Triqtraq - Jam Sequencer

Will give 5 stars if developer adds landscape for iPad

It’s a thing of beauty

Please add a metronome or a click to the tempo/BPM section. It takes the guess work out when initiating a loop. Thank you.

That’s pretty much all I can say. This app has huge potential but its sloppy UI and lack of basic features (mainly an audible metronome) make it feel like an outdated toy.

Great program - super easy and fun to play with. Also great for coming up with new ideas.

If you want make beats that sound like everybody else's you probably won't like this. If you want the warmest fattest pitched 808s this isn't the app but if you want to put all that aside for a minute and go for a real stream of conscious creative swim outside of boundaries of your musical skills or concepts about music theory this is the app to do it! Take a break from being a typical musician and try triqtraq!

This app has been out for a long time, and it’s been passed over by far too many people. I have bought a lot of different apps on the App Store. When it comes to sampling that is quick, fun, and creative, you want triqtraq and/or koala. Triqtraq and Koala are quite different, but they are complementary. Triqtraq has motion record for effects and more input, which is nice for filters and variation. Koala’s sample editing features are very quick and handy for finding the right chop. If you want to get into iOS sample-based music production, you can’t go wrong by picking up Triqtraq along with Koala. Too many people are missing out on Triqtraq’s laid-back genius workflow.

Love the app! I think it’s an amazing value especially given that it includes an Ableton Live Lite license.

I’m actually kinda mad I didn’t hear about this app sooner. I really only use it for drums/sample loops, but this is the exact sort of workflow I was looking for. It has the loop-based simplicity of Figure mixed with the sampling features of iMPC Pro. That equals a simple fun app that is surprisingly useful for making actual music. While this app has its share of limits (and it is quite limited), it’s still a lot of fun. Which is important because I don’t see my phone replacing my laptop anything soon. It’s nice to be able to jam out a quick beat using my own packs without putting too much effort into loading samples. Also, the copy of Ableton Live 10 Lite makes this one of the unsung heroes of the App Store. It’s a shame more people aren’t talking about this app; it’s probably the first thing you should buy if you have both a laptop and an iPhone/iPad and you want to get into music production.

You can only create a 1-bar 4/4 loop, and although you can change the pitch of any sound, there’s no real way to write a melody with only a 1-bar loop. The UI is unintuitive and EXTREMELY limited. I was looking forward to recording my own sounds on my phone and just making a chill beat right then and there, but there’s no way to make a beat that would even remotely sound like the idea in my head. Some of the specific limitations: 1. As I mentioned before, a strict 1-bar, 4/4 loop with 16th note subdivisions. 2. You can run 4 tracks at once (pretty standard), BUT each track only has 16 “beat slots”. There’s only one sound per beat slot, so a track alone can’t be layered. 3. There is no keyboard. You can change the pitch of a sound, but it uses a slider with is weird, finicky, and clunky. Maybe if you are trying to make strictly drum beats with no synth progression then you wouldn’t mind this. Regardless, the melodic support is very poor. 4. The tempo only goes as low as 59 bpm. I know a lot of songs aren’t that slow, but 55 bpm is not an unheard of tempo. I find that just a very high minimum. Also the tracks have a strange function of half, 1.5, and double speed. Which leads into my next point... 5. The half, 1.5, and double speeds are a cheap and round-about way to justify the limit of a 16th subdivision versus just making a way to change the subdivisions. Doubling allows for a 32nd note, but it halves the number of notes you can have whereas an option to change the subdivision would not pose this problem. Oh, and I struggle to see the point of a 1.5 speed. Speed should be allocated to purely the tempo. Overall, it’s cheaply made and poorly designed. It’s not intuitive, and it is EXPENSIVE for how basic the structure is. I know I’ve already said it twice, but the ONLY OPTION is a 1 BAR, 4/4 loop. That is soooo limiting to what a musician can do! It offers no real area for even a basic chord progression or melody. Find another app, and DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY! EDIT: I want to thank Zaplin Music for their quick response to my review. It speaks volumes that they want each customer to enjoy their product in full. I’ll look again at the app, and I may potentially edit my review in full as it appears I have not used all of its features to their fullest extent. For now, I’m bumping up my review a star for their quick and thoughtful response; excellent customer service.