A step sequencer for Omarchy. Click a beat together, stretch notes across as many steps as you like, give every track its own effects, and record your own sounds. It comes with a TR-808 kit, riffs, 90s rave sounds and vocals, and free sound packs are one click away. Share what you make on omarchysequencer.com, where others listen, vote, and open it in the app.
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Built for Omarchy on Hyprland, in Rust.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jankeesvw/omarchy-sequencer/main/install.sh | bashThen open Sequencer from the launcher (Super + Space) and press Space.
The letters A to H are eight patterns. Pick another one while the song plays and it switches at the end of the bar.
Click or drag to draw, right-click for an accent. A note can span 1 to 16 steps, so a bass line or a chord holds exactly as long as you draw it. Scroll over a note to change its length.
FX on a track opens a filter, EQ, drive, distortion, bitcrush, a ring modulator, a chop in time with the song, delay, reverb, pitch and reverse. Loop keeps playing the sound so you hear every change.
Click a track's sound to open the browser: a TR-808 kit, riffs, real 90s rave sounds like hoovers, an M1 organ and a JX-3P stab, and vocals. Search finds a sound in everything you have.
Get more packs downloads free sample libraries with one click. They are all CC0 or public domain, so what you make with them is yours.
| Pack | What is in it | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Lo-fi Kits | Casio and Yamaha toy keyboard drums, beatbox, sine kicks, shakers | 8 MB |
| Hand Percussion | Cajon, bodhrán, guiro, shaker, tambourine | 2 MB |
| Bass | 808s, donks and reese basses | 6 MB |
| Body Percussion | Claps, snaps, slaps and stomps | 61 MB |
| Retro Game | 512 8-bit blips, jumps, lasers and explosions | 21 MB |
| Found Percussion | Percussion recorded from everyday objects | 88 MB |
Click the red button on a track, or tap V, and make a sound; click again to stop. Or hold it and let go when you are done. The recording goes straight onto the track, ready to play.
Songs save themselves while you work, in ~/Music/Sequencer. Songs opens, starts and deletes them, and Export writes the current pattern to a WAV.
Share puts a song on omarchysequencer.com, where others can listen to it, vote for it, and open it in the app. The site plays it with the app's own engine, and your own recordings go along with it. Open in Sequencer on a song's page opens it straight in the app, as does omarchy-sequencer --open <song url>; it installs the sound packs and downloads the recordings it needs.
It takes the colours and font of your theme, light ones included, and follows along when you switch.
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
Space |
Play or stop |
← → |
Fewer or more steps |
↑ ↓, T |
Tempo down or up, tap the tempo |
F1 to F8 |
Pattern A to H, with Shift to copy the current pattern there |
1 to 9 |
Mute track 1 to 9 |
Tab |
Select the next track |
V |
Record into the selected track: tap to start and stop, or hold |
R, C, N |
Random pattern, clear the pattern, add a track |
Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Shift+Z |
Undo, redo |
Ctrl+N, Ctrl+O |
New song, open the songs window |
Ctrl+E |
Export a WAV |
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
omarchy-sequencer --play |
Start playing right away |
omarchy-sequencer --preset demo, rave, late-night |
Start a new song from a preset |
omarchy-sequencer --open <song url> |
Open a song from the community site, with the packs it needs |
omarchy-sequencer --install-pack <pack> |
Download a sound pack; without a name it lists them |
| Path | What |
|---|---|
~/Music/Sequencer/ |
Your songs, and your exports next to it in ~/Music |
~/.local/share/omarchy-sequencer/samples/ |
Your recordings; drop your own .wav files here too |
~/.local/share/omarchy-sequencer/packs/ |
Downloaded sound packs |
git clone https://github.com/jankeesvw/omarchy-sequencer.git
cd omarchy-sequencer
./install.shFrom a checkout, install.sh builds with cargo. Sound packs need curl and bsdtar, both standard on Arch.
All bundled samples are CC0 or public domain.
- Drums: the Roland TR-808 Sound Sample Set by Michael Fischer (1994), via tidalcycles/sounds-tr808-fischer.
- Riffs and stabs: "2HTC Samples Vol 4 Addendum" by Ben Burnes (Abstraction Music), via lavenderdotpet/CC0-Public-Domain-Sounds.
- 90s rave: recordings from Freesound: rave stab (443931), Roland JX-3P stab by modularsamples (307131), hoover by Chameon (399542), hardhouse hoover by woowah (11512), mentasm by sandizzy (25393), M1 organ by Cloud-10 (680995), orchestra hit by BigDumbWeirdo (90741), acid line by makenoisemusic (402949), acid bass by evanjones4 (243999), house chords by Slanted (510229), and rave loops by Alastair_Pursloe (183441) and GENERALMiDiGUy (490703).
- Vocals: dance shouts, house vocals and computer voices from the Producer Space CC0 library.
- Sound packs: Patrick Callan (Lo-fi Kits, Hand Percussion), Source Guy (Bass), Karoryfer Samples (Body Percussion), Juhani Junkala (Retro Game) and the Field Recording Working Group (Found Percussion).
MIT, by Jankees van Woezik. The samples are CC0 or public domain, see above.