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Is theee a work around for midi import?
Xequence is the truth... everything is so simple and smooth
One thing I would like to see is on the on-screen keyboard when you select a single key row to show some of the timeline instead of having one huge key bed
I want to be able to see my midi notes when recording with the on screen keyboard
Love the double keyboard
Also the midi dropping out every 10minutes or so is annoying
Can’t wait for next update
Well, you can record midi coming into the app from elsewhere. I thought it’d be a case of tempo matching and hitting record, but I’ve just had a go and it doesn’t seem to separate the channels to different tracks (unless I’m missing something). I take back the word ‘easy’ for that one! Sorry to get your hopes up.
The in-app purchase is not the greatest idea they came up with. For me, putting features already coded behind a paywall is not that consumer friendly. Might be as well because of all the fuss behind microtransactions in games these days which make me kind of sensitive about this subject.
That being said, the sequencer in itself is really good. They extended the idea of zooming like in an excel table in such a way that it becomes super easy to manipulate notes and stuff. I really like it. Their keyboard is also a charm to play with.
Once all the features are in, I guess I will stick to it for most of my compositions. (the only sad thing about it is that they won't allow multi tempos ever)
It’s not like that is it? Quite sure the app is totally functional without IAP which only gives unlimited tracks (several other apps have done the same over the years). All good with me and easily worth the price.
Both of these have the highest priority right now, and while I can't give an exact timeline, "it shouldn't be too long" until one or both of them are available.
Thanks, always nice to hear.
Not easily, not extremely difficult either. We will probably tackle this after the next big update, which will focus on Audiobus and/or Link, is out. Till then, hold on tight and put "press stop / play once every 10 minutes" in your calendar!
(sorry! It bothers me too.)
See above
Not too tricky to do, but note that you can also tap on the bpm value to get a dialog to enter a new one. We thought that BPM doesn't have to be changed that often, so we didn't implement sliding over the value...
Thanks! MIDI file import/export is high on the priority list and will probably come after the AB3/Link(or both) update.
About the templates -- we will probably allow the creation of folders, so you will be able to create a "Templates" folder and just store your template projects there.
Yeah that would certainly make sense on iPad.
@Norbert: Now, I have to get into this one a bit. It's funny -- we absolutely and 100% intended the IAP to be a service to our users. To us, it only has disadvantages: It cost significant implementation and administrative overhead, and it probably reduces revenue. We simply didn't want people to buy something at the full price that is not what they wanted. So we made the cheaper, but fully functional "demo" version, so people can see if Xequence suits their workflow/needs, and only then pay the full price. Yes, there's always the option to request a refund from Apple (if we hadn't gone the IAP route), but it's tedious and most people probably wouldn't do it. So, trust me, we intended this solely as a service to our users, while at the same time even reducing our own sales.
Hope that clears things up a bit. But as they say... "the way to hell is paved with good intentions"
Please consider adding little left and right arrow buttons allowing us to quickly change the onscreen keyboard octave. I find that a lot easier than pull-scrolling the keyboard while playing. This is actually my only nitpick the app is fantastic.
I don't agree with this. A demo version should be free. In the world of gaming, you don't pay for demos. So charging 5$, which is half of the full price, is completely overboard. Imagine if gaming companies were charging half the price of their games, so 30$, for a demo? There is no way it would happen. Your demo is WAY too expensive. I think you should have charged like 1$ or 2$ and maybe cut other content for the demo version if the final product is 10$. So I maintain my statement here. I do believe your demo is too expensive, knowing it's not like a DLC, but rather a cut content from the base app.
Anyway, I like the app and I think you should charge for 10$ right away instead and let the community demo it for you online.
@Norbert: We've changed the pricing a few weeks ago, the base app is now approx. half the price of the IAP, i.e., 33% of the full price. So even without the IAP, you get a nice scale-aware keyboard, a controller with slider / gate / device rotation input, a 4-track sequencer and scale-aware pianoroll and controller editor... I don't think $5 is too much for that (some synths are $20 and more), but sellers and buyers will probably never agree on pricing, no matter the product
. But anyway, in the end, all that matters is that the app is useful for you and you're somehow happy 
@JonLewis: Noted! And thanks.
Sorry haven't had time to read this whole thread but is there a quick way to rewind the transport back to the beginning? If not can I suggest double tapping the stop button to rewind back to the beginning? This is a way that many DAWs implement rewind.
I finally figured out the you have to create a part (?) first to get to the piano roll which is not that intuitive. No big deal now that know but I was getting a little frustrated by tapping the piano roll and nothing was happening.
Edit: never mind I figured it out. One thing that I've realized is this is a clip (part) based linear sequencer which is not strictly linear until you get the parts (clips) created first.
@yowza: When you tap the Stop button for the first time, it will return to the last position you started playback from. If it's already at that position and you tap Stop again (so essentially, "double tap"), it will return either to the beginning of the song, or if the song loop is on, to the beginning of the loop.
You can also start recording without creating a part first, Xequence will then create one automatically. But yes, if you just want to draw notes manually, you also have to create the part manually first.
But thanks for describing it from a new user's perspective, we might have to find a way to make this more obvious.
I enjoyed Mitch's video (although using iM1 as a multitrack drum kit doesn't seem to be the most useful example!). But I admit to being a little baffled by the app. (I gotta make my own metronome? Sheesh....)
But I'd like to see other, Midiot's Guide to Xequence-style tracks. I realize this is entitled whining. So be it. All you Xequence pros have built-in video with iOS 11! Come on, throw us a bone!
I love this app. I got really excited about Quantum when it released and let this one slide by for a while, but finally purchased it (and later on, the IAP) based on curiosity from reading this thread. Now I'm using Quantum as a MIDI in for this one and coming up with some really interesting tracks. I love mixing and matching the sort of randomly generated stuff from certain apps with tracks played in through my MIDI controller, so this fills that need nicely.
I want to second everybody on this thread who praises the UI and the linear editor. For me personally, clip launchers don't work. I can never get more than a loop made before I throw my hands up. I'm sure at some point I will find some use for them, but I guess I'm just too old school.
I have a maybe a little bit of feedback and feature request of my own- and also a question.
My #1 request is a way to get projects from my iPhone to my iPad. MIDI file import/export would be nice, but I also wouldn't mind just being able to save a project file to Files/iCloud Drive so I can work on a song idea at lunch on the iPhone and pick it right back up at home on my iPad - which is where I do all of my real work now.
More colors for tracks, or possibly just a color picker for custom colors. A super minor thing, but nobody had mentioned it yet, so I thought I would.
Exportable templates for instruments. Say I go through the trouble of setting up a template with CCs for an app like ED, or I want to use TC-11 to drive the app with Xeq in the middle to capture the MIDI data. That's going to be quite a bit of work to configure. It'd be great if you could export/import single instruments to multiple projects.
A few questions:
I'm sure this is pure operator error, as I am a MIDI noob (despite how much I love piano roll editing). I've disabled Link on app I'm using with Xequencer, but I'm finding that I have to manually change BPMs in each app. Is this just how MIDI clock works? I had the impression from some posts earlier in this thread that Xequence would be able to adjust the BPM for "slaves". Maybe one of my apps is causing trouble? AUM doesn't change either. If you want to know more about the specific setup I was using, it was Xequencer, Ruismaker IAA, and AUM. I was trying to use Ruismaker as a MIDI in to drive an AU in AUM and none of the BPMs changed.
I'm having a hard time getting this to work with pattern-based drum machines - namely Elastic Drums. I have ED loaded into AUM and was hoping I could use Xequencer to trigger parts with the "send sync" in relative mode. This is purely just me not knowing how to do it - not saying that there's anything wrong with either of the two apps. Maybe it would be better to just record ED as a MIDI In and then load ED into AUM and drive it with that recorded track.
I haven't been this excited about an app in a while. This is pretty much everything I've been wanting minus a few feature requests which you've already stated you are adding.
Yes, a bone, only one, we'll share honest. And keep your house safe from burglars etc.
@gleandibson: Thanks for all the positive remarks
Regarding your feature requests: 1) Both sharing projects more easily and MIDI import/export are planned for a near-future (a few months max.) update. You can already transfer projects between devices by using iTunes and its "File sharing" section (read more on iTunes File Sharing on Google if you like, it works the same for any app including Xequence). Of course this iTunes business is not a practical long-term solution and we're on it!
2) Yes that would be quite easy to add. Thought 6 or 7 (can't remember!) colors would be enough, but we can sure add more. Putting that on the list.
3) Very good suggestion. Instrument templates: noted!
Now for your syc questions:
It's interesting and something we didn't try out before, but from my brief tests right now, unfortunately it seems like AUM doesn't "pass on" the MIDI sync it receives from Xequence to hosted AU instruments, and thus they won't start, stop or sync.
Maybe @j_liljedahl can chime in on this?
Currently, what does work is if you launch e.g. Ruismaker DIRECTLY (as a normal app), and then select it directly as a MIDI destination in Xequence, and turn Sync on ("Relative" mdoe), then Ruismaker will start and stop, sync, and play in tempo with Xequence. But yeah, you're right, it doesn't seem to work through AUM.
When selecting bpm you have to tap the arrow every increment, should be able to long press to scroll faster.
More track colours yes
I love running 16 tracks from Gadget synced up in Xequence!
Thinking about this response and having been playing with @brambos 's Odessa app for the last couple of days, I wonder if you've considered an AU version of Xequence. I don't know anything about programming, but I would assume that it would be a re-write/re-design. I know I'd happily pay for version that would work seamlessly with Odessa and AU instruments loaded into AUM.
I thought of it while doing a test earlier with Odessa, Xequence, and AUM. I connected Xequence with a track running Ripplemaker and setup Odessa's arpeggiator to arpeggiate that note, but I think in order for that to work I would have had to be able to load Xequence on a track in AUM and then I'm guessing that the arp would affect everything driven by Xequence.
It got me thinking: How cool would it be if one could load individual tracks from Xeq into tracks in AUM to drive AUs the same way you can with the various Odessa AU modules? To have Xequence's awesome piano roll working perfectly in time with the various Odessa modules would be a dream. (Even better if AUM had a MIDI page devoted to routing, like AB3 currently does). What if Quantum's dev did the same?
Now, I'm finding myself yearning for a completely modular approach to AU MIDI sequencing, where a host like AB3 or AUM could handle all of the different quirky and awesome MIDI sequencers on the same clock managed by the host. For me, starting and stopping in time and building complex song structures is the greatest challenge to iOS music creation.
Wow what a great idea.
Maybe I’m missing something, but you can do this already. Xequence driving synths in AUM, being arpeggiated by Odessa. There’s no need to rewrite the whole app...
But how?
Simple:
You can set up 16 channels this way.
We’re assured that Link is on the way
Super cool. I've been thinking about this a lot since all this Odessa talk began. I'd love to find a way to work with Xequence, Quantum and the Odessa suite in a musical way. I'm sure I could get them all connected, but it's the musicality that's eluding me.
Since AUM 1.2.3, it should pass on single byte messages to AUs (like start/stop/clock). But I’d be surprised if there are any AU plugin out there that listens to midi clock! There simply is no reason to, the host already provides a real transport clock for syncing.
Could you make Xequence as an IAA app? Then it could sync to its host, even if it just produces silent audio.
+1. Quantum is made this way and it works great.
I can't see the need for multiple Xequence apps, so beside state saving I don't see a lot of advantage in having it AU.
Thanks! This worked nicely and definitely opens up a lot of possibilities. Looking forward to trying it with XY when I get home. You're right, when Link shows up I'm sure it will solve most of the timing problems as well.
FWIW, that issue was only the catalyst that triggered the idea. Link might solve all of the problems with timing and that'd be cool. I wish it was easier to tie all of this stuff together in one host. I started thinking more about how an app like Xequence might do it. Each piano roll as a separate AU instance. Could more or less dispense with the host completely and just release the piano roll editor as the app. I saw on the Odessa thread somebody asking Bam Bros to do the same thing, so I'm not the only person wanting it. This type of workflow is the antidote for isolated production environments like NS and Gadget, which I have very little use for, and I hope the future of iOS music production.
Definitely not as it is right now. There would be so many unnecessary functions. I'm talking about single tracks. But really the more I think about it, the more just being able to load as IAA would probably solve the issues. It's really easy to link it up to instruments in AUM, and since file import/export is on the way, I would likely prefer to use the full version anyway in most cases. I still like the idea of a piano roll AU MIDI sequencer, though! I wish I had the aptitude to program.
I think AUM and Xequence marriage would be perfect.
I asked exactly that in another thread and the answer then was that Xequence can only be the master, and that it would be easier to implement Link rather than clock slaving.
I think if you treat Xequence as the engine driving everything you’re pretty much covered already. There are 16 piano rolls to work with, which should cover most people’s AUM needs. I’m glad they’re grouped together in one well-designed UI, but I get your point.
Yeah, that's what I thought the moment I submitted my post. They all just rely on host sync... so the correct way to handle this would be to make Xequence slave to the host (AUM), as you mention. However, as you probably have experienced yourself, slaving is much harder than being the master (just like in the real world
), so we didn't implement this yet.
But Link should probably solve most of these issues, and implementation-wise, it doesn't present quite as many problems as full MIDI sync slaving.
I had similar thoughts during development, as Xequence represents exactly those parts that AUM is missing... but the two user interface approaches are very different. (AUM: sexy carribean swipey-up-down-left-right Beach. Xequence: "Throw in a button for every feature".)
But the two complement each other well as it is...