Comparison

HxMIDI Tools vs Sequentia

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

HxMIDI Tools

This software allows owners of CME USB MIDI Host products to update firmware and fully configure their devices. Users can manage routing, mapping, and filtering of MIDI and USB inputs and outputs.

Highlights
  • Firmware updates for CME USB MIDI Hosts
  • Configure routing between MIDI and USB inputs/outputs
  • Filter incoming MIDI events
  • Map incoming MIDI events to others
  • Full product configuration
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HxMIDI Tools, the software dedicated to CME USB MIDI Hosts products owners. With this software, you will be able to update the firmware of your CME Pro H4MIDI WC, H2MIDI Pro, H12MIDI Pro as well as all other products to come. The software is also used to fully configure your product, you have an access to the routing, mapping and filtering features. With this software you will be able to configure routing to each MIDI and USB input, you can decide to route any input to any output. You can also decide to filter any incoming MIDI event so it is not forwarded to the routed output. The latest version also offers the possibility to map any incoming MIDI event to another one, and much more

About

Sequentia

This app transforms your iPhone into a powerful MIDI sequencer for hardware synthesizers and drum machines. Generate complex musical patterns, control parameters, and integrate with your DAW. Save and export your creations for further editing.

Highlights
  • Generative MIDI patterns
  • Hardware synth control
  • DAW integration
  • Customizable modules (Drums, Acid, Chords, Arp, LFO)
  • Live pattern editing
  • MIDI export (.mid)
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Sequentia is a generative MIDI sequencer for synths, drum machines and modular. Add a module and it writes its own part: drums, basslines, arps, chords, melodies. Press Random and a full pattern is playing. Turn on Mutate and it keeps evolving while it runs. The pattern libraries are written for techno and acid, and the generative modules go further out than that. Seven finished demo tracks come with the app. WHAT WRITES THE PARTS Drums, eight lanes, with the swing each genre actually has. Tops, cymbals, shakers and claves over the kit, on one fader. Bass, sixteen styles from techno to dub to EBM. Acid, 303 lines that really slide. Chords and Arp, in your key, following each other. Stabs, from skank to rave. Piano, drawn by hand or written for you. Euclid, three rings at different lengths, drifting apart and landing together bars later. Rain, notes falling from a drizzle to a downpour. Bounce, physics balls playing your key off the walls. Sampler, your own loop, warped to the tempo and the key. Mod, LFOs that sweep your synth's knobs on their own. Vinyl, a record that turns while the rack plays. Mixer, to solo, mute and balance live. ONE STUDIO, YOUR WHOLE RIG Every module picks its own MIDI device and channel, so each machine gets its own part. MIDI over USB-C, Bluetooth or network. MIDI Clock in and out keeps the gear in time. In any DAW the app is a MIDI source you can record straight onto a track. Leave the app and the music keeps playing, with the controls on your Lock Screen. MODULATE AND CONTROL YOUR HARDWARE Pick your machine from the library and its control map loads, ready to turn: over a hundred and thirty synths, grooveboxes and drum machines, every map read out of its own manual. Put an LFO on any of those knobs and it sweeps in time with the pattern. Arm the red R, turn a knob by hand, and the move becomes a loop locked to the bar. CC coming in works too, so a controller fires Random, Mutate, mutes and the transport. LIVE JAM Every module keeps pattern slots. Fill them as you go and switch on the bar, like clips. Live Performer is one pad for the whole rack: move a finger and every module answers at once with more density, new variations or a break. Fills, swing and humanize are a tap each, while everything runs. SCENES, AND A SET YOU CAN PLAY Save a section as a scene, put the scenes in order, and the timeline plays the set. Or switch scenes by hand while it runs. A project holds several racks, each with its own key and tempo, so a breakdown can sit lower and slower than the drop. ONE PROGRESSION, EVERYTHING FOLLOWS Write the chords once. The basslines, arps and stabs follow the changes. NO HARDWARE YET Every module plays through the app's own synth, free, so a whole track works with nothing attached. Load your own samples into the Sampler, or build a drum kit out of them. EVERYTHING IN ONE PROJECT Notes, patterns, scenes, samples, routing and arrangement live in one project that saves itself. Take the whole thing out in one step: the rack as MIDI, or every scene as its own folder, named so the session opens in your DAW making sense. Samples come with it if you want them. ON IPHONE AND IPAD One app for both. On the tablet the rack becomes a grid of cards you page through, three across on a 13 inch. Menus come in from the right and leave the instrument where it is. Open a module and it steps into the middle of the screen with its settings beside it. Landscape, for a stand and two hands. Turn iCloud on and the same projects, presets and samples are on both devices, in a Sequentia folder you can see in Files. Off until you switch it on. Sequentia is free, and so is the built in sound, Live Performer and CC Control. Sequentia Pro adds pattern slots, scenes, several racks, every drum style, your own libraries, unlimited projects and MIDI export. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sequentia.studio/privacy

Screenshots

HxMIDI Tools4 screens
Sequentia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sequentia at 100% against HxMIDI Tools's 0%. Sequentia also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5). HxMIDI Tools's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sequentia sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. HxMIDI Tools asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sequentia holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of HxMIDI Tools's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sequentia's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HxMIDI Tools ships an update every 2 weeks, Sequentia every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
HxMIDI Tools versus Sequentia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHxMIDI ToolsSequentia
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings)4.7 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings410 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCME PTE. LTD.Yahor Kamarou

Customer experience

HxMIDI Tools

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Sequentia

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HxMIDI Tools

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Sequentia

Subscriptions2
  • Sequentia Pro Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Sequentia Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Sequentia Pro Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is HxMIDI Tools free?
HxMIDI Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sequentia free?
Sequentia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HxMIDI Tools or Sequentia?
Sequentia is rated higher. HxMIDI Tools averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Sequentia averages 4.7 from 10 ratings.
Do HxMIDI Tools or Sequentia have ads?
Neither HxMIDI Tools nor Sequentia shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HxMIDI Tools or Sequentia?
HxMIDI Tools ships an update every 2 weeks, and Sequentia every 11 days. Most recently, HxMIDI Tools was updated on November 4, 2026 and Sequentia on November 5, 2026.

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