Taiko 5 is the first music sequencer designed to be used with a game controller. It's fast, fun, and easy to use. Select a kit, assign some sounds, randomize a few parameters and effects, and voila, you're on your way to making something unique.
Feature Highlights:
- 16 Patterns per Song (1 measure per pattern)
- 5 Sounds per each 16th note (or Sector)
- 35 percussion kits
- 50 music kits
- 1,000+ sounds
- Volume and Pan parameters for an entire Pattern
- Volume, Pan, Pitch, and Shift parameters for individual Sounds
- Low Pass Filter, Chorus, Echo, Reverb, and Flange effects per Sector or entire Pattern
- Pattern recording
- Randomize percussion, music, and/or parameters and effects - at the touch of a button
- Favoriting kits
- "Tilting" (emphasizing) between percussion and music
- Ducking
- Single note polyphony for music and basslines
- Seamless switching between patterns and songs
- Recording output to a WAV file (including pattern changes, song changes, etc)
- Loading user sounds and kits
Because Taiko 5 handles effects and sounds per Sector (instead of a "track") the music can range from ambient to industrial to almost everything in between. Changes can be triggered in real time as well.
Inspiration
Ever since I bought a Steam Deck I wanted to make music with it. But not with a keyboard and mouse like with a traditional modern DAW. Taiko 5 is the result of that. It works with Xbox controllers, PlayStation controllers, Steam Deck, and should work with other portable Windows based gaming systems as well. I hope you get hours of fun out of it as I had making it!
Contributors
A huge thanks to George Rennie for contributing drum sounds!
