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After weeks of the vacillating on whether or not to buy this app, I finally took the plunge before the price gets raised.
I have to say after playing with it for only five minutes, I can tell that it is going to be a go to app in my arsenal for sequencing.
I wish that it had more scales and modes, and I wish that you could enter a custom scale. That additition would make composing against more exotic scales or our own scales so much easier.
Thanks, though, a lot of thought went into this app, a lot of deep thought. I really appreciate it.
If you're on the fence, buy it. I missed the recent Nave sale, and have been resisting buying it at full price. I think this sequencing app will keep my interest in till Nave goes back on sale.
@syrupcore yes - the session screen will be the ultimate sketchpad for musical ideas on midiSequencer - you just work on blocks with properties and link them together to play phrases. I does require you to build snapshots before hand, but you will be able to inspect them (e.g. audition them).
As for the scripting language - I might use many of the available music languages or create my own - I don't want to write a parser (although I can using BNF), but will see what ones are available for me to use easily - no point reinventing the wheel. The main thing is that it should be simple to read & write and allow modifications at the step value level.
@johnfromberkley - you saved yourself some money then
Glad you liked it.
I'm reworking the scales interface at the moment to allow more scales - pentatonic for example. I didn't like the scroll listing - so using buttons instead (C,C#,...B, then a button for flat/sharps, then buttons for chromatic, major, minor,, etc). Much easier and quicker to work with!
Custom scales will come later - sooner for allowing a single step to be chromatic, and later for defining your own scales and saving them as a preset you can share)
My vote is for Lua. It is small, light-weight, fast, very versatile, easy to learn, very portable (mostly ANSI C). There are several other Apps that use it too. The game dev App Codea is a fun place to explore Lua on the iPad (though I can not understand why they have so little interest in providing a MIDI driver).
Beware Apple's restrictions concerning exposing a scritpting lnguage to end users. In particular, no direct access to the underlying App stuff, no creating wild Apps that can bypass the Store. This is where Lua wins again IMHO - it is very easy to sand-box, plus the sripts produced would be part of a patch.
Aother big win for Lua here (I've done a lot of this recently) is it is very simple to interface to C (or whatever), needed for hooking it into the main body of your App and for pulling stuff out of it. Unlike most other langages it is designed to be embedded; embeddable is not an afterthought. I wrote myself a Perl script that takes a (clean) C header file and generates the hook functions for you. The C part was the tough part.
Will look into lua - kept meaning to do so for my game apps.
Thanks for the references there David.
Well that went better than I thought! MidiSequencer is now on audiobus..
Doing some testing now to make sure it behaves and the issues I'm seeing are due to audio apps misbehaving (it works fine with MS & sunrizer, but Nave is being glitchy).
I've add icons for play/stop, reset to step 1, midi record in on/off and midi out (mute button) on/off, although I could just have added the standard play/stop.
Will aim to submit this as a mini-update after my testing to be released at the end of next week on iTunes.
Awesome! Congrats!
This is the first app I open when I start a session, lately. Even ~before~ audiobus!
it's nice that AB allows you to connect to an existing open app! I'm finding the ability to add control icons useful too - so load up midiSequencer, then stop/start sequence from the synth directly.
No point sending update to Apple at the weekend for this audiobus addition, so have added the ability to remote load snapshots.
There are 20 snapshots in a bank in midiSequencer. Using midi CC2 from a midi in source you can remotely load in one of these 20 from the current bank (even during play).
CC32 (Bank Select LSB) values 1..20 will switch to that snapshot. Values 21..40 will load snapshot 1..20 but also include transport controls (tempo, transpose etc).
If the performance panel is open, it animates to show it being selected.
First step to automation!
@wmwm this means you could use abelton launchpad to load snapshots on the fly. Will try this out myself.
@midiSequencer said:
nice!!
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sorry - typos - it's midi CC23 Bank Select LSB.
Should start a new v1.6 thread....
Chromatic notes added to next version - will allow you to pick & play any chromatic note even if you have set all other notes to conform to a music scale such as C# major say - i.e. it ignores the conform to scale.
Also added mute buttons to the front screen - they were there awhile ago, but I've made space now!
hey @midisequencer -- quick question for you: have you been able to get MidSequencer to start/stop and receive clock from Cubasis or Auria? Tried several things with both yesterday and couldn't seem to get it to work.
thanks in advance for any help, and for being so active on this forum!
Woot!
@papertiger. Seems to be a common problem with ipad DAWS - not implimenting midi stop/start/continue.
Auria works on MTC codes not midi clock start/stop - so I don't think it syncs with many apps. I have a feeling cubasis is the same.
This link in audiobus forums mentions a possible way using midiBridge.
http://forum.audiob.us/discussion/1564/how-to-get-midi-sync-working-with-dm1#Item_24
Will do some experiments - as I have cubasis & auria - but have hardly used them yet.
@midiSequencer said:
actually, in Auria, there is a setting "Send MIDI Start and Stop" in the Settings --> MIDI menu...that's why i was so frustrated...will be curious to hear your thoughts/results.
There is also 5hthis tip on the Audeonics board: http://audeonic.boards.net/thread/106/tip-remote-controlling-aurias-transport
midiSequencerLite out in itunes and is completely free - it doesn't feature audiobus (does any app lite version)?
It's a 10 minute limited version of v1.5. V1.6 full version, to be submitted in the next couple of days, will have audiobus of course!
@midisequencer no need to apologize for giving away software!
I love this app. Basically it's the first app that I open, even before Audiobus.
I also think the "full" version is very fairly priced.
v1.6 will be submitted this weekend to Apple. Will put audiobus live then!
I've added some more features:
Ability to repeat steps (x2,x3,x4) - like the intellijel metropolis hardware sequencer. Works with muted notes (for longer silence), cycle (for delayed changes) and bouncing loop types.
Ratcheting with 6 notes per step - useful for slower tempo's.
^ excellent news!
Thanks for the update, Anthony - looking forward to the new version!
@midiSequencer said:
Excellent Tony, this is one of my favorite features in other sequencers. Look forward to using your app a great deal more now.
midiSequencer now reduced in price to $6.99
@midiSequencer said:
Thanks, Tony! That's a great price for new users (I bought already
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Is the v1.6 being submitted to Apple soon?
Very soon - couple of days infact.
I'm adding chords to steps - these will be additional notes you can add using a mini keyboard to select individual notes, and/or select from presets (e.g. dim7).
Each additional note will allow you to have a different volume or length relative to the step (so midi velocity, gate% input per note).
In the middle of completing the UI now - the rest is done - I've had it playing chords nicely!
What's next after this? IAA, A Rack version to allow you to run multiple instances of sequences (each complete with all the logic/ornaments/scales etc - already have this coded - working on the rack screen again soon), an iphone version and a mac osx version.
Chords! What? YES PLEASE.
@syrupcore said:
@midiSequencer -
WHAT?!? Tony just casually drops that in there, haha. That's amazing news!
So instead of setting a note (like "B2" or something), there will be a pop-down menu with preset chord types, plus a mini-keyboard to add or change a note? Excellent.
v1.5, IIRC, introduced scales/modes, but they were limited to Major/Minor/Chromatic. Does v1.6 add other modes (Mixylodian, Ionian, etc.) as well?
Sorry for all the questions, but your comment has me pretty excited, and I doubt I'm alone. Not to mention that an iPhone version is also in the works, also great news!