I find Caustic highly recommendable. It has most features I'd expect from a sequencer and they keep adding new instruments and effects with free updates. At the latest a vocoder was added that allows for recording and mixing autotune effects. I would wish for only few things to add [0].
Naturally, particularly fine editing doesn't lend itself too well to a 5 inch display, and therefore the interface is intentionally limited (I would try a tablet) but well adapted. It's perfect to sketch ideas on the go or for quick entertaining beatmaker sessions. Each channel has two effect slots, 4*16 patterns and a piano roll with automation controls, midi interface. The computations are very taxing on the battery.
The demo has full capability modulo saving, but a persistive quicksave and export to mp3 etc. I used to simply rename the quicksave to save, but payed to support the devs and was rewarded with updates from versions 1 to v3 so far.
I wish a likewise intuitive application existed for linux. I stopped synthesizer programming for a while after switching from windows because hydrogen was the best I could find and the experience couldn't keep up with FL Studio. Caustic 3 is like the old Fruity Loops, a real treat.
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Naturally, particularly fine editing doesn't lend itself too well to a 5 inch display, and therefore the interface is intentionally limited (I would try a tablet) but well adapted. It's perfect to sketch ideas on the go or for quick entertaining beatmaker sessions. Each channel has two effect slots, 4*16 patterns and a piano roll with automation controls, midi interface. The computations are very taxing on the battery.
The demo has full capability modulo saving, but a persistive quicksave and export to mp3 etc. I used to simply rename the quicksave to save, but payed to support the devs and was rewarded with updates from versions 1 to v3 so far.
I wish a likewise intuitive application existed for linux. I stopped synthesizer programming for a while after switching from windows because hydrogen was the best I could find and the experience couldn't keep up with FL Studio. Caustic 3 is like the old Fruity Loops, a real treat.
[0] right now I could think of a drum pad