Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
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I'm maybe a bit biased, but from what I can remember, BM3's sequencer was quite barebones when I looked at it. Xequence 2 really has pretty much every feature and workflow shortcut you can imagine in a sequencer. (if you don't need a tempo or time signature track, that is!
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Yes I thought about that already a few weeks ago when it started, but struggling with time constraints. Maybe you can be kind enough to at least create a little placeholder page until I get around to doing more detailed stuff?
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Yes, but during loop recording, takes are currently merged, i.e. they can't be separated after the fact. However, that will be delivered in an update shortly (with automatic track lane creation for each new loop iteration).
And Yes, you can mute/solo lanes and all their clips, but not individual clips.
Yes. You can even timestretch or crop a looped clip, and the whole loop will adapt.
Maybe others can chime in or already have, hard to keep up...
Yes.
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You're welcome
Thank you Sir!
One thing that is simpler by default in Xequence 2 is the instrument and track management. Where in Xequence 1 you had to create and assign tracks for instruments manually (many users weren't comfortable with this), X2 will by default manage tracks completely automatically, so there's definitely less steps involved and less head-around-wrapping.
Other than that, the workflow is almost exactly the same as X1 (but with many more possibilities and flexibility if you wish).
Thanks. Yes, almost 2 years of user feedback and also own use have contributed to a large array of tiny changes that aren't even in the Changelog. The better feel can probably also be attributed to everything simply working much, much faster due to optimization.
We'll try to have maybe 80-90% of Xequence 1 users on board Xequence 2 so that they get a fair update price, then we'll switch to the regular $19.99. Can't estimate how long this will be, but probably not more than a week, so grab it while you can. The pricetag is really ridiculous!
A few "MIDI learn" capabilities for basic functions of the app are very well under consideration, yes. I just want to get a more complete picture of what makes sense to include in that list before I get to it, based on user feedback and discussion.
Thanks
There's no direct way to do that, but you could just make a clip with the scale, copy it to the clipboard (INSERT -> CLIPBOARD -> COPY) , and then load your target project, INSERT -> CLIPBOARD -> PASTE, and then open the clip and select all notes and then "Scale from selection". (Remember that all clipboards also work between different projects)
(there's also a feature to save and load complete instruments, along with scale, keyboard settings, drum setup, MIDI sync setup, controllers etc. planned for an upcoming update.)
Yes, although it would work slightly differently. You can take your clip, set it to loop (PROCESS -> LOOP ON), and then you can just grab the start and end of that clip to adjust the region of the clip you want looping. It will all update live on the timeline. It is arguably better than how it works in the video. (you can even timestretch in the same way).
Thanks for getting the update! As always, we're strictly anti-video, but of course I'm still hoping for others who are more talented at producing video content
Sounds good to me man!!! Count me in
Midi learn would also be great.
Midi PC support for loading sessions is a bit of a deal breaker for me right now though as it's not an AUv3. Just means I can organise a workflow in hosts if I use apeMatrix or AUM.
I can understand if it's not feasible though so just wanted to check if it's on a roadmap.
This is one of the main reasons why I didn't use the original Xequence 1, despite buying and liking what it could do
MIDI learn is definitely on the roadmap
but I can almost definitely say that there won't be an "all-out AUv3 version" of Xequence, it just doesn't fit Xequence's philosophy.
I can totally understand that
But just to clarify would "midi learn" include midi Program change message support for loading sessions?
This is what I'm needing in a standalone midi sequencer. It would then act like a hardware sequencer and you can design a flexible workflow without relying on Audiobus each time.
@SevenSystems Thanks for your reply to my earlier question. Wanted to know if hosting AUV3 midi apps is/was something that is being considered.
Also unless a feature like this already exist, a chord track like in the studio one daw would be amazing, again unless it already exist.
yahaaa!:)
crazy good update. waiting for wknd to play with it.
thank you !!!!
Are there any videos showcasing Xequence 2? nm, I missed the previous question and answer.
Today was going to be about fireworks and Stranger Things... This update is the business, @Sevensystems Thank you-!
Thanks for your previous answers. I have 'upgraded' and, as an Englishman in Texas, J4's a good day to stay home with the curtains closed, so I will try to do something I never do and read the manual. BUT let me confirm what you know already and that's being anti-video is a damn shame after all the work you've put into this project. Many of us slow kids learn 90% of what we ever do by watching not reading....
@SevenSystems Will the DAW you are working on also include Xequence 2 features? Anything you can share on the roadmap? Thx.
That’s how I plan to use it. 👍🏻
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This is exactly what I was hoping for! My cautious/cheapskate, too-many-apps-already self loved Xeq with that exception. Sold.
I’m also curious about midi AU fx, or if there’s an easy way to use them in AUM and record the midi in Xequence2?
I was unable to get Xequence to work on standalone with any of my synths. I tried with Zeeon and Model D. I set the midi channels to match up and tried both the network session out and the synth's own output in Xequence. Neither produced sound in either synth. Maybe I had the settings wrong as I managed to route properly in AUM. Not sure what I'm missing.
Are you sure that background audio was enabled in Zeeon/Model D?
I'll check. If I have background processing off in the iPad's own settings, does that effect the synths? It certainly doesn't effect AUM or Audioshare.