Neon

Just caught a Jakob Haq video on this and thought I’d check it out. Totally blown away and I’ve only been playing with it for 10 minutes. Pretty easy to pick up and understand. Incredible to have a MIDI sequencer like this on my iPad mini to be able to noodle around with ideas absolutely anywhere. Excellent work, worth every penny and then some!

I’ve tried a fair amount of midi step sequencers since I started making music on iOS/iPadOS and this one is my favorite so far. The interface is perfect for a touch screen - I can’t imagine using a mouse for this. It’s really quick to get around and easy to understand. The developer has been very responsive and involved, which is really appreciated. Great idea generator and at an extremely low price for the value it brings.

This works the way I’ve always wanted a step sequencer to work. By making each modifier like pitch, velocity, octave, pitch offset, cc, etc. able to move at its own user-defined pace (each step for each modifier can be short or long depending on the number of pulses or notes it’s supposed to take before moving on), you can make incredibly interesting and evolving sequences. This is a truly modular approach to sequencing. Set your pitch steps as a 5 step sequence with each step having its own duration, then add a octave modifier that runs at only 3 steps (therefore the octaves are constantly affecting different notes as the sequence runs), while having another modifier that affects velocity running at 8 steps to see how much your 5 note sequence will evolve. And that’s just a very basic example. And it has a song mode so you can chain patterns for true composing…not just 8 step sequences, though this app would be incredible even if there were only 8 steps total. Mindblowing! This is the power of a modular approach to step sequencing and is really unique on iOS. Only Quantum Sequencer has a similar approach but it is not AUv3 (incredible app though). Just get it, play with different rates, durations, and lengths for every modifier, and you’ll be happy. Tangerine Dream would have killed for this. Kudos to the developer for having such a clear, creative vision, and powerful execution. Also, I have no idea what that short 1 star review is about. The guy obviously did something wrong…the Audiobus form posts are consistently raving about this app. Just buy it. I’ve wanted this kind of sequencer for forever. Really unique…the developer clearly understands the power of modular sequencing and probably is a real modular synth nerd. Big ups!