APPOLLO: FREE VST STEP SEQUENCER

All popular DAW software packages may offer mere unlimited posibilities in music making - yet, sometimes we can't resist the charm of the gear used for making electronic music decades ago. Step sequencers definitely have an edge! While their approach in creating synth lines may seem limited, step sequencers allow you to program hypnotizing loops on the fly by 'simply' turning some dials and pushing some buttons. Few years ago we had an interesting interview with the creator of Octopus, a modern hardware sequencer based on the same principles that those antique step sequencers rely on. Though worth every penny for die hard knob addicts, gear like this doesn't come cheap. How about best of both worlds? We wouldn't object to a VST that mirrors the basic principles of an anologue step sequencer! Appolo is such a VST - it is made by Meesha (Netherlands) and it is free :)

"I was looking for a VST with the functionality of an analog step sequencer for my own music, but couldn't find one. The ones I did find where either tracker type or pattern based. Only after I ran into a software tool called Synthedit I realized I could actually make one myself! It turned out a lot more effort than I anticipated for, especially the sync part took a lot of programming - but in the end it worked out."

Appolo is now in its third version, and is available in both a single channel version and a dual channel version. It outputs MIDI and is easy to handle. Some may object to a VST made with Synthedit for technical reasons we won't discuss here, but we wouldn't want to miss all hours of fun we had (and will have) with many Synthedit made VSTs. Appollo definitely is worth checking out for analogue gear heads who are low on budget, but also for those who don't have a clue what step sequencing is about ;). See instruction video here at YouTube.

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