Dope midi sequences with parameters!
This is great app.
Like all Sugarbytes apps - deeper than the ocean
They are expensive. But they are quality. I confess I made use of the Black Friday/Cyber Sale to pick up this and the full version of Amarillo. TheSys is a truly fabulous app with bewildering amounts of tweak-ability, but not so much that it boggles the mind. It runs fine for me in AUM where I can access quite a few more of my synths than in the standalone connection which (Sugarbytes take note) is not always 100% reliable. For instance, when I try to connect BeatHawk this way, I get a blank screen. Same for a few more. If I come out of the app and try again, sometimes I’m lucky. But I don’t think luck should play into this - a more robust system would improve reliability. Is it possible to do ties between notes? I haven’t found a way yet. If I’m creating a melody line with the pitch bars, I don’t always want the note value to be in half-notes only. Occasionally I’d like a full note. Perhaps I just haven’t discovered this in the depths yet? TheSys is powerful, fun to use and quite wonderful
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Great stuff
How can you how can you delete something, on iPad - on computer it’s right click. Not able to on iOS.
Edit - nvm I figured it out. Long press. Great stuff.
Edit - nvm I figured it out. Long press. Great stuff.
Fun!
The zoom function is very helpful! Overall an excellent sequencer with lots of possibilities plus it’s AU. Awesome like all of SB apps!
Complete app!
Very fun app. Easy to get started and deep enough to keep me focused. The customer service is also exceptional. Worthy purchase. Daily use.
Hate the GUI
This would be fine on desktop. The worst for working on an iPad.
Ignore the ignorance
2 stars is complete nonsense as this midi effect with the inclusion of auv3 support is phenomenal. The possibilities you have with this are never ending, complete ignorance from the users who have no clue as to how this works and no patience to learn how powerful this monster really is. If you don’t understand what it is, take the time to learn it and you won’t be disappointed.
On my way to have purchased every piece of sugar bytes’ software, wish there were more.
On my way to have purchased every piece of sugar bytes’ software, wish there were more.
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AUv3 update is transformative
The latest update to AUv3 has made it possible to run multiple instances of Thesys inside a NanoStudio 2 session, so you can compose multiple melodic parts together. The desktop interface is quite tiny on an iPad, though—if you have an Apple Pencil, you’ll want to use it.
Change to AU is good, but makes UI even more unusable
Sugarbytes, put a little effort into this please... AU UI is horribly small!
The AU train continues!
(Huzzah! Bring on Effectrix!)
Syncs up great with cubasis as an iaa instrument for sequencing thor or magellan. Great random options and so nice for quick happy accidents. The built in synths for quick sketching are handy too. I wanted something like the egoist bass sequencer but with more features and this was it.
Syncs up great with cubasis as an iaa instrument for sequencing thor or magellan. Great random options and so nice for quick happy accidents. The built in synths for quick sketching are handy too. I wanted something like the egoist bass sequencer but with more features and this was it.
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Great AUv3 MIDI Sequencer
The update to the app is an excellent upgrade to the functionality of the app. You can easily create all sorts of musical mayhem by running multiple instances of the app and can change sequences on the fly via the GUI or use MIDI to control the app’s parameters.
No way to import midi?
Can’t open midi files from within the app or in iOS file share “copy to”. Just like all the other sugarbytes apps, low resolution, and works well with just about no other apps. Not having a file folder accessible from AudioCopy or AudioShare kind of makes using your apps unbearably tedious, terrible to incorporate into work flow.
Your VST plugins all work great, hire a guy like that for your iOS versions and you’ll have some of the best apps.
Your VST plugins all work great, hire a guy like that for your iOS versions and you’ll have some of the best apps.
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The best step sequencer, maddeningly tiny interface
This is the best featured step sequencer in iOS, to this day. Has a bunch of modulation lanes, 32 steps, independent lengths for different parameters, scale quantize, scalar transpose, song mode, dj-style midi effects. All amazing, next level stuff, crammed into the most uselessly tiny interface, and ill conceived zoom workarounds. Be ready for bumping adjacent controls all the time and screwing up your sequence. I use it sometimes, and it ends up sounding great, but I loathe the experience. It doesn’t need to be this tiny, there is all kinds of wasted space, and needlessly compacted, dangerous to mix up groups of buttons, in fields of unused white space. It was ported from the desktop, and was never designed for a touch screen. If you could expand the sequencers to fill the screen you would be set, I think. Replace the dreadful PC key modifiers, Cmd, Ctrl, Alt, with traditional touch interface modifiers, like tap and hold, double tap, etc.
In an effort to use the app, I’ve gone to great lengths to midi map the controls to a midi controller, but, there is no way to reuse the midi mappings from one project to another, and there is no default mapping.
I would avoid this app on anything except the 12.9” iPads.
In an effort to use the app, I’ve gone to great lengths to midi map the controls to a midi controller, but, there is no way to reuse the midi mappings from one project to another, and there is no default mapping.
I would avoid this app on anything except the 12.9” iPads.
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Be wary of buying...
Sugar Bytes seem to be cutting audiobus support on their apps.
So your app may not work as you initially expected.
So your app may not work as you initially expected.
Potential but lacking audiobus midi support.
A very good sequencer and it's great to see it's not been abandoned with the new update adding Link. But come on it's a sequencer so where's the audiobus 3 midi support? Add that and it's a 5 star product!
Interesting app, needs serious update.
It has fiddly controls, and an irritating zoom function which does not really compensate for the cramped design. Why is there no Ableton Link? For 2 years, as far as I can tell, updates for this have been at a bare minimum. So, come on Sugar Bytes, extract the digit.
Nic
Nic
Still great, but it's time for an update
This is still one of the best midi sequencers in terms of features, but it needs an update so it integrates better with live performances. MIDI clocking exists, but does not play nice with Ableton Link, so unless all apps are using MIDI clocking, Thesys has to be piped into the mix the old fashioned way. SugarBytes has been all over Ableton Link with their other apps...it's time to give Thesys some of that goodness. Also, needs a new idea with the user interface. As mentioned in other reviews, controls are itsy-bitsy, even on a 12" iPad Pro. With a little TLC, this is a five-star app that will be a main work-horse in mobile music for a long time.
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Great sequencer/arpeggiator
Still digging into this two weeks after purchase. A deep and fun app. The presets lend themselves to tweaking and exploring.
I wouldn't mind a UI update.
I wouldn't mind a UI update.
Terrible interface design
Well I was looking forward to using this app, but will the terrible interface design it's not a particular pleasure to use. It so very fiddly that half the time your finger is obscuring the item you are trying to change, even the awful zoom function hinders rather than helps. Can I get a refund please.
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Powerful sequencer
Nice that it has independent sequences for note, velocity and gate. I can't think of any others that do that. Would be great if the pattern shift buttons were a bit bigger and other interface elements were a little more finger friendly. Otherwise a pretty tight sequencer with a ton of options built in.
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