Helium AUv3 MIDI Sequencer 4+

4Pockets.com

Designed for iPad

    • 4.5 • 34 Ratings
    • $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 1.37

v1.35 b122
Added thousands of new Modal chords progressions to the MIDI clips library.
These are provided courtesy of Ludovic Drolez.

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
34 Ratings

34 Ratings

Johne154 ,

A powerful stand-alone app, too!

This app reads and writes MIDI files without a Host. I was having multiple issues when using Helium in AUM. Turned out I didn’t need to use AUM at all. The Media Bay took some trial and error to understand how it works. My biggest Media Bay issue was not being able to find the folders I created in Media Bay. They must be hidden folders as the iPad Files app can’t find them anywhere in my iPad or on iCloud. Nonetheless, with some trial and experimenting I was able to import, export, and create: Songs (multitrack Midi files) and Clips (single track Midi files).
This app can do a lot more. I just scratched the surface of what it can do. I expect it will become one of my favorite MIDI tools. Thanks, 4Pockets!

CaminanteErrante ,

Intuitive, practical and user friendly

Needed an app to import MIDI files generated by Piano Motifs and play them in AUM. You can do this with one instance of Helium in AUM. I import a folder with the Piano Motifs clips into the Media Bay and then import the MIDI clips into different tracks (channels in AUM). Sync and then play! A breeze to use.

Ced Gee 83 ,

Helium and AUM

I’m hearing a lot of great reviews about this app, but, I just don’t understand what is going on as far as the connection between this app and AUM, the app works just fine; for some reason, Helium is not even listed at all, I’ve even tried Audiobus and not in the database. I have an iPad 8G (iOS 14.4.1) I can’t even see its full potential because of this issue, hopefully it may be something I’m doing wrong. Any help would be gladly appreciated, thanks.

Developer Response ,

Hi there. You are most probably suffering the dreaded failed to install AUv3 bug in iOS. Try rebooting your iPad and it should show up fine. I cover this in the help manual under Installation Problems & Compatibility. If you are still having issues please let me know.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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