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Step Squencers
I love the step squencer in Gadget and would like to get something similar to control apps through Audiobus or IAA. Notes on the horizontal, time on the vertical and a grid to fill in the boxes. Everything I've tried so far have sliders, a piano roll, dials, etc. Any good grid matrix step squencers out there?
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Something that comes quite close to Gadget with these features is Pro Midi. It has IAA or just simply midi out to your instruments.
Or Auxy
Xynthesizr
Koushion MIDI
Tenorion
FL Studio mobile.
MIDI Pattern Sequencer?
Genome, beatmaker 2, Yamaha mobile music sequencer
Isn't auxy a piano roll? Likewise genome beatmaker and YMMS.
Pro Midi $9.99 -> $3.99
I don't use gadget enough. This confuses us.
Sorry I mixed that up. Notes on the left side of the screen with time on the bottom.
Wow I didn't know there were so many choices for step sequencers that are like Gadget. I downloaded the free version of auxy and it looks cool but you have to pay $5 for MIDI.
Before I buy anything I want to make sure it works with everything and not crash like Thesys. Out of the above mentioned sequencers what do you recommend? What works for you? Thanks for your advice.
Sounds like you want a piano roll sequencer instead of a step sequencer. Generally, step sequencers play one note at a time at fixed intervals (aka steps). Not always the case but generally, that's the idea. Piano rolls show you all of the notes on the left and you put one or more notes along the time line at any position you want.
With the current discount, ProMIDI is pretty hard to beat. There's many others like Cubasis, Beatmaker 2, MTS, Genome... But yeah, at $4 I'd definitely give ProMIDI a shot — particularly if you're used to working with gadget as it uses the same vertical timeline of patterns paradigm. Unlike gadget though, it doesn't automatically advance through those steps (no song mode, per se). The others mentioned do have song modes.
Agree with the Professor above, but would also add a shout for Auxy's midi investment. Been worth it for me.
I'd say pro midi or auxy. both very good, very touch friendly.
auxy is very stable, very reliable, very fun to use but also quite limited in terms of what notes you can input -- only major and minor scales and only two octaves and four bars per channel. and only four channels.
pro midi, pretty much no limitation, but bit more fiddly to set things up and with occasional quirks or failures
both are on sale, so it is a good time to get either one
@syrupcore Thanks I've got Cubasis. I think it's piano roll is powerful but very figgity with the two finger zoom. On the 9" screen to make it big enough to see you only get an octave. I like Gadget's grid where you fill in the box.
I'll give ProMIDI a shot for $4 but I don't like the fact it doesn't have song mode. Any other favorites? I'm willing to purchase more than one. :-)
Waiting on Auria's update to see their midi programming functions. I've been tempted though. Pro Midi and B-Step look cool. Actually I have to pick up Lemur and I know there are templates for sequencing too.
StepPolyArp is not technically a step sequencer but...Well., I guess it does belong to that family. You should check it out.
I like the simplistic interface on the free version. How is the MIDI IAP? Any problems with
it?
@markk Thanks. I have StepPoly Arp and it's a great program but I'm looking for some more robust.
@Holiday I'm definitely going to pick up Aruia when it comes out along with 99% of the people on this forum. :-)
@mkell424
short answer: 1. really good, 2. none at all
^ ditto. Not sure whether it'll be 'robust' enough for your wants/needs though. Cool little program. Very quick to get there from here.
I'm going to get both Auxy and Pro MIDI. I'm sure I'll be back with more questions. Thanks for the advice everyone.
I'm patiently waiting for Modstep sequencer (soon I hope) - I've been searching for a similar app function as original poster. Modstep looks like its gonna work well...
I am waiting Modstep too! You are the Master!
I like your Gadget song "the wave" very much.
Thanks Kaikoo - appreciate that.
+1 for pro midi. I've always been a dunce with midi...if Johhny Goodyear hadn't already coined "midiot" I'd be claiming that as my own. Pro midi is quirky, I've had to experiment a bit with setting up, but combined with state saving in AB2 it's starting to feel like a real contender. Has anyone tried it with am external midi controller yet? That's next on my list. Song mode would be great, but as each "scene" can be any number of bars long (unless I've misunderstood) that addresses Gadget's greatest flaw imo: the fact that you can't sustain notes between scenes. I've also had one clip looping in 3/4, one in 4/4 and a third in 7/4 creating some interesting rhythmic surprises. I like it and the dev is still working on it so I'm optimistic. I've learned a lot from tinkering with this. I guess I'll be midintermediate soon. Nah, doesn't work like midiot.
@iansainsbury I just picked it up yesterday. I learned that apps will need a different MIDI setting depending on the app and some apps don't work at all (iProphet).
iprophet works fine through iaa if you set midi to virtual au
Cool thanks. A question. Why do you have to bother with virtual MIDI when using IAA? I thought it was used for both audio and MIDI.