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This is a quick tutorial, via jimmclaren1, that demonstrates his approach to MIDI sequencing both hardware and software synths using Genome Sequencer on the iPad.
Developer White Noise Audio Software has announced an update to Genome MIDI Sequencer for the iPad.
Here’s what’s coming to Genome 1.0.6:
One of the biggest improvements is the new scrolling gesture for the Pattern editor. The pattern editor has been rewritten to handle smooth scrolling and zooming using the two-finger gesture. Fans of the old navigation still have the option of of using the ?View snapping? option which keeps the view aligned to a bar, octave, and one of the set zoom levels. Otherwise, you can smoothly scroll and zoom as you please.
The other major improvement that went into the Pattern Editor is support for Scales. You can now pick from one of the many pre-defined scales (or make your own) which will limit the visible notes to just notes in the scale. This will make entering notes much more easy and fun. It?s also nice if you have a drum machine that only responds to certain notes. When picking a new scale, you?ll have the option to rescale your existing notes to the new scale.
We?ve also added draggable buttons to adjust the length of whatever notes you have selected, and also a quick delete button to delete the selected notes. This is a little more intuitive than having to click ?cut?, and the length adjuster makes it easier to fix mistakes without having to start over. Additional toolbar elements are planned.
Finally, we?ve also added a quick way to toggle off snapping to the grid. Users could previously set the grid resolution high if they wanted to do ?off grid? stuff, but this button makes it much easier to accomplish.
There will also be a host of small graphical improvements to the Pattern Editor. Among them: CC dots are now color coded to make it easier to distinguish them and fonts are also bigger for the Note names.
It looks like White Noise has incorporated the feedback of Synthtopia readers into their development roadmap. That’s great to see – and they also note that they’ve got ‘much more planned’.
Genome is ‘on the way’ but is not showing up in the App Store yet.
Chris Randall shared this sneak preview of his ‘bad boy’ software step sequencer, Phaedra.
Phaedra is an ”analog” style four-channel MIDI sequencer for the iPad. The design of the Phaedra step sequencer is inspired by the Moon Modular 568 Quad Sequential Trigger Source.
Here’s what Randall has to say about Phaedra:
I still have a long way to go, but it is coming along nicely. Each step has note, velocity, gate time, and a pair of MIDI CCs of your choosing. I haven’t yet coded in the chaining feature, but it’ll be able to do 4 x 32, 2 x 64, and 1 x 128 modes. The steps can be 32nd note, 16th note, 8th trips, and 8th note, and each “bus” can run in arbitrary lengths. The “Live Control” knobs on the left can be used to modify one of the four destinations.
I haven’t yet conquered “MIDI background mode,” as used by many iPad synth apps, but I hope to include it, as well as Korg’s WIST. It already does normal hardware MIDI and Network MIDI fine, though, and can clock, or be clocked from, an external source.
No release date has been announced, but Randall says that he hopes to have work on it wrapped up by Christmas.