A music sequencer reimagined with multiple playheads.
"How Bach would have made a sequencer." (Create Digital Music)
"A musical feat." (Creator's Project)
"A new approach to sequencing." (XLR8R)
"A next generation music sequencer." (Ask Audio)
Fugue Machine is a tool inspired by composition techniques used in Baroque music and Serialism — e.g. Bach’s canons and fugues, and Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique. The idea was to design a tool to manipulate a melody’s speed, direction, and pitch, as well as play multiple variations of the melody simultaneously.
As it turned out, the best implementation for this was to reimagine one of the most fundamental building blocks of all music sequencers: the piano roll.
Fugue Machine is the world’s first multi-playhead piano roll. Create a music sequence and play it back with up to four playheads at once — each at various speeds, directions, pitches, and more. Watch the playheads dance, and hear the complex patterns that emerge.
It’s mesmerizing.
Fugue Machine supports iPhone, iPad, MIDI, AUv3 MIDI, Ableton Link, Audiobus, Audiobus 3 MIDI, and Inter-App Audio. Thanks to the AUv3 standard, you can run multiple instances of Fugue Machine on the same device when hosted in an AUv3 MIDI host app — like Logic Pro, AUM, and Audiobus.
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4.85 out of 5
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Deeply inspiring!
This sequencer fits comfortably on the train as it does in the studio. I would have given it 5 stars if the playheads could be randomised (new dice roll per step) and if the play heads could be modulated by LFOs / S&H.
Still, a wonderful piece of musical inventiveness.
Arpeggio Heaven
Sheer madness. Beautiful, unusual and very interesting.
Oh yeah
Auv3 finally. Five stars just for that. Well done on the iPhone compatibility too.
Great music composition app
What a great compositional tool! Bach would have loved this.
Fugue machine rocks
Great app with so many musical possibilities and great sound
Great!
Simple yet beautiful concept. Joy to use.
A must-have.
I have been waiting for a sequencer like this.
It's a simple idea that that was probably pretty complex to implement, but Alexander has brought it into existence beautifully. Just a pleasure to use and experience. Wonderful!
Awesome
Plug this into PolyStepArp and kiss goodbye to a few hours. Seperate MIDI out per head pushes it further over the edge.
Brilliant
Clever sequencer with a simple interface
Inspiration machine
Fugue machine plus Model 15 is a deadly combination!!!