SQUARP HAPAX
HapaxOS 3.10
New features
- Expanded Step Drum: Tracks now support up to 16 drum rows (press up or down to scroll through the 2 pages). Instruments Definitions and Midi Drums Import/Export also support the 16 lanes of drums.
- Live Drum Layouts: Added three new pad layouts (8, 4 and 1–Velocity, in addition to 16–Velocity). Accessible via Settings > Misc > Live Drum Pads.
- New Effect — Spring: A versatile new slew limiter featuring a resonant/oscillating mode alongside a preshot feature.
- Global LFO — Flat Waveform: You can now set Global LFO A or B to a static "Flat" waveform (0% to 100%). This is especially useful for creating custom macros routed through the modMatrix.
- Effect Filter — Velocity Range: Added Velocity Min and Velocity Max parameters, allowing you to selectively filter notes based on their velocity.
- Chance FX — "Use Velocity": Added a new discoverable parameter where note velocity scales the chance percentage to calculate the final chance amount.
- Autom Mode — Ping Automation MIDI message for easier external MIDI Learn (select the lane, hold 2ND and press the Ping encoder).
- Autom Mode — Rapid Event Creation: Holding an empty pad while rotating the Value encoder now instantly creates a note directly on that step.
- Autom Mode — Row Values: You can now hold a row (the [←] pads) to configure its default value. Any new event added to this row will automatically inherit this value.
- Effect Automation Recording: When recording is enabled, rotating an FX parameter encoder (in Effects Mode) will now actively create and record events automation.
- Quick Effect Automation Lane Creation: In Effect mode, holding REC and pressing (or rotating) an FX parameter encoder will instantly generate an empty automation lane for that parameter (and enter the Autom Mode).
- Step Mode: Fixed a bug that made it impossible to delete notes when the HOLD STEP CAPTURE setting was turned OFF.
- Autom Mode: Addressed an issue where CC events were not being sent if interpolation was disabled and values hadn't changed. Every event is now reliably transmitted.
- CV/Gate Outputs: Fixed an issue where Gate Retrig failed to trigger when two notes were adjacent but not overlapping.
- Arpoly effect: Fixed possible stuck notes.
- Hardware: Fixed an issue where the OLED screens would remain permanently OFF on certain units.
- UI Polish: redesigned some interface elements for better clarity and aesthetics.
- Added smooth feedback for various effects.
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.
Up to a million notes and events
16 tracks per project, 8 patterns per track.
Thanks to its dual-processor architecture, Hapax can record and transform tremendous amounts of data in no time, without a hitch.
Thanks to its dual-processor architecture, Hapax can record and transform tremendous amounts of data in no time, without a hitch.
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.
Dual-project architecture
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.
Dawless is more.
Hapax offers broad connectivity options for perfect integration in any setup.
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.
Real-time 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 mod matrix, which provides even more ways of routing and modulating.
Powerful composition 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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Simple by design
Trimmed to perfection
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.
Evolving firmware
The Hapax Operating System has been written with extra care, prioritizing stable and fast operations. New features and parameters will be added regularly.
Specifications
Model name
Hapax
Hardware
128 RGB MATRIX pads
52 clic pads
9 sturdy clickable encoders
2 OLED greyscale displays
SD card for saving projects
CPU: dual ARM design
RAM: 32MiB
Housing: machined aluminium 2mm
Housing (back): unibody ABS
Sequencer
Dual Sequencer (2 Projects)
16 tracks per project
8 patterns per track
Input
2× midi in (DIN + TRS)
2× CV in [-5V to +5V] (16bit)
Stereo pedal (footswitch)
Output
4× midi out (3× DIN + TRS)
4× CV out [-5V to +5V] (16bit)
4× GATE out [+5V]
Bidirectional I/O
USB Host (link a controller)
USB Device (link a computer)
Power supply
15V, 1.2A, 18W (included)
Dimensions
358 × 206 × 58 mm = 14.1 x 8.1 x 2.3 in
Weight
1.855 kg = 2.2 lb
Main Features
Player
Dual Project: 16-track × 8-pattern + 16-track × 8-pattern
Polyrhythms / Polymeters / Phasing
Track run-modes : reverse, pingpong, random
Track length: 1 step to 32 bars
Performance
3 live modes : scales, chords, drum
Project real-time global scale
High recording resolution: 192ppqn
Real Time Midi Effects (Arpeggiator, Chance, Euclid, Harmonizer, Randomizer, Scale, Swing...)
Live recording with looper & metronome
Transpose track
Misc
Undo / Redo / Snapshot
Advanced modMatrix
Assign 8-pot mode
Step
3 step modes: polyphony, drums, MPE
Algorithmic composition tools
Quantizer with strength
Loop points on each track
Conditional trigs possible on each note + Fill
Automation editor with interpolator
Pattern/Song
Advanced pattern mode
Song editor mode, based on sections (groups of patterns)
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