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Squarp Instruments' description of the Squarp Instruments Hapax dual-project MIDI and CV sequencer
CONTROL YOUR ENTIRE STUDIO.
Hapax is a professional dual–project sequencer, packed with powerful compositional tools.
- 100% standalone, intuitive & fluid workflow
- 2 projects, 16 tracks per project, 16 patterns per track
- 8 real-time midi effects per track
- MPE compatible
- advanced piano–roll and automation editing
- high recording resolution
- independent BPM per track
- isomorphic keyboard & chord generator
- algorithmic tools
- undo/redo with history + snapshot
- independent patterns, song mode with chaining
- import/export midi files
- dual–project transparent loading & playback for song mixing
- extensive midi connectivity + CV/Gate + USB
- 2 greyscale OLED screens, 128 rgb pads, 52 clic buttons
PROFESSIONAL STANDALONE SEQUENCER.
Genuine centerpiece of a setup, it offers every tool needed to compose songs in the studio and perform them on stage.
From vintage to modern synths, from modular systems to your favorite DAW, Hapax can sequence and synchronize all your gear, while bringing you carefully crafted tools, designed for maximizing creativity.
THE MIDI POWERHOUSE.
- Up to a million notes and events
- 16 tracks per project, 16 patterns per track.
- Thanks to its dual–processor architecture, Hapax can record and transform tremendous amounts of data in no time, without a hitch
EXPRESS YOURSELF.
- MPE compatibility
Hapax is the first hardware sequencer that fully supports MIDI Polyphonic Expression. Record the finest gestures, slides and articulations of your playing, without compromising quality.
AROUND THE CLOCK PERFORMANCE.
Hapax can handle two separate and independent projects, that can be played simultaneously. This lets you compose or load an entire project while the first one is already playing, enabling endless sets and seamless transitions.
ADAPTIVE WORKFLOW.
Several ways to write music.
Writing a melody: use a polyphonic or MPE track and take advantage of the advanced step sequencer to quickly lay down notes or edit your live recording.
Composing a beat: control up to 8 different instruments with a single track. The drum sequencer is tailored for very easy rhythm writing and jamming.
Composing a beat: control up to 8 different instruments with a single track. The drum sequencer is tailored for very easy rhythm writing and jamming.
REALTIME MIDI EFFECTS.
Bring your synths to life.
Hapax embeds multiple real–time, polyphonic, non-destructive midi effects, as well as project–wide assignable LFOs.
Each parameter of these effects can be automated in the dedicated mode, and processed in the modMatrix, which provides even more ways of routing and modulating.
POWERFUL COMPOSITIONAL TOOLS.
ALGORITHMS.
Powerful tools for offline note transformation and generation, right at your fingertips. Harmonically invert your motive, generate a controlled–random counter–melody, slowly ramp up the velocities, emphasize every fifth 8th note...
HARMONY, SIMPLIFIED.
For fast and intuitive chord building, the chord live mode brings harmonic capabilities to anyone, with or without deep theoretical knowledge. With its colorful interface, the chord mode displays a synesthetic melding of hearing, vision and touch.
HI-RES RECORDING.
Hit the red button, and record from the encoders and 128 pads of Hapax, external midi instruments (included MPE controllers) or any incoming analog signal, at a high resolution of 192 ppqn. Looper style recording, count–down and metronome options, punch–in mode, you'll certainly find the options that best suit your workflow.
FLUID EDITING.
Using hardware should never get in the way of creative flow. The undo/redo button lets you go back in time as needed, thanks to its extensive history. Additionally, the snapshot function enables you to save the state of a pattern and recall it with a single press. Together with dedicated copy, paste and delete buttons, Hapax offers a complete toolbox for the prompt editing of your tracks.
TIME ELASTICITY.
Each track has an elasticity value which changes its playback speed, expressed in percentage of BPM. Quickly double or halve the speed of a track, or create slightly shifted tracks that will slowly drift out of phase with each other.
FOUR MODES TO EXPLORE.
LIVE MODE.
Think in shapes to play your favorite chords, scan through a list of chords, and play drums with full range velocity.
STEP MODE.
Program your melodies on the 128-pad matrix, shift note positions down to the micro level, use conditional trigs and probabilities, use note repeat, see where your patterns begin and end in realtime, and fix notes to scale to always stay on-key.
PATTERN MODE.
Adjust each pattern's length, transpose notes on other tracks with a dedicated transposition track, save sections and launch them in sync, use song mode, and use in-pattern program changes with connected synths.
AUTOMATION MODE.
Per-pattern automation of everything in MIDI and CV, program envelopes or discreet events for gradual high-res changes, edit and record automation easily, record from the CV Input, and virtually unlimited automation per track.
SIMPLE BY DESIGN.
We designed Hapax from the ground up, deconstructing everything we knew about sequencing. We aimed for a high-end product, with dual arm processors for computation power and a rugged yet minimalist housing.
As music-making should remain an enjoyable process, we favored dedicated buttons over key combinations and imagined a clear-cut interface as well as a simple architecture. We have striven to minimize the importance of screens for live performing, but the dual grayscale display helps keeping track of things in a studio context.
As music-making should remain an enjoyable process, we favored dedicated buttons over key combinations and imagined a clear-cut interface as well as a simple architecture. We have striven to minimize the importance of screens for live performing, but the dual grayscale display helps keeping track of things in a studio context.
TUTORIALS.
SQUARP INSTRUMENTS HAPAX: LIVE RECORDING.
SQUARP INSTRUMENTS HAPAX: DRUM TRACKS.