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Hi. The Step sequencer is super fun. Couple things I'm having difficulty with though...

1. How does one delete midi notes that are in the sequencer? This isn't intuitive and I still can't figure it out.

2. I'm also confused how to move up and down the piano roll/sequence editor without clicking and dragging/moving a note. After using the down arrow to move the pitch down of a sequence, all the notes were WAY down below..and I had no way of getting to them without creating a new note and dragging it down.

emergencyofstate wrote:Hi. The Step sequencer is super fun. Couple things I'm having difficulty with though...

1. How does one delete midi notes that are in the sequencer? This isn't intuitive and I still can't figure it out.

Just set the velocity to 0. You can also command (ctrl if you're on windows) + double click to set the velocity to 0

2. I'm also confused how to move up and down the piano roll/sequence editor without clicking and dragging/moving a note. After using the down arrow to move the pitch down of a sequence, all the notes were WAY down below..and I had no way of getting to them without creating a new note and dragging it down.

It works like live's MIDI clip editor:
- double click in the MIDI keyboard zone to the left to zoom out (so every notes fit in the display area)
- mouse click/drag up and down to change the zoom offset
- mouse click/drag right and left to zoom in/out

Thanks. that helped.

But still not quite sold.

Seems like it could work a little more like Live's midi editor. For instance, toggle command+b for the pencil to draw midi notes and toggle back to move, copy, delete..

Also, in Live's midi editor and loop editor the resize/zoom tool is always in the title bar area and these controls are now offset 90º on the left. This is why i completely missed them initially. Anyway I can get over these things.

But it does seem a little odd to not be able to remove notes in the sequence..only set them to zero velocity.

the step sequencer is a great example of why patches should be able to escape clip view. we've whined that Sampler, Analog, Operator etc should be able to escape clip view now there's a piano roll crunched into Clip View.

emergencyofstate wrote:But it does seem a little odd to not be able to remove notes in the sequence..only set them to zero velocity.

edit the patch and publish it.



been going through patches all day, finally got to the step sequencer. it's usable-ish. I really like the random setting. looks like a start for better things, edit, study, tweak.

Tone Deft wrote: edit the patch and publish it.

oh i hear ya. i'm starting from square 1 with max so its gonna be a long road.

i just figured being beta and all, this kind of input might still be considered.