I’d love to have a reason to pull this thing back out of the cupboard, as it stood it just didn’t quite cut it for me in the end (which is a shame, it’s close). Fingers crossed for some goodies. The thing I need more than anything is scaling for drawing automation and a way to set min/max values for CV/CC/NRPN in instrument definitions. Without those two things, tons of stuff I’d like to do just isn’t feasible (try doing automation on an NRPN param that only uses 1 - 400 to find out why).
I deduce (guess) from these pictures:
- Midi Import
- Track color
- Follow Actions (ala Ableton)
- 16 patterns per track (2 pages of 8)
- Mono tracks
- Echo (MIDI delay)
Lots to play with! 
I’m sad to see that a compressor. From the blurry image I thought they might be adding palm trees.
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Did you send these requests to Squarp ?
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Public beta is on for OS2.0!
Here‘s the download link:
And here‘s the link to the related thread on Squarp‘s forum:
And here the release notes for your/our convenience:
HapaxOS 2.00 beta A
December 7, 2023
New features
- GLOBAL: 16 patterns per track (instead of 8)
- GLOBAL: AUTOLOAD last project saved
- GLOBAL: new mode MIX/MUTE
- REC: multitrack recording, cf. MIX/MUTE mode
- EFFECTS: new FX ECHO
- EFFECTS: new FX OUTPUT
- AUTOM: new ALGO CURVES
- TRACK MODE : export pattern to midi file, import midi file to pattern
- STEP: follow needle
- STEP: note preview when adding a step (on STOP)
- STEP: quick step length with 2 fingers
- STEP: new MATH param NO FX (the event will bypass the FX chain)
- STEP POLY : adds ALGO CURVES pitch destination
- STEP POLY/DRUM : improved ALGO CURVES UX and adds more curves and parameters.
- PATTERN : tracks STOP
- PATTERN : pattern follow actions
- PATTERN : custom pattern colors
- PROJECT: pScale stick up / stick down / filter
- SETTINGS : Track latency compensation
- SETTINGS : more assignable actions for pedal
- SETTINGS : RETRIG gate outputs
- SETTINGS : new option SYNC IN > CLOCK SOURCE > MIDI AUTO DETECTION
- LIVE: new parameter to select velocity of the matrix pads
- LIVE: new parameter to select the RGB view (show notes in pattern, show scale in chromatic view)
Bug fixes
- SAVE AS or LOAD was randomly unclickable
- Track quantize was not reset after a NEW PROJECT
- Step rotate/move left/right was not displayed on leds
- Overall stability improvements
Ergonomics & Misc.
- SETTINGS MISC: new SCREEN sub-menu, for anti-flicker options
- PALETTE : choose your color with HSL instead of RGB
- screensaver
- SAVE/LOAD : project browser now support DELETE+CLICK to delete a project
Breaking changes
- STEP: Selections now require two HOLD-pad actions. Quick presses are now used for the “quick step length” feature
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Nice one !
Noice! Lots to dig into here.
Importantly, they addressed every new users “note preview” complaint 
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Pattern follow actions with probability!? On a hardware MIDI sequencer!!?
Momentary toggling of muted tracks?
I need to tell everyone I’m going on a Christmas vacation and just lock myself at home.
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Sooooo… What is that?
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Follow actions are something that Ableton Live implemented years ago.
It’s basically a “tag” that you can add to any pattern which instructs the sequencer itself to “do something” at the end of the pattern. Some of these actions can be to jump to previous pattern, replay the pattern a certain amount of times, jump to the next pattern, go back to the beginning, jump to the end.
But the probability of these actions can be dialed in, as a percentage chance…so you really are giving the sequencer some autonomy to play around with your patterns and surprise you.
Furthermore, patterns don’t have to be notes…they can contain only automation data, for example…so you can have a synth, sampler, effector, or drum machine doing it’s thing, and then the Hapax can send it automation which you design, but the sequencer triggers in a semi-random way.
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how does the hapax compare with the cirklon? does anyone have both?
ohhh boy im in over my head! NOTE PREVIEW! Looks like I will have to work on videos for THIS! I reached out to see if they want me to wait for stable release, but will HAVE to make an announcement video reading changelist
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I don’t have a Cirklon, but I can tell you that the buttons on the Cirklon are probably MUCH better than the Hapax. Both the Hapax and the Polyend products use these pretty awful squishy buttons which feel like little pieces of gum. Compare them with the rubberized click buttons on Native Instruments stuff and the tiny buttons are one of the major weak points of these otherwise very cool indie products.
I used to own a Cirklon (v1), but it was never my favorite sequencer and I sold it after I acquired the Hapax. The Hapax fits my mental / visual model better than the Cirklon did, but both are extremely capable.
This latest update adds a lot of new features to the Hapax; I’m not up on the latest features of the Cirklon.
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I ask because I have a cirklon, and made loads of stuff on it 
I doo feel like development has slowed down quite a bit, I was curious as to where the Hapax was in that regard.
my favorite features of the Cirklon are the tight midi clock, way song structures work.
scenes have tracks tracks have patterns and an instrument def is tied to the track. Which makes arranging awesome. (I really wish electron boxes worked this way.)
How’s arranging on the Hapax?
Hapax buttons are great!
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non-linear. “Songs” (like Pyramid “Sequences”) are still just chained snapshots of the mute states for a given Pattern across all given Tracks. so not great (imo) compared to how insanely great everything else is on the composing side of the device
Oh man what timing, my Hapax arrived just 2 days ago!
OMG…I like Hapax, bought it when it came out, moved on. Now I cant decide between this or the community driven Deluge. Have had the Deluge 2 times already. Just want one to rule them all.
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Seems pretty similar to the Cirklon, tbh. Not entirely sure though. Cirklon has 64 patterns that can play per section. this is 16, but the song structure seems the same.
(Hapax looks lovely)
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