App Detail » Xequence 2

Published by: Seven Systems Cross-Platform Media Limited

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: $12.99
Current Version: 2.5.0
Released: August 24, 2019

What's New

NEW:

- Basic support for Split View.
- Support for portrait orientation on iPad.
- Full support for Stage Manager.

IMPROVEMENTS:

- Improved controller drawing, especially when drawing from right to left.

FIXES:

- Fix "Glide" mode not working correctly in "Drum Pads" mode.
- Fix several rare graphical glitches.

App Description

This app is targeted at digital music production enthusiasts & professionals.

Xequence is a comprehensive, fast & reliable MIDI sequencer, editor, arranger & controller for iPhone & iPad.

Providing a desktop-class editing experience, it is the perfect centerpiece for a hardware studio, or for apps like AUM & Audiobus 3 to create a modular mobile music production environment.

HIGHLIGHTS:

- Efficient & fast User Interface for an amazing editing workflow
- Robust MIDI File Import & Export (notes, controllers, program changes, etc.)
- Extensive support for MPE (In-App Purchase) with per-note expression data editing
- Support for scales everywhere (keyboard, pianoroll, etc.)
- Over 70 included scales in 10 categories
- MIDI Time Stretching in all editors
- Best-in-class MIDI timing and clock output
- Full Ableton Link 3 support
- Full Audiobus 3 support
- MIDI In & Thru with re-channelization & re-routing
- MIDI Sync Master (Clock/Start/Stop/Continue/SPP) to sync other DAWs & sequencers to Xequence, e.g. to use audio tracks, or external drum machines. Several options for compatibility

ARRANGER:

- Unlimited Clips
- Unlimited Tracks
- Unlimited Sub Tracks per Track
- 64 Undo/Redo steps
- Flexible grid
- Per-track non-destructive Swing & MIDI Delay
- Linked Clips / Clones (editing the original changes all copies)
- Powerful clip-based, per-track independent looping
- Program changes
- Selection tools: Marquee/Rectangle, Same Track, Same Instrument, Linked Clips, Invert, etc.
- Editing tools: Create Copy, Create Linked Copy, Unlink, Split, Join, Convert loops to clips, etc.
- Global clipboard, even between projects
- Movement/Trimming Handles at screen edges for efficient editing

PIANOROLL EDITOR:

- 256 Undo/Redo steps
- Scale-awareness ("folding")
- Relative or absolute grid (move by grid increments or snap to nearest grid lines)
- Live MIDI previews of all edits
- Selection tools: Box, Same Note, Same Key, Same Beat Position, Invert, etc.
- Editing tools: Copy, Legato, Quantize, Quantize Ends, Octave +/-, Flip H/V (mirror), Fill clip with selection, etc.
- Smart Draw mode: Touch to create, touch again to delete, drag up/down to transpose, drag left/right to change length
- Global clipboard, even between projects
- Configurable "ghost" overlays
- Note velocities quickly adjustable via a handle, or editable like controllers, see below:

CONTROLLER EDITOR:

- 256 Undo/Redo steps
- Selection tools: Box, Same Beat Position, Invert
- Selection modes: Add & Replace
- Editing tools: Copy, Reduce, Quantize, Compress/Expand, Flip H/V (mirror), Ramp (various curves), Fill clip with selection
- Smart Draw mode
- Note Velocities can be shown as controllers and edited with the same tools
- Configurable vertical grid & value entry

KEYBOARD / CONTROLLER:

- Scale-aware, very playable single or dual keyboards
- Glide support
- Adjustable key width
- Velocity emulation (via vertical position)
- Drum maps and pads, fully editable, 40+ factory maps
- Touch ribbons for live control
- Controllers can be moved by sliding (ribbon), device rotation (up to three axes at once), like a button (sustain pedal, "trance gates"), or by touching the keys at different vertical positions. All highly configurable.

INSTRUMENTS:

- Unlimited Instruments (MIDI configurations for devices / apps)
- Up to 150controller slots per Instrument
- Optional support for (N)RPNs (In-App Purchase)
- Loading & Saving of instruments for re-use in other projects, 40+ factory presets included (In-App Purchase)
- Compatible with virtually ALL apps and class-compliant MIDI interfaces

VARIOUS:

- Audio or MIDI Metronome
- Note chasing (notes play even when playback starts in the middle)
- Controller chasing
- Perfect song looping, no dropouts/jitter at loop points
- Supports any time signature/BPM (fixed per song)
- Includes PolyHymnia, an advanced Generative Music module
- Light and Dark themes

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