Helium AUv3 MIDI Sequencer 4+
4Pockets.com
Designed for iPad
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- £12.99
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Description
Helium is a lightweight AUv3 MIDI sequencer plugin designed specifically for AUM. It supports up to 16 tracks of unlimited length with the ability to direct output to 16 channels on up to 16 MIDI output ports.
One of the great features is the ability to import and maintain libraries of MIDI clips using Helium's 'Media Bay'. These clips are freely available all over the internet and may contain individual chord sets, chord progressions or drum tracks. You can quickly build a song by dragging and dropping your MIDI clips from the media bay onto your timeline. You can also save your own clips directly to the media bay to create your own personal MIDI clips libraries. Long press on a clip to preview its contents using the currently selected MIDI device.
Helium now ships with a library of over 7000 MIDI clips, consisting of every chord and chord progression you could ever need.
Helium allows many different ways to import additional MIDI clip libraries. Simply drag and drop your ZIP collections directly to your PC/MAC web browser and they are automatically unpacked into the clips library folder. You can also drag and drop files between the Media Bay and the iOS Files app.
Helium supports a sync mode called 'Remote Looping'. This was something we recently introduced into our MultiTrack Recorder plugin and is very useful for breaking down the timeline into sections. You can define up to 12 loops which can be used to specify the locations of say the intro, verse, chorus, and outro within your song, then trigger these loops seemlessly in sync with the host tempo. Once captured, these loops can then be triggered by incoming MIDI notes.
A new addition to Helium is the ability to piece together loops into songs, so you just concentrate on creating a single verse, chorus, bridge etc. and piece everything together without the headache of having to re-arrange your timeline.
Features
○ 16 Tracks per instance.
○ Includes a library of over 7000 MIDI clips.
○ Assignable MIDI channel and Bus per track.
○ Full editing of CC controllers using the controller lane.
○ Independent vertical and horizontal zooming.
○ Import & Export MIDI tracks.
○ Media Bay, organize your MIDI flips libraries.
○ Clip Preview from Media Bay
○ Drag and Drop from the Media Bay directly to the timeline.
○ Drag and Drop to Files App.
○ Remote Control with Looping advanced functionality.
○ Step Recording.
○ Build in Mixer to adjust relative track levels with Mute/Solo.
○ Sync to Host.
○ Up to 16 outputs (configurable).
○ MIDI Clip Preview
○ Ghost Note Feature
○ Multi level undo and redo.
○ Song Mode
○ Multi-Take Record
Please checkout the help manual for details on where to find my tutorial videos on Helium and where to download some fully featured and free MIDI clip libraries.
This is not recommended to use on small iPhone screen sizes such as the SE models. You can adjust the screen scaling to suite your iPhone model by long pressing the MENU button and changing the scale.
What’s New
Version 1.49
1.49 191
When you reposition the cursor to the location of a Program Change, Helium now populates the Program Change window with those settings if the window is open.
Added the knob popups.
Fixed an issue with drag and drop from the clipboard button not working as it should.
Ratings and Reviews
Update: Aha, I’ve solved my problem
The update didn’t change my problem so I’ve done some more digging and have found the problem.
When an empty instance is reloaded after closing AUM the first time it returns with the Loop button set so it does respond to the host but plays a loop of zero length and the timeline cursor doesn’t move. Normally you can’t set the Loop button in an empty instance so it’s very much an edge case. I don’t use loops much so I didn’t notice this first time round.
Sorry about all that but I so much wanted an app like this that I was very disappointed when it seemed not to work. Anyway now I can get on with using and enjoying Helium in my work flow. 5 Stars
Update
Have been working with this app for a week now ..a few hours every day.. I’ve got to know it and even though it’s a magnificent starting point developmentally it is so that right out of the box you get amazing functionality and a super smooth work flow. In essence you can get ideas efficiently expressed with this sequencer...expressed in the other sense of adding dynamics via CC , adding nuance to your creations..it’s is now possible within AUM to develop and perfect yours ideas without going outside of the environment 🙏🙏🏿🦄
Very Useful
Nice editor, another quality app by this developer, although like a lot of the apps by this developer, the font is very small on the iPhone, making it nearly unusable until you get used to whats where. It’s also very hard to accurately set CC levels and to know if a level is even been set when at low values. That said, well worth having in the tool box even I you have other editors, this has handy features like quick easy access to midi files with it’s inbuilt file management you can drag and drop from. One important missing feature is time stretch, so unfortunately this isn’t the one and only editor you’re likely to need.
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Information
- Provider
- Limelight Software
- Size
- 88 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2021 - 4Pockets.com
- Price
- £12.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.