Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

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rory
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Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by rory » Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:07 pm

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Advanced Step Sequencer

A monophonic midi step sequencer.

On the surface it’s reasonably standard. It’s a grid based sequencer - notes, gate, tie, velocity and two control changes. What’s unique about it is that you can set different loop points for each of those elements, which allows for anything from simple 303-style basslines to endlessly evolving, rotating, mutating melody lines.

The other unique thing about this is that it’s designed to work solely within musical scales. The sequencer ‘grid’ adapts itself to whatever scale you choose. Choose a chromatic scale, and you get a full 12 steps to play with, but choose a pentatonic scale and the grid automatically adapts itself to show only 5 rows. You don’t need to know any music theory to get great results.

Add to all that a bunch of useful randomisation options and it becomes a really useful tool.

Top tip - Rack these up and put several each in their own chain for mad polyphonic polyrhythmic sequences.

You can grab it here and there's a video of it in action here.
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3dot...
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Re: Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by 3dot... » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:40 pm

thank a lot ..I'll be checking it out soon..
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Re: Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by pukunui » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:50 pm

Cool! Very nice looking.


Cheers

Andrew

P.S. metro @active 1 should solve one of your known issues.

rory
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Re: Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by rory » Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:10 am

pukunui wrote:... metro @active 1 should solve one of your known issues.
Ah lovely, thank you. Fixed and updated to version 1.0.2 :)

RajahP
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Re: Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by RajahP » Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:42 am

:lol: Thanks, beautiful. .
Might want to take a look at this... the skip and jump feature would be nice... and launchpad support might be too much to ask for.. ... sweet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7gxL2OgqE

rory
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Re: Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by rory » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:56 am

RajahP - would you have skip and jump for each element or just for the Note sequencer? I'm trying to imagine how it would best be implemented.

I don't have a LaunchPad yet. I'm quite tempted to sell my APC40 to get one though, as the LaunchPad seems easier to integrate with M4L.

Dr. Zoiberg
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Re: Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by Dr. Zoiberg » Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:56 pm

nice!

should play well with my Operator303 :wink:

jon_moore
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Re: Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by jon_moore » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:00 pm

Wow this looks very cool. Can't wait to have a dabble!

:)
JM

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rory
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Re: Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by rory » Wed Mar 03, 2010 4:25 pm

Updated to version 1.0.4. The sequencer now syncs to song transport, so it should replicate exactly depending on where you are in your song. Timing is now a lot tighter too :D

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Re: Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by zigzag » Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:49 pm

Rory

Can't thank you enough... this is a dream come true!!!

RajahP
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Re: Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by RajahP » Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:21 am

rory wrote:RajahP - would you have skip and jump for each element or just for the Note sequencer? I'm trying to imagine how it would best be implemented.

I don't have a LaunchPad yet. I'm quite tempted to sell my APC40 to get one though, as the LaunchPad seems easier to integrate with M4L.
Seem like it would be great on notes..

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Re: Advanced Step Sequencer - a different M4L step sequencer

Post by repeatle » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:11 pm

I love this, thank you very much!

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