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Favorite and most intriguing sequencing app for iOS synths & drums? (except Drambo)
I bet you all have quite a few iOS sequencers/generators in your arsenal.
Which is your go to app when you want to create some interesting synth and drum patterns but you feel uninspired?
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Patterning 2
Favorite: Atom
Intriguing: Riffer or thesys
Drums: Rozeta Rhythm, hit Random, turn off Loop Sync, add Midi Tools Midi Curve, midiGATEs...
Melodies: Cality is a great MIdi processor. Fugue Machine and Aphelian as sequencers.
Navichord, Rozeta, Quantum, Cykle, Fugue Machine, Senode, Chordflow, MF Transposer, Randomizer and Scaler, Yamaha Mobile Music Sequnecer, Arpeggionome, Sonogrid, Chord Poly Pad, Step Poly Arp, Nodebeat, dotMelody... Then feed it all to xequence (that also has its own randomizer
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tl;dr: If I had to slim this list down: Xequence 2, Rozeta and Cykle for ease of use
Poly2, no question. Hands down. All the other, more convoluted setups,mentioned can be done in Poly2.
AU multi out, midi sequencer or really cool sample controls, Arpeggiator mode, etc, etc...
What iOS really needs now, is a percussion synth that is multitimbral on multichannels (like the Nord drum for example). So each drum is on its own midi channel and can be played chromatically.
Imagine @brambos Ruismaker FM but each voice can be pitched. It would be like the Model:Cycles.
Then Poly can really shine.
Pretty easy to do this with Drambo and nanostudio (obsidian)
I don’t have Drambo, but from what I’ve seen, i think I’m safe in saying that Poly2 ‘s learning curve is a little “flatter” to use a term in the current zeitgeist.
I use Fugue Machine constantly. Also enjoy Rozeta for its randomness. Playbeat is something I’ve been warming up to for drum sequencing.
I meant pitched percussion synth. I’ll knock up a patch if I ever get a free moment.
My favorite is the BassLine sequencer in Pure Acid.
Even the randomizer is the best by far.
Most intriguing: Aphelian and Senode
Favorite? Totally depends on what I'm doing, so I can't really answer.
Totally agreed! And totally forgot Aphelian (and Oscilab before it)
One that I don't have but am intrigued about: Polyphase
StepPolyArp Unit, Rozeta and, to a much lesser degree, Fugue Machine.
Different Drummer 🃏
Can't believe StepBud hasn't been mentioned. Lightweight, stable, midi cc step sequencing, probability, snapshots, and more. Poly2 is my favorite for drums, followed by Rozeta Rhythm. StepBud for melodic.
Cykle and Drambo soon enough will be higher on list.
For Generative sequencing, Rozeta Collider, Autony, StepPolyArp.
Couldn't be more safe.
If you had an hour to waste outside some dressing room (for the love of your life so, sure, you're gonna wait): Aphelian or Oscilab?
Stepbud for melodies, as mentioned above, patterning for drums
DigiStix for drums. It can get very crazy and it’s easy to use.
What about Thesys? Is it too complicated, or only less known? Could someone tell about that?
I´m simple, i mostly like to use arpeggiators to trigger drums and percussions.
Arpeggiators > Sequencers
Lately I've been thinking that NS2 totally deserves a dedicated drum synth version of Slate. Maybe limited to 8 voices or something but, yeah, 100%. Obsidian is capable of an absurd array of drum-like sounds. VA+Sample? Sure. FM+FM+VA, yep. Noise+FM+Multi-sample, OK! There are just too many possible parameters available to make it a quick and lovely drum synth. It actually needs to be dumbed down a bit! And tuned/streamlined for percussion. But it's all there.
For drums definetly Rozeta Rhythm and X0X. Now I'm tryin to figure out how to marry them with Drambo for using P-Locks.
Quantum is still the most inspiring 'tonal' sequencer for me. So many possibilities, so much fun to play live. And I'm growing to love it's single window workflow for multiple sequences/sequencers more and more. I mean, I love Rozeta and family and AU everything when in AUMlandia but being able to see and control a bunch of sequences at once with no window moving/opening/etc shenanigans definitely has a place in my heart.
Senode is also really fun and inspiring. midiSTEPS too! Mostly because you approach programming it differently.
Speaking of not-AU-but-its-ok-really---promise... for drums, it's Patterning. I regularly wish every other drum sequencer in my life (software or hardware) was Patterning at some point or another.
Aphelian. So much fun.
S_nV-X!
Not so much for the tracker note entry but the timeline is such a great way to layout a song and to be able to see and understand the structure.
I noticed that the blurb for thesys mentions that they think it is good for live performance. Have you tried it? Certainly most of the sugar bytes apps I have tried seem to have a lot of good features for live performance baked in. I'm curious about Thesys, don't see it mentioned here too much, wondering if the non-iOS-friendly interface is the problem...?
It certainly doesn’t help though I find it fine with the zoom. One of my go to sequencers.
@lukesleepwalker thanks. In what situations do u find yourself reaching for Thesys over another sequencer?
When I want to be shaken out of my well-worn paths. Each "lane" has a randomize button so I can get selectively more random with either pitch or velocity or gate or modulation (including altering the length of each of these sequences)--and the real difference maker is the Performance lane, which can add subtle MIDI textures to gold standard Sugar Bytes madness.