Squarp Instruments Hapax Polychronic Performance Sequencer

[Claid]

@RhythmDroid

This thing does real-time adjustable start and end points. I’m so in. SO IN.

So does the Oxi One. Eight of them per Multitrack.

[mprinsen]

Oh my god this seems to be exactly what I wanted from the exact company I wa ted this to be made by!

I had the Pyramid and loved it, but hated it didn’t have a grid like the Deluge. So sold it and bought a Deluge but then missed the features of the Pyramid. This seems to be IT!

[RhythmDroid]

@Zzzz

I feel like there’s too many of these grid based sequencers to keep track of. Keeping in mind that I just got a monome grid, so I’m not anti-grid at all, I just feel like there’s a lot of things that pretty much do the same thing.

I would like to see more standalone boxes that push the envelope with unique interfaces, and aren’t necessarily sequencers. I think the M8 is a good example of something that’s really forward thinking in scope and design.

I think the grid interface is really powerful and still un-perfected. If one could combine the Elektron, Monome, Pyramid, Squid, and Tenori-On workflows all in one hardware device with multiple hardware ins and outs (with adjustable clock offsets), I’d sell a kidney.

[rgbrgb]

Okok here’s why I like usb-c

• you could probably power the whole device from it so you’d get rid of a cable
• my computers only have usb-c ports so both sides of the cable can be the same
• I have a lot of usb-c to usb-c cables lying around all the time for other stuff
• 2 seconds less to plug in because there’s no top/bottom

In general it just makes the device feel more futuristic to me if it has usb-c, which appeals to me. At the end of the day, this is an aesthetic machine to do creative work on, I can do all the same stuff in a DAW but I get hardware because of how it makes me feel. It’s not a deal breaker at all but just noting it as something that gives me more/less positive vibe about a machine. I totally accept that it’s a silly aesthetic preference but also observe that it plays into some of my gear purchasing decisions lol

[elenacortes]

@kuroichi

pretty much every sequencer/sampler I’ve owned

Programming patterns while another already playing is a must have capability of sequencers (Tr8s, Cirklon, Pyramid, Squid… it was one of the missing part of Elektron products)

[RhythmDroid]

@elenacortes

One of my repeated request for Pyramid, at the time.

with all the support and engagement you’ve given to Squarp since the beginning, they should’ve been working on it - perhaps it was just one of those “we can’t do that because it requires an entoire OS re-write” things. Those kind of limitations exist in the Elektron sequencer…they know it would be cool, but it’s such an extreme task to disassemble the code.

[elenacortes]

@mprinsen

This seems to be IT!

Ha ha, how many time i though so

[Jukka]

Speaking for myself, i will be looking carefully to compare this with the Oxi One, and perhaps the Polyend Mystery Product ( about time for a tease on that ).

I got the time.

[elenacortes]

@RhythmDroid

with all the support and engagement you’ve given to Squarp since the beginning, they should’ve been working on it -

@Tchu

It’s like if Squarp has read every feature requests on this site and build around this.

That, maybe

[closencounters]

Yikes. Need to add torso t-1 to your list

[SLiC]

Totally with you, OXI has USB C and a built in rechargeable battery!

[pgrm.woof]

would anyone get this if they absolutely have no eurorack gear currently?

that’s the situation i’m in. i do want to eventually get some eurorack pieces but how justifiable do you think the price-to-features is without including the cv capabilities?
-do you think its still worth it?

(i change my mind a lot so not 100% on acquiring eurorack later on)

[closencounters]

If you have tons of hardware then why not

[Jukka]

Good point! I hadn’t considered it this way.

You could also look at it this way – CV works with stuff other than Eurorack.

[thetechnobear]

@pgrm.woof

would anyone get this if they absolutely have no eurorack gear currently?

absolutely, its got 4 midi din out, trs midi, usb host, usb device…
thats pretty comprehensive midi for a sequencer.

and Squarp, are really into midi, we know this from the pyramid… e.g. midi fx.

then of course we the cv in/out… you can add eurorack later.
(you know you want to )

[pgrm.woof]

@thetechnobear

then of course we the cv in/out… you can add eurorack later.
(you know you want to )

lol

[thetechnobear]

@RhythmDroid

perhaps it was just one of those “we can’t do that because it requires an entoire OS re-write” things. T

Squarp have been saying for a while that the they were reaching limits on ram and cpu on the Pyramid, and its not practical/economic to entirely re-write the firmware with ‘lessons learnt’ - even if the hardware might to be able to cope.

so makes sense, they tracked the feedback for when they were going to the next big thing.

but, of course… the pyramid is still a top class sequencer, just like it was yesterday !

[bibenu]

Somebody tell me … why is two projects so awesome when, for instance, the digitakt has 128 projects ?

I guess I’m missing something. Maybe a digitakt project is not all the same thing as a Hapax project ?

[re5et]

i presume you can be playing one while loading in another and easily swap between them.

[bibenu]

Well, I kinda got that gist … but there must be more than two in total, surely ?