SevenSystems

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:

@gregsmith said:

@aaronpc said:

@SevenSystems said:
What is definitely on the roadmap and should come in the mid-term is "ghosting", so that notes and controllers from other clips for the same instrument would show greyed out in the background.

Yay!

+1

Also is there any chance of midi cc ‘preset’ support for au parameters? Eg. If the track was for DRC I could load a map of all the parameters for automation instead of looking them up, just like with the drum pad maps?

Not exactly that, but something similar is planned for the short term: the ability to save and load entire instruments. That should probably cover these bases as that would include the controller mapping?

Sounds like it would do the job! The biggest workflow killer I’ve found so far is routing midi into AB or AUM and having to hook it all up. Like magic once it’s all setup mind.

I mostly work with project templates so there's very little setup involved... i.e. I have a template in Xequence and a template in Gadget, and I load both up so that Gadget is loaded with 8 Londons and 8 Marseilles, all already assigned to the 16 MIDI channels, and the corresponding Xequence project has all 16 Gadget instruments already setup including controllers... maybe something to consider to speed up your process?

wim

^this

or, I'll just start methodically from Audiobus with an app, noodle for a bit, add Xequence in the midi input slot when I have something worth keeping. Rinse and repeat. I hardly even think about it any more.

SevenSystems

@gregsmith I must admit though that this question comes up quite frequently. Maybe this should be included in the manual as a little chapter on efficient use of templates!

gregsmith

@SevenSystems said:
@gregsmith I must admit though that this question comes up quite frequently. Maybe this should be included in the manual as a little chapter on efficient use of templates!

This would help a bit for the drum tracks, some fx busses in AUM, and the master chain. Everything else is different every time though as I use different synths and effects for each track.

It’s not too bad, just not as easy as going straight to a parameter from an automation menu in a daw. Although obviously way more flexible which is the entire point. Part of the problem is deciding which cc’s to send when I’m using midi learn in AB or midi routing in AUM - I’ve been using 75-90 for some reason. Maybe I’m overthinking it

auxmux

Yeah templates help a lot.

SevenSystems

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:
@gregsmith I must admit though that this question comes up quite frequently. Maybe this should be included in the manual as a little chapter on efficient use of templates!

Part of the problem is deciding which cc’s to send when I’m using midi learn in AB or midi routing in AUM - I’ve been using 75-90 for some reason. Maybe I’m overthinking it

That's why the MIDI standard has defined a large number of default controller assignments and names, which are displayed in the controller dropdown in Xequence. So if you want to control a filter cutoff frequency, just use "Cutoff" (74). It's that simple! 🙂

gregsmith

@SevenSystems said:

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:
@gregsmith I must admit though that this question comes up quite frequently. Maybe this should be included in the manual as a little chapter on efficient use of templates!

Part of the problem is deciding which cc’s to send when I’m using midi learn in AB or midi routing in AUM - I’ve been using 75-90 for some reason. Maybe I’m overthinking it

That's why the MIDI standard has defined a large number of default controller assignments and names, which are displayed in the controller dropdown in Xequence. So if you want to control a filter cutoff frequency, just use "Cutoff" (74). It's that simple! 🙂

I think most of the ones I’ve used so far weren’t in the list. Reminds me why I started at 75

Tones4Christ

Is there a future chance to be able to have an option of naming regions?😌🤗❤️❤️
Like Intro, Verse, Chorus, Etc?

Was watching some tutorial videos for song structure and i really think this would be huge at least for me since i’m more of a visual person.

Please forgive me if this was asked before. Thank you for this most amazing app! 🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️☝️😌

@SevenSystems said:

@gregsmith said:

@SevenSystems said:

@gregsmith said:

@aaronpc said:

@SevenSystems said:
What is definitely on the roadmap and should come in the mid-term is "ghosting", so that notes and controllers from other clips for the same instrument would show greyed out in the background.

Yay!

+1

Also is there any chance of midi cc ‘preset’ support for au parameters? Eg. If the track was for DRC I could load a map of all the parameters for automation instead of looking them up, just like with the drum pad maps?

Not exactly that, but something similar is planned for the short term: the ability to save and load entire instruments. That should probably cover these bases as that would include the controller mapping?

Sounds like it would do the job! The biggest workflow killer I’ve found so far is routing midi into AB or AUM and having to hook it all up. Like magic once it’s all setup mind.

I mostly work with project templates so there's very little setup involved... i.e. I have a template in Xequence and a template in Gadget, and I load both up so that Gadget is loaded with 8 Londons and 8 Marseilles, all already assigned to the 16 MIDI channels, and the corresponding Xequence project has all 16 Gadget instruments already setup including controllers... maybe something to consider to speed up your process?

wim

@Tones4Christ said:
Is there a future chance to be able to have an option of naming regions?😌🤗❤️❤️
Like Intro, Verse, Chorus, Etc?

Was watching some tutorial videos for song structure and i really think this would be huge at least for me since i’m more of a visual person.

Please forgive me if this was asked before. Thank you for this most amazing app! 🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️☝️😌

Tip o’ the day...
Make a dummy track and move it to the top of the playlist. Now paint in clips at the lengths you want, and then name them as you would region labels.

SpookyZoo

@wim said:

@Tones4Christ said:
Is there a future chance to be able to have an option of naming regions?😌🤗❤️❤️
Like Intro, Verse, Chorus, Etc?

Was watching some tutorial videos for song structure and i really think this would be huge at least for me since i’m more of a visual person.

Please forgive me if this was asked before. Thank you for this most amazing app! 🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️☝️😌

Tip o’ the day...
Make a dummy track and move it to the top of the playlist. Now paint in clips at the lengths you want, and then name them as you would region labels.

Yep. This also has the added bonus that you can then select and loop those particular sections.