Reaktor MetaSequencer


A 16-channel sequencer with multiple intermodulation, filter, transformation, and trigger modes.
A 16-channel sequencer with multiple intermodulation, filter, transformation, and trigger modes.
A 16-channel sequencer with multiple intermodulation, filter, transformation, and trigger modes.
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Download and Overview
Documentation
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Download and Overview

Created: Feb 2009
Modified: July 1, 2021
Production Release

Originally sold on Heavens*onEarth, Sapphire has been widely acknowledged as the single most powerful MIDI sequencer instrument ever created. Many people have heard it create different musical phrases on the TV series '30 Something,' thinking it was a 'real musician.' Well, the composer simply set Sapphire up to generate different theme variations depending when he played only two notes.

Briefly, the ensemble's 16 sequencer channels can intermodulate each other's notes, velocity, clock rate, and/or bar patterns. Intermodulation can be clocked or single-stepped in layered, fugued, recursive, and 1-shot modes. Other abilities include note filtering and clipping, chord generation, note mapping to musical keys, input recording, MIDI I/O crossmapping, and clock jitter. note sequences to different instruments, and clock jitter control, on the B panelset.

The YouTube video is of Sapphire playing the first snapshot in the ensemble library. The library has many snapshots demoing its various features, all detailed in a comprehensive manual.

Documentation


You can page through the manual in this on-screen viewer with the pgUp/pdDn keys on PCs, or with gestures on phones. It's a big file, so it may take some time to display all the pages. You can also view the manual full-screen, and page through it from toolbars that fade in when you click or hover on the page. The manual is included in the above zipfile download.


The ensemble was reviewed by the famed Martin Walker in Sound on Sound (to see it, scroll down this page), and by AudioFanzine (at this link), and MatrixSynth(at this link).