Taiko 5
Fact Sheet
Release Date: June 28, 2024
Price: $9.99 (30% discount on release)
Platforms: PC, Mac
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 - 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.
Trailers, Screenshots, and Art
Supported by portable pc devices such as the Steam Deck.
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!