Midinous Reviews

easy to use and gets the job done

This non-linear midi sequencer is only available here on Steam, which doesn't suit some people and I can sympathize with some of the arguments/opinions, but only to a certain degree. I don't (relatively) care that Midinous is a on Steam only thing, I have countless plugins on different computers, many standalones, a huge list of browser web apps/software and even many more different stuff, so what? and therefore it doesn't bother me as long as it is useful and functional. Especially since it's also a matter of taste and should be considered individually; some people prefer a grid-based thing like this one, while others find everything in it a bit fiddly and less appealing. For those interested, I mostly use Midinous for experimenting and generating soundscapes/textures. I often use my CMI V from Arturia as a standalone paired with it and so far I have been able to achieve some very nice results, like the thing I did for a friend who needed very special atmospheric background music for his art exhibition. When it comes to hearing a reference of what the program does without any other software, than there is an internal standard synth with several different waveforms: sine, square, triangle, sawtooth, ramp etc. So one approach would be to open Midinous and choose new colors for that user interface and according to your current feeling, select a random bpm and generate your first structure of MIDI data and listen to that with the internal synth. If you kinda like what you hear, try to change a few notes here and there and play with the possibilities of how the patches can be connected, then open a music program like: Arturia Pigments, Wedge Force Hydro, Initial Audio Sektor or AudioThing SX1000 and let yourself be surprised by what suddenly happens. Or you can synch it like I did once with Ableton, or the DAW of your choice like Reaper, Bitwig or Logic. And a little advice for those of you who are still quite inexperienced with but eager to learn such things, take your time, be patient with yourself, work with the manual and have fun while you learn and try things out. I can definitely recommend Midinous if you want to create complex sequences or if you just want to experiment with sounds and audio design in general.

This is a great, portable (DRM not required) MIDI generator and visual sequencer. If you have a DAW (recommended) or other synthesizers, you can send MIDI out from Midonous and program interesting, evolving patterns, melodies, and pure chaos. Benn Jordan (the Flashbulb guy) worked on this.