960 Sequencer for iPad

[moledog]

I knocked this together in Photoshop. Are there any plans for Moog to release a 960 iPad app? I'd buy it....

[moledog]

In fact, I'd buy any sequencer that Moog produced for iPad....

[Prime NL]

Would love to see this happening...

[till]

Part of the magic of good old analog sequencers were, that most of them, including the Moog 960 did not lock to the pitch of the tempered scale. So you could use pure or most likely off pitch notes. How to recreate this via Midi? One sulution would need to calculate and send new scale information depending on the selected fine tuned notes. But most synths don't understand them. Another trick would need pitchbend information. But the pitchbend range is defined by the receiving midi unit. So you would have to calibrate the sender to the pitchbend range setting of the receiving synth.
And another problem would be the interface itself: how to adjust a virtual pot to something like 14 bit parameter depth? You could use a well working pot for very, very tiny value differences. Way more detailed than the average 128 values per pot most Midi controllers for the iPad and most computer software feature.
So, even if we would get the right 960 look, the handing and the resulting sequences would not be the same. And the look and feel of real knobs can't be reproduced by a touch screen. I would rather see step sequencers in a new style, then trying to work around the existing iPad interface to get the real features of an old, but useful hardware controller.

I recommend to use a non quantizing step sequencers at least once, to know what those old time step sequencer heros actually did by hard work then.

[EricK]

Till,
Heroes indeed! Some of the stuff that people are doing with sequencers back then and today seem like they took forever to program.