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Yamaha Release Mobile Music Sequencer for iPad
Yamaha Corporation have released Mobile Music Sequencer for iPad. The app let’s you combine a range of phrase patterns and create musical compositions intuitively, following the flow of composition, from phrases to sections and from sections to songs.
“This new product is also portable and can complete finished sketches of compositions. It can also mix musical content with audio files and upload this to SoundCloud. When composing, users can not only choose from a wide range of 382 preset phrases and combine them but also create user phrases through the input of piano roll accompaniments as well as record sounds in real time through a keyboard on the screen. Using the sequencer’s powerful LOOP REMIX function, users can easily create new phrases from selected phrases. Moreover, by outputting from Standard MIDI Files, the phrases can be reproduced and edited on Yamaha synthesizers, such as the MOTIF XF and MOX and then refined and polished employing other music production software, such as Steinberg’s Cubase.”
Mobile Music Sequencer is on a launch price of $9.99 until the end of February 2013. To buy Mobile Music Sequencer in the iTunes Store click here. Please note that the app is not available in all territories.
Notes: The app is compatible with iPad (third and fourth generations), iPad2, iPad mini, for operating system iOS 6.0, and later versions. Additional voice and phrase pattern packs are available for purchase separately.
Main Features:
- A portable music production tool enabling composers to compose more intuitivelyYamaha’s Mobile Music Sequencer enables music composers to combine phrase patterns to create sections, and then, by specifying codes and putting the sections in order, they can easily put together an outline of their compositions. The Mobile Music Sequencer can also be used to adeptly change the order of recorded data and prepare variations. This makes it possible for composers to create music intuitively and quickly. Also, as a portable music production tool that can be used in virtually any location and for sketching images and it is just as effective as a full-scale sequencer.
- Comes complete with a full-scale software synthesizerThe Mobile Music Sequencer includes a software synthesizer that has 92 high-quality sounds. Users can not only choose from preset voices but can also edit the voices by filtering, modifying the sound envelope, and performing other operations. It is also possible to use such special effects as reverberations, choral sounds, and other variations as well as then mix these various creations and, thereby, fill out and expand the image of their compositions while listening to the real sounds.
- Has a LOOP REMIX function that creates new phrases and can incorporate new voices and phrases sold separatelyUsing the Mobile Music Sequencer, composers can not only choose from a wide range of 382 preset phrases, covering a full range of musical genres, and combine them, but can also create their own phrases through the input of piano roll accompaniment as well as record phrases in real time through a keyboard on the screen. This new products also has a powerful LOOP REMIX function that allows users to rearrange phrases of their choice randomly at specified time intervals as well as insert rolling accompaniments and breaks automatically, thus giving rise to new phrases. In addition, Yamaha offers a data pack, which can be purchased separately from the App Store, containing four types of voices and phrases.
- Can be used together with a synthesizer and music production software, and can upload compositions to SoundCloudCompositions created using the Mobile Music Sequencer can be enjoyed by reproducing them on an iPad, and it is also possible to play them back and edit them on other equipment. Since the compositions can be output as a Standard MIDI File, they can then be refined and polished by inputting them into music production software, such as Steinberg’s Cubase. Also, since it is possible to output the compositions in specified formats as substitute sound for the Yamaha synthesizers*, when they are input into MOTIF XF even if the user does not specify voices, the image prepared by the Mobile Music Sequencer can be replayed and edited.
- In addition, since the compositions can be mixed into audio files, they can be replayed on other applications and uploaded directly into SoundCloud.
To buy Mobile Music Sequencer in the iTunes Store click here.
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Looks like fun but duplicates a good deal of the existing Synth Arp & Drum Pad app too? No Audiocopy, no Audiobus? Hmmm, i’m going to have to think about this one before commiting.
It does have Audiocopy.
Odd there is no mention in the description page! Do you have it – and do you think it is worth it?
I have it albeit I haven’t tried it much yet but it’s not worth it no where near the money.sort of duplicates synth and drum .sounds are really “GM” and dull no inspiration there .i am going try it with a external sound module tonite to see if that salvages it for me
Sounds may be too generic (I like the bass sounds, anyway), but the sequencer itself has some pretty amazing features!. You can work both by patterns/sequences (remixing phrases with some sort of gate/pitch arpeggiator, transposing them, matching them to any chord sequence you want…) and then set them in a linear, daw-style, “song” sequencer. You can even work on both sequencers at the same time. I imagine the experience of Yamaha with some compact sequencers like the QY series is shown here. The chord harmonization thing is truly awesome imho.
I’ve been working with Genome so far, but I really think this is gonna become my favorite iOS sequencer (except for…Genome works smoothly with some other powerful apps running on then background in my iPad 2. This one does not. It works pretty well -not without any issue- with BS16i).
After 24 hours of agonising, I took the plunge and I’m glad I did. The sounds are essentially the same as those in yamaha’s synth arp app, no surprises but a pretty good set of basic sounds. But as A.C. Has pointed out, the sequncer is really quite powerful in the way that you can define a beat or groove, then select chords and the patterns will all follow. Cant find a phrase that you want? No problem, you can record your own either in real time or on a piano roll editor. And define how it will follow the chords. You can then assemble a song from your patterns and mix and match this with more free-form tracks, again recorded real time or using the piano roll. Very flexible!
I can really see me using this app to sketch out the form of a song and then either export as midi to use different sounds, or as a mixdown audio exported via audiocopy to finish off in Cubasis, Auria or whatever you use.