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Can you post it as an attachment here?
@Syrupcore - sorry - missed your request - not allowed to update file type it's saying in here - please contact me and I will email to you
V1.6 midisequencer now available in your local store!
Audiobus has gone live.... but there are a few other things to try in this release too...
Step chords & added notes (as a $2 IAP)
Repeated notes x2,x3,x4- so steps can play multiple times before moving on. This is a feature of the Intellijel Metropolis hardware sequence.
x6 ratchet - useful for slower tempo percussion,
(optional) one-touch loading of snapshots in performance - to make it quicker to swap (set this in IOS Settings)
mute buttons on every step - for variation in rhythm
chromatic steps - so your step can be outside your choosen scale
(optional) automated loading of snapshots (just send midiSequencer midi CC 32 & snapshot number). You can enable this from the Options Panel
Improved key scale picker (Maj/Min/Pentatonic/Wholetone) - this will be augmented with a custom key creator screen in future version.
Mute notes but send midi CC1-4. Useful if you want to control a synth's filter say but play the keyboard yourself. See Options Panel
(optional) link increment & decrement control buttons - so all faders move up/down. (set this in IOS Settings)
numberpad entry of tempo (for exact tempo jumps)
Also added some fixes
no longer saving Cycle button state (so you can load snapshots and not have to keep setting it on)
rotary controls should now be easier to select values by following finger rather than x/y.
midi start clock message will start at step 1. Continue will resume from current step and stop, if received twice will reset to step 1.
long device names (e.g. iConnectMidi devices & Korg Control now truncated to 24 characters.
What you get with the first midiSequencer IAP
Just bought the app and the IAP. Going to have a play at lunchtime!
Cool! This looks like a nice update - I will also check out the IAP. Thanks Tony!
Any news about when the manual will be updated, Tony? And how about some tutorial videos for 1.6? I'd like a glossary of the icons and descriptions of the features, basically! Is it possible to play 2 different synths at once for certain steps but not others (eg. Have step 1 as MIDI channel 1, step 2 as channel 2, but then have step 3 as channels 1&2 together?)
@Michael_R_Grant said:
You can set each step to be a different channel but I'm not sure you can set one step to play on two channels. The little Ch button near the bottom takes you to the screen where you set the MIDI channel for each step
Also eagerly awaiting the updated manual.
Thanks for a great update, and 2 bucks for the IAP? Totally worth it!
Oh wow! Congrats Tony. Will definitely grab the IAP.
@Michael - Yowza's correct - each step must have 1 channel (but you can mute this to be 0).
You can sort of do split instrument by having 1 channel sending to a multi-timbral instrument (e.g. sound font pro) that has patches on velocity layers - then use chords with different velocities to trigger different instrument sounds.
Do you need to set multiple channels in your setup? If so, I would need to change the Ch slider to be 16 buttons for each channel rather than a slider. So could be done, but you are the first to ask!
@Zymos & Michael - yes Manual on my list to do next especially now I've finished the screen changes so can include in the document.
I also need to start that video tutorial series I've been meaning to do to show you some basic setups & advanced aspects of midiSequencer. For example, the performance panel is key to playing midiSequencer - especially linked to the cycle button. Also, there is still some confusion on NoteTime vs StepTime.
I don't need to set it for multiple channels for a single step, I was just wondering whether this could be done!
@Michael - ok. A useful setup is to alternate channels in steps (step 1 = ch1, step 2 = ch2, step 3 = ch1 etc), then play a melody on odd steps and another on even. If you make the gate%>100 or voice them with long release times, you get duo-phonic to two midi devices.
I will however look into maybe having channel on chord notes - I already have pitch, velocity & gate, so channel is missing and chould be added easily.....
Is there a way to switch between snapshots immediately? At the moment I'm pressing PF (the performance panel?) and then saving each snapshot, but in order to switch between them I have to press the snapshot number in order to highlight it and then hit load. And what does the cycle button do? I thought it might play each saved snapshot in turn but it doesn't seem to do that! Sorry if these are noob questions, I'm probably missing something obvious.
Yes, there is some confusion RE NoteTime vs. StepTime! :-)
I'm someone who usually prefers reading documents instead of watching video tutorials, but in this case, I'm actually looking forwards to the latter also.
@Michael_R_Grant said:
The cycle button allows you to change something but it won't kick in immediately and waits until the start of the next cycle.
I think one of the new features allows you to load snapshots immediately but you have to turn on that option in iOS settings. I have not tried that yet.
Painful n00b with this. Any suggestions for a good tutorial? I feel as though I am outside the candy store, looking in and hungry also
@midiSequencer said:
Actually, this would be a pretty amazing feature to add. Not only from the midi standpoint, but, because of save states with AB2, we could send an entire workflow to another person, if all the apps used were using save states, and were controlled by midiSequencer.
@JohnnyGoodyear Check out some videos on YT by Alba Ecstasy to get started. Here's one.
A quick question, can this do any kind of chord on one step, and repeat the chord on that step a set nr of times at a set interval (1/16, 1/32, 1/64 etc)?
Something similar-ish to what's shown in this video below. The first video he shows it between around the 3 min mark to 4 min..
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/05/27/arpology-sonic-animation-tool-now-shipping/
(And yes, I know the app on the link is more of an arpeggiator made for live play)
OK, so if you go to iOS settings and turn on 'Performance - One Touch Load', the next time you launch the app you can switch between snapshots by touching them in the PF panel. They will load immediately by default, but if you press the Cycle button, whichever snapshot you touch will load at the end of the current cycle instead.
I don't get what the Double Tap setting does yet! I was expecting a double tap to return notes to the default for a step, but no!
@ChrisG. Just been experimenting with this to see if it worked. I don't think so, directly from midiSequencer. I think it depends on if the synth or drum machine uses it's own arpeggiator, with programmable interval times. I did achieve a similar effect to the one in the video using Magellan. In midiSequencer, on the Step Button screen, a step can be set to x2, x3, or x4. I also shortened the velocity and gate times of the chords in MS. Then I set the arp note interval times in Magellan. Seemed to work.
Edit... All this suddenly became interesting sound-wise, as I just realized the arp in Magellan can also have it's octave range, octave repeat, and note repeat set as well.
Thanks @ArcaneScreams, it was a bit of a long shot I guess. But sounds interesting to combine a capable synth to achieve similar things at least.
Either way, it's a tempting app. I don't use stepsequencer that often at all. Probably becouse everyone I've tried on iOS have been a pain to use 'cause of tiny and messy interfaces. This seems a step above in the UI department..
@ChrisG Finding the right sequencer has been on my list for a while. I think I've bought/tried almost all of them. I keep bouncing between midiSequencer and Genome. I really need those two combined in one app to use it for what I want. And I think midiSequencer is on it's way to becoming that.
The Performance Panel rollout is for easy save & recall of sequences. There is no logical chaining (yet), but it is possible to load them via midi CC 32 received in the midi input.
The Settings for midiSequencer allows a one-tap load - so press LOAD button first (it will animate - shrink/grow) then just select a slot and it will be loaded.
However, the Cycle button is indeed for delayed changes. If the cycle button is lit, then the snapshot will be queued to load at the next sequence reset (when the sequence hits step 16, or a R or Rx step - note: a jump to another step is not a cycle reset). This makes it easier (at slower tempos) to load a sequence but allow the current one to complete first.
The Cycle button works for alot of controls - I think tempo is the only one it doesn't work on.
The double tap setting is for fader controls - it allows you to double tap in the on the fader vertical strip and the control will jump to that position. This saves you having to touch the control to drag it. You could also draw it to make it snap to the touch position (there is even a setting to make this animate to your touch point).
@arcaneScreams - please explain some more - I can do midi channels per note in a chord.... how does that help with save states in AB?
@chrisG - you can repeat chords or single notes using ornaments (x2,x3 or x4) but at the moment there is no midi echo fx. This is something I want next version - with the ability to define falloff velocity & time interval (quantised) to echo. The hardware sequencer MidiBox Seq V4 has this (and a lot of other things like humaniser) I will put into midiSequencer.
@ChrisG
@ArcaneScreams & ChrisG - yes using midiSequencer to drive a synth with arpeggios is a way to do this. Need to sync tempo.
@arcaneScreams - can you explain what setup you have here? Sounds good!!
Here is a similar effect (midi echo as an audio echo) I did using Crystalline and Grain Science in AudioBus - although this was more an example of Crystalline as a harmoniser too!
@midiSequencer Well, I think my train of thought was this: a full setup of apps, driven by midiSequencer, within AB, so all the midi channels would be set already when we share a preset. As an example, Chan 1 to ThumbJam, Chan 2 to e-l-s-a, Chan 3 to Sunrizer, etc. Similar to the way Genome works. Each app with their own midi pattern. If those apps allow a save state, and midiSequencer did the same, and please correct me if it does already, we could then send an entire AB preset chain to each other, midi ready and all. Bpm would be set, midi would be set, instrument choice and effects set, and recording DAW.
We can definitely send inputs, effects, and outputs with save states to each other. But I don't think there is a midi app that sends multiple channels out with a save state available. Can we do this already? Am I even being clear? Haha.