White Noise Software has announced an update to Genome MIDI Sequencer (App Store link), its software sequencer for the iPad.

Here’s what’s new in Genome MIDI Sequencer 1.1.0:

• Fixes for playhead visual positioning issues
• ‘Create’ option for Grooves (create a groove template from a pattern, such as recorded MIDI notes).
• Remix Pads
• File management – Delete, email, Open in… (for opening files in other apps including Dropbox)
• Improvements to Zooming – Zooming in and out should work a little better now in general. When zoomed out, the view now smoothly zooms in instead of abruptly zooming
• New zoom mode. In additioned to the standard ‘fixed’ zoom (where X and Y scale is locked together), there’s an ‘advanced’ mode that lets you zoom X and Y are independently zoomable.
• OMAC App Fast switch – This allows you to quickly switch between compatible apps (not every app supports this yet) via a menu in Genome. The button for this is on the sequencer page.
• Important Change: Genome’s virtual port is no longer ‘on’ by default. You have to enable it via the config menu. The reason for this is that this is a frequent point of confusion for users. Having a virtual port can lead to issues where apps get connected twice (resulting in doubled tempos and other weird cases). It’s only necessary for Genome to have a virtual MIDI port when other apps don’t have one of their own. Only a few apps _don’t_ have virtual ports (such as Animoog), but for the majority of apps you won’t need it on.
• Bugfixes and stability improvements

Not in 1.1.0 but being worked on:

• MIDI Learn (for binding controllers to Patterns and Song steps) – I had wanted to get this in 1.1.0, but there are important bug fixes that need to get out now. This will be one of the first things I implement for the next update.

You can preview the Genome MIDI Sequencer update below.

Note: The version in the App Store as of this post is version 1.0.9.