Helium is a lightweight AUv3 MIDI sequencer plugin designed specifically for AUM. It supports up to 16 tracks of unlimited length with the ability to direct output to 16 channels on up to 16 MIDI output ports.
One of the great features is the ability to import and maintain libraries of MIDI clips using Helium's 'Media Bay'. These clips are freely available all over the internet and may contain individual chord sets, chord progressions or drum tracks. You can quickly build a song by dragging and dropping your MIDI clips from the media bay onto your timeline. You can also save your own clips directly to the media bay to create your own personal MIDI clips libraries. Long press on a clip to preview its contents using the currently selected MIDI device.
Helium now ships with a library of over 7000 MIDI clips, consisting of every chord and chord progression you could ever need.
Helium allows many different ways to import additional MIDI clip libraries. Simply drag and drop your ZIP collections directly to your PC/MAC web browser and they are automatically unpacked into the clips library folder. You can also drag and drop files between the Media Bay and the iOS Files app.
Helium supports a sync mode called 'Remote Looping'. This was something we recently introduced into our MultiTrack Recorder plugin and is very useful for breaking down the timeline into sections. You can define up to 12 loops which can be used to specify the locations of say the intro, verse, chorus, and outro within your song, then trigger these loops seemlessly in sync with the host tempo. Once captured, these loops can then be triggered by incoming MIDI notes.
A new addition to Helium is the ability to piece together loops into songs, so you just concentrate on creating a single verse, chorus, bridge etc. and piece everything together without the headache of having to re-arrange your timeline.
Features
○ 16 Tracks per instance.
○ Includes a library of over 7000 MIDI clips.
○ Assignable MIDI channel and Bus per track.
○ Full editing of CC controllers using the controller lane.
○ Independent vertical and horizontal zooming.
○ Import & Export MIDI tracks.
○ Media Bay, organize your MIDI flips libraries.
○ Clip Preview from Media Bay
○ Drag and Drop from the Media Bay directly to the timeline.
○ Drag and Drop to Files App.
○ Remote Control with Looping advanced functionality.
○ Step Recording.
○ Build in Mixer to adjust relative track levels with Mute/Solo.
○ Sync to Host.
○ Up to 16 outputs (configurable).
○ MIDI Clip Preview
○ Ghost Note Feature
○ Multi level undo and redo.
○ Song Mode
○ Multi-Take Record
Please checkout the help manual for details on where to find my tutorial videos on Helium and where to download some fully featured and free MIDI clip libraries.
This is not recommended to use on small iPhone screen sizes such as the SE models. You can adjust the screen scaling to suite your iPhone model by long pressing the MENU button and changing the scale.
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Helium AUv3 MIDI Sequencer Reviews
Problems using Cubasis 3
I am very impressed of the ipad apps from 4Pocket, and also Helium has been very impressing. But lately there has been some problems using Helium with Cubasis 3: After installing some chord Progressions in Helium the sound has abruptly «transposed» to very low chords approximately 3-4 octaves below the installed chords and notes. And as such the sound is only «rumble». Hope this will be fixed as I am looking forward to utilizing the creative power of Helium.
Great app and devs
I do wish it had a “patterns” view like Atom
Show us how to use the chord track…
(No, you didn’t. )
I hit velocity, and the following behavior is nothing like what you demonstrated. I turn on chord track and it doesn’t make a difference. I double tap, or hold on the blank chord track bar and nothing is shown.
Please, please, show us from absolute scratch , with nothing preset in your demonstration and at the beginning of the tutorial how to get the and add chords in the track.
Exported Midi, clips, and songs are not in the folders, only for helium access
What’s the point of exporting midi files if I can’t access them. Only helium will open midi files created in helium. Anything created in helium is unavailable. Just call it "save project". The helium folder remain empty…
Big disappointment!
I do not know what “AUM” is. I was hoping I could create music within the app itself; however, where is the sound? Volume is turned up and I do not hear anything!
Developer has many videos on YouTube; however, I do not have time to listen to them all, which would probably take hours. Don’t get this unless you are a professional musician!
A very common features for any editing which was ommited
...a scissor tool is not included in the many tools this one has.
Otherwise would be a 5/5 or at least would be pretty close.
Please include in an update. Thanks
Almost perfect
Just wish i could view more ghost tracks at the same time, and they were more visible so i could see all the midi note on different tracks on the same piano roll with different colors. Other than that, its useful.
Song mode host tempo
Loop isn't available in song mode, so helium follows it's own at her than the host (AUM) tempo, his would be good as an option, but manually changing tempo on the fly is very inconvenient. Also, having some inconsistent behavior with loops in song mode, and some strange triggering behavior : if I use a keyboard as a midi recording input, then use it to playback, it does strange things like run through the undo history and muting playback loops.
Intuitive, practical and user friendly
Needed an app to import MIDI files generated by Piano Motifs and play them in AUM. You can do this with one instance of Helium in AUM. I import a folder with the Piano Motifs clips into the Media Bay and then import the MIDI clips into different tracks (channels in AUM). Sync and then play! A breeze to use.
Helium and AUM
I’m hearing a lot of great reviews about this app, but, I just don’t understand what is going on as far as the connection between this app and AUM, the app works just fine; for some reason, Helium is not even listed at all, I’ve even tried Audiobus and not in the database. I have an iPad 8G (iOS 14.4.1) I can’t even see its full potential because of this issue, hopefully it may be something I’m doing wrong. Any help would be gladly appreciated, thanks.