Genome MIDI Sequencer

This software has not been updated since many years. Not compatible with Apple files app

If you want one of the best midi sequencers for IOS then get Genome. The developer has documented very well so connecting is made easier. IOS has issues with virtual midi and the documentation helps to avoid pitfalls and explain why special attention is needed because all apps handle it differently. Also the sequencing features in Genome are fantastic. There are NOT that many excellent apps in this category so you have to choose the one that best suits your needs. For what this does, it is among the top ones for sure.

Having played around with this for a few days, there are some excellent features, and the midi playback of other synths on their respective midi channels works extremely well ... and I guess that's what the app is for, so good marks there! Genome Midi Sequencer has some real potential. However, it suffers from a very non-intuitive interface. Furthermore, on my iPad 3 running iOS 9.3.2, some of the features just don't work - such as song mode playback. The glitches seem to occur when app switching, but I haven't pin-pointed this for sure. The online manual seems hastily written and is incomplete. For the life of me, I still can't find where to name a song. If the developer could re-think the interface a bit and do some real testing, this app would be sensational. A better manual and in-app help would be nice, too.

ESSENTIAL missing link for all these loose, Audiobus-supported synth apps. Great for detailed piano-roll midi programming plus the ability to sync & play back multiple instruments on diff. channels with quantized pattern triggering (not unlike launching Ableton's clips... you can practically launch "scenes" with this too). Great workflow, SPEEDY to use and rock solid (even on an iPad 2) and excellent developer support. Crazy useful if you want to actual work done away from a DAW, like on a bus, and a fun alternative to the mouse when at one. Get it.

Great pattern based sequencer. Virtual midi, core midi. Scales. Its almost perfect and getting better with each update. I've always wanted a touch screen piano roll. This app makes it possible for all my midi devices. Thanks

This is a fun, useful app that needs some attention. Alas, like many smaller developers, it seems to be abandoned. To bad, with a little work, this app could have been truly great.

This is a nice app. But like other apps I've tried, there seems to be on way to change the meter on just a single bar or pattern within a song.I hoped that maybe I was just not finding the right button... To me being able to change the meter of a bar or pattern is almost just as important as everything else they've included in this software.I don't understand why they were would leave that out. It can't be a cost issue. Maybe there's an update or something.

Essential Midi sequencing app hat has all the right features. UI can be more intuitive or a better manual. Biggest problem so far: METRONOME can not be set to all tempos. Right now I NEED 95 BPM and it will not do it. Keeps going back to 94. Can’t get Song Mode to work and play pattern sequences. That’s a problem because I won’t be able to record the work I’ve don’t Please fix for ios11 and iPad Pro then I’ll give 5 stars

As far as iOS sequencers go, Genome has a great piano roll editor and—unlike more expensive apps like modstep and Gadget—global undo/redo and MIDI file export *per clip.* I like using it in AUM as a “quick-sketch” sequencer while I work out songs. The UI is comfortable to work with on a touchscreen, and the sequencer is extraordinarily fully-fully featured (it even supports grooves). The MIDI capabilities are especially good: if things need to move somewhere else, Genome can export songs, parts, or clips as individual MIDI files.

OK, I don’t have a rack of hardware synths—but I like to pretend I do! I have been using this app to sequence virtual synths on my Mac. I mostly use Propellerhead Reason, but also Apple’s Main Stage. Genome MIDI Sequencer (GMS) executes Virtual MIDI on the iPad expertly, but resource limitations of my iPad Air mean I can only get about four synths/instruments running—but GMS has 16 tracks! I can get around this a little by using a multi-instrument app like bs-16i or SampleTank, but they have little flexibility in sound design and control—and GMS is a monster controller. But with Reason on the Mac I can easily get 16 instruments loaded, and with effects on all of them. (So, Reason is my pretend rack of synths.) I like the GMS piano roll editor the best. One can draw in a sequence or record one and edit it expertly. This app does so much so well it is too much to sing all its praises. Please read the description and the manual on the apps web page—it does all that! There are a few things I wish it had, so I’ll list some of them. (1) There is no polymetric capability, meaning each track must have the same time signature. Workaround: for 4 against 5, use 4/4 and make a 5 measure pattern for the 5 beat part. (2) There is no 2/4 time, which would also give one 6/8 (compound time) thanks to the triplet feature. This is a problem with long polymetric sequences as noted in the workaround above—especially with three or more time signatures. Workaround: set the Song mode to 1 step = 1 bar, then you can escape the loop whenever you want. Otherwise, GMS will repeat the patterns until they all finish at the same time. (3) There is no polyrhythmic capability. Workaround: set “time in ticks” and zoom in to 128th notes and meticulously count out your beat divisions—use the Euclidean algorithm to pad the note lengths. It should be close enough. I would like to do sequencing for my Reason projects while away from the Mac, so the following two suggestions would help. (4) Sometimes I have a drum part composed and wish I could switch to another app/drum machine. This can be easy if both apps support General MIDI mapping. But Garage Band is different, and Reason’s Kong is different still. So, I would like to be able to create drum maps. (I guess this also entails a drum editor.) Then, when changing drum sources one would only need select the corresponding drum map. (5) Sometimes I have a note track I wish I could switch to a different synth or other instrument, but