# Mobile Music Sequencer - US > Mobile music sequencer for composing songs from phrases and sections. (iPhone/iPad app by Yamaha Corporation of America.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mobile-music-sequencer-us/id580022906 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Yamaha Corporation of America](https://appshunter.io/developer/408058585) - Category: Music - Price: $15.99 - Rating: 3.41/5 from 32 App Store ratings · 50 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 13.0 · 237 MB - Languages: English, Japanese - Released: 2013-01-24 - Data updated: 2026-06-10 - Monetization: free with in-app purchases - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mobile-music-sequencer-us/id580022906/reviews.md ## What is Mobile Music Sequencer? Yamaha's Mobile Music Sequencer enables composers to combine a range of phrase patterns and create musical compositions intuitively, following the flow of composition, from phrases to sections and from sections to songs. Wherever you are, you can now sketch the outline of a composition. In addition, you can use the ingredients to delicately craft songs on a Yamaha synthesizer, or in Steinberg Cubase. First, try loading the demo song (a number of demo songs are provided). Tap on the settings icon in the top right of the screen, select [Digital Sympathy] from the Presets under the File tab, and press the Load button to read in the song. Create a song right away as follows: Step 1-Create phrases You can choose from a rich selection of 382 preset phrases (the phrase is the smallest unit in the structure of a composition). Under Phrase in the View screen, tap on a cell in which no setting has been made, then tap on the Select button on the left. To listen to a preset phrase, tap on its name. It is also possible to use real-time recordings made using the keyboard within an application, or user phrases which have been created using piano roll input. Using the powerful Loop Remix function, it is possible to divide selected phrases at specified intervals and then order them randomly, automatically insert rolls or breaks, and thus rework them into new phrases. Step 2-Create sections Combine multiple phrases together to create a section. Phrases are arranged in a vertical block and playback is turned on and off using the Section button at the bottom of the screen. The phrases can be managed as a single unit. By specifying codes for individual sections, you can easily create variations. Using the Create command you can also create a succession of new sections based on the phrase that is currently being played back, which allows production to proceed smoothly. Step 3-Create Songs Put together complete songs by pasting together sections. This is easily accomplished by touching the Section area and then just dragging and dropping sections into the data area. Naturally, you can also input sections by recording in real time or by using the piano roll screen. Advantages • Built-in software synth with 92 high-quality sounds (including 9 types of drumkit) enables faithful rendering of sequence patterns. • Sound editing using filters, EG, and other effects • Mixer function for each part • Effects including reverb, chorus, and variations • Additional phrases and sounds Four additional voice and phrase datapacks can be purchased directly using the application. (Dance Pop, Electronic, Hip Hop, R&B). Moreover, two additional song and phrase datapacks and one phrase datapack can be also purchased directly using the application.(Song and Phrase datapack: TeddyLoid/Mobile Conductor, access/Eien Dive, Phrase databack: QY Pack) *In case your purchased pack can't be transferred to the app, please tap the "Restore Purchases" button at the bottom of the purchase screen. • File export As well as a function for outputting standard general-purpose MIDI files, the application also includes a function for exporting files in an even easier-to-use format designed for Yamaha synths, in which characteristic sounds are specified in advance. (MOTIF XF, S90XS/S70XS, MOXF6/MOXF8, MOX6/MOX8, MX49/61, Tyros5 and MOTIF XS) • Mix-down Audio mix-down of a song or a phrase and conversion of the song or the phrase to an audio file can be performed in real time. • Compatibility with SoundCloud Audio files can be made compatible with SoundCloud and uploaded. ## Key features - Phrase creation and editing - Section arrangement - Song composition - Built-in software synth with 92 sounds - Sound editing with filters and effects - Mixer function for each part - Loop Remix function ## Recent user reviews (10 of 50) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mobile-music-sequencer-us/id580022906/reviews.md ### 1/5 — Piups.... *2022-08-12, version 3.3.9* This app needs new sounds or at least to have AU in each track because its a toy with only 8 tracks and sounds from 50s. Now its doing hiccups and the sound disappears until saving and reopen the song again. Not worth a penny if no one cares about it and no one cares about this app ever. No one reads the reviews. Yamaha cant comprehend how powerful phones has became this days and how the storage went up to a terabits in a phone! The phones became better then the laptops now days with the exception that the phone is not as convenient as a laptop. And this app is still attached to sound cloud??? Not being able to load and extract a song in midi format??? Not being able to save in wave or mp3 right on my phone in files folder??? This app is so NOT user friendly at all and doesn't collaborate with audio-bus too... Don't recommend even for beginners! I literarily hate every yamaha keyboard i bought, they always have problems with sequencing and storage once you fill up the memory it will mix and change the transposition of tracks randomly in each song and exchange tracks within songs. I never got a yamaha keyboard with proper sequencer because they are advertised with sequencers but they have a list of numbers like you so oppose to use a calculator to sequence a track! How stupid is that?!?! The new montage and modx doesn't even have a sequencer - not the one people are looking for, but a phrase sequencer! A PHRASE SEQUENCER NOT NOTE SEQUENCER! THATS STUPIT YAMAHA!!! YOU NEVER HEAR PEOPLE - YOU SHOULD NEVER DO MUSIC STAFF - YOU NEED TO GO TO ONLY MOTORCYCLES!!!! ### 5/5 — Please update with new features *2022-02-13, version 3.3.9* This app is unique app on iOS platform and I request to update with some new features 1-Please add on Swing 2-Pattern launch by midi keys external 3- midi learn transport too 4-export midi file in app or saving on file 5- if possible make it Auv3 6- new iPhone devices screen resulation Please consider the above requests Thanks ### 3/5 — This was going to be the best DAW... *2020-12-23, version 3.3.6* But Yamaha isn’t listening to clients needs: No midi import No audio recording channels No ghost midi channels Yamaha could have been the king of mobile DAWs but they’re a sleeping giant. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2020-12-16, version 3.3.6* Awesome App. ### 4/5 — Good app overall *2020-04-05, version 3.3.6* It takes time to learn but it has about everything that you need in a sequencer . Time consuming but worth it. ### 5/5 — Yamaha Mobile Music Sequencer, the Best App for Music Creators !! *2019-10-21, version 3.3.4* Update : I corrected my review because I realized this program performs good the editing jobs under piano roll section. Also I saw there is a new version on England (3.3.5) that supports iOS 12 and maybe correct the crash we are suffering with Dropbox compatibility So please Yamaha US give us that update also and also the other fixes and features Me and other fans and costumers are asking you since long time . You can read it below ⬇️ Thanks. ( I keep giving you my 5 Stars ) ✋🏼 Warning !! This App is not for everyone ! If you are the kind of arranger musician or a composer that want everything to be easy and fast and mediocre Or maybe you are a good player but can’t create something original. Then let me warn you that this app could not work for you. This app can’t read or open midi files and neither can’t play auto accompaniment when connected with a midi keyboard 🎹 This is a very good application if you are a dedicated composer or arranger willing to create a masterpiece from scratch. If you are like this, then be welcome to the best musical creation tool you can find !! I’m writing this review because I love this app and because there are many users that misunderstand the concept of this app and make bad reviews and had achieve Yamaha developers to no make the necessary updates on this wonderful app. This app contains the spirit of the “Yamaha Qy” line devices. And because of that it is not easy for any musician to drop in a midi file and just play it for edit it later. It is an app for “start” a project, mostly an original project and within this program you will find the tools to make your song to sound unique and detailed, if you want. Like I said it contains the spirit of the Qy line, but due to the touch screen, a clever Yamaha design and styles and phrases experience, and the powerful Apple 🍎 processors, users benefit with a Program with the latest and fastest music creation and accuracy Tools in difficult details: It can be used like a normal sequencer editor in the song mode and can be used for phrases or midi loops in the phrase mode In both modes you count with piano editor with useful and comprehensive, and in-deep tools and the wonderful and very useful loop remix editor, with unlimited new forms ideas 💡 for your difficult parts The voices are good and useful and can be modified easy with the sound editor with cutoff, release, portamento, etc. And effects like reverb, delay, chorus, etc. can be added and mixed on the effects screen. (All of this can be done also from the piano editor for more detailed parameters) All of this will give you a mental focus and more ideas about what this Yamaha mobile music sequencer app will do for you and your music development. The kind of sounds you want in your composition will lead you also to look in your Yamaha keyboards, other external instruments, applications or computer Vst patches. The important thing about this app is that it will support you in all the way creation process from scratch to the end once you export your composition in midi format. And here it is where begins the interesting part for: Me and lovers of Yamaha MMS around the World 🌎 🌍 Come on!! And Join my petition for the biggest and finale Update !! Yamaha We the users of your best iOS app you have ever made: “Yamaha Mobile Music Sequencer” Want an Need an Update, a full update to receive this coming New Year. So please Fix the Dropbox compatibility that doesn't work anymore since iOS 10 Also on iOS 12 the phrases from purchased packs get lost and users have to often be restoring purchases, besides sometimes it happens also with user phrases, making difficult to work when you are offline, no connected to the internet. Many times users doesn't have or doesn't want to use the internet for concentrate better in the actual song. Another important update is related to the voice link when we want to use another app's sounds or patches, many times it is very difficult to make MMS to play with the sounds of that external app so please fix the bug and make it compatible again with Audiobus and Inter-app audio and also with Midiflow. Also the Midi clock is very buggy and it's difficult to get it to synchronize with external equipment and needs to be improved. And under project settings: The Tempo. Sometimes it is needed a change of the tempo in the middle of the song so please implement a way to change the tempo, maybe in the piano editor in the first track used mostly for drums. Also under project settings : Time signature it has 4/4 and 3/4 only. It would be good to have some more options please. I think with these functionalities finished, the program would be complete and any other feature added will be just an extra, because the program it is perfect in its own way. So don't forget to sale more phrases, presets and sounds, I'm sure there are many users willing to buy them. Yamaha my sincere recognition to your amazing work !! ### 4/5 — Great app! *2019-10-06, version 3.3.4* Every things works well, but Dropbox doesn't work! ### 1/5 — Y A M A H A *2019-09-16, version 3.3.4* why couldn’t you guys put this sequencer into the Montage/MODX DUMB REALLY DUMB ### 1/5 — Not worth the money *2018-07-18, version 3.3.4* Can’t load existing midi files! What app or device claiming to be a sequencer is not capable of playing midi files! In addition, when downloading a midi file onto an iPad, you can’t open it into this app! How does one get their money back due to false advertising? Also, can’t give a zero rating!!! Since originally writing this review, I tried Yamaha support and could not find support for apps of any kind - only for hardware products! Did I not see something buried in eye candy? The Montage is not listed as a device it can work with. ### 5/5 — Made in the Japanese computerized app *2018-05-29, version 3.3.4* A download to your price low of quality 2015 ## Frequently asked questions about Mobile Music Sequencer ### What does the Mobile Music Sequencer app do? This app allows users to create musical compositions by combining phrase patterns into sections and then arranging these sections into complete songs. It features a built-in synthesizer with a variety of sounds, sound editing capabilities, and a mixer for fine-tuning each part of your composition. ### How do I create a song in the app? Song creation involves three main steps: first, create individual phrases using presets, real-time recordings, or piano roll input; second, combine these phrases into sections; and finally, arrange the sections by dragging and dropping them to form a complete song. The Loop Remix function can also be used to generate new phrases. ### Is the app free to use? The core application is free to download and use. However, there are additional voice and phrase datapacks available for purchase within the app to expand your sound library and creative options. You can restore any previously purchased packs by tapping the 'Restore Purchases' button. ### What devices is the Mobile Music Sequencer compatible with? The description does not specify exact compatibility requirements. However, as a mobile application, it is designed for use on smartphones and tablets. It is recommended to check the app store listing for your specific device's operating system version and hardware compatibility. ### Can I use my compositions with other music software? Yes, the description mentions that you can use the crafted songs on a Yamaha synthesizer or in Steinberg Cubase. This suggests that compositions created in the app can be exported or integrated into other professional music production software. ## Version history (last 1 release) ### 3.3.9 — 2021-11-08 Fixed a problem to connect SoundCloud. 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