Senode User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience67.7% of reviews
Neutral16.1% of reviews
Negative experience16.1% of reviews

~ Based on 31 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Senode Safe?

Senode - Graph Sequencer appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Senode is 84/100.

This assessment is based on 35 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

88.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 35 App Store ratings for Senode.

Is Senode Legit?

Senode - Graph Sequencer appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Senode is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

素晴らしい

アルゴリズム的に音楽を作り上げるシーケンサー。 子供にプログラミング教えるのにも使ってます。MIDI の入出力も設定も細かく設定でき、他に替りが存在しない素晴らしいアプリ。唯一の不満点はアンドゥが出来ないところで、アップデートを期待してます。

My 6th review … sorry, man. 😔

I’ve been working with Senode again, on and off since I found the latest update in late January.
Recently, I’ve been trying to use it on 2 to 3 separate sequences simultaneously, on the same MIDI channel (chords) as well as on individual channels.
This was it, over the last 30 minutes. 😔 At tye very beginning, it seemed that I had bith individual sequences in an idea’s test run working, individually. (A mono melody and a mono basslines.)
Ensuring proper bass synth sound ops on the bass discovering that nooooo, even though everything were hooked up between the 2 voices spate from each other, both sequences seemed to be playing tge melody voice only.

(It IS late and I’m tired …)

But … ensuring tgat the bass sequence and voice were working properly, ensuring hooked up only to themselves … there weren’t a melody, any more.
All connections as they should be.
Sequencer running. No activity at the incoming Trigger / Gate; changes in incoming CVs.
All, had stalled, for only the first sequencer.

(An experience type had, many times in the past.)

Man … in my 41 years of MIDI sequencing and CV sequencing, I have never seen a sequencer like yours. Except for real oddities in entering notes, this is the best potential, I’ve ever seen!

These bugs though? I can’t use it!

I’ve started planning ine out myself. I haven’t programmed in years and I’ll have to learn C++.
I do have a helper at least and I want a functioning sequencer like this, befire I die. (I AM early retured niw.)

Time, but here’s to hoping!

Thanks for trying man! It has been, frustrating fun!
✌🏻✌🏽😔🇨🇦
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My 5th review … tried new update! 😀

After my now 40 years of ‘computer sequencing’ with 5+ on this iPad after 35 years across Atari ST; Amiga; PC; Mac and PC …I _FINALLY_ caved in, in Dec. 2025 and came to GarageBand.
FINALLY on the iPad, a sequencer that I COULD compose regular toons on! (80’s / 90’s similar.)

NO OTHER SEQuencer though on _ANY_ platform has been as cool an idea as Sebastien’s Senode! That be why, I continually come back to give it another try!
Bugs, have always been the killer.
BUT … they have also been due to what _I_ were trying to do! Multi-instrument under 1, or, Mukri-Senode.
On i-Pad 6 and then this 9, over the last 2 years.

This latest update, I’m here to try it SOLO. 1 voice, with my desired string of changes. It IS well capable of THAT! That, I have been looking for a replacement.
Nope! There are no replacements, for Senode! In this functional regard, it IS, THE BEST!

On to my 2nd test song since Sab.’s latest update - back to 5*!
I am So phreakin’ happy to finally be able to reliabky use Senode again!! 😀✌🏼✌🏾🫡🇨🇦
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crazy

conceptually unfathomable !

Documentation unhelpful

Where’s the documentation for the scene mode? What does the +Action button do?

Response from developer

Hi pixpop, thanks for the feedback! The latest release now comes with updated documentation.

Great sequencer

This is a very interesting app that is easy to get around in. The use of nodes connecting by direction is at once simple but powerful. Most importantly, it is inspiring to use and creates useful results. I find myself experimenting with it frequently and finding very good sounding, useful output. Very pleased, can’t begin to express how much I love using this..
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My 4th review. So long … 1 ar time? 4. More? 2. :(

I had previously, mistakenly thought that Senode worked great with more than 2 instances of it. Very regrettably, no, it does not. :(
1 x Senode instance works beautifully, for a great length of time. As well, with a lot of conditional choices!
Try more than 1 instance though - within the same module or as a 2nd module? Uh uh. :(
False starts on 1 or both. Sync between the 2 of them, failing Notes being triggered, unreliable.
In my 39 years of working with many MIDI sequencers on / in many platforms, for my own hobbies, Senode has been one of the easiest to use and most capable, in it’s somewhat extra legths of time ways! (Not intended for live performance. Standard i-Pad screen is too small for fast-action, small accurate adjustments.)
This has become my greatest missing MIDI sequencer due, to it’s seemingly 2+ year abandoned, problems.

Still searching for an alternative.
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Want to like it but…

It just refuses to get ticks from the clock as a auv3 in aum. I press play and nothing happens. It’s driving me crazy.

Response from developer

Hi, I'm sorry you're having trouble to run the AUv3. Please make sure to try one of the example patches to see if they work. They should be configured to automatically play as soon as they receive ticks. If it still doesn't work feel free to reach out to info(at)senode.org with a screenshot of your setup.

Must have

Fantastic for generative. Easy and intuitive to use. Nothing like it as far as I know.

Wow!!!

Ok what in the world THANK YOU! Ive been looking for something like this forever. I am running the app on my m1 macbook pro and then outputting the midi to ableton. Seriously thank you!!! I only had it for 10 minutes… i wish the tempo could go slower but i guess i can work around that!!! I look fed to exploring any other works or developments thank you sincerely!!
Marcus !
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Auv3 kostet extra

Super Tool für kreatives Musizieren. Leider muss die AUv3 Funktionalität extra erworben werden. Was nicht wirklich kommuniziert wird beim Kauf. War das nötig?

My 3rd review. Back UP to 5*!

I finally realized a few weeks ago, that possibly all of the odd app behaviors with MIDI and audio over the last 10+ years has been due to Audiobus / Audiobus 3! Tried firing up Senode by itself. Working beautifully! I added a MIDI synth app to be controlled by Senide - working perfectly! Without Audiobus3. I added a 2nd MIDI synth app. It and then a 3rd, all worked together with Senode, perfectly! WithOUT Audiobus3! Without a mixer!
Sebastian - you’re reading - THANK YOU!! I have wanted sequencer abilities like this, for DECADES! I’ve just started my 3rd minimal sequenced / live improvisation ambient piece in as many days and I an so horribly addicted! 😀😀✌🏻🖖🏽🇨🇦
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Lame

I bought thinking the auv3 was included. I mean come on, anything that’s auv3 these days is included in the price. Nobody wants to listen to your lame included samples. Great app but lame pricing structure.

Response from developer

Thanks for your feedback! I had invested several months of work to bring the existing app to AUv3 even five years after the initial release. With the newest release, AUv3 is included for everyone and the app still keeps evolving with no extra charge. I hope you enjoy it :-)

Promising but missing a few items that could help creative flow.

I really really want to use this but am having difficulty placing ‘phrase’ of notes with timings. I can record a single note without a note length. There’s an onscreen keyboard to place a note in a node via the ‘record’ button, but why not allow a string or ‘phrase’ of nodes be placed by providing a metronome and filling in the nodes with timings, which could be tweaked later.
Also, there are some times when you’d like a node to hit on a specific beat (usually on the beat) if it is a cluster that is defining a more rigid form of phrasing variations. It would be great to be able to have nodes that hold a note until a certain beat is reached, or some other intuitive way of harnessing timings in a conditional manner.
I love what this is capable of, but it just doesn’t flow with my thinking when I try learning to use it.I’m probably the most neurally divergent of creative types and as such, the workflow is holding me back when I know it could be easier or offer more ways to work with it.
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Promising! Simple good and also too simple.

This app is really easy to get your gead around.
I would like some more features though, like copy/paste or duplicate.

It would also be nice to run two sequences from one emitter- to be able to split and merge chains, for more interesting polyphony.

Split could be a toggle inside the node sidebar. Merge shouldn’t need a setting.

That said, its nicely designed, i look forward to using it more.
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Response from developer

Hi, thanks for your feedback and the great suggestions! Copy/paste/duplicate is already possible when you long-press on a selection of nodes. Enjoy!

AUv3 MIDI should have been an original feature.

I definitely am not paying for a standard ‘basic’ feature.

Response from developer

Hi Eriptron, thanks for your report. Your MIDI device issue should be fixed in version 1.0.2. Best, Sebastian

Buena idea aún por desarrollar

La app debería poder ser automatizable en volumen, velocidad, divisiones de tempo, etc para cda emisor al menos, de otro modo suena muy robótica con esos parámetros asignados de manera fija.

Finally AUv3!

Very powerful, endless possibilities!

Bought this recently…

… and while I’ve just used the presets, I can’t get it to send midi to anything either in an apps stand alone mode or in a host like AUM.
I can see it in AUM - even though it doesn’t load it. And I can see the midi receiving app in Senode in controls (and direct it to the synth), but no midi is sent.
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Response from developer

Thanks for your report! For getting MIDI out to work, please make sure that the MIDI out device is activated in the settings screen and the emitter is assigned to a MIDI channel. In addition, I've just released an AUv3 version that should be even easier to handle in AUM.

Loving is so far!

Only issue is the lack of auv3 support. Hopefully that’s coming soon? Thanks dev.

10/04/2020 Update. IIA was recently added! It’s not AUV3, but I’m not complaining. Thank you so much dev, I really love this app!!!