Triqtraq - Jam Sequencer
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | $7.99 | Sebastian Schatz | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Use triqtraq on your iPhone or iPad to:
- compose beats fast and intuitively, in a freestyle manner
- sketch out musical ideas on the go and improvise live
- get creative with sounds and your own recorded samples
- come up with interesting new grooves and patterns
• “One of the best jamming tools I've encountered on iOS (...) a delight to use" - SoundOnSound Magazine
• “There are expensive hardware synths/sequencers not capable of that!" - SOS Magazine
• “The interface is a joy to use. Superb selection of sounds included.” - Music Tech Magazine
• “Brilliant lay-out... You can get a punchy track out of it in a few minutes. Absolutely recommended." - WIRED
• “The deal of the century… One of the deepest sequencers I’ve seen at this cost” - Ask Audio
** Music Tech Excellence Award **
** 9/10 stars in Computer Music **
SUPER QUICK INTERFACE
• Compose and tweak beats fluently in an all-in-one window interface, without ever hitting stop.
• It’s all about touch: build up, vary, mangle and break your patterns with a swipe of your finger.
• Compose up to 16 patterns, and arrange them in the 16 step queue to build entire songs.
TWEAK YOUR (OWN!) SOUNDS
• Have endless fun with the real-time sound manipulation by recording various effect and parameter sliders.
• Add that personal touch and record your own sounds while jamming, with the super fast microphone recording feature.
• Get creative with a large library of over 400 included samples in 4 categories: Drums, Bass, Percussion and Keys.
• Take your custom sample library on the road by importing or pasting sounds from other apps.
GO DEEP WITH THE ADVANCED POSSIBILITIES
• Surprise yourself and make endless variations of one loop: give each of the four channels a different length.
• Every recorded parameter automation can have its own length too, resulting in ever evolving rhythms or melodies.
• Create your own original grooves by changing the swing amount and BPM per step.
SHARE IT & PLAY TOGETHER
• Get your recorded tunes out there and export your tracks to Soundcloud or Mail.
• Move ideas to other apps and store audio recordings on Dropbox (via Open in…).
• Get an even bigger sonic palette by using it along other apps with Audiobus and Inter-app-audio.
Check out our YouTube channel for demo video’s and tutorials!
Key Features:
• Four channels, each containing 8 sample pads
• Up to 16 patterns in one session
• Live input or step editor
• Automation (recording slider movements) of all effects in real-time
• Multi-editing and recording by selecting multiple channels
• Unique amount and speed of sequencer steps per channel (Loop Range)
• Sample swapping during playback
• Sample recording with the internal microphone, also during playback
• Library with more than 400 one-shot samples included
• Queue feature for arranging patterns into a full track
• Real-time switching between patterns
• Export of real-time jams, patterns or queues to SoundCloud, Audio Copy, E-mail or iTunes
• Open In… export option to open recordings in apps like Dropbox
• Import of sounds via iTunes file sharing or Audio Paste
• Audiobus support
• Inter-App Audio: use triqtraq as a generator in Inter-App Audio compatible hosts
• Background Audio option in the App Settings menu
• User manual included
Reviews
Amazing
Mildred
Great program - super easy and fun to play with. Also great for coming up with new ideas.
USELESS (to me) without LANDSCAPE MOD
vurnt22
Limited orientation options FAIL-I use my iPad Pro in a Focusrite Dock, with, unbelievable but true, OTHER APPS (i.e. Luis Martinez’’s, EXCELLENT Funk Drummer) in, now get this, an ACTUAL WORKFLOW. Without LANDSCAPE MODE, this app is of LiMITED UTILITY. IPhones are wonderful things, but not the ONLY thing.
A pocket operator on your iOS device
WmFerguson
Easy to dive into, powerful enough if you want to import your own samples. Fantastic.
No longer looks like a child’s game!
?!WOW!
Now I can pretend to be working on something serious like music whilst still playing with my favorite audio toy, THANKS! Really great new look & added functionality, again, THANK YOU!
Not Worth The Money!
SwimmingMan123
You can only create a 1-bar 4/4 loop, and although you can change the pitch of any sound, there’s no real way to write a melody with only a 1-bar loop. The UI is unintuitive and EXTREMELY limited. I was looking forward to recording my own sounds on my phone and just making a chill beat right then and there, but there’s no way to make a beat that would even remotely sound like the idea in my head. Some of the specific limitations: 1. As I mentioned before, a strict 1-bar, 4/4 loop with 16th note subdivisions. 2. You can run 4 tracks at once (pretty standard), BUT each track only has 16 “beat slots”. There’s only one sound per beat slot, so a track alone can’t be layered. 3. There is no keyboard. You can change the pitch of a sound, but it uses a slider with is weird, finicky, and clunky. Maybe if you are trying to make strictly drum beats with no synth progression then you wouldn’t mind this. Regardless, the melodic support is very poor. 4. The tempo only goes as low as 59 bpm. I know a lot of songs aren’t that slow, but 55 bpm is not an unheard of tempo. I find that just a very high minimum. Also the tracks have a strange function of half, 1.5, and double speed. Which leads into my next point... 5. The half, 1.5, and double speeds are a cheap and round-about way to justify the limit of a 16th subdivision versus just making a way to change the subdivisions. Doubling allows for a 32nd note, but it halves the number of notes you can have whereas an option to change the subdivision would not pose this problem. Oh, and I struggle to see the point of a 1.5 speed. Speed should be allocated to purely the tempo. Overall, it’s cheaply made and poorly designed. It’s not intuitive, and it is EXPENSIVE for how basic the structure is. I know I’ve already said it twice, but the ONLY OPTION is a 1 BAR, 4/4 loop. That is soooo limiting to what a musician can do! It offers no real area for even a basic chord progression or melody. Find another app, and DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY! EDIT: I want to thank Zaplin Music for their quick response to my review. It speaks volumes that they want each customer to enjoy their product in full. I’ll look again at the app, and I may potentially edit my review in full as it appears I have not used all of its features to their fullest extent. For now, I’m bumping up my review a star for their quick and thoughtful response; excellent customer service.
Very Limited, but Totally Awesome
mijjel
I’m actually kinda mad I didn’t hear about this app sooner. I really only use it for drums/sample loops, but this is the exact sort of workflow I was looking for. It has the loop-based simplicity of Figure mixed with the sampling features of iMPC Pro. That equals a simple fun app that is surprisingly useful for making actual music. While this app has its share of limits (and it is quite limited), it’s still a lot of fun. Which is important because I don’t see my phone replacing my laptop anything soon. It’s nice to be able to jam out a quick beat using my own packs without putting too much effort into loading samples. Also, the copy of Ableton Live 10 Lite makes this one of the unsung heroes of the App Store. It’s a shame more people aren’t talking about this app; it’s probably the first thing you should buy if you have both a laptop and an iPhone/iPad and you want to get into music production.
Great app, FAST customer service!
pwaltzdemarin
Love the app! I think it’s an amazing value especially given that it includes an Ableton Live Lite license.
Love. Pure love.
Solomon of Kleptolia
This app has been out for a long time, and it’s been passed over by far too many people. I have bought a lot of different apps on the App Store. When it comes to sampling that is quick, fun, and creative, you want triqtraq and/or koala. Triqtraq and Koala are quite different, but they are complementary. Triqtraq has motion record for effects and more input, which is nice for filters and variation. Koala’s sample editing features are very quick and handy for finding the right chop. If you want to get into iOS sample-based music production, you can’t go wrong by picking up Triqtraq along with Koala. Too many people are missing out on Triqtraq’s laid-back genius workflow.
For the right creatives this is a joy to use
BBQWhore
If you want make beats that sound like everybody else's you probably won't like this. If you want the warmest fattest pitched 808s this isn't the app but if you want to put all that aside for a minute and go for a real stream of conscious creative swim outside of boundaries of your musical skills or concepts about music theory this is the app to do it! Take a break from being a typical musician and try triqtraq!
