Squarp Instruments Hapax Desktop Standalone Sequencer

Hapax is a professional standalone sequencer. A 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

Specifications

• Dimensions: 358 × 206 × 58 mm
• Weight: 1.855kg

Manufacturer product page here.
Product manual here.