Bram Bos have delivered their latest app Odessa Sequencer Suite. The app is a collection of MIDI sequencers and controllers that lets you explore a new, freeform approach to sequencing and controlling mobile music apps. In total the app contains 6 MIDI Audio Units (this is a totally new feature in iOS11 that doesn’t seem to have been well exploited so far) in a single package, which can be loaded in compatible MIDI AU hosts (Kymatica’s AUM is the first host to support it).
Here’s a list of what comes in the package with Odessa:
- 1) Odessa Bassline: a monosequencer based on the popular Troublemaker sequencer. Obviously comes with all the randomization and mutation features. Up to 8 patterns per sequence, with Follow Actions. Transpose using MIDI.
- 2) Odessa Rhythm: a euclidean drum sequencer with mutations per instrument and polyrhythms. Comes with configurable key mappings for many popular drum apps.
- 3) Odessa X0X: classic TR-styles step sequencer for drum machines. Supports triplets, polyrhythms and mutations per channel. Optionally emulates the exact timing jitter pattern of the legendary TR-808
- 4) Odessa LFO: a triple MIDI LFO generator lets you modulate CC parameters of your MIDI instruments. Apply amplitude modulation to each wave for more organic behavior. Optionally syncs to tempo.
- 5) Odessa XY: a double XY Controller Pad for generating 4 simultaneous configurable CC controller streams per instance. Also features MOD wheel and PitchBend sliders.
- 6) Odessa Arpeggio: adds a MIDI arpeggiator to any of your synths. Offers latch mode, shuffle and automatic tempo synchronization. Turn any incoming MIDI stream into an arpeggio on the fly.
Please Note:
- these plugins do not run as a standalone app and require a compatible host to work
MIDI is not sound. To make sound you’ll have to feed the MIDI into a synthesizer or instrument app. Bring your own synths!
Odessa Sequencer Suite costs $9.99 on the app store now:
Looks really interesting, but there is a dearth of detailed information about some of the features. I will wait for a full walkthrough.
So, I was looking at this again. Not only does it have a new particle generator, the name has been changed to Rozeta,
It is mighty. Simple and mighty. Using the rhythm sequencer for melodic purpose feels like magic.
The arpeggiator is one of the not-obivious heroes of the bunch. The swing is perfect and the ability to set an accent level every N notes can make for interesting rhythms particularly with uneven numbers. And quickly. And that’s sort of the magic of the whole set: all of it is dirt simple/quick to use.
AUM quickly grows in size but word is J Lilla is working on a solution to that.
I picked this up today and I’m a fan. My only issue is that there’s no good way to control the sequencers with external MIDI clock/transport since AUM won’t receive MIDI clock. I use my iPad connected to my DAW (Logic) and the only way I can sync them is through a MIDI clock -> Ableton Link app, and that doesn’t give me transport control. Hopefully one of the other AUv3 hosts will bring support for these and allow for that functionality.
These applets are awesome! It would be super helpful if Bram would expose all the controls as mappable CC’s in AUM. These things just beg to be used all over the place, but without the ability map them to controllers, etc. actually using them in a tweaky fashion on screen is almost impossible once you have like 5 instances of LFO’s, 3 or 4 arps, 2-3 rhythms, etc.