Yeah, I got mine just before Christmas for £199. Amazing bang for the buck IMO.
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Similarly, & 100% agree. For that price, it’s a stunningly powerful thing, and although the number of buttons & combos looks intimidating at first, they’re mostly quite intuitive. The app integration is so good too. I’m super-glad they’re still actively developing it.
My no. 1 wished-for feature would be some way to export multitrack audio. It’s a fantastic musical sketchpad, but most things I’ve made on it I then want to tweak more in a DAW. Getting the audio onto the computer is tiresome track-by-track. If it could have multichannel audio over usb, or some kind of render/dump functionality, that would be amazing.
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Yesterday I played around with the new update. The count-in and the octave switching are pretty useful. Same for the fact that a snapshot is automatically created as soon as a project is loaded.
The new sample loop stuff is useless for me. Without crossfades, you won’t get any clickless loops anyway and unfortunately the loop parameters can’t be p-locked either.
It still bothers me a little that I can’t nudge the notes of a pattern step by step. The visualizer part of the app still ignores the orientation of my iPad and is upside down when I want to use my iPad case as a stand. First world problem, I know 
Nevertheless, I find the update very useful. However, I don’t expect much more from Yamaha.
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They were very active on their YouTube channel. You never know. I think they are setting a new base with this software for a new platform.
Hi,
How would you compare this to the novation circuit range?
I have an og circuit, tracks & rhythm, I absolutely adore my circuits. I still bought the seqtrak, which I absolutely love. It is different from the circuits, it can be as simple as a circuit, but has more features which I miss on every circuit. On the tracks, I missed some features on the sample side and 2 synths is not enough. On the rhythm, the sample sculpting is limited. On the seqtrak you have more tracks, there are way more effects and sample sculpting options and the synths are just awesome. I use it mostly without a display, but I love the fact that I can use almost any phone, tablet or computer as a display and edit sounds and patterns to fine tune stuff. If I had to say something bad about the seqtrak, the ‘pad’ keys feel weird, I would rather had pads like the circuits.
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I see that I can adjust “launch quantization” via the app but is there a way to adiust it on the Seqtrak itself?
Ordered one. mainly for the Yamaha synthsounds.
I am curious about the output.
Since there is no dedicated Line out. How is the sound coming out of the headphone out? In case I want to sample it with f.i. the SP 404.
I read somewhere that headphone outputs can be different to line outs, so maybe it matters here.
Anyone who uses both the USB audio out and the heaphones output (like in a HW setup) who might share their opinion?
Not done very detailed testing.
I have regular SeqTrak and MODX connected to mixer(Bluebox) - not noticed any big difference. Need some gain staging, but audio quality on both are very similar.
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That is good to hear, thank you. And thanks for the link.
BTW: reading manuals, watching videos makes that now Im looking forward to more than just the synthsounds.
One other thing: Up till now I never connected gear with USB (only gear to Laptop). Maybe this one will make me try it.
Can I connect it with USB-C to SP-404 and sample the Seqtrak? (excuse me for this digital rookie stuff). Does the Seqtrak working on 44k and the SP on 48k have anything to do with sampling thru USB-C?
BTW Lunaman06, this is not meant as more questions for you.
For anyone who wants to answer.
The USB host function of the SeqTrak works only for MIDI not for Audio.
I do have also an SP404MK2, but with the SeqTrak I like to use Koala with iPhone.
Or Loopy Pro.
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Used it for some days now and like it a lot.
The synths, the fx. Also the groove box part.
Welcome addition to my Roland, Korg and some mono analogs.
Nice to combine with others.
Making some notes with shortcuts because I don’t want to use the laptop for that all the time.(don’t have a smart phone).
Yesterday there was a more than 2 hour power outage so I grabbed my first synth with a battery.
(Others I have can have AA batteries but often need 6 of them).
Anyway: Happy to have Yamaha synthsound and a fun groovebox in my setup.
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I have a new soundset out for the Seqtrak in the seqtrak app
cheers 
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If they make a new groovebox I hope it’s not huge. The biggest it should be is like the monomachine. It would be nice if it was still portable but with a built in screen.
I’m still annoyed by it. It had some great ideas, the sounds are obviously great, but the whole thing was convoluted, and the build quality was a joke.
But I still have it on my ‘if I find it for cheap’ lift for the sounds. Good engines, great amount of sounds.
I moved away from portable simply since my allergies don’t really allow me anymore to be much outside in spring and early summer, and 90% of the time I simply don’t get to it cause I’m slow and social activities take over.
At home, I’m now relatively firmly set with digitakt as the center, s-1, neutron as accompaniment. But the sound pallet is rather limited in more natural sounding tones, especially polyphonic.