Developer Cem Olcay let us know about their new AUv3 MIDI Sequencer App for iOS, StepBud.
StepBud is a MIDI step sequencer that supports an unlimited number of steps. It can be used as an Audio Unit plugin or standalone, with Audiobus, Ableton Link, Bluetooth MIDI and CoreMIDI support.
Features:
- Audio Unit plugin
- Standalone mode with Audiobus, Ableton Link, Bluetooth MIDI and CoreMIDI
- Universal app for iPhone and iPad
- Unlimited steps
- Locking in a scale and a key with notes or chords for each step
- Velocity, gate, rate, modulation, pitch bend, portamento and unlimited custom MIDI CC for each step
- Step locking, step skipping
- Controlling all sequence with the master fader in either shift or copy mode
- Transposing with MIDI note input
Here’s a video demo, from a live stream by The Sound Test Room:
Priding and Availability
StepBud is available now for US $4.99.
If you’ve used StepBud, leave a comment and share your thoughts on it!
StepBud is easy to use, and is one of the most flexible single-track step sequencers for iOS. The UI is self-expanatory, but the feature set is deceptively deep.
It’s great that in addition to being able to set all steps individually and scale with a master slider, you can set the step-rate per each step. That makes some complex rhythmic things possible.
It runs in standalone mode on older 32-bit devices. There’s only one track in stand-alone mode (as far as I can tell).
It can run as an AUv3 plugin on 64-bit devices (with minimum iOS 11).
Two thumbs up. iOS sequencing awesomeness.