Taiko 5

 

Fact Sheet

Release Date: Coming Soon

Platforms: PC

Developer: Larry Johnson (Miga Games)

Location: Seattle, WA

Publisher: Miga Games

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Instruction Manual

The online manual is located HERE.

About the App

Taiko 5 is the first music sequencer designed for use with a game controller. It has built-in sounds, kits, effects, a pattern recorder, seamless song and pattern switching, randomizing, recording to a WAV file, and more!

Taiko 5's approach to making music is different from most other software or hardware sequencers. With a game controller you can select a kit, assign some sounds, randomize a few parameters and effects, and voila, you're on your way to making something fun and unique.

Feature Highlights:

  • 16 Patterns per Song (1 measure per pattern)

  • 5 Sounds per each 16th note (or Sector)

  • 16 percussion kits

  • 40 music kits

  • 500+ 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 Pattern

  • Pattern recording

  • Randomize percussion, music, and/or parameters and effects

  • 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.

 

Trailers, Screenshots, and Art

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!